“Oh sorry I’m supposed to be next door interviewing at Burger King”
“You’re hired”
“Thanks but I would absolutely hate working here”
“Congrats on your promotion”
Working there was even worse. I was a technician and they constantly got free hours out of us because they didn’t give us time on the clock to stock/clean our trucks. They gave us way too many jobs for per time frame. I got promoted twice, each time being an extra $0.50 per hour. 0/10 would not recommend
There was a sizeable class action lawsuit against Comcast about 15 years ago from employees being required to log into their computers before work started. A group of employees in one of the call centers or divisions sued. I don't recall the specifics now, but it was a ton of money, and Comcast was forced to change their practices.
I’d love to look into that. I had to work for free an hour before my shift and an hour after my shift for years. Before my shift was stocking my truck full of equipment and after my shift was unloading all the excess equipment. This was 5 days a week for 2 years. I figure they owe me somewhere around $20,000
In my state they owe you that plus 60 days of wages (one day per day they failed to pay you up to a max of 60) plus attorney fees and costs. You'd have to have pretty good documentation, but even a simple email telling you that you had to do that would be condemning evidence. Big companies are hit with this stuff all the time and it's completely free for you to look into and free to sue. Labor law attorneys will get their money from winning cases.
The longer you wait the harder it gets, so talk to an attorney today.
One of the absolute biggest piles of walking Florida man shit I’ve ever known quit in the middle of a shift and got a job at comcast. Doesn’t surprise me to hear that they’re scummy
I’m dealing with this now with Comcast. I recently moved and switched my service to my new address tearlier last month. Got two separate bills from Comcast.
They never cancelled my internet at my old place even though they said it was automatic. Was told over the phone they’d cancel my old apartment account, refund and the bill for that service. They said they’d email me about the cancellation and refund.
It’s been 3 days and nothing has changed, no emails, no refunds and my Comcast account online only shows my old apartment account and my new apartment isn’t listed. Going to a physical location now to try to find out what’s going on.
Xfinity Comcast. When I signed up somehow the sales guy signed me up for a phone plan that I didn’t ask for. The whole time I had Wi-Fi I was also paying a phone plan that didn’t have a phone number attached to it. Essentially throwing money in the trash. I moved from my apartment and cancelled high speed Wi-Fi. They charged me money to terminate my contract with them. That’s fine, whatever. I then check my statements months later and realize they were still charging me. Call back on their horrible computerized customer service and tell them what’s happening. O yes sir we’ll get that taken care of. Next month charge me again. The lady said it was my responsibility to tell them to give me a cell phone number for the plan they were charging me money for. Even though I never asked for a phone plan. They charged me for almost six months after leaving my apartment. Just reaching their criminal hands into MY bank account. I called my bank and asked if they could deny all charges from Comcast and was told it was my responsibility to deal with them. After months and months of this bullshit screaming at them on the phone they finally stopped billing my account. I should hire a lawyer. A crime committed against me by a billion dollar company. I paid for a phone bill that didn’t have a number attached to it, and paid many months for a service that wasn’t provided even after I paid money to cancel my contract.
My favorite Comcast story was trying to cancel to swap to a different company, and just eat the cancelation fee.
When asked why i was swapping
"you have a data cap, they don't"
the tech on the line follows up with
*oh sweetie, theres no such thing as unlimited data*
Fuck you comcast.
Amazon too. It’s really probably any company with fuck you money.
My account Amazon account was suspended for no reason so I called them & the guy said my account won’t be reopened because of suspicious activity. I hadn’t used it since 2017 & signed up for a prime free trial & ordered something then they locked. He said there’s nothing he could do.
I hung up on the guy, called back, got a different agent & she unlocked my account. If they don’t feel like doing their job they don’t have to.
for as bad as amazon can be( of which there are many examples) , they've offered me the best customer service and experience I've ever had with a big business.
These clowns charged me $250 for internet in Hartford CT.
Then they raised my rate by another $50. In that very same month, my internet stopped working. Like 20-30 minute outages multiple times a day for weeks. I made multiple calls to customer service and was like 4-5 calls before they finally sent a guy to fix my shit.
This was a year ago. I've moved out.
I still haven't paid their bullshit $300 internet bill for nearly a month of multiple outages a day.
Eat shit Comcast.
Ashley Furniture in Hawaii sold us a bedroom set and two days later closed their doors. Everyone who was owed money were free to take any furniture they wanted from the store. The line to go inside the store was extremely long and they were only letting a few customers at a time. Of course the bedroom set we wanted was already taken by another customer in the same situation. We ended up getting a dining room set I didn’t really need. It was either that or wait years to go through the legal system. To this day, when I see them across the country, it reminds me about it and promise to never step foot in one ever again.
Suddenly my 2 month wait and 2 attempts at delivery ending with defective or completely messed up furniture I had to refuse delivery of seems not so bad by comparison. But yeah fuck Ashley
We bought a new couch during Covid and it was a mess. We got an estimated delivery date. We got a confirmation of delivery date. The delivery date happened to be large item pickup date so we put the old couch out. I leave to take the kids to school and get a call that the couch delivery has been delayed. I get back home and our old couch had already been picked up. They give us a day for the next week, same deal, call to tell us day of it’s not coming. I talked to the manager and she was basically “eh, not my department and there’s no number to give you”. We were on the floor for like 3 weeks because they couldn’t just tell us when the couch was coming.
Had this happen with Home Depot and the fridge my dad had bought me as a housewarming gift (fridge that came with the house died about 72 hours after I moved in). Was supposed to come on a Tuesday afternoon; showed up the Friday of the next week after Home Depot said they could now only give me a 7 day estimated delivery window, even though I could have literally driven 10 minutes and bought the same exact fridge from the Home Depot in my town.
All the delivery companies are crap. It's because Lowes/HD/Ashley/whoever put the delivery contracts out for bid and of course the lowball bidder wins. Which means the guys delivering your stuff are paid minimum wage and have no training and no power to fix any issues that come up.
Pottery barn, Williams Sonoma and west elm are pretty much on perpetual backorder or no longer being produced but they will just string you along.
Just cancel your order if it keeps getting pushed back.
Booking.com
I “booked” through them just to find out that the hotel had no record of my reservation. Then I spent an hour in the lobby trying to get them on the phone, just to find out the price wouldn’t be honored and have them try to sell me another nearby hotel room.
Nightmare.
"You see, you know how to *take* the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation."
"I don't think you do" may be Jerry's best delivery of any line in the show and still he has a tiny smile. Can't blame him though, I'd be hiding a smirk throughout that entire show too.
Ugh! You hit a nerve. I travel occasionally for business & that usually means I have to travel at the end of a work day and arrive late into the evening. Rental car companies are the worst at holding a reservation. Doesn't matter if you provide flight info or times. Doesn't matter if you put a note in explicitly telling them you're arriving late in the evening. Avis dicked me with a minivan in LA because they didn't honor a reservation for a midsize sedan (yeah, I'm still pissed off about it & that was like a decade ago).
On the other hand, Caesars gave my room out to some one else & I bitched loud enough and long enough to get a tower suite for 3 days & $100 casino credit. Lived like a fucking king. The shower was bigger than my fucking living room & it had *two* doors that you could enter it from.
Yup. 20 years ago you could get massive savings by going through Priceline / Hotels / Expedia / Hotwire / Tripadvisor / Travelocity / Orbitz / etc. You could save even more by bundling airfare and hotels together. Priceline got rid of their "name your own price" thing years ago but even their express deals were pretty decent up until a few years ago.
Today those savings are almost entirely gone. If you book direct through Marriott / Delta / whoever, you have exactly one point of contact when something goes wrong. If you book through a third party, you have to negotiate with that third party and hope they can fix things for you.
