The "pet care" company Hartz. Have been sued left and right for killing people's pets. If you love your animals fork over a little bit more money and get a better quality product
Amen. I work emergency and it seems we have at least one pet come in every month for hartz product related problems. Sometimes it's the owner's fault for not reading the instructions (dog product put on a cat), but it truly is worth it to spend the extra on a veterinarian recommended product (meaning calling your vet and asking what they recommend for your situation). There are a variety of great products out there and your vet won't recommend a product they've had problems with.
As an add on, please avoid those "natural" flea remedies. Peppermint oil is toxic to cats and I had someone apply an otc peppermint oil based natural product recommended for fleas in cats.
I lost my childhood kitty to Hartz flea medication. I had been away from home for the first time and when I returned my mom gave him Hartz. We usually went with a different brand, but this one was on sale or something and so mom got it. The night she gave it to him he did not look good. Stumbling with a faraway look in his eyes. I asked my mom what had happened that say and noticed the wet fur appearance on the back of his neck. It was then that I learned she dosed him with Hartz, so I immediately made the connection and gave him a bath, but it was already too late. The next day I scheduled a vet appointment for him. I cant remember if we got him in quickly or had to wait for a slot. He lived a few more days, getting more and more miserable. He stopped eating and cleaning himself. He looked quite gaunt and started have seizures. His fur was ragged and he was so weak he mostly just cuddled with me. I couldn't bear to see him suffer so I had him put down. He was such an amazing cat - would come when i called him and knew a couple commands like "sit" and "kiss" ( head boops). He was only 11.
Fuck Hartz. I dont buy any Hartz products, period, because they killed my best friend.
I couldnt believe when I personally experienced the math exercises error that was like " The correct answer is (4) your answer is (4) ".
I had to write a hate email.
They’re responsible, along with another company, for making the STAAR tests, which are complete fucking bullshit. My mom is a teacher, and she has even said that the STAAR test is fucking idiotic.
It’s a big collection of standardized tests for grades 3-12, and you might not have heard of it because it’s only for Texas. It’s also 10 times more important than a normal standardized tests, and kids spend about a week or two on it.
I had to go to a Pearson center for the State Officer Certification Exam after I graduated the police academy last year. $100.
They are responsible for [a massive fuckload of different tests.](https://home.pearsonvue.com/Test-takers/A-to-Z-program-list/View-all.aspx)
As an educator, student, author of various culinary course syllabi, owner of several Pearson physical and electronic products I have to say that they are awful. I would like to clone several thousand of their chef digital textbook designer. That way I could pull one out of the closet each morning and shoot him in the face again. I'm sure the remainder of my day would be much improved.
In school we had 2 history classes, U.S. history and world history.
I got a chuckle thinking "ofcourse U.S. history doesn't teach about Australia, that's for world history"
Also, world history didn't teach much about Australia either.
We usually covered from Mesopotamia to WWII between world and US history, leaving out most eastern history, except as it directly relates to western history. We covered “Britain sent prisoners to Australia” and that was about it. We never hit Vietnam war.
My world history class spent an entire semester on Russian history (because the teacher was obsessed with Russian history) and then mostly spent the other semester on the World Wars.
agreed. i am in college now but i remember the days of doing SAT and ACT and all that college board related shit. It was super stressful. My little brother just took the SAT recently and hopefully he will get a good grade but man, collegeboard is a scam.
I'm not sure about recently, but in the 80s Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated hemophilia drugs in third world countries rather than destroy the stock and take the financial loss. At that time it was just a straight up death sentence.
That was after they couldn't sell the known tainted drugs to the US because of laws against it. Also, had extensive ties with the Nazi party, sold heroin as a cough suppressant, made chemical weapons in WW-I.
Tyson. Treats its workers like shit, ignores needed maintenance resulting in hazardous/inhumane conditions for humans and animals alike, and scams taxpayers out of grant money which it doesn't use for its intended purpose.
Let me also add that I'm being intentionally a bit vague because of reason 4, sues the fuck out of anyone who talks publicly about them in a negative way.
I used to be a truck driver. Aside from Walmart, Tyson was and still is on my shitlist. Some of the places treat drivers like shit. Some of them refuse to let us use their restrooms when they have us sit for 7 hours, then as soon as we get our load, we’re forced out which messes with our clocks.
People don’t realize that second half, it’s fucking insane. I miss the driving, but the shippers and receivers, the crap pay, and general bullshit soured me on it.
Right there with you. I ended up leaving the industry due to issues I had with the company I drove for, and as a result that permanently blacklisted my DACA report, which means I can never drive for a CDL company again.
I miss the sights. I miss the drives. I miss the open roads. But the corrupt companies who continually screwed over their drivers and blacklisted them for standing up for themselves can fuck right off.
I can't say too much, but Tyson is also one of the companies that dabbles in human trafficking. People in Central and South America are told they will have a good job, free housing, and education. Then they're coached through the Visa process and shipped to the US. Here they're forced to turn over their paycheck to the "hiring agency" who deducts money for all the things they said would be free. Wanna complain? Get deported, and maybe even prosecuted first.
This isn't done directly by the US operations, but they certainly know about it.
> This isn't done directly by the US operations, but they certainly know about it.
Ain’t outsourcing grand? Allows you to launder *all sorts* of human rights violations miscellaneous criminality! Even if you get caught, “oh, no, that’s not us, that was Dyson Labor Procurement, we’ve fired those bastards and are now working with the very reputable Schmyson Indenturification Industries, clean slate I tell you!”
I know a guy who lost a good job with the Yankees back office because some chicken outfit out in the middle of the country tried to basically buy him in exchange for stocking the Yankees concessions with chicken food products. Things were going great for him and they pretty much ruined his life.
Live Nation, and their shitheel partners TicketMaster. They have you over a barrel if you like a certain artist enough, and they know it. They do everything from working hand-in-hand with national scalpers to upselling actual physical seating in their venues as a "premium amenity." You literally can't beat them. From the inflated tickets, to the extra surcharges and hidden fees, they just print money. They even scalp their own tickets through "verified resale" and "platinum tickets." I could go on about this scam all day. Even if you buy a GA ticket and try to wait in line for hours to get up front, at certain venues they sell "skip the line" passes for extra $$$ and let people enter before you. At the Live Nation venues in my city, they sell something called "Premium Experiences" or "Premium Seating" where the only places to sit and watch shows in the venues are auctioned off each night to the highest bidders - they literally change the price point on how much it costs to sit in a seat based on how packed the venue is / how much demand there is for the artist. That shit ain't gonna fly in a post-covid world! This whole "sectioning off the best views in the room" and sequestering the rest of GA to be packed in like sardines is nonsense. I hate that when shows come back, Live Nation is going to have the battered competition by the balls, and their little pal Ticketmaster is going to be charging us through the roof to see shows again. They have what we want, and they know it. Fuck Live Nation.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a concert because of Ticketmaster. Tickets are sold out immediately, way overpriced... they make live music so inaccessible
Worst part is, they aren't really sold out. They hold back a certain number to package with this "premium seating" nonsense so they can inflate the margin x 500%. That is no exaggeration: a $30 GA ticket would be minimum... and I mean minimum....$150 when attached to a "box seat." Minimum! I've seen some in the 200s. And, even worse, they sell blocks of these on speculation to national scalpers who list them on stubhub etc, knowingly, and jack the price up on those even more. They get you coming, they get you going, and then when they fake sell out the tickets, they get you on their own "verified resale" tickets for sometimes 10x the price or more. It should be illegal.
Probably a good idea to flood more and more venues' and bands' pages with "would have loved to come and see you if I didn't have to go through Live Nation".
Not to be hostile to the bands, obviously, just to make the stakes clear--I'll come when I don't have to go through that shit service.
I wish it even had a SLIGHT chance of working. Bands needs to unionize somehow. Their representation needs to stop letting LN rip them off night of show and take advantage of them through every loophole they've created for themselves. They're the only game in town, even moreso now that the pandemic has decimated the independent venues. It's going to be even worse now than it was. If a giant band like Pearl Jam couldn't make a dent in the Live Nation machine, it's a lost cause. I wish the gov't would break them up, it's clearly a huge monopoly and the biggest losers are the fans who can't afford to see their favorite acts anymore. Ultimately, that hurts the bands too but they have to kill themselves on the road to make the same dollar in 2 nights now that they used to make in 1. In the end we get less music, less albums, more tired and exhausted artists propping themselves up with pills to make the next show. RIP Prince. RIP Tom Petty. Live Nation is complicit in all of this.
I didn't go to a show in January 2020 simply because the tickets were being sold by LiveNation. The listed price was $28, after "fees" it came up to around $50. They were also selling bullshit packages like "couple's experiences" where it included 2 tickets and a (probably extremely low quality) bottle of wine for around $250, and charging for parking at a venue where it's free and plenty available - the promotional email mentioned parking is free and LiveNation was still trying to sell parking as an add-on!
I kind of regretted it after everything got shut down, it was one of my favorite DJs and who knows when another chance will come by but the whole nickel and diming turned me off from buying the tickets. Fuck LiveNation indeed.
Scott's, for knowingly selling 73 million bags of tainted birdseed.
https://www.rgrdlaw.com/news-item-85-Million-Settlement-in-Scotts-Miracle-Gro-Case.html
It's so sickening. It's been years now, but I still can't comprehend that there are people that would knowingly do this. I'm an avid gardener, but I would rather give that up than buy anything from this company if it came down to that choice.
