Welcome to Day 2 of corporate carnage in the Worst Company In America Octagonal Steel Cage! Starting things off for today is another pair of bloodthirsty bankers out to prove they are just as astoundingly inept as any other business in the bracket. [More]
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Worst Company In America Round One: Charter Vs. CenturyLink (Qwest)
By 3.13.12
Here’s a pair of middleweight marauders that some of you may not be familiar with, but who still managed to engender enough ill will from Consumerist readers to earn a chance to prove their awfulness in the business world bloodbath called the Worst Company In America 2012 Tournament. [More]
Worst Company In America Round One: Bank Of America Vs. Chase
By 3.13.12
It hasn’t been a banner year for either of these banking bruisers. But has12 months of settlements over fraudulent mortgages, along with all that planning/canceling/reinstating of fees, left these fighters exhausted, or has it hardened them into true WCIA warriors? [More]
Worst Company In America Round One: Target Vs. Best Buy
By 3.13.12
Go make some popcorn and gather the family by the glow of your data-receiving device of choice — It’s Worst Company In America time! And it looks like the first blood to be spilled in the WCIA 2012 Octagon of Shame will come from the veins of one of these two retail titans from Minnesota. [More]
Here It Is, Your Lineup For Worst Company In America 2012!
By 3.12.12
Welcome to Consumerist’s 7th Annual Worst Company In America tournament, where the businesses you nominated face off for a title that none of them will publicly admit to wanting — but which all of them try their hardest to earn. So it’s time to fill in the brackets and start another office pool. That is, unless you work at one of the 32 companies competing in the tournament. [More]
One Day Left To Nominate The Worst Companies In America!
By 3.1.12
It’s almost time to tally up the mountain of reader nominations for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament. There are only 24 hours left to gather support for those businesses you deem most deserving of the Golden Poo! [More]
Keep Those Worst Company In America Nominations Coming!
By 2.17.12
It’s only been a few days since we first asked you to send us your nominations for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament and already we’ve been inundated with responses. But there is still plenty of time left to rally your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers to include your least favorite company in the 2012 WCIA bracket. [More]
When You Play For The Golden Poo, You Win Or You Die…
By 2.15.12
This Valentine’s Day, send your least-favorite business a vase of wilted weeds in the form of a Worst Company In America nomination. [More]
Worst Company In America Trophies In The Mail To BP & Bank Of America!
By 5.13.11
It was our biggest — and closest — Worst Company In America final ever, but in the end it was BP edging out Bank of America by less than 1%. After waiting a couple weeks to see if either company would pick up their award at Consumerist HQ, we packed the poos up and shipped them out. [More]
BP Spreads The Worst Company Love Around, Sues Deepwater Horizon Partners For Billions
By 4.22.11
As many readers mentioned in the comments leading up to BP’s hairline thin victory over Bank of America in this year’s Worst Company in America tournament, the oil company wasn’t the only one involved in the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Now, a year on from that horrible incident, BP has filed suits against Halliburton, Transocean and Cameron International. [More]
Art Activists Cover Naked Body In Oil In Tate Museum To Protest Censorship And BP Sponsorship
By 4.22.11
A group of art activists this week staged an unsanctioned protest inside the world-famous Tate Modern museum in London by pouring oil over a naked body lying on the floor. [More]
Worst Company Winner BP Commits Up To $1 Billion To Speed Up Gulf Restoration
By 4.21.11
A day after the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 offshore rig workers, released millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and earned BP the title of Worst Company In America, the Golden Poo winners announced that it has reached an agreement to pony up another $1 billion toward Gulf restoration efforts. [More]
Congratulations BP: You’re The Worst Company In America!
By 4.18.11 — Updated: 9.4.14
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig leased by BP to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, caught fire following an explosion. The disaster left 11 men dead and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf. For the cost-cutting efforts that ultimately led to this catastrophe — along with others in Texas and Alaska that have killed more than a dozen more employees, injured hundreds and leaked toxic chemicals into the air and water — thousands of Consumerist voters have selected BP as the Worst Company In America. [More]
The Worst Company In America Final Death Match Is Over — But Who Won?
By 4.17.11
This year’s Worst Company In America final death match between BP and Bank of America received the highest number of votes of any WCIA championship ever — it was also the closest final in the tournament’s history. [More]
One Day Left To Vote On BP Or Bank Of America For Worst Company In America!
By 4.16.11
UPDATE: POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED!
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As you read this, Bank of America and BP are locked in deadly combat in the Worst Company In America octagon, in what will likely be the closest final death match in tournament history! [More]
Worst Company In America Final Death Match: Bank Of America Vs. BP
By 4.14.11
In the same year that a film about a stammering British king won the Best Picture Oscar, another UK misfit, BP, now stands on the precipice of claiming another precious piece of Americana: The Golden Poo. But that’s only if the oily Brits can wrestle the trophy out of the tenacious-but-incompetent grip of this nation’s least-favorite native son, Bank of America. [More]
Worst Company In America Final Four: BP Vs. Comcast
By 4.13.11
Globs of crude oil are washing up on the shores of Kabletown in this battle to determine which craptastic corporation moves to tomorrow’s Worst Company In America death match! [More]