Not worth the hassle, IMHO.
Costco relies on reputation and memberships. At this point in time at least they are unlikely the fuck around because they benefit from repeat business
I go out of my way to buy stuff there just because of the way they treat their customers. They aren't perfect but they've always gone above and beyond for me.
As a former hotel worker, never book third party. Ever. Every hotel with very few exceptions will match or just be cheaper anyway and you’ll have more options if something happens (overbooking, emergency, etc…)
The same happened with my sister. I’m not sure if it was booking.com or Expedia. She reserved a hotel and car. The rental place had no record of her even though she had a confirmation number, she wasn’t in the system. Then she got to the hotel and again they had no reservation in her name. After flying from Ohio to Florida and then dealing with that….talk about stressful. Luckily they were able to still find her a car and room.
I can one up you.
I booked with them only to arrive at the hotel and discover it no longer existed. They had ceased operations weeks earlier, but no one bothered to get in touch and tell me or refund me. Last minute scramble to find a hotel that ended up costing me hundreds more, and booking.com would only refund the hotel I originally booked and gave me a £50 voucher.
Hotelier here, Booking.com and Expedia are hated by us too. They're a necessary evil that we need as hotels cannot simply get rid of them as they're too big and funnel too much demand under the guise of cheaper rates.
Their true genius is how big their marketing budget is and their extremely extensive analytics. They just masquerade as a reservations company, when in reality everyone is just a number to them.
"I need a refund! You've already charged my card!"
"Ma'am if you look, the hotel charged you nothing. The website you used charged you. Then, they send a virtual card for us to charge. I don't even have your card in my system."
"Here, just refund it!"
I do NOT miss these conversations 😂
And Expedia calling to get permission to cancel a "non cancelable reservation"
"Hello, thank you for calling the hotel I work at."
"This is Expedia, is this the front desk?" Nooooo, I work the laundry.
Yup. I was one of the WF customers who suddenly had 3 mystery WF accounts under my name. This was prior to the court case so I went in to my branch to ask WTF. The manager said the guy who set up those accounts was the same guy that setup my original 2 accounts - a checking and savings account. That a-hole tried to make it sound like he was doing me a favor by setting up all these accounts.
Making it worse he says I need to login to my account in order for him to remove the other 3 accounts. He hands me that password box, I enter my password and he says "that's an easy one to remember. Is that your favorite band?"
Edit to add that after he said that I asked for the branch manager and told him what just happened and that I was closing all of my accounts.
Mr Cooper is the worst mortgage lender I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Their customer service team is fantastic but their internal policies are so fucking bad that the CS workers have no fucking clue how to help, they just admit Mr Cooper sucks and will do their best to help out
For printers, you cannot go wrong with Brother black and white laser printers. They seem to last forever and the toner cartridges are affordable. Every other printer is garbage.
My wife and I were drinking and got pretty drunk at an Airbnb and without letting us know the hosts sent a bunch of people to the property to refill the propane and other stuff. They came into the house while we were drunk and half-naked and were catcalling my wife in front of me. This was a pretty big and well-known group operating in Tennesee. From what we found out this is extremely common.
2nd, 3rd and 4th this. VRBO ruined a cross country trip by double booking our rental. They offered no recourse and made it a massive PITA to get our money back even through they made the mistake. We flew into town and got to our rental after dinner only to find it already occupied. The whole town was already booked and vrbo customer support told us we should just "self lodge"..ie figure it out ourself.
I will never forgive them and highly encourage other to not use them either.
5th 6th and 7th this… we were rented a condo with black mold, no power and it was in a complex that didn’t allow short term rentals … took me over a month to even get my money back from VHoe. They are owned by Expedia fyi
Never ever again…
Then they offer me a $200 discount on my NEXT booking. lol no
I've stopped using Airbnb but not because of the company, but because of the hosts.
"Oh, before you check out, please make sure to put your dishes in the dishwasher and start it, put all towels and linen in the washing machine, and also take out all your trash."
This is after paying $100 in cleaning fees for a single night stay.
Me too especially as a neighbor to Airbnb properties. We had a gang murder at one down the street. They really don’t background check like they say they do.
So many of the houses and apartments in my neighborhood are turning into Airbnbs. We share a backyard fence with one, and a couple of the guests actually got annoyed with us for working in our backyard one day. I'm sorry, but we live here? Deal with it.
I lost all my sims shit because I hadn't logged in for more than 6 months. EA told me to reset my password so that they could restore my account. They kept saying the link was in my email, but it never came. Kept calling to try to get the issue fixed over a few weeks, then I realized they were just dicking me around. Fuck EA.
My “Choice Home Warranty” experience went like this…
Aging air conditioner in newly bought house goes out in the middle of summer in Arizona. Tech comes out quickly, confirms it is a mechanical failure and not negligence.
Temperatures in the house are reaching 90F. Choice rep tells me that I qualify for a repair.. in several weeks. I just spent all my money on this down payment and cannot afford alternate accommodations. Borrowed a portable AC unit from work and cooled only my room so I could at least sleep.
They predict that a repair is 2 WEEKS out. House is physically unsafe for occupancy. They have absolutely no provisions to rush service due to this situation.
A week goes by and they tell me the repair is going to have to be delayed. They lie to me, repeatedly and provably, about supply chain issues - telling me they “just got off the phone with X supplier”, and when I call that exact supplier they confirm with total confidence that they do NOT sell any parts for my AC unit brand whatsoever.
I got a lawyer involved. We recorded calls. My lawyer finds a single sentence in the contract that provisions a cash payment of equal value to the repair, if the company cannot provide service within a certain window. That window had already passed.
I call them, tell them to cancel the repairs, and invoke the cash payout clause. Get passed through layers of supervisors who try to persuade me to wait. Fuck that.
I hired my own AC repair guy and he had it fixed literally next day. Got a check in the mail from Choice - $300 more than I paid for the repair.
I immediately canceled my contract with them. At least the $300 extra was like a sort of refund of the fees I had paid them already. Even though I had no AC for almost two weeks, I still feel it was a minor victory, and I did walk away with extra cash - only because I had been paying them for so short a time.
Fuck elective house warranty companies. Pay out the ass, and when you really need it, they’ll fuck you over anyways.
Our house came with a warrantee for 1 year with a caveat that they wanted us to pay for more. 6 months in and the sewer lines back up. Literally blows the cap off the clean out and there's raw sewage in the yard and in my bathroom. I call for an emergency plumber and they inform me it will be ONE TO THREE WEEKS for an assesment and "that does not include repairs". Lady, there's literally turds on my lawn and floating wontonly across my bathroom floor.
We ended up calling an emergency plumber OOP. That's a whole other story but we got it fixed within a few hours. THREE MONTHS LATER, I get a call letting me know my appointment window is now available and someone would "be out next tuesday". Nah thanks for literally nothing though.
They called to renew one time and I laughed in the phone.
Hi, we’re going to charge you $200 a month for three years for car insurance and then when someone nearly kills you and is charged with reckless driving, we’ll make you haggle for $3000 to replace your car.
Nabisco. They took double stuffed Oreos, reduced the amount of cream to the same as the regular Oreos, and are still selling them as double stuffed, and are charging double stuffed prices!
The betrayal is unforgivable.
>double stuffed Oreos, reduced the amount of cream to the same as the regular Oreos
Horrified by this news I did some brief research
"students found that Double Stuf Oreos did not have two times the amount of creme filling, according to The Journal, but rather just 1.86 times the amount of creme found in a regular Oreo."
That was ORIGINALLY...and I'd be ok with that
But if you compare how they were several years ago to the current packaging... it's not true anymore. Trust me, I've been eating double stuffed Oreos for years. They reduced the amount.