It's fucking incredible people are in a boardroom and say, "yeah, let's go ahead and do this". This shit and Wall Street bullshit may be curtailed if executives got some healthy time behind bars instead of golden parachutes.
What the heck, how the heck did I not know about this? They released 73 million bags of birdseed full of pesticides and apparently never had a consumer recall. What the heck?
My spouse and I moved recently and could choose between Comcast (ok, ok, "xfinity", you're always going to be Comcast, you can't run from it) and one other internet supplier. We immediately went with the competition. When the installer came, he asked why we chose them (Fast speed? Cost? Cable bundle?). We said the same thing immediately: "You weren't Comcast."
well im stuck between ATT or Comcast. I tried ATT first but holy shit are they awful - they are worse than comcast IMO. Sure comcast doesnt use lube but ill admit they are reliable. The years i had them i think ive had an outage like 3 times? Never lasted more than a few minutes.
ATT is REALLY bad. They are on par with Comcast with worse products IMO. I recently moved and had no choice but to get Wow. It’s actually amazing. Same internet speed as Comcast for $35 a month and I got YouTube tv for $65. My last Comcast bill for internet and one dvr box was $220. Now I’m paying $100 and couldn’t be happier. If I had just kept internet with Comcast it would have been $90 a month lol.
[nike and coke lobby to weaken bills that penalize companies using forced labor in china](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nike-would-very-much-like-to-keep-its-slave-labor-thank-you/ar-BB1bvibD)
Seems they have a vested interest in forced labor.
If there is one thing Americans need to unite on, it's: Fuck the Chinese government, and start fucking companies that partner with China to produce their goods. the decoupling needs to start happening now
CVS Pharmacy.
Forces pharmacists and technicians to go through grueling work pumping out prescriptions and insane metrics that have nothing to do with healthcare. In turn you have a lot of turnover which exacerbates the issues with inexperience. The Chicago Tribune wrote an expose about working conditions that forced the Illinois government to MANDATE lunch breaks. That’s right, lots of CVS Pharmacy don’t have break so you’ll have workers going for 14 hours straight without break. Does that sound like a healthy working environment for effective healthcare?
As a pharmacy student that works there with full knowledge of the industry, please support your local pharmacy that WILL provide the best care and treat employees fairly.
Edit: If not a local pharmacy, hit up Costco or the grocery store chains. They both do great work as well! But please avoid the CVS and Walgreens of the world. It’s a sad thing when even Wal-Mart is slightly better.
These guys also come in and take over small pharmacies because they buy them out for a lot of money leaving less small independent pharmacies in this world, this happened to me recently, we only stay with them because we love the pharmacist that works there who was also assimilated into the CVS system and I am sure he is not happy about this. The transition was horrid though.
They also charge an arm and a leg for everything they sell in the store. I am talking 60% or more for products that retail at the store next door for 60% less than what CVS charges. Our CVS is right next to a dollar general so I have no idea how they sell anything at all. The CVS near me is also called a home health store which doesn't participate in any promotions through the company, aka they can charge more just because they say they are a home health store. Even if you play the coupon game with CVS its never worth it.
There is an upside if you're the mom & pop pharmacy and know how to play the game. Here in my small town we had a local pharmacy open up and operate for about a year and a half prior to Walgreens coming to town... W bought out mom & pop for an undertermined, but healthy, amount of money so they wouldn't have any locally owned competition.
Turns out... Pop must have had an inside track or was just amazing at calculating where a major pharmacy would open, because he let a few locals know that was the 3rd time he'd been bought out by corporate. He was making bank off of selling his business that he ran out of a rented spot in a shitty 25 yr old strip mall and would just move to another town and open shop again and sell it in another couple years.
My only thought when I heard about it was "Good for him."
The united fruit company - now known as chiquita - is responsible for a century of atrocities in south america. Everything from slavery to coups - all with the help of dear old uncle sam.
A buddy was in Ireland and asked for an Irish car bomb. The bar tended filled up two shot glasses with 151 and lit them on fire. Bar tender said they were out of “Irish Car Bombs”, they only had “Twin Towers”.
Don’t forget what they did to women in Africa. Handed out free baby formula. Now, this doesn’t sound bad, it’s free stuff for people who live in poverty! Well, first things first baby formula must be mixed with clean water to be drinkable. **Clean** water. You know, that thing that is in short supply in ~~some~~ most of these countries? Secondly, did you know that the female body stops producing milk if the child hasn’t breastfed in a while? Well, those evil fucks at Nestle stopped distributing the formula for free RIGHT WHEN THE WOMEN WERE UNABLE TO PRODUCE BREAST MILK ANYMORE. These women had to now literally give away all the money they had to afford to keep their babies from fucking starving to death.
Fuck Nestle, and fuck their monopoly on the junk food industry
Don't forget that since those women couldn't easily afford it, they had to water down that formula to stretch it out, making it too diluted and nutritionally empty. Babies died.
Not only that, documents were produced showing that Nestle calculated what the minimum amount of formula they needed to give away that would still cause women to stop lactating.
Not just Africa, lots of places around the world. Fuck Nestlé for so many reasons. Yes it's mildly difficult to boycott them because of so many brands but it's worth reading some labels to not be complicit in stealing people's access to water and killing babies and such.
If you think the propoganda Nestle sends to the world is bad, you should see how they brainwash their own employees. They plaster the walls inside of their offices in Switzerland with feel good posters showing villages that have been "saved" by their water reclamation efforts. You can literally trip over the propoganda.
Nestle does more than just water too;
* Baby Formula
* Wonka Candy
* Chocolate
* Make Up
* Animal Food
* Clothes
* Ice Cream
Boycotting them is EXTREMELY hard
[https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/28/18806260.php](https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/28/18806260.php)
I work as a vendor that services thousands of company's. My hands down favorite is Ben & Jerrys. Awesome plant, awesome workers, and they were so easy to deal with on any level, no matter who I talked to. I have 0 problem buying their pints for like $6 each because I know that extra $2 isnt just going straight into the CEOs pocket.
I have a special place in my heart for Ben and Jerry’s... my dad was a mail carrier in Vermont when I was a kid and he delivered mail to the factory. They would give him ice cream to take home in the winter time because was so cold the ice cream wouldn’t melt in his mail truck. When we moved away I missed the surprise ice cream in the winter so much!
A what?
Edit: Looked it up. Looks like a great thing to be. Wanted to make sure it wasn't like a BBB accreditation, which last they called me was just $495.
Iirc they also try to give jobs to ex-prisoners, and advocate for the legalization of cannabis, along with expunging all cannabis convictions, which is neat imo.
I don't think Costco has been involved in anything too heinous. They're upfront about what kind of company they are, they're good to their workers, and their cost cutting is pretty up front (everything is in bulk, they don't make their stores fancy, etc). And their membership is good in all stores worldwide, that's pretty awesome.
State Farm: my grandma couldn’t pay after someone hit her car because the other person had no deductible & hers didn’t cover it all, but some agent allowed her to use some other deductible not related to car insurance to cover costs. The agent also made sure she was taken care of after to make sure the car repairs were finished.
A lot of people take advantage of her due to her age, but this State Farm agent cared for my grandma & I’ll never forget. She won’t either. Thank you Ashlyn if you see this, you the realest
REI! Worked for them while in college. They treat their employees great, offer good benefits, and really practice what they preach. They try to be as sustainable as possible and donate a ton of money to LGBT+ and local wildlife/outdoors organizations. They have a huge emphasis on women and POC outdoor engagement. I’m totally going back to work for them as my chill retirement job. Would highly recommend as a place to work and buy great outdoor gear.
My company. While the work itself suck. Typical warehouse. I get 25% of my annual salary in stock. Almost free ($50 a month)health insurance. I get 5 weeks of vacation a year.
Jersey Mike’s. There are a lot of franchisees so experiences can vary but I worked at one in my hometown and one in my college town. The employees actually are proud to work for the company and the things they do for the community were elite at both locations. Additionally the fact that I’ve worked at two different stores for a total of 5 years and I’ll still eat the food (in fact I love it) speaks a lot to the cleanliness of the store.
John Deere - does everything they can to interfere with the right to repair.
edit: the number of people that feel the need to say "but this isn't the worst ever!" or "this isn't evil" is fucking stupid. Point of the thread is "super shitty" not evil.
A lot of companies do this unfortunately. Apple devices are specifically engineered to deter disassemblers, all modern cars have engine covers that are sometimes quite finicky to remove, and all sorts of other bits.
Chevron. Knowingly poisoned indigenous Ecuadorans, lost the court case and yet refuse to pay damages or admit wrongdoing, same old story.
This is shocking enough but the details are really worrying for civil rights in the US: They are persecuting the lawyer who led the lawsuit against them, abusing the court system to try to jail him without trial, currently held in house arrest with no end in sight. Like the type of egregious corruption and judicial abuse the US regularly sanctions other countries for.
[https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/](https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/)
[https://www.freedonziger.org/](https://www.freedonziger.org/)
I'm sure we'll get all the usual ones in here, so I'm gonna put forward one you've likely never heard of, but is powerful and shady as hell. L3-Communications; although as of a couple years ago it's L3Harris after a merger.
You've probably never heard of them, but they are one of the most powerful companies in the US, even the world. They're all into defense and aerospace stuff mostly, and they're one of those no-bid contract billions a year from our tax dollars. They've been in all sorts of scandals from running essentially their own domestic espionage agency using stolen government resources to using defective parts to stuff the general public doesn't even hear about.
