It’s time to vote on which companies will get to compete in Consumerist’s Third Annual Worst Company In America contest. This year, you nominated 121 different companies, a new record. The poll is inside. You get one vote. The companies receiving the most votes will get seeded in our March Madness-style brackets. Then the clash of the customer service midgets commences! Note: because there’s 121 companies, the poll may take some time to load.
UPDATE: There were so many bad companies that it broke our poll system. We’ll have to take down the post and find a new poll system and try again. Any recommendations for non-crappy poll systems that can handle over several thousands responses?
UPDATE: We are working on a new poll solution and hope to try this again tomorrow.
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Starbucks
Amazon
ebay
Southwest Airlines
Hubbard Broadcasting, which owns every ABC station in Minnesota as well as a few stations in New York and New Mexico.
Their slogan should be We put the “funk” in dysfunctional!
Sears.
A corrupt company with poor management, a poor product mix and a dismal future.
It bothers me to see so many people throwing in their votes for things like Best Buy when drug companies, oil companies, and credit companies screw people over on a much grander scale than what ANY retail chain could ever achieve.
It seems to me that a staggering number of you are too hung up on this rather unjustified “Screw Best Buy” band wagon. Yes, I understand that there have been mess ups, but every one of them involve maybe one person, two maybe.
Frankly, there are bigger fish than Best Buy that deserve the vote.
Starbucks, I hate to see them mark up that coffee 1200% and put a fancy name on it to justify it. IT’S IN FRITALIAN!
The poll possibly crashed because of all the Comcast votes.
Walmart, Halliburton, 1800Flowers & the TSA.
@ct03: YES, why couldn’t I see that in the site? After Sherry mentioned it, I did a search and also went back like a week. Weird.
@flairness:
Unless they posted about some other person’s nightmare problem with Verizon DSL, yes, they posted it. But it’s possible it was someone else – I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a trend.
It’s wonderful (in a dreadful way) that there were so many dreadful companies that it broke the poll system
Hope you can get it up soon (sorry, that sounds rude) …
After hearing about Comcast filling up seats with their own employees I am switching my vote from Best Buy.
Now hurry up and fix the polls before all this spite wears off.
@matto: Good point! We paid good money for our Gawker Media services! Oh ,wait, fuck. This shit’s free, so quit your bitchin.
ATT / we don’t care we don’t have to
I suppose you know: Freakonomics linked you.
To me the worst company is an evil company. And Exxon Mobil is evil personified. Did you read the article about trying to get a reduced judgement on the Exxon Valdez environmental disaster. The company has no conscience. If ANWAR were opened up they would be the first company up there drilling holes left and right. They made 40 billion dollars last year. 100 dollar a barrell oil is making a shambles of our economy and they keep recording record profits. I am glad Venezuela nationalized Exxons holdings. This companies sales exceeds the GNP of most nations. Heck OPEC was probably their idea.
Come on guys, this one easily goes to Monsanto. From the company’s manufacturing of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War to their modern-day products that range from genetically-modified seeds to patents on breeding processes for pigs, this company comes straight from the depths of hell. Former Monsanto employees currently hold positions in US government agencies such as the FDA and EPA and even the Supreme Court. These include Clarence Thomas, Michael Taylor, Ann Veneman and Linda Fisher. Linda Fisher has even been back and forth between positions at Monsanto and the EPA.
Donald Rumsfeld reportedly earned $12 million from increased stock value when G. D. Searle & Company was sold to Monsanto in 1985.
The worst company ever is EBAY!!