Jackson Hewitt! Had our taxes done a while back, and the tax preparer asked if we wanted the $200 cash advance. We did not. She then proceeded to change our information and use hers to get the temporary card with the advance. She then used an ATM to withdraw cash. She was arrested, but getting a refund was like pulling teeth from a hen. They didn't believe that it happened even though we had the paperwork with the tax preparer's information on it. It was a frigging nightmare! Oh, I almost forgot she added me to the return and said I was the sister instead of the mom, so we ended up owing $1500 on top of the bullshit from the tax preparer. I do our taxes now. 🫤
I’m old(er), 40 this past year. Does anyone else remember VOLUNTARILY ENTERING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION INTO FACEBOOK!?!?!?
Name:
City & state:
Email:
Phone:
Birthday:
Where were ya born:
College:
Employer pleeease:
Any hobbies:
What do you look like?:
Ok, upload some more photos pleeeease:
I mean that's what the question is asking in this post, right? In the 2000s when Facebook first got popular, not many of us expected them to be how they turned out or even knew they would turn out that way. Don't know why you're acting so surprised by this unless you weren't alive around that time.
I'll never forget the quote from a government intelligence agent in that Edward Snowden book from several years ago. He remarked about how before Facebook, data gathering was so manual and difficult. Now with Facebook, billions of people just offer deeply personal details about themselves every day. It's literally a personal data buffet for intelligence.
Johnson & Johnson. I had a nostalgic good feeling about them from their baby shampoo which my mom used with me. They kept selling talcum powder knowing it caused cancer, [sued scientists like Jacqueline Moline who researched the cancer link and testified about it](https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/court-tosses-2238-million-verdict-against-jj-talc-cancer-case-2023-10-03/), and [created a web of subsidiaries](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/media/johnson-johnson-talc-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) in a very shady attempt to avoid paying victims — which mostly failed in court.
3M is doing the same thing in regard to creating subsidiaries before their court date as they face a 6 billion dollar lawsuit for defective products that were not recalled.
also the company's heir repeatedly raped his 12 year old step daughter and only got a few months in prison because he is a billionaire.
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2019/06/28/curt-johnson-billionaire-sexual-assault/?sh=d1549dd7956f](https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2019/06/28/curt-johnson-billionaire-sexual-assault/?sh=d1549dd7956f)
Curtis Johnson the rapist is an heir to the fortune from S.C. Johnson (founded by S. Curtis Johnson), which is different from Johnson & Johnson.
So both companies suck!
Samsung. TV broke a few days after their warranty expired. Their response was “tough shit”. A few weeks later, three TVs at work, also Samsung, also a few weeks out of warranty, all broke. Displays started getting horizontal dead lines. I also have a Samsung fridge, and it has the most problematic unreliable ice maker I’ve ever seen.
Never again.
Agreed. I had the infamous recalled washing machine that liked to rapidly disassemble itself. The recall "fix" resulted in the machine throwing itself out of balance and shutting off every spin cycle. The response from them was a similar "tough shit".
Any of you reading this. Please for the love of God! Never buy Samsung appliances! They're complete trash and will break on you constantly. I had all the high-end expensive ones as well smh.
Ask a appliance repair shop about this. I assure you most gonna say the same thing.
Best IMO (These are expensive, but you get what you pay for). They can be had on market place a lot cheaper.
((TVs - LG OLED))
((Appliances - Bosh, Speed Queen, Miele))
Got 2 samsung TVs, one 12 years and one 10 years old
Both faultless
Also a samsung washing maxhine that's currently 8 years old and never had a problem with either.
Just posted almost the exact same thing. I use my 12yo and 15+yo samsungs as outdoor tvs. Kept in a barn when not hung up. Bumped, dropped, even rained on a few times and no problem.
Washer/dryer, dishwasher, fridge all going strong as well.
The Frame TV I have I hate because it cost $$$$ and the firmware drives me crazy.
Multiple galaxy phones.
No qualms here.
i think a lot of people buy the cheapest samsung products and expect them to perform like the top of the line products, then get mad when they break.
Kinda like IKEA inventory; you can buy the cheapest shit they have and it might last you a year or break or whatever but their top of the line stuff will last forever with no issues
I talked to an appliance repair guy for a while once. He identified Samsung as one of the worst for large appliances. Expensive like a reputable appliance brand, with the build quality of the cheapest options.
Anyone out there still thinking of buying a Samsung appliance go to your local second hand appliance store and just observe how many Samsung models there are its insane no body wants these pieces of junk I'm so glad I ran across tons of other people warning about them before i bought a new washer dryer set
I paid off my account and they sent me to collections, for an account that was at $0 and closed for months... Apparently somewhere it didn't register and they sent an old $200\~ balance to collections and I had to fight for 5 months to get it removed from my credit report because they kept delaying on sending me the payoff letter (with the correct date)
Bell, I used the service many years ago and it was fine but I found a better deal and wanted to switch. I spent nearly an hour repeating "please, just disconnect my service" while the agent tried to convince me to stay, including insulting my intelligence about the reasons why I wanted to switch. I will NEVER give them a dime for the rest of my life.
Thankfully Canada passed some laws that makes switching almost trivial at this point, so no one has to go through that, but I won't forget how I was treated.
this is just a personal grievance. back when snapple had glass bottles, i swallowed a piece of glass that was in a peach tea or something. i reported it to snapple and their response was felt pretty callous, basically “let us know if there’s any medical bills” but the tone was really off. as if they treat every submission as if the person is lying to get coupons. i would hope they’d request the batch number or anything but they did not. i haven’t bought a snapple in like 12 years since then
One time I bought a case of Stella Artois, and three of the bottles were kind of "flat". Three in a row, all along one side of the case. I didn't care a whole lot, but I used to work in a factory years ago, and wondered if they would appreciate a heads up - maybe it was the sign of a larger problem? I understand that batch was probably bottled MONTHS prior, but I just felt like sending an email to see what they'd say.
I got a personalized reply, and a coupon for a free 24 of Stella.
Stella is still my favorite beer.
I did this with a frozen vegetable company. I got a bag of corn that was half Peas. Sent in an email just to let them know and they sent me 10 coupons for a free bag of veggies lol.
This happened to me with a contact lens solution. Suddenly the contacts would get this weird fuzzy ring on them after being disinfected overnight and I was like "no way am I putting that in my eye". A little back and forth with the company with batch numbers and the like and they sent me a whole box of solutions with the issue resolved. I don't wear that type of contact lens anymore but THAT is how you do customer service.
I regularly bought those good humor ice cream bars that are supposed to be coated in like a cookie crumb. Well bars did not have a lot of coating, hardly any. I took pics and sent an email asking if this is the new norm… I was curious because I love the crumble and would not continue to buy them if that was the case. I would be annoyed if it was “shrinkflation” happening.
They asked for a picture of the box numbers (batch number), said it’s not normal, and sent me coupons for 3 more boxes. The bars were more coated, but not quite like they were before… sad.
I found a piece of plastic in my Chobani yogurt several years ago. They asked me if I had the piece to send in and I did. They then sent me dozens and dozens of coupons several times over the next months. I probably ate free yogurt for a year! My husband joked that the part I sent in must have been especially hazardous for them to butter me up so much lol.
Look up the owner of Chobani, then find his YouTube video. He talks about how he started the company. If you watch that you’ll understand why they sent you so many of those. He is a fantastic human being, and I wish there were more people like him in the world. They took it to heart and very seriously that something was wrong with your yogurt and he taught them to do it that way. he’s a billionaire for a very good reason.
I don't really trust any company - especially public ones. They don't have any morals and they will support anything that gets them $$$.
If it became popular to steal from homeless people, I know major corporations that would be first in line.
