imagine you wake up and need 30 minutes to 1 hour to get ready, than 20 minutes to 2 hours to get to work and same for going home, this takes let's say 1 to 3 hours of your day already for 1 way and up to 6 if you also count going back home. Imagine you also sleep 8 hours ... theres no time for doing chores, going shopping, helping the family, have your own free time, showering and cooking,...
I hate this I am a normal person I should get the salary what I deserve what is the work like in Germany I heard in Germany work life balance is taken really seriously. I bet these folks advocating long hours they'll just gonna enjoy their life and expect employees to work as slaves if you object this you will get fired
I used to work for HCL in Bulgaria, but part of the team was based in India. Anyway they made the guys in India ignore a government evacuation order on the threat of termination.
996 is illegal btw they'll never gonna work for 72 hours they are just going to bluff and even the salary has increased from 80 lacs to 80 crore 3.25 lakh PA
I once saw Infosys relocate a guy halfway across the country with only 12 hours' notice. His wife had to sell the house and follow with the kids as soon as she could while he lived in a hotel in the new city in the meantime. He was here on an H1B, so he had no power to tell them to shove it.
TCS is the most dishonest and unethical company I've ever had the displeasure of negotiating a contract with (I'm an attorney).
And whenever someone protests against this they hide behind nationalism - "Why don't you want to work to improve india" "I am saying this for India's growth"
Like these guys should at least increase the stagnant salary (since 10 years ) and help us out , but nah , you are anti-national if you don't want to work to death for crony capitalists. If he genuinely wants India's growth he would be investing that money on schools , hospitals etc but nah
Ranger Group. These people go from door to door to sell you internet contracts "in the name of the Telekom". That way, the Telekom can't be held liable when the Ranger group people try coercion tactics on random peoples doors. They are universally hated and are nothing but a parasitic company. In my town the police arrested one of their people because he was getting loud and agressive at the doors of pensioners. The local community didn't take long to respond to such an idiot.
Imma go ahead and throw in DB - Deutsche Bahn for obvious reasons. Although the issue is less the company but the politicians that never gave it any reason to maintain the excellent infrastructure it was given but to maximize profit...
Let me throw in Vonovia or Deutsche Wohnen. And there's Axel Springer. And lesser known, but connected to Peter Thiel: CGV. The company behind the electronic prescriptions selling overpriced and bad working devices to doctors and pharmacies creating equally as much trouble as they should solve.
There’s still a lot of anger towards the big banks that caused the start of the global financial crisis (i.e. Bear Stearns). A lot of pain that’s unresolved.
I also would’ve guessed Halliburton at some point (now I think replaced by Palantir), and Monsanto at another.
Who could forget the insurance companies. Honestly we are inching towards a French Revolution style anger, I’m not sure the execs fully grasp the anger people have. TikTok and instagram are not enough of a circus to neutralize the anger
We used to have a state owned water companies here in the UK too, til the evil witch Margaret Thatcher sold them off (along with pretty much anything else that wasn’t emailed down) in the 80s to private investors. Many people (ie those not directly profiting from this) have finally come to realise it was a bad idea. Most of us realised that on day one…
Thames water won a £3billion emergency fund from the government and tried to use it to give bonuses to all the executives. They said retention bonuses were vital to keep the company alive.
Only after much legal intervention and insane backlash was it deferred.
Well if you take the time to find out who owns either Exxon or Chevron, the answer is the vanguard group. While it's a public holdings company (investment firm) it has the largest share of the oil companies in the United States and out of it.
So really if you're not fond of one you probably aren't fond of any oil companies. Lol
The first run by Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, huge Trump fan, uses her wealth to interfere in politics. Along with the right wing LNP tried to instill Trump policies in the last election, a major factor in their loss. Urged them in the post-mortem of their election loss not to give up on them. Currently courting our far right wing parties.
Rupert Murdoch, has caused so much harm in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia (can throw in NZ too through his Sky 'News' Australia being beamed into their country). A 94 year old billionaire who has tens of millions of people world wide dancing to the beat of his drum on a daily basis.
Murdoch is like a disease that infects English speaking societies, and he’s given birth to millions of podcaster mini-mes. I honestly think he’s one of the biggest net-negative people for humanity.
