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They’d have to pay me to haul it away. Oh, and the way they treat their employees. Which means they’re digging past the bottom of the barrel into the dirt beneath. And surly, unhappy, unknowledgable, unavailable staff didn’t improve matters. But hey! - prices can’t be beat!
Home Depot. Those vile fuckers ripped off my sister big-time when she worked there. Not just her opinion - HD lost a major class-action lawsuit about exactly what they pulled with her. Now, to get the bastards to actually pay the wages they stole.
The best restaurants don’t care about health code violations.
Okay, that’s not entirely true. But there’s a fantastic little Japanese take-out place near my work that’s run by an immigrant Japanese couple. Great food, very friendly and quick service. When I went for lunch one day, one of the owners was standing outside being berated by a fire department representative for some unsafe kitchen practices that could result in a fire. Being that it’s in a strip mall, this would be Bad. I decided I didn’t want to know what went on in the kitchen and continued buying from them. That was a month or two ago, and they’ve been doing fine so far.
Continuing the Chik-Fil-A thread, there’s a Japanese place near my home (different one) that’s very new, modern, and serves pretty good food, though not as good as the one by my work. They look just like any other Japanese fast-food franchise I’ve ever been in, except that a couple of the wall decorations involve Christian catechisms. And they close on Sunday.
It makes me uncomfortable for the reasons TimeWinder listed, but I refuse to boycott someone just because they make their religion public. Chik-Fil-A’s owner is known to send money to RR causes, and that doesn’t sit well with me, but until I learn something similar about the Japanese place’s owner, I’m not going to hold his Christianity against him even if it makes me a little uncomfortable. They certainly don’t ask me my religious affiliation before serving me.
a couple of thread below this one is the thread discussing the Chevy Volt Hybrid.
I owned a 1979 Chevy Malibu that I bought new. Well, I thought, one lemon does not mean the whole company product line is bad, so when I got a chance to buy a used 1985 S-10 blazer, I thought I would give Chevy one more chance.
I boycott Exxon-Mobil because before they merged, Mobil had a good domestic partner benefits program and Exxon didn’t. When Exxon took over they discontinued the program. They also removed all explicit mention of “sexual orientation” form the equal opportunity policy. They claim to have a zero tolerance policy for any sort of discrimination or harassment, but refuse to put “sexual orientation” in writing.
I boycotted the state of Colorado when it passed Amendment 2, rescinding all protections based on sexual orientation and barring the state or any unit within the state from enacting them. My family was planning a trip out West that year and I told them in no uncertain terms that I would not spend a penny in Colorado if we went through it. We ended up not making the trip, I can’t remember why. I was working for a food co-op at the time and we removed all Colorado products from the shelves. I think the big one was Celestial Seasonings teas, who issued a press release to the effect of the company supported equality for all but understood the boycott.
Technically I boycotted Cracker Barrel when it fired several LGBT employees, but since there was no Cracker Barrel within 100 miles of me and I wouldn’t have eaten in it anyway, I don’t suppose that counts.
Wal-Mart, for all the reasons previously stated. I’ve been inside a Wal-Mart exactly once in my life, and that was when my then-boyfriend had a gift card.
Why? The Apple II came with a complete set of schematics, programming information, assembly listing of the ROM, Integer BASIC, monitor, and mini-assembler. It was the most hacker-friendly computer that I’ve ever seen.
You can, and should, report them to the health department: [EMAIL=samhd@sanantonio.gov ]samhd@sanantonio.gov. Our public health system relys on citizen reporting – most places know when they’re going to be inspected, and clean up their act ahead of time.
I’ve been boycotting Outback Steakhouse for about 5 years. Back when I was looking for a restaurant job in 2002-2003 I saw they were hiring in the paper. Found out later that they drug test. What restaurant drug tests upon hiring?
I wouldn’t want to work in a restaurant where the people didn’t get messed up, at least a little now and then. The “Straight Edge” types tend to bottle up the stress and develop strange (and usually very irritating) quirks instead.
I also don’t trust people cooking under that much stress, getting maybe $8/hour, and putting up with drug-tests.
So I boycott on principal (anti drug tests), and for fear that my food could have been the 1 order that sent the cook in the back off and spit on my food or something worse. :eek:
Besides, I found out how to make my own bloomin’ onion, I don’t need them for anything anymore.
Back in 1967, I went to a steak house called Ponderose Steak Barn. I do not think it the same as the Ponderosa steak houses you may be familiar with, so don’t think bad of them, OK? I got a steak that was so full of gristle that I literally could not chew it up. Never went back, told all my friends to stay the hell away.
Southwest Airlines. The day they decided to check in TWO separate flights in one line. One flight was 20 minutes before the other. No choice but to join the melded queue. When I got to the front, guess what? MY flight was 5 minutes away from the checkin time and the “nice” lady informed me that I’d have to go back to the BACK of the line. I cancelled my ticket, and went to Continental with a change of planes at a higher fare, and I have never been back and I never will be.
Texaco. During the mess of 9/11, several of their stations in the New York area were reported to be charging exorbitant rates for gasoline. I wrote them asking for explanation or denial of this, and never heard from them. I also researched this and it did appear that some of their stations were, in fact, doing so. Lacking any response, I sent them my card in little pieces in an envelope along with a photo copy of the original so they’d be sure to know who was no longer a customer.
And, I would not call this a business, but back in 1989, some friends went for a vacation in Jamaica and on leaving the country, had the local stormtroopers crush some seashells they’d collected under the bullshit excuse of “looking for contraband.” When they protested this, they were told to be happy they were being allowed to leave Jamaica at all. I have stayed the hell away from Jamaica ever since.
Why do you think that people who don’t use drugs are all part of the “Straight Edge” movement or bottle up stress? Maybe they just think it’s stupid/boring/expensive/not fun/illegal/etc… to do drugs.
Maurice’s Barbecue, owned by Maurice Bessinger, in South Carolina. Although he makes fantastic barbecue and sauce, which you can buy at his restaurants and also in grocery stores, I will not purchase his products because of his support of slavery and the Confederate way of life. No, really. He puts the supporting literature in his restaurants. He also flies the Confederate flag over his restaurants, in protest to the SC legislature’s recent movement of that flag from atop the statehouse to in front of the statehouse. He also sued Publix and other stores for removing his products from their shelves in protest, but his action was dismissed in both federal and state courts and he lost his appeal. What a moron! Go Cocks.
I was living in London when the details of their “dirty tricks” campaign against Virgin Atlantic came to light. I was stunned at the depths to which they sank in trying to undermine an upstart rival. They hacked into Virgin’s computers. They had agents approach first-class Virgin passengers arriving for check-in, posing as Virgin employees and claiming the flight had been overbooked but they were being accommodated on a BA flight instead. And a lot more. There were lawsuits, and BA eventually admitted everything, paid damages, and published full-page apologies.
A local Barnes & Noble. I was there one freezing cold day, looking my Sunday freezing cold best, and twice they told me I could not leave my homeless person’s cart in their vestible. The second time I was carrying some books to the register. I complained very loudly that it wasn’t my cart, I have told them it wasn’t my cart, i was obviously trying to be a customer, and their stereotypes about the homeless were awful. I dropped the books on the floor and left.