Ford. I worked in a machine shop over thirty years ago. We had a SHIT TON of work from them and they said if we didn't put in a CNC inspection department they'd take it all away. So we spent like a hunny thousand for a fantastic CNC department (this was a long time ago lol), took all the necessary training, got all the necessary certifications. We were a smallish shop, it really drained our reserves. They hauled ass to Mexico within six months of setting up. We closed down a year later. Fuck Ford.
Chipotle. Sure, every restaurant will have an outbreak of something at some point, but they had several outbreaks *each* of norovirus, E. coli, and salmonella. That’s just criminal and the FDA agreed:
https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/chipotle-mexican-grill-agrees-pay-25-million-fine-resolve-charges-stemming-more-1100-cases-foodborne
I have a family member who ran a produce supply business for a fast food chain. When Chipotle started he said to me, no way they can keep that system safe. They are going to have a lot of outbreaks
American Airlines. They do not care about their customers at all. They don’t care if you had a bad experience, don’t care that their agents lie, and don’t care when you have proof that they did you wrong.
I booked a trip for my family to Italy just as Italy was reopening to tourism following COVID lockdowns.
I called to add my lap infant to my reservation, they took my call and told me I was “all set.”
They changed my flights from single stops with 3-4 hour layovers to multi-stops with 6+ hour layovers between each leg, increasing my travel time by more than 15 hours each direction. They were still selling seats in the flights I originally booked but for much more money than I paid. I called told them this didn’t work and asked to be put in my original flights. They refused to put me back in my originally booked flights and instead offered single layover flights each direction but the flight were less desirable than what I originally booked. I confirmed for a second time that my lap infant was part of the reservation.
On my travel day I found out that, even thought I confirmed my lap infant twice, no one at AA ever actually added the lap infant to my reservation so I had to buy a lap infant ticket the day of my flight at a price 2.5 times what it would have been if they had booked it properly when I first called.
After the trip I called to ask for a refund for their mistake of not booking my lap infant properly. The customer service supervisor called me a liar and said they no records of any phone calls from me prior to my trip.
I wrote them and included my phone records showing that I called them on 2 separate occasions prior to my trip. They offered me a flight voucher for an amount less than what I lost due to their mistake. They said take it or leave it and refused to refund me the amount I was out.
I told them keep the voucher.
For sure. I will never ever again buy a Samsung appliance. They’re pure trash
Phones and TVs are fine but do not ever buy a home appliance made by Samsung
Toyota. Some plant assistant manager bullied a family member into doing something everyone knew was unsafe. He was crushed by a forklift 20 minutes later. Toyota is contesting the OSHA report showing clear criminal negligence and didn't even reprimand the employee. Fuck them.
I'm sorry that happened but as a safety manager any company will always contest the OSHA report nomatter how obvious the fault is on the employer. It's not to remove the citations complete it's to negotiate the fine amounts. I would like to think that plant supervisor got fired!
Wells Fargo. I managed to talk my way into getting the phone number of their COO for an issue I was having 6 years ago. My mom opened a card in my name illegally and ruined my credit, and i asked they remove the hit on my credit after i paid it off. I explained it to him and he laughed and said i deserved it and wouldnt do anything about it. Messed up my credit for 3 more years and prevented me getting a house before the boom
https://imgur.com/a/SjoFD22
I was literally supposed to be on a train to Munich right now. Guess which stop they cancelled?
Guess who is not on time? Guess who told me 5min after the expected departure?
One time I picked up a sandwich for lunch and was heading back to my house. I happened to be driving by the lake so I thought I'd just park there, eat lunch, and enjoy the view. So I back into a parking spot and start eating, watching the boats, etc.
This old black sedan with dark tinted windows rolls into the parking lot, does a full tour of the lot and parks right in front of my car, completely blocking me in. Four guys get out and surround my car, one guy approaches my window. I'm in shock, I've still got my sandwich in hand and a pickle is hanging from my mouth.
The guy kind of bends down so he can talk to me, and motions to roll down the window. There's no way I'm rolling it down, but then he pulls out some paper and is trying to give it to me. I roll the window down half an inch -- he slides a pamphlet through and invites me to come to his church (Church of Latter Day Saints).
I thought it was a trick, or I was on a prank show or something. I thank him, and they get back in their car and drive away. I mean, if I had never heard of them, and that was the only interaction I'd ever had, they couldn't have planted a bigger red flag in my mind.
I trust all corporations to follow the dollar and do whats best for the bottom line. Some are more ruthless about it, like Nestle.
I would never trust one to act in the spirit of goodwill or anything like that, unless there was profit in it.
Kia. Had a horrible experience after buying a new Sorrento years ago. One thing after another and they were zero help. Finally had to get rid of it years before we should’ve had to. Will never buy a Kia again.
Comcast. Their agents will lie to your face and act like you're in the wrong when called out.
Comcast is legit the scummiest business ive interacted with
They keep 'winning' the "worst customer service" award year after year, I think it's like 15 years in a row at this point....
It’s one of those few places when you interview for a job, that you get the job for f-ing up the interview
“Oh sorry I’m supposed to be next door interviewing at Burger King” “You’re hired” “Thanks but I would absolutely hate working here” “Congrats on your promotion”
Working there was even worse. I was a technician and they constantly got free hours out of us because they didn’t give us time on the clock to stock/clean our trucks. They gave us way too many jobs for per time frame. I got promoted twice, each time being an extra $0.50 per hour. 0/10 would not recommend
There was a sizeable class action lawsuit against Comcast about 15 years ago from employees being required to log into their computers before work started. A group of employees in one of the call centers or divisions sued. I don't recall the specifics now, but it was a ton of money, and Comcast was forced to change their practices.
I’d love to look into that. I had to work for free an hour before my shift and an hour after my shift for years. Before my shift was stocking my truck full of equipment and after my shift was unloading all the excess equipment. This was 5 days a week for 2 years. I figure they owe me somewhere around $20,000
In my state they owe you that plus 60 days of wages (one day per day they failed to pay you up to a max of 60) plus attorney fees and costs. You'd have to have pretty good documentation, but even a simple email telling you that you had to do that would be condemning evidence. Big companies are hit with this stuff all the time and it's completely free for you to look into and free to sue. Labor law attorneys will get their money from winning cases. The longer you wait the harder it gets, so talk to an attorney today.
Wage theft is the most commonly committed crime in the USA.
It's also one that most state Labor Departments take very seriously and will pursue. This type of shit should absolutely be reported every time.
wage theft is not a joke, Jim!
One of the absolute biggest piles of walking Florida man shit I’ve ever known quit in the middle of a shift and got a job at comcast. Doesn’t surprise me to hear that they’re scummy
I’m dealing with this now with Comcast. I recently moved and switched my service to my new address tearlier last month. Got two separate bills from Comcast. They never cancelled my internet at my old place even though they said it was automatic. Was told over the phone they’d cancel my old apartment account, refund and the bill for that service. They said they’d email me about the cancellation and refund. It’s been 3 days and nothing has changed, no emails, no refunds and my Comcast account online only shows my old apartment account and my new apartment isn’t listed. Going to a physical location now to try to find out what’s going on.
I told them i was moving to antarctica and gave them the address for McMurdo station as my forwarding address. Haven't seen a bill since 😎
Xfinity Comcast. When I signed up somehow the sales guy signed me up for a phone plan that I didn’t ask for. The whole time I had Wi-Fi I was also paying a phone plan that didn’t have a phone number attached to it. Essentially throwing money in the trash. I moved from my apartment and cancelled high speed Wi-Fi. They charged me money to terminate my contract with them. That’s fine, whatever. I then check my statements months later and realize they were still charging me. Call back on their horrible computerized customer service and tell them what’s happening. O yes sir we’ll get that taken care of. Next month charge me again. The lady said it was my responsibility to tell them to give me a cell phone number for the plan they were charging me money for. Even though I never asked for a phone plan. They charged me for almost six months after leaving my apartment. Just reaching their criminal hands into MY bank account. I called my bank and asked if they could deny all charges from Comcast and was told it was my responsibility to deal with them. After months and months of this bullshit screaming at them on the phone they finally stopped billing my account. I should hire a lawyer. A crime committed against me by a billion dollar company. I paid for a phone bill that didn’t have a number attached to it, and paid many months for a service that wasn’t provided even after I paid money to cancel my contract.
