Hello everybody,
What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?
Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.
Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!
Walmart. They’re one of the funders of the heritage foundation with Project 2025, they’re one of the biggest killers of unions and any worker rights in the US. Walmart remains at the top of the most money by revenue with only Amazon nipping at its heels before Chinese government backed Corps and Saudi Aramco .
It’s ran like a cult, crushes any competition in an area and holds entire towns hostage with its buying power. I know I’m discussing things like Amazon and the like, but I grew up in its home town and wish for the company to just burn.
Google. They had such a noble cause and potential - to organize the world’s information so that everyone could search it effectively. There was a point I thought of them as the epitome of academia, a huge force in the quest for the advancement of the world.
Now they’ve become the exact opposite.
BlackRock, KPMG, McKinsey Consulting.
I can’t think of one I like nowadays.
Microsoft, because I lived through the 80s and 90s.
Most companies become evil after they grow big. Some companies become big by being evil. Microsoft is the latter.
Imagine the progress the computer industry could have made without Microsoft killing any every bit of competition. Although sometimes I wonder if Linux wouldn’t have taken off as a reaction.
A cynic might say that we’d then just have a slightly more powerful and even less innovative IBM.
Microsoft.
And it’s almost entirely because of excel.
We have a program that automatically outputs an excel document every month. I then have to go into this document and unfuck all the data that excel decided to turn into dates. There is no way to format the file before the program spits out the excel doc. There is now way to reverse the change and have it go back to the original data correctly.
I have spent countless hours on the phone with Microsoft support and digging around forums trying to make it stop breaking our data, but I have been told by multiple Microsoft support employees that it is impossible.
I did find out that there used to be a beta version of excel back in like 2017 where you could change a setting that forced your excel to leave all day alone until told to do something with it, but they never finished it and it was eventually removed as a setting.
WHY WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY THAT ABILITY MICROSOFT. WHY.
There is definitely a way to automate that process. Even if you can’t somehow sanitize the input before Excel reads it as dates, unfucking the data can definitely be reduced to a single button-push. I’ve based my entire career on my ability to do that.
I have had an untold number of coders and Microsoft experts look at this problem. There is nothing that can be done.
Program 1 cannot be changed as the job requires it and it will only automatically spit out into excel. Excel immediately breaks several numbers across the spreadsheet by turning them into dates. Nobody at Microsoft can get the sheets to revert back into the original data correctly. Nothing can be done to preemptively format excel not to fuck the dates.
What do you mean “spit out”? Is it being put into a new open workbook, an existing open workbook, or is it being saved as a file?
And I don’t mean to suggest I know better than the person actually dealing with the situation (I hate when people do that), but if you can do it manually, it can be automated.
The program generates a report for us once a month. It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use. When it generates the excel file it breaks a bunch of numbers that are used often and all throughout our data as excel thinks they are dates. When we try and reverse any of those numbers in all the many ways people have recommended the data never goes back all correctly. So I have to manually replace the data cell by cell afterwards.
We are unable to preemptively format any settings in excel to prevent this from happening.
There once was a beta version of excel that had the exact feature we need (excel leaves all data untouched unless told otherwise), but for some godforsaken reason Microsoft got rid of that setting.
It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use.
This is probably a dumb question, and there’s likely a very good reason why this can’t be done, but can you not generate an Excel file from one of the other formats yourself? E.g. have the program output a CSV and write a python script that parses it into an excel file. That way you might have more control over the generated Excel and maybe be able to do it automatically.
He can also use an alternative to excel like OpenOffice or libreoffice, I don’t know why would they would use excel when it causes issues.
Maybe the output to managers needs to be Excel for some reason, e.g. there’s some processing afterwards with another closed tool.
Must be the export into an Excel file that breaks it. By that point, an alternative reader won’t help.
I suggest making a script to fix it, rather than fix it manually. It is very easy to use, so basically program then export to excel then run officescript. Also don’t tell anyone you made a script, tell them you are doing it manually.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/overview/excel
The data is different every month. It’s not consistent month to month so it can’t be automated in any way.
