Companies that are/were NOT Your Friend no matter how they try appear so

5rtytry56

Here's my personal list

TICKETMASTER
ATARI
COMMODORE
HMV

What are your hateful honchos?

I haven't been a customer of ticket master so far I think

The_Kew_Tour

Currys/ PC World

Wibbs

Google and Facebook.

Kolido

Paypal...yeah I'll pay when Im ready buddy.

Signore Fancy Pants

Insurance companies.
Sky

Silentcorner

Wibbs wrote: »

Google and Facebook.

They own your past!

bonzodog2

Silentcorner wrote: »

They own your past!

Not mine. They do know too much though

Arghus

All of them.

Hector Bellend

Anyone who makes cigarettes

Collie D

Starbucks asking your name to write on cup even if you're the only customer present. You're not my friend, you're a huge faceless corporation, let's just trade cash for caffeine in a businesslike manner.

Try_harder

Paddy Power- any bookmaker

tastyt

Any bank

5rtytry56

I left out HTC smartphone maker in my original list.

Church on Tuesday

3.

Awful, awful company.

pgj2015

Dunnes stores

whiskeyman

Any customer service or store staff that start with "hey mate / buddy...' immediately get my back up
I'm not your funking buddy or mate, and I don't want to be.
You don't need to call me 'Sir' (although I do enjoy it) but a simple 'hi' or 'hello' will work.

jacksie66

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jetsonx

FBD Insurance - Always get a nasty vibe from this company and definitely not your friend!

PaddyPower - Some of the insider reports emanating from this place are truly shocking. PaddyPower wants to be seen as one of the sound lads down the pub but then goes home to beat his wife.

Tesco - I've seen the documentaries /read reports from investigative journalists on this crowd - puts you off shopping there.

AIB - Despite their continual efforts at feel-good advertising, I hear nothing but bad things about this organisation.

4068ac1elhodqr

Doughnut companies - they have no interest in (long-term) customer retention.

By offering empty calories and heavily saturated fats they don't care about shaving 5% off your lifespan.

Neither much care for pulmonary vascular disease, temporary serotonin based opioid-like rushes,
and over-firing of billions of neuronal nerve cells, leading shortly after to insulin burn, crash and further binge eating.

dxhound2005

Haley Slow Turpitude wrote: »

Doughnut companies - they have no interest in (long-term) customer retention.

By offering empty calories and heavily saturated fats they don't care about shaving 5% off your lifespan.

Neither much care for pulmonary vascular disease, temporary serotonin based opioid-like rushes,
and over-firing of billions of neuronal nerve cells, leading shortly after to insulin burn, crash and further binge eating.

Your brain needs sugar (usually in the form of glucose) to function normally. The billions of neurons in your brain require a constant supply of sugar to maintain their ability to produce energy and communicate with other neurons. Your neurons can only tolerate a total deprivation of sugar for a few minutes before they begin to die.

jetsonx

Haley Slow Turpitude wrote: »

Doughnut companies - they have no interest in (long-term) customer retention.

By offering empty calories and heavily saturated fats they don't care about shaving 5% off your lifespan.

Neither much care for pulmonary vascular disease, temporary serotonin based opioid-like rushes,
and over-firing of billions of neuronal nerve cells, leading shortly after to insulin burn, crash and further binge eating.

In all fairness, nobody is force-fed donuts.

Donuts are not an essential food item and anyone with a modicum of intelligence should should know, before they even step in a donut shop, that dough fried in saturated-fat and covered in refined-sugar is not good.

Hitman3000

All fast food companies.

cavu

Ancestry DNA

Shenshen

I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but are there ANY companies anyone in their right mind would trust? I can't think of any...

dxhound2005

Shenshen wrote: »

I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but are there ANY companies anyone in their right mind would trust? I can't think of any...

I would trust a company if your were running it.

Hitman3000

Shenshen wrote:

I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but are there ANY companies anyone in their right mind would trust? I can't think of any...

Irish Water, great bunch of lads.

Blazer

Harvey Normans
Sky
Google
Facebook
Bank of Ireland

freshpopcorn

I was going to say Leo Varadkar but he isn't really a company.

emo72

That bank of Ireland follow you follow me Phil Collins cover. It makes me want to puke my guts up. It's so sickly sweet, I mean these Duckers have no reservations about throwing people out on the street, and basically give no ducks about anything other than their massive profits. But yeah, let's put a sugary song on an advert and maybe people won't notice we're cants.

Irish Guitarist

Any record company that has ever made a copy protected CD. The worst offender was probably Sony with their rootkit. They somehow came to the conclusion that the best way to stop CD sales plummeting was to give customers that still bought their product a computer virus.

If you have any copy protected CDs in their original cases you might notice that they don't have that "Compact disc Digital Audio" logo on the jewel case. That's because they're not legally allowed to actually call them Compact Discs because they don't meet the standards of what the original Compact Disc developers invented. In some cases copy protection even compromises the quality of the music.

