Working at ActionLink, LLC — Reviews by Employees

I've worked for AL in the past and someone told me about this site - just as a laugh - anyone that would put a serious comment on here is a LOSER! Get a life and get a job and forget about AL - if you didn't like it, then move on. It shows what the problem with AL has been in the past... YOU!!! I feel very sorry for your current employer - if you have one. Sounds like most of you are more worried about getting unemployment than anything else. Wow, you people are so sad and such business experts - if only the folks at AL went back in time or listened to you then everything would be great! Cause you know everything... You've run a big business right? Wrong. If you did, you wouldn't be on a pitiful website like this. Seriously ROFL - you people are ridiculous. Oh if they'd only realized what a gem they had in you.

Look AL wasn't my favorite place I've ever worked and they have some issues, but you people make it sound so stupid that you have no credibility at all.

What a waste of time - I can't believe I even took the time to respond. It won't matter, you guys can't stop whining, can you? It's all you have I guess. And on that, I'm done with your whining... Since, you know, I have to get back to my JOB.

So, nobody's perfect, and neither is ActionLink - but this company has more heart than I've seen from ANY of the competitors in this industry - everything that they've talked about is putting the consumer first, figuring out how to make things better for the customer, respecting the partners (Best Buy etc.) and giving the clients more than they are paying for.

The culture seems to me to be a work in progress, but it's still about loving electronics and the satisfaction of getting the right customer the right product - and I think this industry needs more companies that love it the way this one tries to (and does) - they've got a strong future - bumpy, maybe, but strong.

You know who I am - from Ohio

So have y'all seen the new Natural Insight yet??? I bet almost all of y'all out there are thinking this new NI is a complete joke right? I know y'all couldn't help thinking so cuz it messed up your schedule, made things more complicated, and so on. Bugs never get fixed. Issue reports never get reponsed. But when you started a thread about NI's issues in the Community (another cumbersome NEW GAME CHANGING strategy created by AL's management), you found your topic got deleted in matter of .... couple hours (prolly some hours cut would follow in the following weekend :} ) !!! That's even faster than getting response from your new field manager!!! Impressive isn't it? And do you know why it works that fast? Because they, AL management team, built NI and the Community for a reason guys. They really put a lot of intellectual power and money to figure out these NI and Community.

Sony already left AL completely. AL lost Sony assisted sale last year. now Sony's Merch account went bye-bye as well, leaving AL with a handful of employees sitting around, crying out for hours. In return, they would get like 2 hrs a week on Merch, and prolly 4 on Asst. Sale at best luck. That's less than 100 bones a week and it's not even consistent!!! So now the new NI will come in with its beauty. On NI, you will be offered "Job opportunities" availble in your area. By area, AL meant within 30 miles for "home radius" (no gas money) and farther than that will be 25 cents per mile . You can either accept or decline them. And those opportunites are available on a first come first serve basis. Do you see what's going on? So now you have to bid for work hours. If you don't accept quick enough, you won't have any hour to work. And those oppoturnities that are more than 30 miles away, by accepting it you lawfully understand and agree to get 25 cents/mile which is WAY less than it used to be. So employees gotta bid for work hours and ridiculously low mileage compensation, all brought to you from management via NATURAL INSIGHT, the GAME CHANGING STRATERGY!!! One stone, two bird. Genius, i must say.

Now, the Community, like a Facebook thing, AL's employees will get on here to brag about there tips and tricks, work life, personal life , interests, and so on. Funny thing is that you barely see any Field manager on the site. Bruce joined Panny forum like 4 months after the opening not even one comment. Clients are supposed to be browsing the site to monitor selling tips, issues, and other stuff. If i were a client, i would cry for three days seeing my money being spent on this site. But it does serve a function guys. The community really help reinforce AL' s tradition. AL's employees now can OBVIOUSLY and PUBLICLY kiss ass. Get in Panasonic, Symphony forum you will find countless of those who do not know jack about the products they are selling but keep showing up with comments similar to, "Panasonic rocks, they make good camera" or "I just tell customers to look at Panasonic TV they will buy them because the picture is beautiful", and then same person will ask "what does THX do?" in other thread! On the other hand, if you get vocal about some issues on this community, you will never see your thread more than 3 days and your future at AL will probably questionable because they know who you are. Your community account is linked w/ your email and employee number remember?

