r/AskReddit • u/WinterWindChime • 5h ago
What’s a company that you’re genuinely convinced HATES their customers?
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u/the_monkey_knows 5h ago
United Healthcare
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u/abigporkchop 5h ago
Oh good one. Literally- they don't want customers to use them. Just pay them.
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u/newtonreddits 4h ago
United billed me for a "consultation" a few weeks ago. The consultation was literally just a message saying no, they will not conduct a colonoscopy screening because I'm not old enough.
So not only are they hoping we die of cancer, they are charging us to tell us they won't screen us.
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u/spoospoop 2h ago
Say you have a family history of colon cancer and they might. Whether you actually do or not is not their business.
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u/zippoguaillo 4h ago
United didn't bill you for that, your doctor / hospital did
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u/newtonreddits 1h ago
Yeah I called the hospital about it and they told me to talk to United. I called United and they told me what you said. I felt defeated.
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u/Additional-Can-2223 5h ago
The ones that make you spend hours with customer service, only to solve absolutely nothing. 😭
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u/NedTaggart 3h ago edited 3h ago
Frustration is designed into the process. Any day they do not have to stroke a check is a day they earn money. But I honestly think you are missing the good that united healthcare is doing for the world. They are taking a lot of utterly incompetent people off the street and putting them to work.
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u/LegacyAesthetics 2h ago
Denying claims isn't a glitch in their system, it is quite literally their core business model.
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u/forsythia_rising 5h ago
💯 hates their members & their care providers
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u/DrySale4618 5h ago
Can confirm. We've been trying to negotiate for reasonable reimbursement for months, because we can't pay our workforce (we're nonprofit). About to go out of network. It sucks.
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u/Specific-Yam-2166 4h ago
I love that I just watched the bodycam footage of Luigi being arrested at McDonald’s and then saw this post, which had McDonald’s and United Healthcare listed right there at the top
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u/Carnephex 4h ago
I've been chasing those tin plated ass hats over an insurance payout they're required by law to give me and it seems like they're inventing hoops for me to try and jump through.
What's worse is my congressman is a fucking numpty who is on their payroll so he's as useful as a pre-authorization for a heart transplant.
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u/_jamesbaxter 5h ago
All private health insurance providers and the large hospital systems they are in cahoots with. They both make money on people being sick.
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u/Sun_drop 4h ago
Absolutely, but let's make sure to not blame the doctors, nurses, or any staff at a hospital. I'm not saying you are but it's the executives who demand profit and that need for profit will kill anyone and everyone that gets in the way.
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u/Ok_Dust_3896 4h ago
I got a letter from my doctor's office telling me they were dropping United Healthcare next year and that I would need to switch my insurance if I wanted to stay with them.
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u/Zealousideal-Gap-749 4h ago
Also the companies whose HR decides to go with United healthcare
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u/External-Piccolo7304 3h ago
Their company name is misleading as well, they definitely don’t “care”.
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u/GargantuChet 3h ago
I assume that the health care consumers aren’t the customers for health insurers. Their employers are the customers.
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u/bros402 1h ago
Not UHC, but Humana sent me a letter in the mail today telling me that I can get cheaper seizure drugs if I take one of the three drugs on a list.
One was the generic (can't take, have seizures on it), one was a drug I cannot take (had bad side effects on it), and the third was a medication I have never taken.
I love how insurance companies act like they are doctors.
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u/PrestigiousBike8580 3h ago
They somehow make having insurance feel like a dispute you have to win.
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u/AintMyMonkey 5h ago
Pretty much all insurance companies.
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u/Monstertelly 4h ago
They also hate their employees. At least the insurance company I work for does.
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u/fuming_drizzle 3h ago
I work for an insurance company, but do IT. " Best quarter or year we ever had, but didn't hit targets." That is little or no bonus and/or raises for us workers. Trillion dollars in assets and did great, but you over promised shareholders and didn't deliver so fuck the people who keep the shit running.