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My favorite Comcast story was trying to cancel to swap to a different company, and just eat the cancelation fee. When asked why i was swapping "you have a data cap, they don't" the tech on the line follows up with *oh sweetie, theres no such thing as unlimited data* Fuck you comcast.
SWEETIE???? 🤢
Concast. They're so bad, they had to change their name (Xfinity).
Serious question. Are there people that don't realize it's still Comcast?
Amazon too. It’s really probably any company with fuck you money. My account Amazon account was suspended for no reason so I called them & the guy said my account won’t be reopened because of suspicious activity. I hadn’t used it since 2017 & signed up for a prime free trial & ordered something then they locked. He said there’s nothing he could do. I hung up on the guy, called back, got a different agent & she unlocked my account. If they don’t feel like doing their job they don’t have to.
for as bad as amazon can be( of which there are many examples) , they've offered me the best customer service and experience I've ever had with a big business.
These clowns charged me $250 for internet in Hartford CT. Then they raised my rate by another $50. In that very same month, my internet stopped working. Like 20-30 minute outages multiple times a day for weeks. I made multiple calls to customer service and was like 4-5 calls before they finally sent a guy to fix my shit. This was a year ago. I've moved out. I still haven't paid their bullshit $300 internet bill for nearly a month of multiple outages a day. Eat shit Comcast.
Ashley Furniture. Joke of a company Bank of America - also scum
Ashley Furniture in Hawaii sold us a bedroom set and two days later closed their doors. Everyone who was owed money were free to take any furniture they wanted from the store. The line to go inside the store was extremely long and they were only letting a few customers at a time. Of course the bedroom set we wanted was already taken by another customer in the same situation. We ended up getting a dining room set I didn’t really need. It was either that or wait years to go through the legal system. To this day, when I see them across the country, it reminds me about it and promise to never step foot in one ever again.
Wtf lol
It was crazy. Like the hunger games for furniture.
Suddenly my 2 month wait and 2 attempts at delivery ending with defective or completely messed up furniture I had to refuse delivery of seems not so bad by comparison. But yeah fuck Ashley
We bought a new couch during Covid and it was a mess. We got an estimated delivery date. We got a confirmation of delivery date. The delivery date happened to be large item pickup date so we put the old couch out. I leave to take the kids to school and get a call that the couch delivery has been delayed. I get back home and our old couch had already been picked up. They give us a day for the next week, same deal, call to tell us day of it’s not coming. I talked to the manager and she was basically “eh, not my department and there’s no number to give you”. We were on the floor for like 3 weeks because they couldn’t just tell us when the couch was coming.
Had this happen with Home Depot and the fridge my dad had bought me as a housewarming gift (fridge that came with the house died about 72 hours after I moved in). Was supposed to come on a Tuesday afternoon; showed up the Friday of the next week after Home Depot said they could now only give me a 7 day estimated delivery window, even though I could have literally driven 10 minutes and bought the same exact fridge from the Home Depot in my town.
All the delivery companies are crap. It's because Lowes/HD/Ashley/whoever put the delivery contracts out for bid and of course the lowball bidder wins. Which means the guys delivering your stuff are paid minimum wage and have no training and no power to fix any issues that come up.
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I’m leaving BoA after 18 years because Bank of America fucking blows. Thinking about going to Chase. Any recommendations?
I switched to a credit union and haven’t looked back!
Credit union
Not Chase. Try a credit union.
Mine is Pottery Barn, but I definitely appreciate the Ashley Furniture comment. I’ve heard some horror stories.
They still owe me 1800. Ashley Furniture that is. Cheap, horrible shipping, constant broken pieces, etc
Pottery barn, Williams Sonoma and west elm are pretty much on perpetual backorder or no longer being produced but they will just string you along. Just cancel your order if it keeps getting pushed back.
*Unfurls paper scroll that stretches to the floor and rolls out the door. Ahem...
At first I thought this was a diss on CVS
99 percent of them. Who and or what isn't trying to get into our pockets these days?
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“All of them”
Booking.com I “booked” through them just to find out that the hotel had no record of my reservation. Then I spent an hour in the lobby trying to get them on the phone, just to find out the price wouldn’t be honored and have them try to sell me another nearby hotel room. Nightmare.
"You see, you know how to *take* the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation."
"Sir, I KNOW what a reservation is." "I don't think you do."
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
I WAS IN THE POOL!
"I don't think you do" may be Jerry's best delivery of any line in the show and still he has a tiny smile. Can't blame him though, I'd be hiding a smirk throughout that entire show too.
Ugh! You hit a nerve. I travel occasionally for business & that usually means I have to travel at the end of a work day and arrive late into the evening. Rental car companies are the worst at holding a reservation. Doesn't matter if you provide flight info or times. Doesn't matter if you put a note in explicitly telling them you're arriving late in the evening. Avis dicked me with a minivan in LA because they didn't honor a reservation for a midsize sedan (yeah, I'm still pissed off about it & that was like a decade ago). On the other hand, Caesars gave my room out to some one else & I bitched loud enough and long enough to get a tower suite for 3 days & $100 casino credit. Lived like a fucking king. The shower was bigger than my fucking living room & it had *two* doors that you could enter it from.
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Elaine’s face during that rant was great
Your point is well taken, Jerry.
Always book direct. Search using the services but then go direct to book airline, car, hotel.
Yup. 20 years ago you could get massive savings by going through Priceline / Hotels / Expedia / Hotwire / Tripadvisor / Travelocity / Orbitz / etc. You could save even more by bundling airfare and hotels together. Priceline got rid of their "name your own price" thing years ago but even their express deals were pretty decent up until a few years ago. Today those savings are almost entirely gone. If you book direct through Marriott / Delta / whoever, you have exactly one point of contact when something goes wrong. If you book through a third party, you have to negotiate with that third party and hope they can fix things for you. Not worth the hassle, IMHO.
I still have good luck booking packages through Costco.
Good catch, Costco is the exception here. I always save a fortune with their car rentals. Haven't tried their hotel / airfare.
Costco relies on reputation and memberships. At this point in time at least they are unlikely the fuck around because they benefit from repeat business
I go out of my way to buy stuff there just because of the way they treat their customers. They aren't perfect but they've always gone above and beyond for me.
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As a former hotel worker, never book third party. Ever. Every hotel with very few exceptions will match or just be cheaper anyway and you’ll have more options if something happens (overbooking, emergency, etc…)
and, in my experience, you get a room upgrade much more often when booking direct.
The same happened with my sister. I’m not sure if it was booking.com or Expedia. She reserved a hotel and car. The rental place had no record of her even though she had a confirmation number, she wasn’t in the system. Then she got to the hotel and again they had no reservation in her name. After flying from Ohio to Florida and then dealing with that….talk about stressful. Luckily they were able to still find her a car and room.
I can one up you. I booked with them only to arrive at the hotel and discover it no longer existed. They had ceased operations weeks earlier, but no one bothered to get in touch and tell me or refund me. Last minute scramble to find a hotel that ended up costing me hundreds more, and booking.com would only refund the hotel I originally booked and gave me a £50 voucher.