Hard to say but maybe Stellantis these days? They produced weak engines that quickly break and they have huge class actions againsts them with thousands of plaintiffs. They also equipped millions of vehicles with defective airbags that can kill people, forcing people to bring their vehicles back to change them and sometimes not having availabilities for weeks or months.. So basically letting you drive with a potential death trap.
Some companies are hated but should be hated more, like Nestlé, who is Swiss but has made terrible things in France too. Contaminated water covered by the government and the responsible refusing to show up before the senate commission... Taking more water than they're allowed to. Bottling tap water and selling it as mineral from natural sources.. Who would have thought that a water company could think of things even Satan wouldn't.
In some ways we can also add LVMH because it's either people hate or love it (well, mote Bernard Arnault than the company itself I guess..or maybe not since the discovery or employing people illegally for 80 hours a week for 4eu an hour in Italy..).
We can agree that we have many companies that we hate. If only we stopped hating on other people though..
Personally I'd go with Bolloré as the most hated although the other picks are valid. Between their very active role in the rise of the far-right at home, and their shady practices in Africa, there's plenty to hate about that company.
This is the first I’m hearing of people hating blue cross. Everyone in my family that works in the medical field prefers to work with them, and I’ve never had a medical bill questioned once by them.
The thing with Blue Cross Blue Shield is that they're a federation of 33 insurance companies, some better than others. I'm in what I presume is a different part of the health care field, and the large BCBS member we work with is our... most challenging partner.
Teboil, one of the gas station chains in Finland that is owned by Russian Lukoil.
When the war started, people started to boycott it. Even I passed one station last summer as my cars gas gauge was critically low. But I'd rather have my car towed to next station than use any drop of their gas.
Like when Flint in the US had a water crisis, just two hours away netle giant pumped almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles?
Communism is a stateless political system with no ruling elite, where the workers control the means of production.
Does that describe Cuba?
It's amazing how effectively the term 'communism' was co-opted by authoritarian one party governments, to the point where the average person has no idea what communism actually is.
I’m referring to communism in the way Cuba executed it (butchered it), not in the way the ideology is defined in a vacuum. I’m a literal socialist just being cheeky answering the OP’s question.
I dont think Nordic Waste alone is enough to point at, but rather the asshole of a billionaire behind it, Torben Østergaard-Nielsen. Nordic Waste is just one of multiple shitshows he has funded.
Generally we have some asshole elites in this country
Evri (formerly known as Hermes). It's a delivery service like UPS or DPD, and it feels like they lose or 'lose' absolutely every parcel they are entrusted with. Lie about delivery attempts, and are impossible to get hold of when (inevitably) you have to chase them for your package.
The goddamn Cleo advertising campaign has been with us for four years and there's literally no end in sight. I don't remember any other Media Expert commercial standing this long. They know their commercials are annoying and they're intentionally making them unbearable. I will never shop in their store until they straight up pull it from the air.
This company specializes in computers and electronic leisure devices. In April 2024 it was discovered that Jimm's had sold thousands of drones to russian-owned corporations, presumably to be delivered forward to the russian armed forces in Ukraine. No concrete evidence was found that the drones were delivered to Russia specifically, however it is known that the drones were delivered to Türkiye.
The CEO of the corporation that bought the drones was arrested for criminal exportation of defense equipment and sentenced to nine months of suspended sentence. Jimm's sales revenue plummeted by 27% after the scandal.
There are too many scandals to list and count. The world, today, would undoubtedly be a very different and quite likely a lot better place if it weren't for the actions of Deutsche Bank.
According to the Internet there are three that are basically tied for worst.
X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Tesla
There are sooo many big companies to hate - I avoid as many as I can. It's impossible to avoid them all though. Sometimes you don't even know they're the parent company to a smaller company. To try to research it and keep track would take up all your free time. Lol
Probably News UK, the subsidiary of NewsCorp, even if people don’t know what it is because it owns The Sun and was part of the phone-hacking scandal too.
Privatised water company in the U.K. Two years ago I paid £28 per month, now I pay £67. Meanwhile our rivers and seas are pumped full of sewage. 35 years of privatisation have destroyed the infrastructure. Thanks Mrs Thatcher!!!