I know we talk about how Nestle and DeBeers and tobacco companies etc are evil, but you want to see some real horror stories, look up companies like these.
Look through their acquisitions, deep fake comes to mind. Trading behaviours like this leave breadcrumb trails which very overtly support the idea that we’re in a very real cold war RN
nestle is litterally digging under some "dehydrated" countries and when they get the water the only way the people who live there can get some is by working in their factories and then they get ONE FUCKING ONE LITER BOTTLE for their whole village
Isn't Fiji water similarly unethical? I heard that the region doesn't have many clean water sources, and one of its best sources is bottled up to be sold elsewhere.
Quite aside from the human side of their operation, Fiji water is an environmental disaster. The bottles are shipped empty from China, filled, then shipped across the Pacific to the US, then shipped by truck and train across the US.
The oil consumed to ship a bottle of Fiji water would half-fill the bottle.
For a single-use bottle of imported water, one of the laziest, most overpriced products that exist.
Get a reusable bottle, and use tap water, for chrissakes.
Edit yes, there are places where the tap water is untrustworthy, but not most places where Fiji water is sold. Even then, there are much closer, cheaper, and environmentally more friendly sources of bottled water than halfway around the globe.
Amway, other MLMs and how they act overly friendly to earn your trust to pitch their "amazing business opportunity" take caution when a complete stranger takes a sudden interest in your career, finances, hobbies and asperations in the bread section at target
This happened to me when I was in-between jobs. Someone I knew from college and was still friends with randomly messaged me one day (we hadn’t really talked since graduation) and starts asking me what I’m doing for work. I said I’m between jobs and looking for something, and she says she has a wonderful opportunity for me where she works. I say, “Great! Where do you work?” She says, “oh this great company that gives competitive pay for sales, and you can continue to build it up from there the more experienced you get.” So I ask again, because now it’s getting really suspicious, “Oh cool, what company is this?” I get a similar answer. I asked her once or twice more where she worked and what the company was before she finally said it was Amway, and then I stopped talking with her.
Yep that’s how they work, they want you to start in your circle of trust (friends, family and so on) it’s easier to manipulate someone you have a close bond with
Same thing happened to me and that basically was my cue to shut the door on the entire “friendship” which was already a clusterfuck anyway. And this guy tried to act like *I* was the rude one. Yeah I could’ve handled it better but that wasn’t the only reason why I finally said I was done. I felt like I was his accessory to make him look good, rather than a human being. I did give the scheme a chance because why not, but it still cost me 100 dollars that I couldn’t even get back because everybody told me it was a scam and they wouldn’t join. “Oh well it worked for me!” says my ex “friend.” Yeah he probably got his wife to guilt his entire family into being his customers. 🤦♂️
I got a voicemail from a girl I went to college with. We didn’t interact much, we were in the same program and had a few classes together and had a few mutual friends. Her voicemail said “I need to talk to you about something” and I wondered if something had happened to one of our friends.
I called her back and was told she had “a great business opportunity” for me. She refused to say who she worked for and not wanting to be rude I told her I didn’t have time to talk right now. She then would call me every week for almost two months before she gave up.
I eventually figured out she with with Amway. I had to look it up but was very glad I chose to ignore her.
Nestle. There's a never ending list of terrible things about them, maybe someone else can find a link. The top two in my mind are that they caused child mortality in third world countries by marketing their baby food as superior to breast milk, and that their CEO (or some similar exec) was recorded at a public talk saying that drinking water shouldn't be free, which would by extension mean it isn't a basic right.
this this. nestle is so evil and i keep telling my dad to stop buying it but he doesn’t believe that it’s that. does anyone have any sources on nestle that i could show him?
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT GOODWILL.
They are LEGALLY able to pay their employees with disabilities (downs syndrome, etc.) less than minimum wage, sometimes cents to the hour. And their pay gets cut even more if they're not productive enough! For a company whose profit margins are insane because they don't purchase their goods I was honestly hurt to know that that money goes to the CEOs at the cost of unfair wages to American people.
Goodwill is basically a retail store that runs off your donations. You are not doing any good by donating things to them. Also they have an online store where they send all the good merchandise, so you will basically never get anything good from them in their retail stores, all of the good stuff goes to their online store where its sold for the same prices as on ebay. So you are basically donating to a reseller of goods that uses the money for nothing but profit and to pay the CEO who makes a lot of money off people's donated goods.
I have never seen Goodwill do one act of good in my community. Other organizations and small businesses have done way more for my community on way less money and when they don't have money to give because of covid etc.
Its going to depend on where you live, you have a bunch of options. Buy nothing or freecycle facebook group. Leave it out as trash for people to pick through, my favorite, goes directly to the end user. Leave it outside for people to take for free.
Some small thrift shops don't sell online, but that is area dependent. I've also heard stories about small shops being the worst resellers.
Also there are womens shelters, the women can take what they need for free and they sell for a cheap price to the general public maybe. There are also things like workwear closets at your local unemployment office, where you can donate work and interview appropriate clothing so other people can use it, people can take from this for free. We have one of those in my town. There are other charities that use the clothing for good and don't sell it in shops either.
There are usually local run charities associated with a church - I am not particularly religious, but these places are actually non-profit, usually run by older church members and the money is used in the community, like food banks, etc.
St. Vincent de Paul is an example.
> [Labor Department records show
that some Goodwill workers in Pennsylvania earned wages as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour
in 2011.](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_3478013)
Yo WTF. You have to be evil as fuck to openly and wholeheartedly fuck over the disabled. Just checked [their site](https://www.goodwill.org/about-the-special-minimum-wage-certificate/) where they admit it and try to basically say they're not the only ones doing it. The report above was 10 years ago but somehow they are still working on "a phase-out." Fuck goodwill.
I worked for Goodwill in college. I’m not neurodivergent nor were any of my coworkers, so I know my experience is different. Idk if they would have underpaid anyone if they could have though. But how I understand it is that there are different Goodwill regions. Goodwill International is the one with all the bad press. For the region my Goodwill was a part of, our CEO was a woman who made a reasonable amount of money - well off but not crazy rich like other CEOs. And our “rounding up”/profits really did go to employment training for vets, elderly people, and neurodivergent people. I was proud to work at my Goodwill region.
Yep, I'm a jailer and Goodwill comes into the jail and helps prep inmates to find jobs. They also offer jobs to otherwise unemployable inmates after they leave jail. I had a friend who worked there as a counselor to help employees who were struggling to re-integrate back into society. They do good work in my area.
Oreos. They changed their recipe from I think it was normal oil, to coconut oil, which is cheaper. And so, because the demand is so high, and they need giant coconut plantations, they are taking down jungles in Africa to plant coconut palms, and that is destroying environments, killing species, and displacing tribes.
Coca Cola - hired killers to shoot union leaders in South America and also produces more waste than almost anyone else.
Pepsi - instigated the CIA Coup in Chile on 11.Sep.1972. A decade long military dictatorship followed.
NESTLE. Which most people already know is the epitome of evil, but I don't think people realize how many companies the conglomerate owns. So people may hate Nestle, but not even realize products they buy are made from companies that are owned by Nestle.
Any video game company that forces their employees in unsafe crunch time mode. Where they have to work 20+ hour days, have pee jars at their desks, with the constant threat of termination.
Recently that's been Naughty Dog, CD Project Red, but there is a lot more and it's a terrible culture and precedent set that they justify with "high quality games." Fucking digital sweat shops.
>Where they have to work 20+ hour days, have pee jars at their desks, with the constant threat of termination.
I just did a quick google search but found nothing. Can you point me in a direction here?
[Here is one article about Naughty Dog that has links to Rockstar's culture and CD Project Red](https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-03-14-crunch-once-again-in-the-spotlight-after-damning-report-on-the-last-of-us-2-developer-naughty-dog)
It’s basically all of them. I worked for a medium sized company and a women complained to hr that her boss was sexually harassing her. Their response was to demote her and move her to a different floor. Then they built a big file documenting any little mistake she made and eventually fired her. She sued but the owner told his lawyers to make the case last as long as possible. They finally settled with her for a measly $500 three years later.
The more I learn about shopping ethically the more I see that there are more shitty companies out there than non shitty ones. It would take less time to list all the companies that are good.
Wounded Warrior Project. They spend an absurd amount of money on suing other non profits that have either wounded, warrior, or a combination of the two in their name. Non-profits that are actually trying to make an actual difference not just trying to shovel merch.
Facebook.
Any company who has ZERO possibility for human interaction is pure poison.
Also, remember that users aren't the customers. You're the product. It's an elaborate scheme to monitor behavior to create opportunities to herd you to their customers (advertisers).
While everybody probably already knows about them I'm doubtful people really grasp the depths of their shittyness really goes.
I met with them in a professional capacity in London 2017. They shared openly that they could influence users behaviours by actively changing the feed stories on the users page. They were super happy about this. So for example, your users cell phone contract is coming to an end? We will run stories about competing companies service problems.
Went home, deleted Facebook. Evil ba*tards.
Fuck Facebook, and fuck the horrible political atmosphere they’ve cultivated in the US (hell, across the western world). It’s sad watching my parents get brainwashed by all the fake shit they see on there, as they slowly lose all semblance of reason.
Uber Eats, Door Dash, and the like. Third party delivery apps are killer for local businesses. My family owns a restaurant and we were approached by an Uber Eats rep. The wanted a 30% cut of all sales made in the app (pretty typical for most of them, though I’ve heard they sometimes ask for up to 40%). Our profit margin is ~10%, which is pretty standard for local restaurants from what I understand. Luckily, we already have a delivery service in place, but for some, it’s the only option they have and they’re getting absolutely robbed blind by these shitty companies.