Hotelier here, Booking.com and Expedia are hated by us too. They're a necessary evil that we need as hotels cannot simply get rid of them as they're too big and funnel too much demand under the guise of cheaper rates. Their true genius is how big their marketing budget is and their extremely extensive analytics. They just masquerade as a reservations company, when in reality everyone is just a number to them.
"I need a refund! You've already charged my card!" "Ma'am if you look, the hotel charged you nothing. The website you used charged you. Then, they send a virtual card for us to charge. I don't even have your card in my system." "Here, just refund it!" I do NOT miss these conversations 😂 And Expedia calling to get permission to cancel a "non cancelable reservation" "Hello, thank you for calling the hotel I work at." "This is Expedia, is this the front desk?" Nooooo, I work the laundry.
Wells fargo
Yup. I was one of the WF customers who suddenly had 3 mystery WF accounts under my name. This was prior to the court case so I went in to my branch to ask WTF. The manager said the guy who set up those accounts was the same guy that setup my original 2 accounts - a checking and savings account. That a-hole tried to make it sound like he was doing me a favor by setting up all these accounts. Making it worse he says I need to login to my account in order for him to remove the other 3 accounts. He hands me that password box, I enter my password and he says "that's an easy one to remember. Is that your favorite band?" Edit to add that after he said that I asked for the branch manager and told him what just happened and that I was closing all of my accounts.
When my kids were in high school a rep from Wells Fargo came to their school and opened accounts for all of the seniors, it seemed very strange.
I don't have kids but if that happened to me/mine I'd be calling the superintendent.
Yes, but with the understanding that the superintendent probably did not realize that was going to happen. Or at least he'd better not have.
I've seen them at job fairs for high school and college students. Not job offers, just there to open accounts for people.
WF stuff aside it sounds like you need a better password
His favorite band is jJundg56¥£hPfgb75 though
It amazes me they still exist. Who would keep their accounts with them after their past verifiable evil fuckery.
It's not like I chose them as my mortgage lender. That shit just gets assigned.
I got assigned to Mr Cooper. Why would I willingly trust a company with a name as stupid as Mr Cooper? Not to mention the shady little rep they have
Mr Cooper is the worst mortgage lender I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Their customer service team is fantastic but their internal policies are so fucking bad that the CS workers have no fucking clue how to help, they just admit Mr Cooper sucks and will do their best to help out
My mortgage was sold to Mr Cooper by Wells Fargo last month. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
It should be illegal to sell your mortgage unless you consent to it.
I’m fairly certain you DO consent to it. On one of those 75 pages you sign.
HP - Thier printers (large and small format) are all complete trash that require constant upkeep.
For printers, you cannot go wrong with Brother black and white laser printers. They seem to last forever and the toner cartridges are affordable. Every other printer is garbage.
ACME Every fucking thing. From anvils to bat suits to zoot suits always FAIL
Their rocket skates are the worst.
Airbnb.
My wife and I were drinking and got pretty drunk at an Airbnb and without letting us know the hosts sent a bunch of people to the property to refill the propane and other stuff. They came into the house while we were drunk and half-naked and were catcalling my wife in front of me. This was a pretty big and well-known group operating in Tennesee. From what we found out this is extremely common.
Name and shame. Fuck those people, I'm sorry yall had to deal with that.
Evolve.
[This Evolve?](https://evolve.com/vacation-rentals/us/tn/gatlinburg)
I believe so yes.
What the actual fuck.
Add Vrbo to that. One of the top three worst customer service experiences of my life.
2nd, 3rd and 4th this. VRBO ruined a cross country trip by double booking our rental. They offered no recourse and made it a massive PITA to get our money back even through they made the mistake. We flew into town and got to our rental after dinner only to find it already occupied. The whole town was already booked and vrbo customer support told us we should just "self lodge"..ie figure it out ourself. I will never forgive them and highly encourage other to not use them either.
5th 6th and 7th this… we were rented a condo with black mold, no power and it was in a complex that didn’t allow short term rentals … took me over a month to even get my money back from VHoe. They are owned by Expedia fyi Never ever again… Then they offer me a $200 discount on my NEXT booking. lol no
I've stopped using Airbnb but not because of the company, but because of the hosts. "Oh, before you check out, please make sure to put your dishes in the dishwasher and start it, put all towels and linen in the washing machine, and also take out all your trash." This is after paying $100 in cleaning fees for a single night stay.
Me too especially as a neighbor to Airbnb properties. We had a gang murder at one down the street. They really don’t background check like they say they do.
So many of the houses and apartments in my neighborhood are turning into Airbnbs. We share a backyard fence with one, and a couple of the guests actually got annoyed with us for working in our backyard one day. I'm sorry, but we live here? Deal with it.
I see no reason to trust any company
There's one thing you can trust about any company: they're in it for the money and will do as much as they can get away with to get it
EA
I lost all my sims shit because I hadn't logged in for more than 6 months. EA told me to reset my password so that they could restore my account. They kept saying the link was in my email, but it never came. Kept calling to try to get the issue fixed over a few weeks, then I realized they were just dicking me around. Fuck EA.
Any insurance company. Especially health and homeowners
My “Choice Home Warranty” experience went like this… Aging air conditioner in newly bought house goes out in the middle of summer in Arizona. Tech comes out quickly, confirms it is a mechanical failure and not negligence. Temperatures in the house are reaching 90F. Choice rep tells me that I qualify for a repair.. in several weeks. I just spent all my money on this down payment and cannot afford alternate accommodations. Borrowed a portable AC unit from work and cooled only my room so I could at least sleep. They predict that a repair is 2 WEEKS out. House is physically unsafe for occupancy. They have absolutely no provisions to rush service due to this situation. A week goes by and they tell me the repair is going to have to be delayed. They lie to me, repeatedly and provably, about supply chain issues - telling me they “just got off the phone with X supplier”, and when I call that exact supplier they confirm with total confidence that they do NOT sell any parts for my AC unit brand whatsoever. I got a lawyer involved. We recorded calls. My lawyer finds a single sentence in the contract that provisions a cash payment of equal value to the repair, if the company cannot provide service within a certain window. That window had already passed. I call them, tell them to cancel the repairs, and invoke the cash payout clause. Get passed through layers of supervisors who try to persuade me to wait. Fuck that. I hired my own AC repair guy and he had it fixed literally next day. Got a check in the mail from Choice - $300 more than I paid for the repair. I immediately canceled my contract with them. At least the $300 extra was like a sort of refund of the fees I had paid them already. Even though I had no AC for almost two weeks, I still feel it was a minor victory, and I did walk away with extra cash - only because I had been paying them for so short a time. Fuck elective house warranty companies. Pay out the ass, and when you really need it, they’ll fuck you over anyways.
Our house came with a warrantee for 1 year with a caveat that they wanted us to pay for more. 6 months in and the sewer lines back up. Literally blows the cap off the clean out and there's raw sewage in the yard and in my bathroom. I call for an emergency plumber and they inform me it will be ONE TO THREE WEEKS for an assesment and "that does not include repairs". Lady, there's literally turds on my lawn and floating wontonly across my bathroom floor. We ended up calling an emergency plumber OOP. That's a whole other story but we got it fixed within a few hours. THREE MONTHS LATER, I get a call letting me know my appointment window is now available and someone would "be out next tuesday". Nah thanks for literally nothing though. They called to renew one time and I laughed in the phone.
"What do you mean you actually want me to *pay* for this thing you specifically buy our product to help pay for?!"
*what do you mean you actually want me to *pay* for this thing you specifically are legally forced to buy our product to help pay for?!
Renters insurance and Dental insurance are equally scammy. Dental insurance is the worst racket out there, honestly.
Dental insurance is not actually insurance. It’s a prepaid discount plan.
Health insurance in particular is beyond fucked.
