Sweet. I got the first vote.

Right now its 100% to Comcast!

Dont make me choose between Comcast and Best Buy.

I voted for Best Buy!

I wish Philadelphia Gas Works was on this list. They know why...

I wanted to vote for comcast even though I've never dealt with them, on general principle. But in the end I had to vote for my personal 'least favorite this year' company, Dell.

I couldn't help going with American Airlines, because people doing business with them literally put their lives in the hands of this terrible company. But that is a mighty fine list...

Please i beg everyone to come back and vote for AT&T. I work for this shit that you call AT&T Mobility, and we suck!!

So hard to just pick one!

Also, when do we get to see the midgets!?

So many to choose from, so many bad experiences. But c'mon, I'm the first person to pick Exxon? Yeah, Comcast may have screwed you on your bill and Verizon mails out bills that are unreadable to the layman, but Exxon is weilding it's gnarled cock of corporate greed every single day, and taking us to the bank the do so. C'mon people, get angry.

No Halliburton or Blackwater?

Toshiba, HD-DVD nuff said.

My vote was not added to the list.. so it's really 122.

The American Arbitration Association got my vote. Seriously, these folks are hurting America. Female contractors allegedly raped in Iraq have to go through arbitration, and can't go through the civil courts. That's the (gruesome) tip of the iceberg; any system where the judges are hired by one side of an argument, and where repeat business is desired, has some ugly built-in bugs- er, features!

No Major League Baseball either? At least 2 or 3 of us mentioned this in the nominate thread.

i can't believe someone else voted for video professor! ha! it looks like i'm not the only one who hates that guy in their commercials.

I ended up going with Blue Cross Blue Shield. I've had nothing but trouble from them since I was forced to change health insurance providers in January. And thanks to federal regulations (at least according to my HR), I'm locked in with them for the whole year! No wonder the health insurance industry has no incentive to change.

Other than that, I haven't had any problems at all with any of the other companies I do business with, including WaMu, United Airlines, Comcast and Sprint.

Regardless of what I read about other people's experiences, here and elsewhere, I think it's better to base my vote on my own experience.

@clevershark:

seconded

Which companies are in bed with Bush? I hate both!

This poll, although you included a lot of companies is not quite up to par.

U-ni-ted! U-ni-ted! They're a special kind of horrible.

I can't believe you made me choose just one! (And it was Walmar, because hating them will never go out of style.)

I'm going to have to go with Microsoft on this one. After about two dozen calls to their customer service line, as well as two BBB complaints, they still can't solve my Xbox woes.

This is a tough one. The pharma companies are the real temptation because of their entirely deserved reputation for making money off the sick and dying by a variety of unscrupulous marketing tactics...but at least they do some valid things.

Chase, on the other hand, is like Usury-R-Us. They receive full marks for both Scope of Awfulness and Thoroughness of Awfulness, and get my vote.

I have to agree, though - no matter how scuzzy a clothing store or an electronics outlet, they don't have the potential for the widespread, monopolistic evil that a pharmaceutical company or a lender has. Come on, people, let's get some perspective.

@G for GRENADE: I would have voted for Exxon, but to be honest, the rapacious profits and the huge prices at the pumps have encouraged me to discover how good my transit options are and to get me riding my bike a whole heck of a lot more.

So I'd like to thank Exxon for encouraging me to cut them off and live a healthier lifestyle!

I had to vote for the same company I voted for last year: Wal-Mart. I think it'll be Comcast and Best Buy in the finals though.

Didn't Circuit City fire like 99% of its work force? They aren't even on the list?

@rodeobob: I also voted for them. Industry spanning evil that is almost, if not in fact, impossible to avoid. Most of the other companies on the list you don't have to do business with.

I would like to see a "Worst Industry In America" contest after this. I wanna see Credit Unions and Health Insurance companies battle it out.

@clevershark: Yea, but Haliburton and Blackwater customers aren't the usual consumers addressed by this site. *and it pains me that my company is on this list... :( *

Wow, a smorgasboard of coporate evil, so hard to choose just one!

There are some companies listed that I have not yet read Consumerists posts about. Could each company named be a hyperlink to posts to help share previous postings?

I'm biased by my recent experiences, but I chose Ticketbastard, because I just paid $93 for two $33 concert tickets. WTF???

Shouldn't Paypal be together with eBay?

@rodeobob: Can you even articulate what (if anything) the AAA had to do with those cases? Your comments suggest that you don't understand the role of the AAA.

@nequam:

I think maybe he's suggesting that the AAA shouldn't even exist... ?

Gawker media for their crappy poll server?

I'm gonna have to go with Fox News because their propaganda/sensationalism is hurting us the most.

Exxon would be next since they're gouging us.
Healthcare/pharmaceutical would be next.

Can someone from the help desk come by please? I can't find the poll gawddamnit

Comcast! A thousand times, COMCAST!

I must be missing something. There's nothing loading, and I don't see a poll.

Poll is down (it's just so dang popular!). Fixing, patience.

Why can't I see the poll?

although i can't see this poll, i'm assuming that gawker media is a candidate, and i'd like to cast my vote that way right now.

Can I vote for two? Cause it definitely would be Comcast and Best Buy!

I am so not-a-moron, but I can't see this poll. Is it because I'm using IE? I'll switch over and try Firefox...

i vote for Gawker Polls too

Well, I guess there is an issue with the poll. But my deciding factor would have to be which company cost me the most time while contacting Customer Service. Thus Verizon would get my vote, hands-down! I had to contact them 4 times in the last 12 months, and no encounter (I say "encounter" because one contact was a CSR online, the other 3 were phone calls) was under 40 minutes. The fourth and FINAL encounter was 64 minutes, but that was the one where I got them to cancel me with no ETF! Woohoo!

It's taking forever to load SOMETHING...

@Sherryness: No. It's not working in Firefox either.

@Sherryness: What Sherry said. No poll for me, either.

Talk about shooting fish in a barrel. Bank of America is destined to fugg over more customers than ever this year.

"And it looks like it's Bank of America down the homestretch, pulling away like a freight train from the rest of the field...."