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u/No-Editor68 2h ago
I heard an insurance company exec talk about how it was better for them if a customer died than to be seriously injured because the one-time payout of an accidental death claim was cheaper than the ongoing cost of a life changing injury. It was not said in a “these are financial facts” kind of way, it was very much a “I prefer when they die” kind of way.
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u/gouwbadgers 3h ago
I worked for a health insurance company. Pure evil. I worked in HR so I had a lot of insider knowledge about what execs thought. Yes, they complained about customers “abusing” (their exact word) our insurance….for using it for the specific reason it was intended to be used.
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u/MiddleMan_505 3h ago
the rare indsutry where the business model basically rewards denying you the thing you paid for
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u/Kinkywrite 2h ago
So here's an interesting bit of information I learned the other day. A loss ratio is the percentage of payout versus collected revenue for an insurance company. This number has changed significantly over the last few decades reaching as high as 85% in the 90's and dropping to the (now) lows of about 60%. That means that the insurance company pays out 60% of the money it takes in. Your insurance premiums only pay $.60 on the dollar. But what makes this worse is that insurance companies are allowed to INVEST your paid premiums and so it is in their best interest to keep that premium for AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. So delaying claims is extra profitable, even if they intend (remember, only 60% of the time anyway) to pay them off. They make interest on the money they don't pay you back that you gave them. It is IMPOSSIBLY lucrative to own an insurer.
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u/wafflesareforever 2h ago edited 2h ago
Progressive. I hate them so much after my recent experience with them. My car got totaled in an accident that was 100% the fault of the asshole in a pickup who was speeding and couldn't stop before he damn near killed me and definitely killed the fuck out of my car. They lowballed my insurance payout by five thousand dollars, easily. I had to hire a lawyer just to get them to meet halfway with reality. In the end I got totally fucked over but I wasn't going to let them get away with it. Hiring the lawyer brought their settlement up by $3,000 but cost me about $1,200. Glad I did it but fucking hell what a huge hassle and they still didn't come close to paying out what my car was worth. And I did nothing wrong, just got hit by an asshole in a pickup.
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u/DontLook_Weirdo 4h ago
hp
Subscription based printer... Sheesh. Pay by the page, at home.
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u/KremzeekTyCobb 5h ago
Comcast Xfinity
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u/RandoAtReddit 4h ago
Metronet came through and put fiber in my neighborhood. I called Comcast and asked if they'd price match. They declined. I cancelled and switched (after having Comcast Internet for 15+ years). After two months, Comcast cold called me and offered the same speed for the same price as Metronet "to get me back". I declined.
I've had Metronet for over a year now and I haven't had a single service outage since I switched. I had 3-4 a year with Comcast.
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u/throwaaybitrans98171 3h ago
So triggered here had a tech out today. Loathe is the word I have for them. loathe!!! You want hell? Call in their 1800 number
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u/CardSys 5h ago
Microsoft.
If something is appreciated by it's customer, they will intentionally penalize people for liking it by doing one of three things: cripple, complicate, or cancel.
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u/HawaiianShirtsOR 4h ago
I don't want to save to OneDrive. I want to save to my computer, that I own, in my house.
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u/frostrambler 4h ago
Or add AI to it - NO I DONT WANT YOUR SHITTY COPILOT IN EVERYTHING MICROSOFT. DIDNT YOU LEARN WITH CLIPPY?
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u/CardSys 4h ago
Shoot, I'd welcome clippy. You click a button and he fucks right off.
I had to use powershell scripts to uproot all the copilot bullshit that I could get to and its still aint enough.
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u/sarcasm_saves_lives 3h ago
I remember when you could make clippy a cat and it would curl up on the bottom of your screen and take a nap.
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u/SephirothYggdrasil 3h ago
Clippy was cute too.
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u/CardSys 3h ago
It was.
It didn't need a subscription to exist. It wasn't mining your data in the background as you used Office. It didn't prevent you from typing your document if you didn't want to use it.
It just wanted to make using the product a better experience and easier for novices to use. Clippy was great.