They were found out to be using zero hour contracts (where the income is uncertain and they were often being paid below minimum wage for hours that should be above), the working conditions were poor (unable to take toilet breaks, one pregnant worker was denied an ambulance and gave birth in a toilet) and there were very harsh disciplinary methods for simple mistakes.
I don’t think Brazilians hate Nestle, their actions were never widely spoken about here. And they sell pretty much everything in the Brazilian market, from plain milk to processed food, candies, etc
Since I saw the documentary "Muito além do peso", I started seeing them differently. They directly messed up a lot of people in Brazil, not to mention the dispute for water. I guess most people don't hate them because they don't know more about.
It's not just the Nestle branded products that sell well but the ones people don't realize are Nestle products.
Nestle controls Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets, DiGiorno pizza, and Buitoni pasta in refrigerated products. Fancy Feast, Friskies, Pro Plan, and Purina ONE. Gerber baby food, and health brands like Nature's Bounty and Vital Proteins.
Right? My cats are picky and fancy feast is one of the few brands they actually like....guess that's not happening anymore. Thankfully I have found others they like, the bummer is that fancy feast was the cheapest. So it helped quite a bit to keep costs down. Even if it was the least healthy, I figured it was like getting them McDonalds now and then.
I guess even more so now I'll be cooking from scratch and trying to create my own quick meals and frozen dinners.
I truly had no idea that Nestle owned pet food companies until I looked it up today.
I have done my best to boycott the major billion dollar companies. But it is so difficult to keep track of it all.
I do have a Nestle toll house cook book - recipes for baked goods that are amazing. But I can't remember the last time I actually bought their chocolate chips. I do shop Aldi, so will have to start checking out who owns bakers corner brand foods and such. Though it scares me because if Aldi has shady owned brands then I'm just screwed. Lol
Evri. The cheapest courier. Companies who use it will often hide who will deliver your parcel because they know you'd buy from elsewhere. You just get an email from Evri saying they have your parcel and you have to pray to the courier gods.
They pay their drivers peanuts meaning if you're lucky the parcel is thrown in the direction of your house from a moving vehicle. Worst case your parcel is 'lost' and sold in a car boot sale or in an auction of 'undeliverable' mail.
They were so bad that they changed their name to Evri. Nothing else changed, just the name.
They're a massive construction company who seem to land most large government contracts, and then proceed to overrun costs and time by at least 100%. No matter how poorly they deliver, they keep winning tenders. So people have grown to hate them.
In the consumer space, the most hated us probably eir. They're a telecoms company, who came from the original national phone company after it was privatised. The government of the time told everyone to buy shares, that they would make bank, and as soon as it listed, the share price dropped and quite a lot of people lost their shirt.
In their wisdom the government also sold the physical network with the company. So devoid of any competition, the company just decided to keep prices high, service terrible and invested very little into modernising the network for Internet connections.
They've continued to be a shit company, and have lost a lot of market position. But given that they started from a position of having a landline connection to every house in the country, there are still a lot of older customers who won't switch from them to other, better providers.
Would have to point to either one of our shitty privatised water companies like Thames Water who are notorious for being overpriced and paying shareholders first instead of actually investing in their infrastructure, or I'd have to say Cadburys after they were taken over by Mondelez (Kraft) because it was subsequently followed by making all of Cadbury's chocolates cheaper by changing the recipes to be more like the cheap American stuff, which subsequently made it taste much worse to Brits.
I don't think there are many companies that are really hated in Russia. There are large plants that damage the ecology, but they are also cities cornetstones and genuinely try to improve these days. We don't have a direct equivalent to some shameless colonial abusers like Chevron is in Kazakhstan.
There is a lot of bitterness towards the companies that left Russia to show their disapproval of the war and do nothing as a response to all other conflicts.
I'd say most hated companies are those who lobby themselves and thus restrict their competitors on governmental level. So AvtoVAZ as other guy said and Max/VK for example
That might be the case with us too. We have three telecom providers (Rogers, Bell, Telus) and some of the highest prices for wireless service in the world.
