Worst Company In America 2008: Round 2 Bracket

By cwalters May 12, 2008

After a furious series of battle, the weaklings have been vanquished and the Round 1 champions in our Worst Company in America 2008 contest advance to the second round. See the full-sized graphic, suitable for framing or forming the basis of informal office betting pools, inside…

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  1. texicali says:
    May 13, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    I can’t believe the Federal Reserve isn’t on the list, AND at the top of worst companies!

  2. Daniel says:
    May 13, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    @rhambus: Then don’t read it? The idea isn’t performance so much as finding out the opinions of reasonably informed consumers. And to rank companies.

    This isn’t anything scientific, so don’t act like it is.

    As for separate polls for each area, that wouldn’t really rank which industry is the worst…

    Comcast will win/lose. IMHO (although I haven;t personally had any bad experiences with Comcast).

    Daniel

  3. etfp says:
    May 15, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    omg monster cable might be the worst company on earth. i put them up there with sierra leone diamond mine overseers and racist cops.

    how the FUCK do you charge someone 200 bucks for 13 feet of hdmi cable?

    who the fuck buys this shit?

    it’s all coiled and braided and covered in some sort of copper or black metal fishnet stocking shit and 200 FUCKING DOLLARS.

  4. wolfenstein-3d says:
    May 15, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    If we’re talking about companies that dick you over, selling average quality products for a ginormous mark up just because it has a sweet name… monster would win hands down. I buy the same quality cable off ebay for $5. you sell them for $100 just because it’s a “monster”? The only monstrous thing here is the mark-up.

    @arras: Agreed, completely.

    As for winner, it’s too early in the game to call that one. There’s a LOT of really bad companies still left.

  5. PeteRR says:
    May 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    @Steaming Pile:

    Exxon made $40B last year in profit. They also paid $30B in taxes. That’s more than the bottom 50% of Americans paid in taxes.

    As for the tax breaks you’re complaining about, it consists of $17B for the entire oil and gas industry over a 5 year period from 2007 thru 2011. Even if Exxon got 100% of that, which isn’t possible, that’s less than $3B/year.

  6. GiantEnemyCrab says:
    May 20, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Comforting to know that Diebold, one of the “Worst Companies in the World” now controls out elections…

  7. Davan says:
    May 23, 2008 at 4:14 am

    Kinda late, but perusing the list it struck me, there are like zero food-service corporations on this list. What, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Krystal, KFC, Subway, NONE of them are as bad as *cough* Crocs? :P Kind of peculiar, Im wondering how that happened.

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