James Bond Junior

KBC bank. The bank of you and look at our kewl hipster vibe. Inept and a nightmare to do business with in reality.

SimonLynch

Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken, Danske Bank, Airtricity

Blazer

Shenshen wrote: »

I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but are there ANY companies anyone in their right mind would trust? I can't think of any...

I trust Apple with my phone data more than Google or Samsung.
Regardless of what you think of Apple they don't monitor your phone, you have end to end encryption and they don't even give the feds your data.

Contrast that with google who make their money from reading your email and selling ads based on them, from what you browse etc.

Samsung have basically zero concerns about customer privacy..in fact its just an afterthought. How many times have Samsung lost customer data or stored it in insecure manners.
Hell its only 2 years back where all their smart tvs were recording every single word said in front of it and transmitting it to a third party on plain unprotected text files.
I wouldn't piss on a samsung phone. Its a real pity that HTC really dropped the ball as I really rated their phones.

AllGunsBlazing

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Here's my personal list

TICKETMASTER
ATARI
COMMODORE
HMV

What are your hateful honchos?

I haven't been a customer of ticket master so far I think

Atari? Commodore? Seriously, wtf?!

ArchXStanton

GLS....your call is very important to us...please enjoy this 40 minute flute solo

The Rape of Lucretia

Collie D wrote: »

Starbucks asking your name to write on cup even if you're the only customer present. You're not my friend, you're a huge faceless corporation, let's just trade cash for caffeine in a businesslike manner.

Thats a bit harsh. Starbucks just care about great coffee for coffee lovers, and their only aim is to inspire and nurture the human spirit, on person, one cup, and one neighbourhood at a time. If only all companies did such unalloyed good.

Ash.J.Williams

Banks and insurance companies both pretend to be your friend

Kolido

Kolido wrote: »

Paypal...yeah I'll pay when Im ready buddy.

You should start a competing company for those who prefer delay payment. Instead of PayPal you could call it IOU Acquaintance

NIMAN

All of them do, your money is their No1 priority. Nothing else.

Vita nova

Would I be risking a ban by saying Boards.ie Ltd.

the dark phantom

RTÉ

Atoms for Peace

Vita nova wrote: »

Would I be risking a ban by saying Boards.ie Ltd.

I hear the lads behind the scenes are fair dodgy alright.

Comhrá

Ryanair
PTSB
Dunnes Stores
Tesco
Amazon
Sky
Friends First (By virtue of their name alone)
Bank of Ireland
AIBP
Facebook

Say Your Number

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Banks and insurance companies both pretend to be your friend

We love you and you mean a lot to us, however if you miss one payment, we will f*cking gut you.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I don't believe any company is, or wants, to be my friend. They are there to make a profit from me. If they can do so and I get satisfaction from the transaction then we are both content but will never be friends.

boombang

In fairness, Ryanair does not pretend to be your friend. It's pretty obvious what the rules of engagement are.

I deeply dislike the banks' claims of supporting communities and businesses when they were a huge part of feeding the gross credit bubble that wrecked this country for the guts of a decade and sent our youth abroad. Plus, their ongoing ripping off of the public.

Aceandstuff

Vodafone, any telecoms company really, banks, funeral homes and the like, garages, the government...

Any of them really. Companies aren't people, they will never be your friends. Most of the people you know will never be your friends. Some of the people you think you're friends with aren't your friends and you won't figure it out until it's too late. Trust no one. Trust No. 1

Shenshen

boombang wrote: »

In fairness, Ryanair does not pretend to be your friend. It's pretty obvious what the rules of engagement are.

I deeply dislike the banks' claims of supporting communities and businesses when they were a huge part of feeding the gross credit bubble that wrecked this country for the guts of a decade and sent our youth abroad. Plus, their ongoing ripping off of the public.

That's a good point - I wouldn't consider any company a "friend", but I appreciate the honesty of the ones that say "we really just want your money, here's what we'll be giving you for it" far more than the creepy ones that try and get you by the feelings.

jobeenfitz

I like this thread. It's nice to just say, "fluck dem all"

jetsonx

boombang wrote: »

In fairness, Ryanair does not pretend to be your friend. It's pretty obvious what the rules of engagement are.

I deeply dislike the banks' claims of supporting communities and businesses when they were a huge part of feeding the gross credit bubble that wrecked this country for the guts of a decade and sent our youth abroad. Plus, their ongoing ripping off of the public.

Excellent points.

There is something inherently honest about Ryanair and their advertising. They've always used the narrative of we'll get you from A to B at relatively low price and on-time. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The banks on the other hand try to sell this lie - that they're supporting communities and businesses when they really could not give a sh{t. The AIB sleazebags are particularly guilty of this.

I don't think any company is my friend but I have a huge amount of unrequited love for Amazon.

I don't assume any company has my best interests held above their own, but I'd be especially suspicious of social media and associated companies.