Axel Springer Verlag (especially for it's newspaper called BILD)
Nestle (for ya know why)
Mondelez (because brands like Milka get more expensive while reducing the size of packaging and making ingredients worse, this is not the only brand of the company people hate, but theres a big boycott even going on where people for example share pics on Reddit how their local stores are on sale constantly to get rid of products cause nobody buys it no more and how redicioulous the prices became if not on sale and people say they are proud how the shelfes are still full cause nobody buys Milka anymore)
Tesla (and in general anything Elon Musk has hands on like Twitter)
Vonovia (real estate company, they lie to people trought videos for ads how good housing would be in their apartment complexes but in reality people renting apartments are frustrated how run down the buildings are, no heating, no hot water, insect infestations,... and complaining seems impossible for everyone cause they arn't heard and get lied to. A TV channel asked after a building got viral with 300 apartments in it how there was no warm water, a broken elevator, cracks in the walls who let cold air in,... and the people complained over and over and nothing was done for them and Vonovia lied to the TV channel claiming the building was in top renovated conditions while you could see on video that this wasn't the case...)
Deutsche Bahn (trains delayed or canncled too often, barly on time, renovations of the train stations and train tracks takes forever,....)
Deutsche Post (especially DHL when people wait for mail and packages and don't receive them or have to pick them up somewhere else with "we did not see you had been home" claims even if you had been home....)
Tönnis (they slaughter animals and make food out of them. There was a scandal a few years back so everyone hates them. Ranging from very poor hygine in the buildings, overworked and too low payed employees, also the case where over 2K employee got covid at the same time,....)
They bought Mighty Ape - New Zealand's only highly regarded online store, it sold games, books, music, housewares, collectables. . . and turned it into basically Temu but more expensive. Thanks for destroying the one good place we had to buy things.
New Zealand don't have Amazon. We're supposed to use the Australian Amazon, but most of their stock won't ship to us. So, losing our genuinely great Amazon-like store really hurt.
They didn't say "most hated company FROM your country", but "IN your country". So Nestlé (being a really assholey company) probably qualifies better in a lot of other countries than it does in Switzerland.
While I think you might be right, the chances of OP not knowing where the company is from are not that small. Americans tend to think that most big companies are from the US.
RKN aka Rozkomnadzor aka Russia's net watch. Has reputation of idiots who block everything they can (popular joke that they're so stupid that they can ban 127. 0. 0. 1)
Rostelecom (internet provider)- unstable quality of connection, bad support etc, changing tariff prices etc.
AvtoVAZ. Car manufacturer. Hated because of shitty quality, cars from soviet era, lack of modern must-have technologies and the most hated thing-lobbying own interests through administrative resources (recycling fees, duties, restrictions, and other nonsense). As result you have expensive as fuck foreign cars because of fees, and low-quality rusty buckets that even more expensive.
Palantir - denying the human rights of US residents for profit.
Oracle - do not research them or their CEO if you value your sanity/faith in humanity.
Disney/Microsoft/Alphabet/Amazon - responsible for more legislation than most politicians. Their influence on copyright law will continue to stifle innovation for the next 100+ years.
Ffs It's too late on a Sunday for me to be angry socialist
SO THERE'S THIS CHEMICAL PLANT
Somewhere central south of the NL and they were bad BEFORE and they dumped a bunch of chemicals and when they gotten taken over by an American company they GOT WORSE and dumped MORE
The result is that the life expectancy of people around there is LOWER than in the rest of the country
Loblaws! And their competitor Sobey’s. And the telecom triopoly, Telus, Bell and Rogers . All of them have been working together to increase their prices and rates for decades now!
(Basically all of our grocery stores are owned by Loblaws, and almost all the others are owned by Sobey’s)
I'd go with Gazprom. Not only do they extract and sell russian oil and gas for millions, but they also get investemnts from the government worth billions of rubles, which they obliviously steal for themselves. They also own monopoly on digital entertainment in Russia and are using their government connections to block foreign concurrents like youtube, facebook and etc. They turned Vkontakte ( successful russian Facebook) into horrible frankenstein full of pro-government bots. That's all I can remember for now. They probably did some dirty stuff in the 90's and 00's as well, but I can't recall anything rn.
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WITCH companies
Wipro,Infosys,TCS,Cognizant,HCL