Companies you have learned to despise

Hypersonic Broadband.
Come across like they're different to the Usual Suspects and they're so customer focused but they're threatening me with debt collectors for not paying a bill where they've supplied nothing to me.
Only thing worse than a cnt is a hypocritical cnt.
 
staffsblue said:
Totally agree. I previously worked for Virgin Trains and despite all their virtue signalling, the senior management were a set of bullies.
I basically got forced out of my job as a director sacked all my colleagues and replaced them with her sycophants.
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It's often the case that the more flashy and ostentatious a company is about it's values the less real they actually are.

Once sat in a room with the CEO of a company that had taken us over after our competing MBO bid failed. He started by explaining that he was the most humble man we would ever meet in our entire lives and so he would say no more about himself but we would see this in action. He then introduced two of his accolytes who proceeded to tell us he was the "greatest man" they had ever met, let alone worked for; whilst all the while he sat there with a beaming smile.

We knew we were all toast anyway but this short meeting confirmed it would be an entertaining trip to the exit door. Turned out the self proclaimed "worlds humblest man" had built a cult of personality around him that the orange shit gibbon himself would have been proud of.
 
threespires said:
It's often the case that the more flashy and ostentatious a company is about it's values the less real they actually are.

Once sat in a room with the CEO of a company that had taken us over after our competing MBO bid failed. He started by explaining that he was the most humble man we would ever meet in our entire lives and so he would say no more about himself but we would see this in action. He then introduced two of his accolytes who proceeded to tell us he was the "greatest man" they had ever met, let alone worked for; whilst all the while he sat there with a beaming smile.

We knew we were all toast anyway but this short meeting confirmed it would be an entertaining trip to the exit door. Turned out the self proclaimed "worlds humblest man" had built a cult of personality around him that the orange shit gibbon himself would have been proud of.
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I knew I wouldn't be at a former workplace for much longer when the new boss announced in his first meeting that his favourite book was Alex Ferguson's autobiography.
 
More a person than a Co. Philip Green,
I worked at BHS for 3 years as a designer, we knew when he was coming in because we had to make sure all our desks were tidy, for when he did his flyby.
He’d also hold meetings with the staff, rallying the troops for the next battle of the High Street Wars. ( while all along he knew he was going to just run off with all our pensions)
He’d often flounce in, like the fashion industry’s own Napoleon, rant & rave at some women ( often making them cry) it was after one of these occasions that I found myself in a lift with him, just him, the temptation to give him a slap or 10 was very difficult to resist, fortunately for him I should self control.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Cadbury's is a very strong contender in this category. To be honest, the vast majority of UK companies taken over by US businesses are to be avoided imo.
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They take the name and impose their version of what has been for 100 years plus. Usually ends up tasting like shit.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I didn’t draw the same conclusion as you. What’s your reasoning for that? Genuine question. Always good to question your own assumptions.
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The guy who bought the company made promises he didn’t keep about profit share etc that would have netted the original owners something like $100m .. he took them to the cleaners
 
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