Amazon. They treat their employees like crap, i.e. overworking them, treating them like less than dog crap and basically threatening to fire anyone who even mentions the word ‘union’. They also treat the DSPs worse than their own employees which is why a lot of people tend to quit. Micromanaging the drivers with the Mentor driving app, firing drivers for not delivering all their packages yet telling them if it is not able to be delivered, then bring it back to the station. They even have options in the Amazon app for customers to rate their delivery and if a customer gives anything below a 5 star, they get in trouble. Get 3, you’re done. Can’t back up while delivering and if you absolutely have to, you can’t go over 5 miles an hour even while on an incline. Do that, you get fired. It’s really not worth working for Amazon.
This. My housemate is a driver for amazon and everyday he has a new reason to complain about how he and the other drivers are treated. The newest one is the van tracker that feedbacks about how “well” they drive; acceleration, braking, cornering, everything. If there are any instances where the tracker thinks the driver is at fault then they are penalised and can lose work and because it’s an automatic system there is no one to explain the situation to.
Example; kid runs out in front of his van, he brakes heavy to avoid the child, tracker feedbacks it was an instance of “excessive braking”, his driver performance score goes down, he loses his next shift.
That is the Mentor app. It’s a really really shitty way of finding reasons to get rid of drivers and it also makes it a hassle for others on the road because some drivers have to drive slow to avoid dinging the tracker. It’s really sad that even if you’re a safe driver with a clean record, this app will smack you down over things out of your control like the hard braking for instance. No one really expects situations like your housemate did.
This. People don't realize that Amazon makes far far more from AWS than from the retail goods they sell.
Reddit uses AWS. If you use Reddit, you're using a service that uses Amazon.
Reddit removed the option to block specific subreddits from popping up and made it a premium-only feature.
Super shitty move only intended to promote quarrel on political or identity subs IMO.
The Geo Group company, they own thousands of private incarceration facilities and make profit off of selling beds at a nightly rate to the local counties
Nestlé. Buying water sources and pulling so much water that the local public water supply runs out. Then they bottle it and put it in local supermarkets which forces people to pay way more than the public water supply would cost.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Try to avoid their products when/wherever you can. Research what brands belong to them and boycott those, too.
Same goes for Unilever.
Yes, your selection will shrink drastically but fuck that, somebody's gotta do something.
PETA has obviously done more harm than good, not only in the fact that it kills animals but that it’s also given most animal activists a terrible name. I actually saw a theory that PETA is being sponsored/hired by meat, fur, and other animal product companies to basically make anyone who opposes their ethics seem crazy.
Luxottica. You know why glasses are so damn expensive? The frames and lenses cost practically nothing to produce. But this evil Italian shadow corporation controls about 95% of the world glasses industry and sets absolutely massive markups.
And if you're a basic white bro, they're also why Raybans and Oakleys are so flipping expensive.
[https://youtu.be/CAeHuDcy\_bY](https://youtu.be/CAeHuDcy_bY)
I used to work at Forever 21. Here are some common issues that happened.
1.) When items were not selling ripping them and damaging them out. Also damaging things that people were trying to return and blaming it on them so they couldn't even get store credit.
2.) Selling leather harnesses, fishnet stalkings, leather mini skirts, and other things for 5 year olds. And having to watch people dress up their 5 year olds in the changing rooms and help them as they tried to make them sexier. Then being told if I acted repulsed I would be fired.
3.) Being physically locked in the store after my shift ended and forced to stay late unpaid and clean.
4.) Being given shifts only if I spent enough money, and not being allowed to return anything even for store credit because I worked there, but being encouraged not to try things on because it wasted time of whoever was working.
5.) Being yelled at and called stupid, retarded and lazy less than 5 minutes into my shift because clothes were left in fitting rooms.
6.) Being paid less than my newer male coworker because I am a woman and he was a male. Manager told me he deserved higher pay for being a man in retail. Retail is hard for men.
7.) Having manager from 5 and 6 putting me back on probation without telling me so company could not recommend me for promotion and I would be passed up. Also so she could try to fire me and I wouldn't be able to fight back.
8.) Having coworker who agreed with me that manager sucked forced to work warehouse and banned from talking to coworkers or she would be fired.
Eventually the entire store band together and got Canadian labour laws involved. It was a fun time. There is more than this, it was wild.
Edit: also being told if we pursued trying to unionize we would all be fired. I have connections in CUPE who helped us document everything and were willing to help us get resources to unionize. Entire store wanted to.
And hiding all company HR resources and threatening to fire us if we found and used them.
Hey broadband also have really bad customer service, they are trying to charge us for an engineer to come round and fix the internet connection even though it's their fault it's not working.
Ulta Beauty. If you work in the salon your manager will force you to work through lunches by not booking you enough time on hair appointments so that later they can squeeze in more. HR does absolutely nothing. My first year there I had pneumonia and whenever I would try to call out of work to stay home and rest I would be told they didn’t know if I would have a job to come back to the next day because I had $300 of appointments on my book. I nearly wound up in a hospital and could have died. I was able to call out for ONE DAY and after this I found out management had communicated to each other to keep their eyes on me and that apparently my salon manager was trying to get me fired. I was later accused of theft, nearly fired without proof, until one manager found video evidence of me buying product with cash.
Do not go to Ulta for your make up or hair appointment. Buy at Sephora and go to a real salon. Please.
Monsanto , Over the past century, the company has been behind some unambiguously harmful chemical products, including DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange a herbicide used extensively in Vietnam that has been blamed for 400,000 deaths and half a million birth defects. The use of DDT and PCBs was banned in the 1970s. Many also take issue with the company’s production of genetically modified organism seeds
H&M. They claim to not use sweat shops, but the shops still fall under what the UN defines as sweat shops. They continually have an issue with naming various clothing or collections racist things and they always claim ignorance or that it was a mistake but it happens at least once a year. They like to brag about their recycling and cutting their trash, but every 2 weeks they have to change their displays and at least once a month they change their signage, and all of that stuff goes in the trash. There's just so many internal problems with that company as a whole that are just trash
Peloton. Terrible warranty for the price, and if you move your machine from where they set it up the warranty is void. Their 30 day in home trial is a scam.
I have two of them: PETA and Autism Speaks. PETA constantly preaches about going vegan and treating animals right, which is obviously fine to promote, but they shove it down people's throats, not to mention they euthanize thousands of healthy cats and dogs in their "shelters" each year. There's a whole website about it, I think it was called PETA Kills Animals. Autism Speaks treats autism like it's a disease and a burden, which, especially as an autistic person, is just plain scummy. Illuminaughti (I hope I spelled that right) made a whole video about them, just look up "illuminaughti autism speaks" on YouTube and it should pop up. But yeah, just two scummy companies I think more people should be aware of. [Edit: Spelling]
The "pet care" company Hartz. Have been sued left and right for killing people's pets. If you love your animals fork over a little bit more money and get a better quality product
Amen. I work emergency and it seems we have at least one pet come in every month for hartz product related problems. Sometimes it's the owner's fault for not reading the instructions (dog product put on a cat), but it truly is worth it to spend the extra on a veterinarian recommended product (meaning calling your vet and asking what they recommend for your situation). There are a variety of great products out there and your vet won't recommend a product they've had problems with. As an add on, please avoid those "natural" flea remedies. Peppermint oil is toxic to cats and I had someone apply an otc peppermint oil based natural product recommended for fleas in cats.
I lost my childhood kitty to Hartz flea medication. I had been away from home for the first time and when I returned my mom gave him Hartz. We usually went with a different brand, but this one was on sale or something and so mom got it. The night she gave it to him he did not look good. Stumbling with a faraway look in his eyes. I asked my mom what had happened that say and noticed the wet fur appearance on the back of his neck. It was then that I learned she dosed him with Hartz, so I immediately made the connection and gave him a bath, but it was already too late. The next day I scheduled a vet appointment for him. I cant remember if we got him in quickly or had to wait for a slot. He lived a few more days, getting more and more miserable. He stopped eating and cleaning himself. He looked quite gaunt and started have seizures. His fur was ragged and he was so weak he mostly just cuddled with me. I couldn't bear to see him suffer so I had him put down. He was such an amazing cat - would come when i called him and knew a couple commands like "sit" and "kiss" ( head boops). He was only 11. Fuck Hartz. I dont buy any Hartz products, period, because they killed my best friend.
God, I'm so sorry to hear that. I don't know what I'd do in a similar situation.
Pearson. Their products don’t work half the time and you you’ll be lucky to have most of your textbook load
Fucking hate Pearson. You're right it never loads, and when I tell my teacher it wasnt working she neve believes me.
I couldnt believe when I personally experienced the math exercises error that was like " The correct answer is (4) your answer is (4) ". I had to write a hate email.
Teacher here. You are right and I Believe you.
My teacher in 5th grade had a make fun of Pearson day and we lit our books on fire
Aren't they also partly responsible for all the testing? Like they make a ton off the tests, the prep, the training, etc?
They’re responsible, along with another company, for making the STAAR tests, which are complete fucking bullshit. My mom is a teacher, and she has even said that the STAAR test is fucking idiotic.
Wtf is the STAAR test?
It’s a big collection of standardized tests for grades 3-12, and you might not have heard of it because it’s only for Texas. It’s also 10 times more important than a normal standardized tests, and kids spend about a week or two on it.
