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Advanced Communications, Inc. Company Review by Employees



Advanced Communications, Inc. Company Review
Advanced Communications, Inc.
Westland, MI
www.acidirect.com
F (36%)
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History

Advanced Communications was founded in 1983. Later, in 1984 it was incorporated. ACI started out as a local residential installation company which has since evolved into an beginning to end full service communications contractor. A...View Advanced Communications, Inc.'s Full Company Description.

Advanced Communications, Inc. has an Overall Look Before You Leap grade of: F (36%) by 19 of it’s current and/or past employees. The current and/or previous employee(s) rated Advanced Communications, Inc. on it’s business ethics, management, culture, pay, benefits, and training.

 
19 Total Employee Reviews of Advanced Communications, Inc.
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : May 26, 2010
  Years of Employment: 2010 - Present
  Overall Grade: F (38%)
  Comments: dont work for this company.
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : April 11, 2010
  Years of Employment: 2010 - 2010
  Overall Grade: F (36%)
  Comments: If you are into slave labor, then ACI is your kinda place!
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : April 01, 2010
  Years of Employment: 2009 - 2010
  Overall Grade: F (38%)
  Comments: Don't ever consider working for this company!
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : March 08, 2010
  Years of Employment: 2003 - 2009
  Overall Grade: F (24%)
  Comments: Horrible company to work for, don't do it. Once you get in there it is hard to get out. You don't get your schedule until the day before the next work week and there aren't any set hours so you could work from 8am to 9pm. Sometimes you aren't given your schedule at all and are told just come in and see. Horrible mangement and horrible company, I would rather pick cotton in the fields, Oh lordy...
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : March 05, 2010
  Years of Employment: 2009 - 2010
  Overall Grade: F (31%)
  Comments: They rip you off in any way they can.
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : September 15, 2009
  Years of Employment: 2007 - 2009
  Overall Grade: F (27%)
  Comments: bad company to work for
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : June 17, 2009
  Years of Employment: 2009 - Present
  Overall Grade: F (29%)
  Comments: Stay away from this looser of a company. I myself worked for a company for 17 years before the economy affected my job. I have worked for a good company that takes care of their employees. ACI is not one of them!!!
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : March 02, 2009
  Years of Employment: 2000 - 2009
  Overall Grade: F (34%)
  Comments: Poor company
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : February 10, 2009
  Years of Employment: 2008 - Present
  Overall Grade: D (42%)
  Comments: be aware of all company's that hire off the back of their vehicles
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : January 19, 2009
  Years of Employment: 2007 - Present
  Overall Grade: F (20%)
  Comments: Stay away!
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : November 28, 2008
  Years of Employment: 2008 - Present
  Overall Grade: F (34%)
  Comments: When i first started they make everything seem like it is a perfect job. after the past couple months it has grown to be seen that the company needs alot of help. Weather its from comcast or time warner whomever. To have supervisors taking the routes and mixing them up leaving 5-7 of us without one and "no pay" is absurd. If it was my choice i would let the cable company run what the techs do. That way the employees would be able to at least make somewhat of a living. With the way they do the pay. its rediculous. I just wish they would relize it. Im at the point of saying screw the company, its not worth killing our backs everyday to not get and recognition from anyone, because you miss a few numbers here and there.
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : January 28, 2008
  Years of Employment: 2006 - Present
  Overall Grade: D (50%)
  Comments: ACI is a company of ups and downs. They hire a bunch of newbies to cover the techs that got frustrated and left. It's a good company to work at if you are between jobs. It will make you appreciate a good job later.
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : January 16, 2008
  Years of Employment: 2005 - 2006
  Overall Grade: D (42%)
  Comments: this is a great stepping stone company but no one retires from aci your position is short lived at best.
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : October 15, 2007
  Years of Employment: 2003 - 2007
  Overall Grade: F (31%)
  Comments: Advanced commutations is a very unstructured company. Supervisors do not communicate with upper management. The company is full of crude installers who were prompted to management (they have no formal education). These people cannot even spell correctly or create sentences. The company itself has no regard for the Michigan labor law and violates it all the time. I would not recommend this company to anyone. If you work for them or have worked for them you should know that it is against the law for ACI to take any money from you check without your written consent “ Public Act 390 of 1978, in section 7(1) states; ". . . an employer shall not deduct from the wages of an employee, directly or indirectly, any amount . . . without the full, free, and written consent of the employee, obtained without intimidation or fear of discharge for refusal to permit the deduction." If this has happened to you I urge you to file a complaint against this company with the state on Michigan. Contact the department of labor wage and hour division
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : January 18, 2007
  Years of Employment: 2007 - 2007
  Overall Grade: D (40%)
  Comments: aci is for the homeless who dont have any other choice in life, or for people who are in a rut! its not for me, i insulted my own intelligence by even applying. slave labour is alive and well.
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : October 16, 2006
  Years of Employment: 2005 - Present
  Overall Grade: D (50%)
  Comments: if they weren't afraid of getting rid of some of the dead weight that cost them more money than they make for the compay and get there heads out of there rectums they might be able to get some oxygen to there brains and maybe they could make some good decisions for the company and the employees that work for them
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : January 10, 2006
  Years of Employment: 2005 - 2006
  Overall Grade: D (40%)
  Comments: If no other job is available to you, ACI will serve as a below average stepping stone. Be very carefull in what you sign when you hire in. They will bill you at almost 20% more for every tool the hand you, becarefull that you check your tool sheet when you hire in, as 6-10 months later when you leave you WILL buy them more tools than they had when you started. Just be warned... Everything about the company is Shady at best. They will abuse you, and fire you at will.
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  Current Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : February 03, 2005
  Years of Employment: 2002 - Present
  Overall Grade: C- (51%)
  Comments: Their turnover rate is very high. In their own newsletter they mentioned that 71% of the people have been there a year or less. That figure alone tells the story.
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  Past Employee's Review
  Date Reviewed : December 15, 2003
  Years of Employment: 2001 - 2003
  Overall Grade: F (24%)
  Comments: not worth the time of day
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