But you use the same column correct? and the data that is messed up is the same type? Unless the data that is messed up is very hard to detect using a script, it should be possible.
Most hated? PostNL.
Those fuckers just drop your packages wherever the fuck they want.
I’ve had to contact neighbors and search for my packages on the street.
really? wow, that’s DHL/UPS for me - PostNL keeps my packages intact and delivers them just fine. DHL literally throws packages on the street here.
Might be the Belgian PostNL.
Amazon. I’m pretty against workers being treated poorly, and they’re frequently the worst without delving into actual slavery.
It’s kind of two fold though, because trying to explain to people that letting shit like this fly is encouraging it to happen to you or me just cannot get through to some people. The longer this goes on, the more they push the envelope, the further it spreads. Like they don’t know how to function without the single megacorp, and having to suffer a minor inconvenience is just too much.
Don’t forget frequently ripping off ideas from small companies that (used to) sell on amazon. A lot of amazon basics is just stuff they ripped off from other people.
Oh I’m sure they’ve got ten thousand shitty business practices we could spend all day criticizing.
British Petroleum and Dutch Royal Shell. BA&E while I’m at it. Military industrial burks.
Also, obligatory Nestlé, Wallmart, Tesco, and Meta.
My special one though is HSBC, because of all the conspiracy Charlie meme inducing reasons.
Apple.
There are worse companies, Google, Facebook, all oil companies, and Nestle, to name a few.
But with the exception of the original iPod with that sweet wheel interface, there’s never been a single thing from Apple that looked appealing to me.
Edit: Oh and Amazon
I’ll throw out a new one: Cricut vinyl cutters.
Machine works just dandy, software is, quite literally, the worst I’ve worked with in 30 years of IT. The company puts no money into the product, it’s clearly only there to blast users with ads and give the machine basic, and hellish, functionality.
Here’s the best part! I can’t use my cutter unless I connect the software to the internet. It updates daily, yet ads nothing to functionality. Must be updating shit for sale.
Couple of years ago they made headline news by changing the terms so that users could only work on a couple of projects without paying for a subscription. A couple of projects could easily be part of one project. The howls of outrage got them to back off, damage done. I’ll replace it with any other brand if that time comes.
Thank you, I’ve been wondering if I might want one but now I definitely don’t.
I got a silhouette because of how horrific cricut software is.
Get a vinyl cutter from sign warehouse and use Adobe illustrator, pirate CS6 if you have to, it doesnt require a subscription. You’ll be MUCH happier, I did commercial vinyl for years, it’s night and day. Cricut is expensive as fuck compared, and broken as fuck.
Nestle. Other big corporations may steal my data and manipulate their users, but nestle deprives people of the basic right of being able to drink.
Also, it pollutes our waters with plastic and poison everyone (including turtles, even if they are burning!)
Vampires, slavers, and directly responsible for the deaths of 10 million infants across the world.
Hell better be hot.
Fuck Nestle is always obligatory.
Child labor and slavery!
Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).
facebook/meta deliberately sows misinformation with the help with russia to drive up revenue sources , turns out conservatives are very easy pickings for advertisements. Ive seen youtber run to Facebooks, because they whining how a sub was making them look bad.
About fucking ready to wipe Budget rental car off the face of the earth for the bullshit they gave me about their insurance.
Learned a tough lesson from that one.
I rented a car from Hertz this weekend and the desk person blatantly lied about the coverage provided by my credit card. Who knows if he’s instructed to say that or not, but it’s shady either way.
I have to go by length of time I have hated the company and so the award goes to Electronic Arts. Or Evil Assholes, as I have called them since the 90’s. They have destroyed so much of what I loved. 😭
I remember reading with dread any time EA acquired one of my favourite studios.
RIP
- Westwood
- Bullfrog
- Maxis
- Codemasters
- Bioware
RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I’ll never forgive.
For me it ubisoft. They’ve made some of my favorite series, then completely ruined them.
One day my rocksmith 2014 isn’t going to work because they shut down the servers, and the over a thousand dollars I’ve spent on guitars, songs, cables, and pedals are going to be, well, not useless, but pretty close to it.