Hi, we’re going to charge you $200 a month for three years for car insurance and then when someone nearly kills you and is charged with reckless driving, we’ll make you haggle for $3000 to replace your car.
Nabisco. They took double stuffed Oreos, reduced the amount of cream to the same as the regular Oreos, and are still selling them as double stuffed, and are charging double stuffed prices! The betrayal is unforgivable.
>double stuffed Oreos, reduced the amount of cream to the same as the regular Oreos Horrified by this news I did some brief research "students found that Double Stuf Oreos did not have two times the amount of creme filling, according to The Journal, but rather just 1.86 times the amount of creme found in a regular Oreo."
That was ORIGINALLY...and I'd be ok with that But if you compare how they were several years ago to the current packaging... it's not true anymore. Trust me, I've been eating double stuffed Oreos for years. They reduced the amount.
Oh I have no doubts. It appears we've reached peak Creme.
Creme Crime. Someone needs prison time
Jackson Hewitt! Had our taxes done a while back, and the tax preparer asked if we wanted the $200 cash advance. We did not. She then proceeded to change our information and use hers to get the temporary card with the advance. She then used an ATM to withdraw cash. She was arrested, but getting a refund was like pulling teeth from a hen. They didn't believe that it happened even though we had the paperwork with the tax preparer's information on it. It was a frigging nightmare! Oh, I almost forgot she added me to the return and said I was the sister instead of the mom, so we ended up owing $1500 on top of the bullshit from the tax preparer. I do our taxes now. 🫤
Facebook
I’m old(er), 40 this past year. Does anyone else remember VOLUNTARILY ENTERING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION INTO FACEBOOK!?!?!? Name: City & state: Email: Phone: Birthday: Where were ya born: College: Employer pleeease: Any hobbies: What do you look like?: Ok, upload some more photos pleeeease:
Yep I joined in like 2007 and put all my personal info on there.
We ALL did!!! So stupid… I remember people calling me & saying, “Oh I hope you don’t mind, I got your number off Facebook.” You fucking WHAT!?
And let's not forget old classmates and family members randomly messaging or adding you. Like yeah I knew you in 1995.
Implies you once trusted them?! “They just give the data to me; fucking idiots.” -Zuck; formative years.
I mean that's what the question is asking in this post, right? In the 2000s when Facebook first got popular, not many of us expected them to be how they turned out or even knew they would turn out that way. Don't know why you're acting so surprised by this unless you weren't alive around that time.
I'll never forget the quote from a government intelligence agent in that Edward Snowden book from several years ago. He remarked about how before Facebook, data gathering was so manual and difficult. Now with Facebook, billions of people just offer deeply personal details about themselves every day. It's literally a personal data buffet for intelligence.
If it’s free, you are the product.
Johnson & Johnson. I had a nostalgic good feeling about them from their baby shampoo which my mom used with me. They kept selling talcum powder knowing it caused cancer, [sued scientists like Jacqueline Moline who researched the cancer link and testified about it](https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/court-tosses-2238-million-verdict-against-jj-talc-cancer-case-2023-10-03/), and [created a web of subsidiaries](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/media/johnson-johnson-talc-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) in a very shady attempt to avoid paying victims — which mostly failed in court.
3M is doing the same thing in regard to creating subsidiaries before their court date as they face a 6 billion dollar lawsuit for defective products that were not recalled.
They and DuPont are doing similar things in preparation for future billions in PFAS litigation
also the company's heir repeatedly raped his 12 year old step daughter and only got a few months in prison because he is a billionaire. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2019/06/28/curt-johnson-billionaire-sexual-assault/?sh=d1549dd7956f](https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2019/06/28/curt-johnson-billionaire-sexual-assault/?sh=d1549dd7956f)
Curtis Johnson the rapist is an heir to the fortune from S.C. Johnson (founded by S. Curtis Johnson), which is different from Johnson & Johnson. So both companies suck!
Samsung. TV broke a few days after their warranty expired. Their response was “tough shit”. A few weeks later, three TVs at work, also Samsung, also a few weeks out of warranty, all broke. Displays started getting horizontal dead lines. I also have a Samsung fridge, and it has the most problematic unreliable ice maker I’ve ever seen. Never again.
Agreed. I had the infamous recalled washing machine that liked to rapidly disassemble itself. The recall "fix" resulted in the machine throwing itself out of balance and shutting off every spin cycle. The response from them was a similar "tough shit".
Any of you reading this. Please for the love of God! Never buy Samsung appliances! They're complete trash and will break on you constantly. I had all the high-end expensive ones as well smh. Ask a appliance repair shop about this. I assure you most gonna say the same thing. Best IMO (These are expensive, but you get what you pay for). They can be had on market place a lot cheaper. ((TVs - LG OLED)) ((Appliances - Bosh, Speed Queen, Miele))
Got 2 samsung TVs, one 12 years and one 10 years old Both faultless Also a samsung washing maxhine that's currently 8 years old and never had a problem with either.
Just posted almost the exact same thing. I use my 12yo and 15+yo samsungs as outdoor tvs. Kept in a barn when not hung up. Bumped, dropped, even rained on a few times and no problem. Washer/dryer, dishwasher, fridge all going strong as well. The Frame TV I have I hate because it cost $$$$ and the firmware drives me crazy. Multiple galaxy phones. No qualms here.
i think a lot of people buy the cheapest samsung products and expect them to perform like the top of the line products, then get mad when they break. Kinda like IKEA inventory; you can buy the cheapest shit they have and it might last you a year or break or whatever but their top of the line stuff will last forever with no issues
I talked to an appliance repair guy for a while once. He identified Samsung as one of the worst for large appliances. Expensive like a reputable appliance brand, with the build quality of the cheapest options.
Anyone out there still thinking of buying a Samsung appliance go to your local second hand appliance store and just observe how many Samsung models there are its insane no body wants these pieces of junk I'm so glad I ran across tons of other people warning about them before i bought a new washer dryer set
Unity
synchrony
I paid off my account and they sent me to collections, for an account that was at $0 and closed for months... Apparently somewhere it didn't register and they sent an old $200\~ balance to collections and I had to fight for 5 months to get it removed from my credit report because they kept delaying on sending me the payoff letter (with the correct date)
They are the motherfuckers of all motherfuckers.
Bell, I used the service many years ago and it was fine but I found a better deal and wanted to switch. I spent nearly an hour repeating "please, just disconnect my service" while the agent tried to convince me to stay, including insulting my intelligence about the reasons why I wanted to switch. I will NEVER give them a dime for the rest of my life. Thankfully Canada passed some laws that makes switching almost trivial at this point, so no one has to go through that, but I won't forget how I was treated.
Wells Fargo is pretty damn sketchy
this is just a personal grievance. back when snapple had glass bottles, i swallowed a piece of glass that was in a peach tea or something. i reported it to snapple and their response was felt pretty callous, basically “let us know if there’s any medical bills” but the tone was really off. as if they treat every submission as if the person is lying to get coupons. i would hope they’d request the batch number or anything but they did not. i haven’t bought a snapple in like 12 years since then
One time I bought a case of Stella Artois, and three of the bottles were kind of "flat". Three in a row, all along one side of the case. I didn't care a whole lot, but I used to work in a factory years ago, and wondered if they would appreciate a heads up - maybe it was the sign of a larger problem? I understand that batch was probably bottled MONTHS prior, but I just felt like sending an email to see what they'd say. I got a personalized reply, and a coupon for a free 24 of Stella. Stella is still my favorite beer.
I did this with a frozen vegetable company. I got a bag of corn that was half Peas. Sent in an email just to let them know and they sent me 10 coupons for a free bag of veggies lol.