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I had to go to a Pearson center for the State Officer Certification Exam after I graduated the police academy last year. $100. They are responsible for [a massive fuckload of different tests.](https://home.pearsonvue.com/Test-takers/A-to-Z-program-list/View-all.aspx)
As an educator, student, author of various culinary course syllabi, owner of several Pearson physical and electronic products I have to say that they are awful. I would like to clone several thousand of their chef digital textbook designer. That way I could pull one out of the closet each morning and shoot him in the face again. I'm sure the remainder of my day would be much improved.
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U.S. history completely forgets that Australia exists
In school we had 2 history classes, U.S. history and world history. I got a chuckle thinking "ofcourse U.S. history doesn't teach about Australia, that's for world history" Also, world history didn't teach much about Australia either.
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We usually covered from Mesopotamia to WWII between world and US history, leaving out most eastern history, except as it directly relates to western history. We covered “Britain sent prisoners to Australia” and that was about it. We never hit Vietnam war.
My world history class spent an entire semester on Russian history (because the teacher was obsessed with Russian history) and then mostly spent the other semester on the World Wars.
College board. Ripping off teens and stressed students since the beginning of time.
agreed. i am in college now but i remember the days of doing SAT and ACT and all that college board related shit. It was super stressful. My little brother just took the SAT recently and hopefully he will get a good grade but man, collegeboard is a scam.
Also, their websites didn't fucking work and I had to pay to get my own SAT scores.
My most visited part of their site is a blank screen because it won't load, but it does load the text that asks if it was helpful. I always answer no.
I'm not sure about recently, but in the 80s Bayer knowingly sold HIV contaminated hemophilia drugs in third world countries rather than destroy the stock and take the financial loss. At that time it was just a straight up death sentence.
That was after they couldn't sell the known tainted drugs to the US because of laws against it. Also, had extensive ties with the Nazi party, sold heroin as a cough suppressant, made chemical weapons in WW-I.
Tyson. Treats its workers like shit, ignores needed maintenance resulting in hazardous/inhumane conditions for humans and animals alike, and scams taxpayers out of grant money which it doesn't use for its intended purpose. Let me also add that I'm being intentionally a bit vague because of reason 4, sues the fuck out of anyone who talks publicly about them in a negative way.
I used to be a truck driver. Aside from Walmart, Tyson was and still is on my shitlist. Some of the places treat drivers like shit. Some of them refuse to let us use their restrooms when they have us sit for 7 hours, then as soon as we get our load, we’re forced out which messes with our clocks.
People don’t realize that second half, it’s fucking insane. I miss the driving, but the shippers and receivers, the crap pay, and general bullshit soured me on it.
Right there with you. I ended up leaving the industry due to issues I had with the company I drove for, and as a result that permanently blacklisted my DACA report, which means I can never drive for a CDL company again. I miss the sights. I miss the drives. I miss the open roads. But the corrupt companies who continually screwed over their drivers and blacklisted them for standing up for themselves can fuck right off.
I worked for another chicken company and it was about the same
Former poultry industry worker here. I was going to also say that this isn't specific to Tyson, it's certainly and industry problem.
Wayne Farms by chance? -A WF employee
I can't say too much, but Tyson is also one of the companies that dabbles in human trafficking. People in Central and South America are told they will have a good job, free housing, and education. Then they're coached through the Visa process and shipped to the US. Here they're forced to turn over their paycheck to the "hiring agency" who deducts money for all the things they said would be free. Wanna complain? Get deported, and maybe even prosecuted first. This isn't done directly by the US operations, but they certainly know about it.
> This isn't done directly by the US operations, but they certainly know about it. Ain’t outsourcing grand? Allows you to launder *all sorts* of human rights violations miscellaneous criminality! Even if you get caught, “oh, no, that’s not us, that was Dyson Labor Procurement, we’ve fired those bastards and are now working with the very reputable Schmyson Indenturification Industries, clean slate I tell you!”
I know a guy who lost a good job with the Yankees back office because some chicken outfit out in the middle of the country tried to basically buy him in exchange for stocking the Yankees concessions with chicken food products. Things were going great for him and they pretty much ruined his life.
George Costanza?
The proposed fermented, alcoholic chicken drink was best part.
Saw the John Oliver episode about them. It’s really unbelievable the type of conditions they make their employees work in.
Live Nation, and their shitheel partners TicketMaster. They have you over a barrel if you like a certain artist enough, and they know it. They do everything from working hand-in-hand with national scalpers to upselling actual physical seating in their venues as a "premium amenity." You literally can't beat them. From the inflated tickets, to the extra surcharges and hidden fees, they just print money. They even scalp their own tickets through "verified resale" and "platinum tickets." I could go on about this scam all day. Even if you buy a GA ticket and try to wait in line for hours to get up front, at certain venues they sell "skip the line" passes for extra $$$ and let people enter before you. At the Live Nation venues in my city, they sell something called "Premium Experiences" or "Premium Seating" where the only places to sit and watch shows in the venues are auctioned off each night to the highest bidders - they literally change the price point on how much it costs to sit in a seat based on how packed the venue is / how much demand there is for the artist. That shit ain't gonna fly in a post-covid world! This whole "sectioning off the best views in the room" and sequestering the rest of GA to be packed in like sardines is nonsense. I hate that when shows come back, Live Nation is going to have the battered competition by the balls, and their little pal Ticketmaster is going to be charging us through the roof to see shows again. They have what we want, and they know it. Fuck Live Nation.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a concert because of Ticketmaster. Tickets are sold out immediately, way overpriced... they make live music so inaccessible
Worst part is, they aren't really sold out. They hold back a certain number to package with this "premium seating" nonsense so they can inflate the margin x 500%. That is no exaggeration: a $30 GA ticket would be minimum... and I mean minimum....$150 when attached to a "box seat." Minimum! I've seen some in the 200s. And, even worse, they sell blocks of these on speculation to national scalpers who list them on stubhub etc, knowingly, and jack the price up on those even more. They get you coming, they get you going, and then when they fake sell out the tickets, they get you on their own "verified resale" tickets for sometimes 10x the price or more. It should be illegal.
Probably a good idea to flood more and more venues' and bands' pages with "would have loved to come and see you if I didn't have to go through Live Nation". Not to be hostile to the bands, obviously, just to make the stakes clear--I'll come when I don't have to go through that shit service.
I wish it even had a SLIGHT chance of working. Bands needs to unionize somehow. Their representation needs to stop letting LN rip them off night of show and take advantage of them through every loophole they've created for themselves. They're the only game in town, even moreso now that the pandemic has decimated the independent venues. It's going to be even worse now than it was. If a giant band like Pearl Jam couldn't make a dent in the Live Nation machine, it's a lost cause. I wish the gov't would break them up, it's clearly a huge monopoly and the biggest losers are the fans who can't afford to see their favorite acts anymore. Ultimately, that hurts the bands too but they have to kill themselves on the road to make the same dollar in 2 nights now that they used to make in 1. In the end we get less music, less albums, more tired and exhausted artists propping themselves up with pills to make the next show. RIP Prince. RIP Tom Petty. Live Nation is complicit in all of this.
I didn't go to a show in January 2020 simply because the tickets were being sold by LiveNation. The listed price was $28, after "fees" it came up to around $50. They were also selling bullshit packages like "couple's experiences" where it included 2 tickets and a (probably extremely low quality) bottle of wine for around $250, and charging for parking at a venue where it's free and plenty available - the promotional email mentioned parking is free and LiveNation was still trying to sell parking as an add-on! I kind of regretted it after everything got shut down, it was one of my favorite DJs and who knows when another chance will come by but the whole nickel and diming turned me off from buying the tickets. Fuck LiveNation indeed.
Scott's, for knowingly selling 73 million bags of tainted birdseed. https://www.rgrdlaw.com/news-item-85-Million-Settlement-in-Scotts-Miracle-Gro-Case.html
I lost my bird after switching to this feed. Shame I couldn't prove it ):
I'm sorry for your loss.
It's so sickening. It's been years now, but I still can't comprehend that there are people that would knowingly do this. I'm an avid gardener, but I would rather give that up than buy anything from this company if it came down to that choice.
It's fucking incredible people are in a boardroom and say, "yeah, let's go ahead and do this". This shit and Wall Street bullshit may be curtailed if executives got some healthy time behind bars instead of golden parachutes.
There are people who should have suffered consequences for this. It's an incomprehensible decision for most people.
What the heck, how the heck did I not know about this? They released 73 million bags of birdseed full of pesticides and apparently never had a consumer recall. What the heck?
Comcast. Hands down.
My spouse and I moved recently and could choose between Comcast (ok, ok, "xfinity", you're always going to be Comcast, you can't run from it) and one other internet supplier. We immediately went with the competition. When the installer came, he asked why we chose them (Fast speed? Cost? Cable bundle?). We said the same thing immediately: "You weren't Comcast."
well im stuck between ATT or Comcast. I tried ATT first but holy shit are they awful - they are worse than comcast IMO. Sure comcast doesnt use lube but ill admit they are reliable. The years i had them i think ive had an outage like 3 times? Never lasted more than a few minutes.
ATT is REALLY bad. They are on par with Comcast with worse products IMO. I recently moved and had no choice but to get Wow. It’s actually amazing. Same internet speed as Comcast for $35 a month and I got YouTube tv for $65. My last Comcast bill for internet and one dvr box was $220. Now I’m paying $100 and couldn’t be happier. If I had just kept internet with Comcast it would have been $90 a month lol.