Well, just keep everyone up to date on how far down the hill AL really is. I do miss my old team of good managers who brought AL to the top, side by side with me. Now a few of us left in the company are facing nightmare thinking of our men out their on the field being rip off every minute they work for AL. We are the ones who carry out this blood sucking plan. I just can't get over this. But our clock is ticking as well. They will pull the trigger on us soon so the other managers and directors up in management can hire idiots from other companies, their friends, family, or those no-body people to get hooked up with women.

My 6 years with AL is coming to an end. With a cold beer in my hand, I'm now thinking of a nice way to decline their 20hrs/week merch schedule offer so they won't have to pay my unemployment ... Tricky bastards!

In a time when retail is really struggling this company is trying to support its employees and customers - in a time when we are seeing massive layoffs across the retail industry, ActionLink is maintaining a strong business and culture...

There is a reason this is called job vent. You come here to complain about your job, or rather, the job you HAD.

After reading these posts, it appears to me that the folks on here are upset about being let go from the company and are no longer employees of ActionLink. I am shocked by the amount of lies and personal attacks that are on display here. It appears that these posts are anonymous and one would have to wonder if you would write the same things if you signed your name to it, I doubt so.

ActionLink has its own culture. This culture is one of a team that comes together to do whatever it takes to ensure the job gets done and is done right the first time. I am so glad that I work with such a great team that supports one another. The focus is on the client and doing whatever it takes. I like that the leadership team is involved in the process and I have never seen a more dedicated sales team including the owner. Everyone, exec leadership to field, is included in day to day operations. This is what makes ActionLink a great culture to be a part of.

Sure there will always be good and bad, ups & downs in a company and it is what you bring to to the company that helps shape it. No company is perfect. You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but chances are it isn't - it is just different grass. Attitude is everything.

Jobvent is nothing more than a place to complain anonymously because you somehow feel "wronged". Sure, ActionLink has had some reducton in workforce due to the economy. So has, Sony, Ford, Target, Circuit City, Best Buy, and thousands of other companies. It is never an easy decision for a company to let people go. My advice, if you work for ActionLink and are unhappy, talk with your leadership. You have no one to blame but yourself if you do not try to make the company a better place for all.

Complaining on jobvent does nothing except allow you to whine anonymously and show your juvenille behavior. Do you really think that anyone cares about this site? Do you really think employees, retailers and clients will place any credibility on this site or the comments made here? If so, the whole world is in trouble!

Stop whining on jobvent and do something that actually makes a difference.

A co-worker told me about this site and from his description, I was prepared for a good deal of negativity. I was NOT prepared for the absolutely petty, hatefulness that abounds here. I'm not sure how some of you can even stand to live in your own skin with all that bile floating around inside you.

After reading the remarks on here, I get the general feel for the type of people who are posting negative comments about Actionlink. They squawk on and on about a "boys' club" and racism. They make petty remarks about people's appearance and religion. And most of all, they tell you how little respect they got, right up until the day they were fired.

Perhaps, if you people would have spent less time worrying about imaginary clubs and the respect you thought you were due and spent MORE time coming up with suggestions for Mr. DT on how to improve things (Sorry, idiotic statements like "This job sucks & so do you." don't count.) you might still have a job.

I want to set the record straight. I'm a woman and I'm a *gasp* MANAGER. Many people would have you believe that this is an impossibility at AL. They would have you believe that I am a mythical creature. Not so. The new IT Director that just started today...a woman. The Manager of the Accounting Dept...a woman. Head of HR...a woman. Need I continue? Yes, let's!

Racism at AL? Please. Get a clue. Our office is a melting pot. And don't tell me that African Americans and Latin American people can't hold positions of power at AL. The man who oversees the field is *drum roll* an African American. OMG! Where was the good ole white boy's club when he was hired?! Oh yeah. THEY hired him.

Worse than anything else that has been said about AL was the statement that someone made about DT not living up to his religion's teachings of compassion. That person accused him of not caring when he had to layoff employees. Obviously, that person wasn't walking the halls of the main office on those days. I WAS.

I saw the sorrow & frustration in his eyes when he had to let go "good people" (his words). He was concerned about them and their families. But it didn't change the fact that he had a responsibility to the company and a job to do, unpleasant as it was.