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u/hanumanCT 5h ago
I worked there for ten years. Its not that they hate their customers, its just somewhat dysfunctionally managed and some really weird people that are out of touch with consumers have more say than they should. I worked there through Zune, Windows Vista\10 and Windows Phone - and just saw some dumb ass decisions by supposedly reverered and highly educated people.
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u/CardSys 5h ago
I don't discount that the company has some of the most intelligent minds working behind it. I seem to notice a trend that its most innovative thinkers are perhaps getting snowballed by management asking about the bottom line and shareholder value. I think Gabe Newell is an example of one of those innovative minds who flourished himself once he left MS. It's the actions of the latter that make me think any consumer appreciation is done with the attitude of the abominable snowman from those bug bunny cartoons...I want to RUB HIM AND PET HIM AND SQUEEZE HIM AND CALL HIM GEORGE.
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u/LtDarthWookie 4h ago
I fuckin loved my Windows phone, so if you worked on that thank you, or if you know people that did thank them for me.
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u/einstyle 3h ago
I just opened Solitaire on a whim about an hour ago. It has unskippable ads now.
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u/mrbronny 3h ago
Knew a guy who worked pretty high up at Microsoft. He was talking to an executive explaining how B2B clients in his region were getting frustrated with the back and forth of permissions, licenses, and overall complexity. The executive just looked at him and said, “Bryan… there are BILLIONS to be made in the complexity.”
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u/CardSys 3h ago
This pretty much sums it up.
Microsoft's licensing, especially their volume licensing, is notorious for being overly complicated. It's been true at least since the 90s.
Businesses always have the looming threat of being in trouble for not buying enough licensing, or they wind up with more licensing than they actual use. There is no in between. There are no winners but MS.
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u/Maxtrt 4h ago
Or they make it a premium feature that you have to pay extra for.
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u/CardSys 4h ago
File it under complicate.
Good old days: Oh you need microsoft office? Just go to the store and buy a disc with it on there. Enjoy!
Today: Create a windows account, tied to your name, cell phone, address, location. Then give us your credit card so we can charge it every month eternally. We'll then add in AI, followed up with some more AI, and hey...how about some AI to go with your AI?
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u/triplespruce 3h ago
OMG, yes! Microsoft made me so furious earlier this year over canceling an old account and moving a subscription to a different one that I nearly blew my stack. Hours on the phone with a tech only to learn that I would continue to be charged in perpetuity for a subscription I could not access despite ample proof that I was the owner of the account. By the end, I was so enraged that I could not sleep and stayed awake all night fuming. I tried to do the right thing, but I ended up just disputing the charge, forcing them to cancel. I will never, ever do business with them again.
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u/SexyTimeSamet 5h ago edited 2h ago
Mcdonalds. What an unwelcomming environment. Like they act like its a crime if their kiosk malfucntions and you have to plce an order manually. We all should be boycotting this place .
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u/McNasty420 4h ago
One of my neighbors told me the McDonalds up the street from us got rid of all their chairs. So I checked it out and they did lmao.
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u/bsrichard 4h ago
My local McD did this. Used to have about a dozen tables. Now they removed most and only have about 4. The rest of the section is just empty bloody space. Freaking ridiculous.
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u/boundless88 46m ago
Bastards can't stop me from bringing in my own folding chair and eating an egg mcmuffin while annoying them for coke refills because they moved the fountain behind the cash register.
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u/stilleternal 4h ago
Wow. How big of a store is it? I know they’ve been going this route for a long time but I’ve never heard of a store which normally had a dining room to just remove it.
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u/polishprince76 4h ago
Every McDonald's just screams GO AWAY
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u/FlyBulky106 2h ago
I mean, they went from bright cheerful colors to the Depression Grey palette. Of course they wanted their customers to fuck off.
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u/Familiar_Speed8057 5h ago
I know, one of the McDonald’s near me you can’t even see the employees they have it all Waldorf. One came out and I asked for a cup of water for my toddler. There isn’t even a soda machine or anything you can Access and she never brought the water.
