'Which company would you close?' poll discussion

derbyreject

Surely DFS should have been in the list? Has anyone ever bought a sofa from them at full price?

TheLearner

As mentioned before my vote was for RyanAir - they are the epitome of poor customer service - I mean you can't even send them a message on their website - they are so disconnected with their customers and our needs its laughable!

I think that having The Sun on the list is pretty pointless. I mean at the end of the day we don't really need The Sun - its just a newspaper - whereas we really need to rally together and fight for better services - so I think everyone should vote for companies that really affect our every day lives - food, gas, transport - I couldn't care less about the sun - in fact I have never bought it before and never need to deal with it - RyanAir on the other had - I have to deal with it every time I go to Portugal with my partner!

TheLearner

DrScotsman wrote: »

I second the need for Royal Mail!

I voted Alliance & Leicester but am now regretting not voting BT...every bit as bad as Royal Mail.

I must say it would be hard for a company to come close to RyanAir from my point of view but BT comes a distant second on my list - horrific customer service - so bad in fact me and my partner have decided to go with TalkTalk in protest! Let's start an anti-BT protest!?

veloo

I wanted to vote out both RBS and HBOS. But, I am not compelled to use their services. Although, I am now propping up those banks by stealth!

I also wanted to vote out some of those media companies, as they no more report facts, but dish out dubious propaganda. Where are those investigative journalists, and the times when the press stood for the public?

cw18 wrote: »

Having scanned down the list, it appears to me that a person can decide to boycott the majority of the companies - with only one exception

so........



me too

Get rid of the BBC, and that license-fee!!!

pelirocco wrote: »

I am disappointed to see this thread , with the job market as it is why would we wish anyone out of a job? ( i know you said ignore job losses)

Get rid of inefficient companies, and you would make the whole business world more efficient for everyone, and create more jobs. Job losses are happening because we are unsuccessfully supporting humoungous unsustainable companies through the back-door. We might as well take the hit now, and salvage what we can, rather than continously propping them with tax-payer's money which is being flushed down the toilet... rather than being put to good use!

goldbyron

British Gas - terrible customer service. A second choice would be a bank because of my personal resentment re: bonuses however this could have wider implications for the economy whereas British Gas would not be missed!

A.Jones

BBC for me, due to the license fee. I don't like The Sun, so I don't buy it or read it. If others want to read it, it is up to them. Imagine if you had to pay for The Sun, if you wanted to read another newspaper. That's what the BBC / license fee is.

moggylover

Bobl wrote: »

In your opinion!

Others may think otherwise about a group of people who refuse to change working practices in order that the business becomes profitable - otherwise they will disappear!

And yet others might want to get more facts regarding the reasonableness or otherwise of said working practices before they go off on one and blame the wrong folks;).

Others yet might point out that if we loose the Royal Mail then only the profitable routes around the Country will ever be serviced and the rest will go without! They might also point out that were the postie not expected to deliver all the dross that companies like TNT and so forth "claim" to be delivering (and getting at ridiculously cheap rates) then their post would never GET delivered!

moggylover

TheLearner wrote: »

I must say it would be hard for a company to come close to RyanAir from my point of view but BT comes a distant second on my list - horrific customer service - so bad in fact me and my partner have decided to go with TalkTalk in protest! Let's start an anti-BT protest!?

TalkTalk are just fine until you have a problem and need customer service (as I did when we needed some malicious calls traced) at that point they are totally useless:D

custardy

Bobl wrote: »

For now.

"Today's figures show that while the headline profits are in the millions, the pensions deficit is in the billions and confirms that the Royal Mail remains in a precarious financial position," said Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.
"With today's results confirming that the pensions deficit has doubled this year and that mail volumes are expected to fall by as much as 10% every year, the need for urgent modernisation and fundamental reform is crystal clear."

a pension deficit from a 13 year pension holiday by the company/government
the workers paid in during this period

rubbantish

About half of these companies should be abolished. Certainly Murdoch's lies machine comes first for either distorting information or not providing information at all.