Forbes Lists Top Corporate Hate Web Sites

windowpain writes "You've seen them. Maybe you've made one, like Walmart-blows.com or Paypalsucks.com. Now Forbes.com has a 'Special Report' devoted to what it considers the best of them. 'The following nine sites--there were ten, but one went unexpectedly dark during the editing of this story--are the crème de la crème of online rage. Note that we substantially cleaned up some of the posts, editing out odd capitulation schemes, iffy grammar and plain incoherence. Apparently blinding anger does not go hand in hand with dotting your i's and crossing your t's.' Maybe this will become an annual thing like the Forbes 400 and the Fortune 500." (I wonder what a capitulation scheme is.)

Comments

Best Buy

[kidgenius]

I'm surprised Best Buy Sux didn't make the list

Re:Best Buy

[loraksus]

Agreed. I'm surprised that their "forced illegal door search" policy hasn't resulted in a shooting, or at least a firearm being drawn.

Someone could technically make a citizen's arrest for false imprisonment, assault, battery and possibly kidnapping against store employees.

I believe there was a case not too long ago where Best Buy employees used several vehicles to box in a suspected (and, of course, innocent) customer's vehicle who was attempting to leave the lot. Police were called, charges were filed against the employees.

Fucking moronic, if you ask me, to use your personal vehicle in such a manner, or even considering using force to stop someone stealing from your store if you're not in loss prevention, but hey, if you're working there, you're not the brightest bulb in the tree (or you're desperate for money and are stealing shit left and right)

Citizen's arrest laws violate from state to state (I believe in KY you are permitted to kill fleeing felons, while in some states you can't sue private parties for false arrest)
What I'm trying to say is, that if a shooting should happen, it shouldn't exactly been unexpected. Best Buy has had a history of illegal searches / false imprisonment, and the courts are aware of this. How they don't get bitchslapped by a judge with a nice juicy judgement, I have no idea.
At least the dead employee's family should get a couple bucks after a lawyer buys a new yacht with the legal fees.

Chrysler and Epinions

[BWJones]

A number of years ago I wrote an opinion in Epinions regarding a brand new Dodge truck I had purchased (the new ones in 1994 just after the redesign). The opinion was written after about four years of ownership. One week after writing the opinion I had a lawyer (presumably from Chrysler) call me and threaten libel. I replied all I wrote down were the facts. Nothing more and that I had all documentation to back up my claims. If he would like, I could create a website with all of the documentation. I never heard back, but it was that kind of treatment that unfortunately convinced me to never purchase another product from them again. it's too bad, because they do have some of the most exciting products out there, but they simply cannot build them reliably and their customer service (even at the supposed 5 star dealerships was atrocious).

Where's Dell?

[Hollins]

I'm surprised an anti-Dell site is not on the list.

The experiences I have had lately from Dell in getting hardware repairs made under service contract are some of the worst experiences I have ever had dealing with any company. And I've talked to a number of folks who have had similar experiences.

Ten years ago, Dell was one of my favorite companies.

nothing like a bit of rage

[loraksus]

Although, to be fair, a bunch of these companies have recurring issues.
Paypal, with its "we can suspend your account and you can't do fuckal about it, hooray, we get to keep your money". Allstate, with it's "musical chair claims adjusters".
Don't even get me started about UAL.
It isn't like people don't know about the shady shit these companies do, it happens pretty often, and if the company is a bunch of shits, contacting the BBB won't get you anywhere. State attorney generals haven't stepped in either in the cases of most of these companies.
I interviewed at UPS and we did a tour, a monitor fell off a conveyor belt. Everyone heard the tube pop, and the crash of glass, but one of the employees just tossed it back as if nothing had happened. As we were walking away, we heard another one drop and the sound of smashing glass.
Un-fucking-believable.

Fighting the good fight...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't list Radio Shack Sucks. RSS was instrumental in organizing a class action against RadioShack, and in response RadioShack tried to lawyer them to death.

we actually have one for the company I work for...

[rogabean]

And it's actually company policy that anyone accessing it from work is to be terminated.

But it's over 5 years going strong on the (mycompany)sucks.com site...

Hate can lead to better service

[TheBracket]

A while ago, my employer had some real problems with CenturyTel, the only phone company in town. They messed up some (presumably virtual) paperwork and our DSL line went dead. Our first call resulted in a promise that as a business customer, we were a high priority - and it would be fixed soon. Our second call was greeted with "sorry, our engineers have gone home for the day, try tomorrow". Our third call resulted in "sorry, our engineers have all gone away to enjoy the holiday weekend, try again in 4 days!". Not acceptable!

So, frustrated (and tired after switching everything over to our other DSL line), I posted a blog entry with the title "I hate CenturyTel" and a big explanation as to what went wrong. Monday morning, our DSL line was fixed. The engineers on the other end were VERY apologetic, but I just assumed that they were trying to make amends - when the next day we got a call in the office from an executive at CenturyTel who had Googled for "I hate CenturyTel", found my blog, and yelled at some people to get things fixed. He then called us to personally apologize, gave us a bunch of freebies to make amends, and chatted with my boss for over half an hour about how to avoid this problem ever recurring. I came in from a client, my boss said "we just got a call about your blog" - and I assumed I'd libelled someone, was in trouble, etc. He then said "make sure you politely insult everyone who screws us over, it did wonders this time!"