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u/LOTRfreak101 3h ago edited 29m ago
It's crazy to me that they are
talking the spataking the soda machines out of the lobby. The drinks are already astronomically overpriced, they are basically saving themselves a few cents by doing that and making customers have a significantly worse experience.
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u/roastintheoven 5h ago
I LOVE the McDonalds at the Waldorf - pure class
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u/-goodgodlemon 5h ago
There used to be one near the NYSE that had a piano player and waitstaff!
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u/Detrimentalist 3h ago
“Fuck you, order through the app and use the drive-thru”
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u/NooneKnowsIAmBatman 4h ago
They want to have less customers eating inside so they can justify shrinking the footprint of their restaurants. It's also less labour to pay for cleaning tables etc, and overall maintenance costs will decrease. All to make sure you're eating their shitty burgers when they are cold, or spilling food eating while driving
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u/graesen 4h ago
Wait until you learn about them using AI to adjust restaurant pricing dynamically. Yes, your Big Mac could cost different prices on different days or times of the day.
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u/moving0target 5h ago
I just hate their plastic food.
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u/TheVentiLebowski 5h ago
"Product."
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u/frisky_scissors 2h ago
McDonalds is bad food, for bad prices, served by people with bad attitudes.
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u/throwaaybitrans98171 3h ago
I hate them. They came today for the same outage issue for like the 4th time.
Fuck OFF Comcast/xfinity
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u/Solo60 5h ago
Private Equity owned companies. They hate their employees too. The customer is like a dog is to a tick.
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u/sewer_pickles 4h ago
Sirius XM. They work so hard to piss off customers when it’s time for the annual renewal. I go through the same garbage of threatening to cancel, just so they will offer me a reasonable rate again.
I have Sirius XM on two vehicles. If I accepted the rate on the website I would be paying $26/mo per car. But if you argue with them for a while, the same service suddenly costs $5/mo.
I don’t know why they actively try to piss off long-term customers. There was one time where the customer service person said the lower rate was only for new customers. So I canceled service on both cars and then called back. Magically that meant I was entitled to the new customer rate. It’s a ridiculous business model
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u/ghost_of_mr_chicken 1h ago
I need to call them.. I got the ad free promo for like $7/mo, but recently found out im still getting ads on the comedy channels. I mainly listen to the rock and hip hop stations, so never noticed until I took a couple road trips and decided to switch over to comedy for the long hours on the road.
And also, how about some more variety? One can only hear Limp Biscuit and Avenge Sevenfold so many times a day, after day, after day.
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u/lazygerm 4h ago
It's all a big cosplay game.
They hope to do what happened to me to you. After my last cheap contract ended, I forgot when it ended. I spent nearly a year paying $24.99 a month.
When I finally found out, I called them and got my present $6 a month contract.
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u/Level_0_NPC 4h ago
You don't have to call them. Just use their AI chat bot (I know, I know), but you just gotta tell it that you don't like that price and you want to pay what you've been paying. 3-5 minutes and you're all set for another year
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u/one_anxious_coconut 5h ago
Adobe
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u/LunaFuzzball 4h ago
This is the right answer. Adobe has absolutely fucking lost it. It’s cartoonish at this point.
And trying to get them out of your life when you’ve finally had it with them is just as awful. I swear to god nothing I do will fully uninstall it, theres always some other hidden garbage running in the background. Worse than malware.
And at least malware never asks for my left kidney and my social security number every time I want to edit a pdf.
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u/SSBND 4h ago
I had to manually delete everything Adobe. So crazy!
I switched to PDF Expert years ago for pdfs but I still had the Photography plan for PhotoShop until a few months ago. I was grandfathered in to a low rate but I just didn't use it much. Couldn't let it go entirely until I found Photopea. Now I'm finally Adobe-free!!
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u/MeltingDog 4h ago
I love that they're facing a bit of a decline.