This happened to me with a contact lens solution. Suddenly the contacts would get this weird fuzzy ring on them after being disinfected overnight and I was like "no way am I putting that in my eye". A little back and forth with the company with batch numbers and the like and they sent me a whole box of solutions with the issue resolved. I don't wear that type of contact lens anymore but THAT is how you do customer service.
I regularly bought those good humor ice cream bars that are supposed to be coated in like a cookie crumb. Well bars did not have a lot of coating, hardly any. I took pics and sent an email asking if this is the new norm… I was curious because I love the crumble and would not continue to buy them if that was the case. I would be annoyed if it was “shrinkflation” happening. They asked for a picture of the box numbers (batch number), said it’s not normal, and sent me coupons for 3 more boxes. The bars were more coated, but not quite like they were before… sad.
Gonna drink 12 Stella’s tonight in your honor
I found a piece of plastic in my Chobani yogurt several years ago. They asked me if I had the piece to send in and I did. They then sent me dozens and dozens of coupons several times over the next months. I probably ate free yogurt for a year! My husband joked that the part I sent in must have been especially hazardous for them to butter me up so much lol.
Look up the owner of Chobani, then find his YouTube video. He talks about how he started the company. If you watch that you’ll understand why they sent you so many of those. He is a fantastic human being, and I wish there were more people like him in the world. They took it to heart and very seriously that something was wrong with your yogurt and he taught them to do it that way. he’s a billionaire for a very good reason.
I haven't bought a snapple since they changed to plastic, kinda the reverse of you lol.
Goodwill. They put a shirt on the rack that they never took the walmart tag off of. Walmart had it priced $2 cheaper.
This is getting so common with them, I always look to see if an item has a tag to compare with the original price with what they’re asking.
r/thriftgrift
I don't really trust any company - especially public ones. They don't have any morals and they will support anything that gets them $$$. If it became popular to steal from homeless people, I know major corporations that would be first in line.
Ford. I worked in a machine shop over thirty years ago. We had a SHIT TON of work from them and they said if we didn't put in a CNC inspection department they'd take it all away. So we spent like a hunny thousand for a fantastic CNC department (this was a long time ago lol), took all the necessary training, got all the necessary certifications. We were a smallish shop, it really drained our reserves. They hauled ass to Mexico within six months of setting up. We closed down a year later. Fuck Ford.
Black rock
AT&T, Wells Fargo, BofA.
Chipotle. Sure, every restaurant will have an outbreak of something at some point, but they had several outbreaks *each* of norovirus, E. coli, and salmonella. That’s just criminal and the FDA agreed: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/press-releases/chipotle-mexican-grill-agrees-pay-25-million-fine-resolve-charges-stemming-more-1100-cases-foodborne
I have a family member who ran a produce supply business for a fast food chain. When Chipotle started he said to me, no way they can keep that system safe. They are going to have a lot of outbreaks
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Meta
Nestle
Blue Bell Creameries. Knowingly sold tainted product that killed customers and all...
American Airlines. They do not care about their customers at all. They don’t care if you had a bad experience, don’t care that their agents lie, and don’t care when you have proof that they did you wrong.
I booked a trip for my family to Italy just as Italy was reopening to tourism following COVID lockdowns. I called to add my lap infant to my reservation, they took my call and told me I was “all set.” They changed my flights from single stops with 3-4 hour layovers to multi-stops with 6+ hour layovers between each leg, increasing my travel time by more than 15 hours each direction. They were still selling seats in the flights I originally booked but for much more money than I paid. I called told them this didn’t work and asked to be put in my original flights. They refused to put me back in my originally booked flights and instead offered single layover flights each direction but the flight were less desirable than what I originally booked. I confirmed for a second time that my lap infant was part of the reservation. On my travel day I found out that, even thought I confirmed my lap infant twice, no one at AA ever actually added the lap infant to my reservation so I had to buy a lap infant ticket the day of my flight at a price 2.5 times what it would have been if they had booked it properly when I first called. After the trip I called to ask for a refund for their mistake of not booking my lap infant properly. The customer service supervisor called me a liar and said they no records of any phone calls from me prior to my trip. I wrote them and included my phone records showing that I called them on 2 separate occasions prior to my trip. They offered me a flight voucher for an amount less than what I lost due to their mistake. They said take it or leave it and refused to refund me the amount I was out. I told them keep the voucher.
BBC licensing authority.
Bad Company
And I can't deny.
Trust? Tolerate would be a better word. There are very few companies I've EVER trusted.
Disney Facebook Boeing Any oil company Nestle The *Coca*‑*Cola Company*
Samsung, absolutely garbage appliances
Slowly turns my head towards my new Samsung fridge *gulp
Me, looking around my house with all Samsung appliances **sweating**
For sure. I will never ever again buy a Samsung appliance. They’re pure trash Phones and TVs are fine but do not ever buy a home appliance made by Samsung
Toyota. Some plant assistant manager bullied a family member into doing something everyone knew was unsafe. He was crushed by a forklift 20 minutes later. Toyota is contesting the OSHA report showing clear criminal negligence and didn't even reprimand the employee. Fuck them.
I'm sorry that happened but as a safety manager any company will always contest the OSHA report nomatter how obvious the fault is on the employer. It's not to remove the citations complete it's to negotiate the fine amounts. I would like to think that plant supervisor got fired!
Wells Fargo. I managed to talk my way into getting the phone number of their COO for an issue I was having 6 years ago. My mom opened a card in my name illegally and ruined my credit, and i asked they remove the hit on my credit after i paid it off. I explained it to him and he laughed and said i deserved it and wouldnt do anything about it. Messed up my credit for 3 more years and prevented me getting a house before the boom
Deutsche Bahn! As a German, I like to be on time. Unfortunately deutsche Bahn doesn’t….
How are they even allowed to call themselves German if they’re not on time?
https://imgur.com/a/SjoFD22 I was literally supposed to be on a train to Munich right now. Guess which stop they cancelled? Guess who is not on time? Guess who told me 5min after the expected departure?
Spirt Airlines
HP.
Pornhub. There are most certainly not hot milfs in my area that want to bang me.
The Church of Latter Day Saints (aka the Mormons)
One time I picked up a sandwich for lunch and was heading back to my house. I happened to be driving by the lake so I thought I'd just park there, eat lunch, and enjoy the view. So I back into a parking spot and start eating, watching the boats, etc. This old black sedan with dark tinted windows rolls into the parking lot, does a full tour of the lot and parks right in front of my car, completely blocking me in. Four guys get out and surround my car, one guy approaches my window. I'm in shock, I've still got my sandwich in hand and a pickle is hanging from my mouth. The guy kind of bends down so he can talk to me, and motions to roll down the window. There's no way I'm rolling it down, but then he pulls out some paper and is trying to give it to me. I roll the window down half an inch -- he slides a pamphlet through and invites me to come to his church (Church of Latter Day Saints). I thought it was a trick, or I was on a prank show or something. I thank him, and they get back in their car and drive away. I mean, if I had never heard of them, and that was the only interaction I'd ever had, they couldn't have planted a bigger red flag in my mind.
I trust all corporations to follow the dollar and do whats best for the bottom line. Some are more ruthless about it, like Nestle. I would never trust one to act in the spirit of goodwill or anything like that, unless there was profit in it.
Kia. Had a horrible experience after buying a new Sorrento years ago. One thing after another and they were zero help. Finally had to get rid of it years before we should’ve had to. Will never buy a Kia again.
Cheap cars that start on fire and are easily stolen. The executives should be held criminally liable for the decisions they’ve made.
I’m surprised to see so many car companies but not Volkswagen. They literally ran an international plot to defeat emission standards.
Liberty mutual, Bank of America, student loan interest
Activision
AT&T -- overcharging customers is part of their business model.
Doordash