I happen to know that Ackerman McQueen can provide excellent training and many employees (including myself) moved onto bigger and better ad agencies. Its a trend in the advertising industry to be a "sweatshop" - long hours, horrible pay. Because if you won't take a crappy salary to work in the "oh-so-glamourous" world of advertising - someone else will.

As far as AM's pull here in OKC - yes they have a lot. But at the end of the day - their Clients make the decisions.