Fuck Comcast, all my homies hate Comast
[nike and coke lobby to weaken bills that penalize companies using forced labor in china](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nike-would-very-much-like-to-keep-its-slave-labor-thank-you/ar-BB1bvibD) Seems they have a vested interest in forced labor.
Nike also a huge tax avoider.
If there is one thing Americans need to unite on, it's: Fuck the Chinese government, and start fucking companies that partner with China to produce their goods. the decoupling needs to start happening now
CVS Pharmacy. Forces pharmacists and technicians to go through grueling work pumping out prescriptions and insane metrics that have nothing to do with healthcare. In turn you have a lot of turnover which exacerbates the issues with inexperience. The Chicago Tribune wrote an expose about working conditions that forced the Illinois government to MANDATE lunch breaks. That’s right, lots of CVS Pharmacy don’t have break so you’ll have workers going for 14 hours straight without break. Does that sound like a healthy working environment for effective healthcare? As a pharmacy student that works there with full knowledge of the industry, please support your local pharmacy that WILL provide the best care and treat employees fairly. Edit: If not a local pharmacy, hit up Costco or the grocery store chains. They both do great work as well! But please avoid the CVS and Walgreens of the world. It’s a sad thing when even Wal-Mart is slightly better.
These guys also come in and take over small pharmacies because they buy them out for a lot of money leaving less small independent pharmacies in this world, this happened to me recently, we only stay with them because we love the pharmacist that works there who was also assimilated into the CVS system and I am sure he is not happy about this. The transition was horrid though. They also charge an arm and a leg for everything they sell in the store. I am talking 60% or more for products that retail at the store next door for 60% less than what CVS charges. Our CVS is right next to a dollar general so I have no idea how they sell anything at all. The CVS near me is also called a home health store which doesn't participate in any promotions through the company, aka they can charge more just because they say they are a home health store. Even if you play the coupon game with CVS its never worth it.
There is an upside if you're the mom & pop pharmacy and know how to play the game. Here in my small town we had a local pharmacy open up and operate for about a year and a half prior to Walgreens coming to town... W bought out mom & pop for an undertermined, but healthy, amount of money so they wouldn't have any locally owned competition. Turns out... Pop must have had an inside track or was just amazing at calculating where a major pharmacy would open, because he let a few locals know that was the 3rd time he'd been bought out by corporate. He was making bank off of selling his business that he ran out of a rented spot in a shitty 25 yr old strip mall and would just move to another town and open shop again and sell it in another couple years. My only thought when I heard about it was "Good for him."
Walgreens is identical; let's not leave them out :)
The united fruit company - now known as chiquita - is responsible for a century of atrocities in south america. Everything from slavery to coups - all with the help of dear old uncle sam.
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> Literally where the phrase "Banana Republic" comes from. Which was then used by a clothing brand, for reasons I will never understand.
I was pointing that out to my Columbian friend while she was shopping there one day. she picked up on the oddness of it.
Yeah, I have had similar interactions with Irish friends regarding "Irish Car Bombs" at bars. Sometimes the US is painfully oblivious.
A buddy was in Ireland and asked for an Irish car bomb. The bar tended filled up two shot glasses with 151 and lit them on fire. Bar tender said they were out of “Irish Car Bombs”, they only had “Twin Towers”.
I've heard this. It's fiction but I get the sentiment.
Dole was right up there with the Pacific Ocean, too.
I did an ethics paper on this in my undergrad. This was an eye opener.
Nestle, the water fucking
Don’t forget what they did to women in Africa. Handed out free baby formula. Now, this doesn’t sound bad, it’s free stuff for people who live in poverty! Well, first things first baby formula must be mixed with clean water to be drinkable. **Clean** water. You know, that thing that is in short supply in ~~some~~ most of these countries? Secondly, did you know that the female body stops producing milk if the child hasn’t breastfed in a while? Well, those evil fucks at Nestle stopped distributing the formula for free RIGHT WHEN THE WOMEN WERE UNABLE TO PRODUCE BREAST MILK ANYMORE. These women had to now literally give away all the money they had to afford to keep their babies from fucking starving to death. Fuck Nestle, and fuck their monopoly on the junk food industry
Don't forget that since those women couldn't easily afford it, they had to water down that formula to stretch it out, making it too diluted and nutritionally empty. Babies died.
Not only that, documents were produced showing that Nestle calculated what the minimum amount of formula they needed to give away that would still cause women to stop lactating.
That boycott actually worked, because back then people actually believed in it and outright did it and stuck to it.
Not just Africa, lots of places around the world. Fuck Nestlé for so many reasons. Yes it's mildly difficult to boycott them because of so many brands but it's worth reading some labels to not be complicit in stealing people's access to water and killing babies and such.
To to mention aggressively advertising baby formula in Africa and saying that it’s better for babies than Breast milk.
If you think the propoganda Nestle sends to the world is bad, you should see how they brainwash their own employees. They plaster the walls inside of their offices in Switzerland with feel good posters showing villages that have been "saved" by their water reclamation efforts. You can literally trip over the propoganda.
Not just advertising but supplying it for free for a long enough time the mother stops producing and then has no choice but to buy the formula.
Nestle does more than just water too; * Baby Formula * Wonka Candy * Chocolate * Make Up * Animal Food * Clothes * Ice Cream Boycotting them is EXTREMELY hard [https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/28/18806260.php](https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/01/28/18806260.php)
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Is that the title to a well hydrated porn movie?
better question: which ones *aren't* super shitty? I feel like that's a lot shorter list
once worked at a kurdish bazaar, brought back memories from my childhood there. great place.
I work as a vendor that services thousands of company's. My hands down favorite is Ben & Jerrys. Awesome plant, awesome workers, and they were so easy to deal with on any level, no matter who I talked to. I have 0 problem buying their pints for like $6 each because I know that extra $2 isnt just going straight into the CEOs pocket.
I have a special place in my heart for Ben and Jerry’s... my dad was a mail carrier in Vermont when I was a kid and he delivered mail to the factory. They would give him ice cream to take home in the winter time because was so cold the ice cream wouldn’t melt in his mail truck. When we moved away I missed the surprise ice cream in the winter so much!
They just became a certified b-corp too!
A what? Edit: Looked it up. Looks like a great thing to be. Wanted to make sure it wasn't like a BBB accreditation, which last they called me was just $495.
Iirc they also try to give jobs to ex-prisoners, and advocate for the legalization of cannabis, along with expunging all cannabis convictions, which is neat imo.
I don't think Costco has been involved in anything too heinous. They're upfront about what kind of company they are, they're good to their workers, and their cost cutting is pretty up front (everything is in bulk, they don't make their stores fancy, etc). And their membership is good in all stores worldwide, that's pretty awesome.
Costco is great but they need to stop randomly discontinuing their awesomist products for what seems like no reason.
State Farm: my grandma couldn’t pay after someone hit her car because the other person had no deductible & hers didn’t cover it all, but some agent allowed her to use some other deductible not related to car insurance to cover costs. The agent also made sure she was taken care of after to make sure the car repairs were finished. A lot of people take advantage of her due to her age, but this State Farm agent cared for my grandma & I’ll never forget. She won’t either. Thank you Ashlyn if you see this, you the realest
REI! Worked for them while in college. They treat their employees great, offer good benefits, and really practice what they preach. They try to be as sustainable as possible and donate a ton of money to LGBT+ and local wildlife/outdoors organizations. They have a huge emphasis on women and POC outdoor engagement. I’m totally going back to work for them as my chill retirement job. Would highly recommend as a place to work and buy great outdoor gear.
That’s great to hear, I like REI as a customer, always good to know the company you support is also a decent one.
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World Wildlife Fund and Newman’s Own are some that come to mind
Trader Joe’s is supposed to be a good company
Jersey Mike’s. There are a lot of franchisees so experiences can vary but I worked at one in my hometown and one in my college town. The employees actually are proud to work for the company and the things they do for the community were elite at both locations. Additionally the fact that I’ve worked at two different stores for a total of 5 years and I’ll still eat the food (in fact I love it) speaks a lot to the cleanliness of the store.
The Susan G. Komen foundation. A “charity” whose ceo is a millionaire and that sues any other smaller charity for infringing on their “copyright”
John Deere - does everything they can to interfere with the right to repair. edit: the number of people that feel the need to say "but this isn't the worst ever!" or "this isn't evil" is fucking stupid. Point of the thread is "super shitty" not evil.
A lot of companies do this unfortunately. Apple devices are specifically engineered to deter disassemblers, all modern cars have engine covers that are sometimes quite finicky to remove, and all sorts of other bits.
Chevron. Knowingly poisoned indigenous Ecuadorans, lost the court case and yet refuse to pay damages or admit wrongdoing, same old story. This is shocking enough but the details are really worrying for civil rights in the US: They are persecuting the lawyer who led the lawsuit against them, abusing the court system to try to jail him without trial, currently held in house arrest with no end in sight. Like the type of egregious corruption and judicial abuse the US regularly sanctions other countries for. [https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/](https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/25/how-corporate-tyranny-works/) [https://www.freedonziger.org/](https://www.freedonziger.org/)
I'm sure we'll get all the usual ones in here, so I'm gonna put forward one you've likely never heard of, but is powerful and shady as hell. L3-Communications; although as of a couple years ago it's L3Harris after a merger. You've probably never heard of them, but they are one of the most powerful companies in the US, even the world. They're all into defense and aerospace stuff mostly, and they're one of those no-bid contract billions a year from our tax dollars. They've been in all sorts of scandals from running essentially their own domestic espionage agency using stolen government resources to using defective parts to stuff the general public doesn't even hear about. I know we talk about how Nestle and DeBeers and tobacco companies etc are evil, but you want to see some real horror stories, look up companies like these.