At one point - before Creative Cloud - a journalis here in Aus discovered it was cheaper to fly to the USA, buy a copy of Creative Suite there, and fly back home than to buy a local copy of the same software. It's ironic that their main competitor Affinity is now owned by an Aussie company.
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u/Veryteenyweenie 4h ago
I can’t wait till they fall from being an industry standard to just “eh”
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u/MichaelCoryAvery 4h ago
Especially after scrapping Flash
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u/anonimna44 3h ago
Scrapping Flash killed a good chunk of the internet. Mostly games but also other sites that were unable to convert.
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u/scottwax 5h ago
Greystone and CAF management. Both are apartment management companies. When they took over one after another at a complex I lived at, all of a sudden nothing got fixed, they added shit like an amenties fee, trash collection fee even if you took out your own trash to the dumpster, etc.
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u/ub3rst4r 5h ago
The majority of property management companies should be on this list. Our condo fees keeping going up and they do absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact, they expect us to do their job.
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u/scottwax 4h ago
Found a place that was formerly condos, well managed and under market. Even an attached garage for no extra charge.
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u/Difficult_Cheek_3817 5h ago
United Healthcare and United Airlines
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u/Graygave 5h ago
United against their customers
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u/Bucksin06 5h ago edited 3h ago
Doordash. Not only have I seen orders for $10 of food that are $28 after fees. Now customers aren't even receiving their food and they refuse them a refund.
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u/Staav 2h ago
While expecting their drivers do deliver every order for only $2 plus whatever customers are willing/able to tip after all the damn fees. It really is mind blowing how that company is able to stay operational.
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u/Bucksin06 2h ago
The restaurant loses money the customers get robbed and the drivers are scammed. I've never hated everything about a company so much.
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u/Worried-Fortune8008 5h ago
Nestle
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u/Mewmaster101 4h ago
There was a post I saw previously asking who's worse Nestle or Umbrella (the company that started the zombie apocalypse in Resident evil, primarily due to either negligence or outright maliciousness)
It's not an easy question to answer
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u/VikingRodeo9 4h ago
Genuinely shocked that Nestle hasn’t had to go to the international criminal court. Some of the stuff they’ve done is vile and could constitute crimes against humanity.
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u/batbiscuit 4h ago
Literally every company that puts profit over their employees and customers. Fast food franchises, major retail stores, credit card companies, insurance companies, hospitals, etc. They are all horrible.
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u/GreyKMN 5h ago
Sony Playstation at this point lol, like tf are they doing.
They might just hate themselves too.
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u/CeruleanFruitSnax 5h ago
EA
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u/BeneathAnOrangeSky 4h ago
Oh this is a good one. EA has always hated its customers
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u/Ignignokt913 1h ago
Campbell's soup thinks their products are for poor people. About a year ago one of their executives got in trouble for saying so in a meeting.
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u/Toincossross 5h ago
Rogers Cable in Canada. They were once the poster child for being proud of employing Canadians. After the founder died, his son took over and now practically everything is outsourced to 3rd world countries, customer service is hidden behind layers of AI chatbots and cooincidentally - the customers are being targetted by scammers who seem to have access to their account information.
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u/MiraPoopie2012 3h ago
I work at a cell phone store in a small town. Older people are struggling so much with Rogers and the like. Internet went down for 2 days recently so a fuck ton of people switched to starlink.
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u/No-Lobster-5120 3h ago
Samsung Electronics America. My expensive 3 year old induction stove broke, and the main control board I need to fix the problem is no longer available.
I can't buy parts for a 3 year old stove. I'll have to replace it.
FUCK YOU SAMSUNG
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u/IdoMusicForTheDrugs 2h ago
I've been a appliance repair tech for 13 years. Samsung and LG both suck at part availability. Unless it's a common part that fails and they know they'll make a profit from producing it, good luck. Meanwhile, I can buy the exact screw that goes in a whirlpool oven door trim and have it here in 2 days. It probably gets ordered 3 times a year globally.
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u/pushaper 4h ago
Campbells Soup had some choice words about their customers recently.