My department was chosen to lose a person during the last set of layoffs. As manager, I went into the room with my employee when he was given the notice. There was NO callousness on AL's part. They thanked him for his service. They offered to review his resume and give him suggestions on how to improve it. And at the end of the day, as I sat at my desk, upset by the losses we had suffered that day, it was DT who came back and sat with my people and me and asked us how we were holding up and tried to offer us reassurance that everything was going to be ok.

Compassion? I think you people need to look up the word because it's obvious from the bile that you spew on this site that you don't know what it means.

I'm sure this review will probably get replies from people telling me that a)I'm delusional, b)I'm a suck up, c)I'm drinking the Kool-Aid, d)I'm really BF or DT "in disguise", or some other such unimaginative silliness so let me reply now and perhaps save us all some time.

a) I'm quite lucid, thank you. b) I GIVE respect and therefore get it back in return, negating the need to suck up to anyone. c) I hate Kool-Aid. I prefer tea. And finally, d) if BF & DT came on here, they wouldn't hide who they were. They're both straight shooters. If they have something to say to you, they'll say it to your face. Can any of you say the same?

So, everyone is writing how much they hate working for ActionLink. Well, I for one don't mind working for the company. Great folks to work with everyday. We all try to make the best of it knowing that any day could be the last if the economy doesn't get better. More than 651,000 people lost their jobs last month alone. Glad to still have mine.

It used to be that the women were respected at ActionLink. Now it has become a "boys club" with all the management being male. Only the other males in the company are given any level of respect and only their opinions are considered. Women are second class citizens right now. This is new at ActionLink. Bruce Finn always was a person who gave the females respect -- but no more.

The pay is good, the other folks in corporate are a great crew! The folks who got laid off will always have a gripe -- but truthfully some of them did not get it and never will. And to the person that thinks Best Buy cares -- they don't. Best Buy is going through its own reorganization right now! ActionLink is the least of its worries!

I heard about this site from a co-worker. I think there are good and not so good things with the company, that is what you find in every company. The economy is in the toliet, everyone is uncertain of their jobs everywhere. There is nothing special about AL in that they are having lay offs. Look at all the other companies that are experiencing layoffs across the country. I am sure the people affected by those layoffs are just as upset. There is a reason the website is called job vent - it is to come here to complain. Misery loves company.

Okay, so you've been let go, and you're upset. Sure, I understand that. But have you noticed that the ECONOMY is going downhill fast, not the company? Or have you not picked up a newspaper in a year? It looks to me like Actionlink just let go of the IMMATURE people that have to whine and moan about the owner's suggested "plastic surgery" to make themselves feel better about their situation. That's not a crappy job, that's all you!!! You're so busy complaining about the juvenile things, you're not looking around you, at huge companies that are doing the exact same thing as Actionlink to keep themselves afloat. When our economy does turn around in time, and you have the opportunity to rejoin Actionlink, they'll never take you back!! Not that any of this is getting through to you, you're so convinced it's the new "upper mgmt." and their backstabbing ways. I feel sorry for you, that you can't be an adult, accept that job reduction is a part of our way of life these days, and settle into finding a new job as quickly as possible, so in a few years you can get let go from that one and start a whole new tirade against them. I do wish you the best of luck finding a new opportunity, and I am sorry the economy has forced this situation against all of us, but choosing to burn your bridges this way is just childish.

ActionLink was the best job I ever had--mind you, I said "was." I can't believe the company crumbled so fast. But what has been said about this company in previous writings is true. I worked diligently for ActionLink for over two years and it was all in vain. Diligence, loyalty and seniority, don't mean a thing. New upper mgmt came in and didn't bother to call on the old staff to see what they had to offer. They came in and got rid of all of the old ways that worked, and implemented a bunch of new ideas, almost like they wanted to sabotage the company. I am saddened by what has become of a wonderful company. What shame. I got a call out of the blue, telling me I no longer worked for ActionLink. This is after the person in charge of our dept., told us over and over not to worry, we were ok. But I am glad they let me go now and not when there is nothing left. Thank you, you did me a great favor, I am much happier being out from under the idiotic mgmt they put in charge of the department I was in.

I wake up every morning with a bitter sweet taste in my mouth. I am so glad I do not have to listen to the ongoing 2 hour conference call and the same idiotic banter every week from the person they put in charge; yet the job itself was awesome--I'd be the first one on board again--in a heartbeat--but not for the person aforementioned!