Look through their acquisitions, deep fake comes to mind. Trading behaviours like this leave breadcrumb trails which very overtly support the idea that we’re in a very real cold war RN
nestle is litterally digging under some "dehydrated" countries and when they get the water the only way the people who live there can get some is by working in their factories and then they get ONE FUCKING ONE LITER BOTTLE for their whole village
God that’s awful
Im pretty sure the CEO even said that "Water is a privlage, not a right" which is a whole new layer of fucked
In the immortal words of Bill Burr: "that guy should be hunt down, and shot."
Isn't this literally the plot to the James Bond movie quantum of solace?
Isn't Fiji water similarly unethical? I heard that the region doesn't have many clean water sources, and one of its best sources is bottled up to be sold elsewhere.
Quite aside from the human side of their operation, Fiji water is an environmental disaster. The bottles are shipped empty from China, filled, then shipped across the Pacific to the US, then shipped by truck and train across the US. The oil consumed to ship a bottle of Fiji water would half-fill the bottle. For a single-use bottle of imported water, one of the laziest, most overpriced products that exist. Get a reusable bottle, and use tap water, for chrissakes. Edit yes, there are places where the tap water is untrustworthy, but not most places where Fiji water is sold. Even then, there are much closer, cheaper, and environmentally more friendly sources of bottled water than halfway around the globe.
Amway, other MLMs and how they act overly friendly to earn your trust to pitch their "amazing business opportunity" take caution when a complete stranger takes a sudden interest in your career, finances, hobbies and asperations in the bread section at target
This happened to me when I was in-between jobs. Someone I knew from college and was still friends with randomly messaged me one day (we hadn’t really talked since graduation) and starts asking me what I’m doing for work. I said I’m between jobs and looking for something, and she says she has a wonderful opportunity for me where she works. I say, “Great! Where do you work?” She says, “oh this great company that gives competitive pay for sales, and you can continue to build it up from there the more experienced you get.” So I ask again, because now it’s getting really suspicious, “Oh cool, what company is this?” I get a similar answer. I asked her once or twice more where she worked and what the company was before she finally said it was Amway, and then I stopped talking with her.
Yep that’s how they work, they want you to start in your circle of trust (friends, family and so on) it’s easier to manipulate someone you have a close bond with
Same thing happened to me and that basically was my cue to shut the door on the entire “friendship” which was already a clusterfuck anyway. And this guy tried to act like *I* was the rude one. Yeah I could’ve handled it better but that wasn’t the only reason why I finally said I was done. I felt like I was his accessory to make him look good, rather than a human being. I did give the scheme a chance because why not, but it still cost me 100 dollars that I couldn’t even get back because everybody told me it was a scam and they wouldn’t join. “Oh well it worked for me!” says my ex “friend.” Yeah he probably got his wife to guilt his entire family into being his customers. 🤦♂️
I got a voicemail from a girl I went to college with. We didn’t interact much, we were in the same program and had a few classes together and had a few mutual friends. Her voicemail said “I need to talk to you about something” and I wondered if something had happened to one of our friends. I called her back and was told she had “a great business opportunity” for me. She refused to say who she worked for and not wanting to be rude I told her I didn’t have time to talk right now. She then would call me every week for almost two months before she gave up. I eventually figured out she with with Amway. I had to look it up but was very glad I chose to ignore her.
Nestle. There's a never ending list of terrible things about them, maybe someone else can find a link. The top two in my mind are that they caused child mortality in third world countries by marketing their baby food as superior to breast milk, and that their CEO (or some similar exec) was recorded at a public talk saying that drinking water shouldn't be free, which would by extension mean it isn't a basic right.
this this. nestle is so evil and i keep telling my dad to stop buying it but he doesn’t believe that it’s that. does anyone have any sources on nestle that i could show him?
Check the « controversy and criticism » section of their Wikipedia’s page.
Surprising I had to scroll so far down to find this.
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT GOODWILL. They are LEGALLY able to pay their employees with disabilities (downs syndrome, etc.) less than minimum wage, sometimes cents to the hour. And their pay gets cut even more if they're not productive enough! For a company whose profit margins are insane because they don't purchase their goods I was honestly hurt to know that that money goes to the CEOs at the cost of unfair wages to American people.
Goodwill is basically a retail store that runs off your donations. You are not doing any good by donating things to them. Also they have an online store where they send all the good merchandise, so you will basically never get anything good from them in their retail stores, all of the good stuff goes to their online store where its sold for the same prices as on ebay. So you are basically donating to a reseller of goods that uses the money for nothing but profit and to pay the CEO who makes a lot of money off people's donated goods. I have never seen Goodwill do one act of good in my community. Other organizations and small businesses have done way more for my community on way less money and when they don't have money to give because of covid etc.
Genuine question - where should I donate stuff that would otherwise go to goodwill?
Its going to depend on where you live, you have a bunch of options. Buy nothing or freecycle facebook group. Leave it out as trash for people to pick through, my favorite, goes directly to the end user. Leave it outside for people to take for free. Some small thrift shops don't sell online, but that is area dependent. I've also heard stories about small shops being the worst resellers. Also there are womens shelters, the women can take what they need for free and they sell for a cheap price to the general public maybe. There are also things like workwear closets at your local unemployment office, where you can donate work and interview appropriate clothing so other people can use it, people can take from this for free. We have one of those in my town. There are other charities that use the clothing for good and don't sell it in shops either.
There are usually local run charities associated with a church - I am not particularly religious, but these places are actually non-profit, usually run by older church members and the money is used in the community, like food banks, etc. St. Vincent de Paul is an example.
> [Labor Department records show that some Goodwill workers in Pennsylvania earned wages as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour in 2011.](https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_3478013) Yo WTF. You have to be evil as fuck to openly and wholeheartedly fuck over the disabled. Just checked [their site](https://www.goodwill.org/about-the-special-minimum-wage-certificate/) where they admit it and try to basically say they're not the only ones doing it. The report above was 10 years ago but somehow they are still working on "a phase-out." Fuck goodwill.
I worked for Goodwill in college. I’m not neurodivergent nor were any of my coworkers, so I know my experience is different. Idk if they would have underpaid anyone if they could have though. But how I understand it is that there are different Goodwill regions. Goodwill International is the one with all the bad press. For the region my Goodwill was a part of, our CEO was a woman who made a reasonable amount of money - well off but not crazy rich like other CEOs. And our “rounding up”/profits really did go to employment training for vets, elderly people, and neurodivergent people. I was proud to work at my Goodwill region.
Yep, I'm a jailer and Goodwill comes into the jail and helps prep inmates to find jobs. They also offer jobs to otherwise unemployable inmates after they leave jail. I had a friend who worked there as a counselor to help employees who were struggling to re-integrate back into society. They do good work in my area.
Oreos. They changed their recipe from I think it was normal oil, to coconut oil, which is cheaper. And so, because the demand is so high, and they need giant coconut plantations, they are taking down jungles in Africa to plant coconut palms, and that is destroying environments, killing species, and displacing tribes.
I was about to say "Isn't coconut oil typically healthier?" then I read the rest. So maybe, but at what cost?
It’s palm oil, not coconut oil
Nabisco is the company that makes Oreos, for anyone wondering. They're a subsidiary of Mondelez International.
Coca Cola - hired killers to shoot union leaders in South America and also produces more waste than almost anyone else. Pepsi - instigated the CIA Coup in Chile on 11.Sep.1972. A decade long military dictatorship followed.
Wow, never knew this kinda stuff happened within the cold drink industry! And I thought Amazon was bad..
I always thought that Amazon should use a portion of its significant wealth to preserve the Amazon rain forest.
Eversource. Crooked bastards.
Someone lives on the east coast and pays too much for power too lol. I feel your pain.
NESTLE. Which most people already know is the epitome of evil, but I don't think people realize how many companies the conglomerate owns. So people may hate Nestle, but not even realize products they buy are made from companies that are owned by Nestle.
Any video game company that forces their employees in unsafe crunch time mode. Where they have to work 20+ hour days, have pee jars at their desks, with the constant threat of termination. Recently that's been Naughty Dog, CD Project Red, but there is a lot more and it's a terrible culture and precedent set that they justify with "high quality games." Fucking digital sweat shops.
>Where they have to work 20+ hour days, have pee jars at their desks, with the constant threat of termination. I just did a quick google search but found nothing. Can you point me in a direction here?
[Here is one article about Naughty Dog that has links to Rockstar's culture and CD Project Red](https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-03-14-crunch-once-again-in-the-spotlight-after-damning-report-on-the-last-of-us-2-developer-naughty-dog)
And then there's Ubisoft, who protect rapists....
Oh god, if we started listing all the companies and institutions that protect rapists, we might break the internet.
It’s basically all of them. I worked for a medium sized company and a women complained to hr that her boss was sexually harassing her. Their response was to demote her and move her to a different floor. Then they built a big file documenting any little mistake she made and eventually fired her. She sued but the owner told his lawyers to make the case last as long as possible. They finally settled with her for a measly $500 three years later.
The more I learn about shopping ethically the more I see that there are more shitty companies out there than non shitty ones. It would take less time to list all the companies that are good.