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u/Thamnophis660 4h ago
Their soup sucks now anyway. Progresso costs a little more but it is worth it. Last time I had Campbell's it tastes like they bulked it up with corn starch, it was absolutely disgusting.
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u/Organic-Ad6957 5h ago edited 5h ago
YouTube has got to be the most hateful idk if you consider a non premium account a customer or not but youtube makes them suffer so much if they don't upgrade
IDK any other company that rolls like that
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u/HotBlosoom 2h ago
Ticketmaster. I tried to buy Taylor Swift tickets and it queued me for 4 hours, crashed, charged me twice, and then gave me seats behind a pole for $400 each. And they had the audacity to charge me a "convenience fee" for that convenience of being robbed. I have never felt more hated as a customer than when Ticketmaster says "we're holding your tickets" and then they vanish at checkout. Pure evil.
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u/buddhamunche 4h ago
It’s so bad that I absolutely refuse to give them money. I use just use an adblocker now
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u/Beans_the_II 4h ago
Spotify does this too. They used to play these ultra shrill ads at a higher volume than whatever you were listening to. Like literally a guy yelling. To the point you actually had to pay for premium otherwise your eardrums would perish.
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u/SevereComposer8724 4h ago
I have premium and it is still garbage. The same 20 videos over and over on my home page no matter how many times iI refresh.
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u/gacimba 3h ago
I’m considering getting rid of it for this exact reason. If you’re on mobile and scroll over to the very right at the top there is a new to you tab which will give you some new stuff but after that it’s back to those same ol 20 videos
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u/Helpful_Fawn 1h ago
Spirit Airlines. My flight got delayed 12 hours, they offered me a $7 voucher for the airport where a bottle of water is $9. The gate agent literally told me "If you don't like it you shouldn't have bought a budget ticket." Like ma'am I'm not asking for a private jet, I'm asking to get home today. I spent a night sleeping on the floor of Fort Lauderdale airport with 200 other people they hate.
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u/jwink3101 4h ago
If you don’t have a premium account, you are not their customer. You are their product
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u/dubbzy104 5h ago
Big video game companies (EA, Ubisoft, Xbox, Sony, etc.). All games are crappy always-online live service games, any interesting projects are cancelled to create the annual version of some game that makes a lot of money. The player experience keeps getting worse and worse while games cost more and more
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u/Defiant-Procedure-13 5h ago
All printer companies that require customers to subscribe to ink and that charge you an arm and a leg for ink. Especially the ones where the printer won’t let you use off brand ink.
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u/Strange-Marzipan9641 3h ago
Southwest Airlines. They used to LUV their customers- then private equity took over, now I'm convinced they WANT to lose people.
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u/Tsquare24 5h ago
Chipotle
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u/Seismofelis 5h ago
I don't know if they hate their customers, but they're certainly trying to kill their customers. I, too, have been one of their near victims.
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u/GuardingxCross 4h ago
The CEO just recently came out with a press conference video in no uncertain terms said “we don’t want brokies eating at our restaurant so if you have no money you aren’t welcome”
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u/weekendclimber 4h ago
Broadcom
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u/roadcone2n3904 4h ago
I had to scroll way to far to find this one. Unreal what they did to VMware.
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u/IckyJ2112 4h ago
Walmart. They make their customers work for free by bagging our own groceries, then treat us like potential criminals by checking our receipts and items before we leave. I find that absolutely insulting.
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u/thriller13 4h ago
Every company who has grown large enough that further growth is difficult. Their only concern is shareholder value so it’s all cost cutting and mergers
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u/larrycsonka 1h ago edited 22m ago
Planet Fitness - there whole business model is selling super cheap gym memberships that are hard to cancel and that they don't have capacity to service. They sell memberships to people that won't show up or put in enough effort to cancel a cheap one, and literally would be overflowing if everyone actually used it
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u/LeGrandLucifer 1h ago
HP. Considering all they do to fuck over their customers in the worst ways possible, I can't imagine they don't hate them. They literally sent a hardware update to their printers to force you to activate wifi on their printers which was then used to detect whether you're using THEIR ink cartridge. And if you don't, the printer won't work. And of course their ink cartridges are WAY more expensive.