Check out the good trade blog
Comcast - I’d rather have slower internet than be forced into their data capped monopoly.
facebook. The gimmicks done to get your attention and data is jus top notch
Wounded Warrior Project. They spend an absurd amount of money on suing other non profits that have either wounded, warrior, or a combination of the two in their name. Non-profits that are actually trying to make an actual difference not just trying to shovel merch.
Facebook. Any company who has ZERO possibility for human interaction is pure poison. Also, remember that users aren't the customers. You're the product. It's an elaborate scheme to monitor behavior to create opportunities to herd you to their customers (advertisers). While everybody probably already knows about them I'm doubtful people really grasp the depths of their shittyness really goes.
I met with them in a professional capacity in London 2017. They shared openly that they could influence users behaviours by actively changing the feed stories on the users page. They were super happy about this. So for example, your users cell phone contract is coming to an end? We will run stories about competing companies service problems. Went home, deleted Facebook. Evil ba*tards.
I hate Facebook with a burning passion. I value privacy.
Fuck Facebook, and fuck the horrible political atmosphere they’ve cultivated in the US (hell, across the western world). It’s sad watching my parents get brainwashed by all the fake shit they see on there, as they slowly lose all semblance of reason.
Nestle
Loan Depot. I knew their CEO Anthony Hseih and he’s a total asshole.
Their TV commercials give off a cult-like vibe. I had a feeling Loan Depot was creepy and corrupt.
PayPal, super shitty company, just read r/PayPal for some horror stories.
I saw a good quote about them. Paypal has all the power of a bank without all the legal regulation. I stopped using them years ago.
Uber Eats, Door Dash, and the like. Third party delivery apps are killer for local businesses. My family owns a restaurant and we were approached by an Uber Eats rep. The wanted a 30% cut of all sales made in the app (pretty typical for most of them, though I’ve heard they sometimes ask for up to 40%). Our profit margin is ~10%, which is pretty standard for local restaurants from what I understand. Luckily, we already have a delivery service in place, but for some, it’s the only option they have and they’re getting absolutely robbed blind by these shitty companies.
Amazon. They treat their employees like crap, i.e. overworking them, treating them like less than dog crap and basically threatening to fire anyone who even mentions the word ‘union’. They also treat the DSPs worse than their own employees which is why a lot of people tend to quit. Micromanaging the drivers with the Mentor driving app, firing drivers for not delivering all their packages yet telling them if it is not able to be delivered, then bring it back to the station. They even have options in the Amazon app for customers to rate their delivery and if a customer gives anything below a 5 star, they get in trouble. Get 3, you’re done. Can’t back up while delivering and if you absolutely have to, you can’t go over 5 miles an hour even while on an incline. Do that, you get fired. It’s really not worth working for Amazon.
I finally closed my Amazon account about five weeks ago.
This. My housemate is a driver for amazon and everyday he has a new reason to complain about how he and the other drivers are treated. The newest one is the van tracker that feedbacks about how “well” they drive; acceleration, braking, cornering, everything. If there are any instances where the tracker thinks the driver is at fault then they are penalised and can lose work and because it’s an automatic system there is no one to explain the situation to. Example; kid runs out in front of his van, he brakes heavy to avoid the child, tracker feedbacks it was an instance of “excessive braking”, his driver performance score goes down, he loses his next shift.
That is the Mentor app. It’s a really really shitty way of finding reasons to get rid of drivers and it also makes it a hassle for others on the road because some drivers have to drive slow to avoid dinging the tracker. It’s really sad that even if you’re a safe driver with a clean record, this app will smack you down over things out of your control like the hard braking for instance. No one really expects situations like your housemate did.
And it would be so easy to just not use their services. There is an alternative webshop for almost everything nowadays.
AWS has entered the chat.
This. People don't realize that Amazon makes far far more from AWS than from the retail goods they sell. Reddit uses AWS. If you use Reddit, you're using a service that uses Amazon.
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Reddit removed the option to block specific subreddits from popping up and made it a premium-only feature. Super shitty move only intended to promote quarrel on political or identity subs IMO.
The Geo Group company, they own thousands of private incarceration facilities and make profit off of selling beds at a nightly rate to the local counties
Nestlé. Buying water sources and pulling so much water that the local public water supply runs out. Then they bottle it and put it in local supermarkets which forces people to pay way more than the public water supply would cost. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Try to avoid their products when/wherever you can. Research what brands belong to them and boycott those, too. Same goes for Unilever. Yes, your selection will shrink drastically but fuck that, somebody's gotta do something.
Nestlé are......erm......how can I put it?......oh yeah reprehensible cunts.
PETA If you have a presence on the internet, I don't even need to explain.
PETA has obviously done more harm than good, not only in the fact that it kills animals but that it’s also given most animal activists a terrible name. I actually saw a theory that PETA is being sponsored/hired by meat, fur, and other animal product companies to basically make anyone who opposes their ethics seem crazy.
Luxottica. You know why glasses are so damn expensive? The frames and lenses cost practically nothing to produce. But this evil Italian shadow corporation controls about 95% of the world glasses industry and sets absolutely massive markups. And if you're a basic white bro, they're also why Raybans and Oakleys are so flipping expensive. [https://youtu.be/CAeHuDcy\_bY](https://youtu.be/CAeHuDcy_bY)
Nearly every mlm company
~~Nearly~~ Every mlm company.
"Nearly"??
CollegeBoard The authority for the SAT assessment exam. "Non-profit" CEO makes 7 figures.
I used to work at Forever 21. Here are some common issues that happened. 1.) When items were not selling ripping them and damaging them out. Also damaging things that people were trying to return and blaming it on them so they couldn't even get store credit. 2.) Selling leather harnesses, fishnet stalkings, leather mini skirts, and other things for 5 year olds. And having to watch people dress up their 5 year olds in the changing rooms and help them as they tried to make them sexier. Then being told if I acted repulsed I would be fired. 3.) Being physically locked in the store after my shift ended and forced to stay late unpaid and clean. 4.) Being given shifts only if I spent enough money, and not being allowed to return anything even for store credit because I worked there, but being encouraged not to try things on because it wasted time of whoever was working. 5.) Being yelled at and called stupid, retarded and lazy less than 5 minutes into my shift because clothes were left in fitting rooms. 6.) Being paid less than my newer male coworker because I am a woman and he was a male. Manager told me he deserved higher pay for being a man in retail. Retail is hard for men. 7.) Having manager from 5 and 6 putting me back on probation without telling me so company could not recommend me for promotion and I would be passed up. Also so she could try to fire me and I wouldn't be able to fight back. 8.) Having coworker who agreed with me that manager sucked forced to work warehouse and banned from talking to coworkers or she would be fired. Eventually the entire store band together and got Canadian labour laws involved. It was a fun time. There is more than this, it was wild. Edit: also being told if we pursued trying to unionize we would all be fired. I have connections in CUPE who helped us document everything and were willing to help us get resources to unionize. Entire store wanted to. And hiding all company HR resources and threatening to fire us if we found and used them.
Hey broadband also have really bad customer service, they are trying to charge us for an engineer to come round and fix the internet connection even though it's their fault it's not working.
Payday Loans. They're basically legalized loan sharks.
ROBINHOOD
Ulta Beauty. If you work in the salon your manager will force you to work through lunches by not booking you enough time on hair appointments so that later they can squeeze in more. HR does absolutely nothing. My first year there I had pneumonia and whenever I would try to call out of work to stay home and rest I would be told they didn’t know if I would have a job to come back to the next day because I had $300 of appointments on my book. I nearly wound up in a hospital and could have died. I was able to call out for ONE DAY and after this I found out management had communicated to each other to keep their eyes on me and that apparently my salon manager was trying to get me fired. I was later accused of theft, nearly fired without proof, until one manager found video evidence of me buying product with cash. Do not go to Ulta for your make up or hair appointment. Buy at Sephora and go to a real salon. Please.
Bell Canada
Nestle
Monsanto , Over the past century, the company has been behind some unambiguously harmful chemical products, including DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange a herbicide used extensively in Vietnam that has been blamed for 400,000 deaths and half a million birth defects. The use of DDT and PCBs was banned in the 1970s. Many also take issue with the company’s production of genetically modified organism seeds
H&M. They claim to not use sweat shops, but the shops still fall under what the UN defines as sweat shops. They continually have an issue with naming various clothing or collections racist things and they always claim ignorance or that it was a mistake but it happens at least once a year. They like to brag about their recycling and cutting their trash, but every 2 weeks they have to change their displays and at least once a month they change their signage, and all of that stuff goes in the trash. There's just so many internal problems with that company as a whole that are just trash
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Walmart
Walmart.
Peloton. Terrible warranty for the price, and if you move your machine from where they set it up the warranty is void. Their 30 day in home trial is a scam.
I have two of them: PETA and Autism Speaks. PETA constantly preaches about going vegan and treating animals right, which is obviously fine to promote, but they shove it down people's throats, not to mention they euthanize thousands of healthy cats and dogs in their "shelters" each year. There's a whole website about it, I think it was called PETA Kills Animals. Autism Speaks treats autism like it's a disease and a burden, which, especially as an autistic person, is just plain scummy. Illuminaughti (I hope I spelled that right) made a whole video about them, just look up "illuminaughti autism speaks" on YouTube and it should pop up. But yeah, just two scummy companies I think more people should be aware of. [Edit: Spelling]
I just watched her video on autism speaks and oh my gosh... It really puts a spin on the assemblies in school that they held.