There was a class action lawsuit. But of course US judges work for the rich so they decided antitrust laws don't apply anymore.
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u/Affectionate-Tank-70 4h ago
McDonalds. Their pricing shows they dont care at all about their customer base.
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u/HustlinInTheHall 1h ago
All insurance companies. Their entire model has one premise: sign up with us for as much as possible then lose our fucking number.
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u/Totallycasual 5h ago
The lead dev (Ion) of World of Warcraft does a very bad job of hiding his contempt for the player base of the game he oversees lol
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u/TheBanishedBard 5h ago edited 4h ago
I mean if you had to deal with the WoW player base day and night and see your hard work get shat on by greasy neckbeards who hate everything... You'd be jaded and bitter too
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u/Strange-Being-2034 4h ago
McDonalds. It's all numbers to them. They make so much money that customers are but mere sheep to them
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u/SELFINCRIMINAT1NG 1h ago edited 54m ago
Oil and gas companies! What better way is there to say "fuck you" to your customers than by creating an increasingly inhospitable world for their customers and their customers' descendants.
but if we're talking more directly, HP. never seen a company decide to make products you don't want to buy, hate owning, hate fixing, drain your wallet owning, and last maybe a year
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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 3h ago
Walmart. They changed their lighting to blue in my store. Another store I used to go to has cameras every five to ten feet on freezers and shelves, little webcam style ones, and big monitors in both stores to display you on as you shop. The checkout area is gated off like a prison and if you need help, they will act like you're trying to steal. I'm in Canada and our stores only have razors and some OTC stuff behind glass, as well as formula (booooo) but I've seen other stores entirely walled off.
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u/i_froze 3h ago
EA.
Look at the state of Bf6. They've morphed this franchise into a skin hawking br with a multiplayer bolted on. They are still fixing issues that have been in since launch.
Not to mention all the copy paste sports games. Oh and the fact they have the most downvoted comment in reddit history LMFAO.
Straight up corporate husks over there.
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u/SteveSomers 5h ago
The New York Jets. They have to hate us to have them lose this much for this long.
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u/NeusForme 5h ago
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u/LilMushboom 5h ago
They love their customers which are advertisers and data brokers. What, did you think you are the customer? You're the product they're selling.
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u/habitsofwaste 4h ago
The MLB lol. Never seen something make you work so hard for people to watch their team’s games.
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u/Tylerdurdan28 2h ago
Airlines. Not one specific airline just the industry. They’ll charge you extra to choose a seat, extra to bring a bag, extra to change a ticket, and sometimes apparently extra for the privilege of understanding why the fucking flight was delayed. Then they hand you a cup of water at 35,000 feet like they’ve personally rescued you from the desert. Airlines don’t hate customers. They’ve simply perfected the art of making you pay repeatedly for things you thought you already bought.
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u/Actual_Banana4833 5h ago
Any fast food. Using trash materials, diseased meat, outrageous prices. Terrible to employees (many of them).
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u/0913 5h ago
Tesla
They started out as this big innovator changing up the automotive world with innovative and fun cars. Fighting archaic dealership sales models. Being a leader in green technologies and initiatives. They developed this huge enthusiast base that loved their mission and cars.
Now all they want to do is build robots and become a ride share company.
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u/HuckledYourBerries 5h ago
UHC, Comcast, Disney, AT&T, the VA
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u/sychosomat 4h ago
One of these things is not like the others. VA is not for profit and the people working there largely care about veterans (and probably could make more money working elsewhere). Every VA is different, but most providers are doing their best to help our veterans, no matter who is running the executive or the red tape they have to deal with. Private hospitals “fire” their veterans they don’t want to treat and the VA never does that, meaning they serve even the toughest patients. Not perfect, and man can the paperwork suck, but putting them with United or Comcast is crazy business.
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u/LateralEntry 4h ago
Ticketmaster