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The Worst Company In Britain 2011 is… TalkTalk
January 5th, 2012 • 9 Comments
In the end, there was just TWENTY FOUR votes in it, but it’s craptacular telecommunications provider TalkTalk that has walked away with the award of Worst Company In Britain for 2011.
Here’s the final results in case you don’t believe us…
Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted over the past couple of weeks. We’ll be spraying a turd gold and delivering it anonymously to TalkTalk’s HQ over the next few days .
Get voting! Worst Company of 2011 poll closes tonight!
January 4th, 2012 • 2 Comments
If you weren’t already aware, we are currently in the process of selecting the Worst Company In Britain of 2011, with just two wretched companies left over from the long, long, list of nominations that came from the brains of you lot.
We’re left with just TalkTalk and Groupon and the voting so far has been intense with the current score pretty close. You’ve only got until midnight to make your voice heard so get voting NOW.
If you want to catch up with how we whittled the long list down to the terrible twosome, you can see all the voting here.
Worst Company Of 2011 – the semi-finals
December 30th, 2011 • 8 CommentsWe’re down to the final filthy four in our hunt to expose the Worst Company Of 2011, and what a motley crew it is. The fact that tax-dodgers Vodafone HAVEN’T made it into the semi-finals should make the four companies that HAVE think very hard about what we all think about them.
Anyhoo, enough of our yakking. Here’s your chance to decide who will make it into the grand final. In the first semi-final, you can choose between TalkTalk and Yodel, while Groupon and Santander go head to head in the other.
You’ve got until the end of 2011 to cast your votes, and we’ll have the grand final after the weekend when everyone has got the past year out of their systems and can be all objective and that. All the voting so far can also be scrutinised here.
Worst Company Of 2011 – two more to vote on
December 23rd, 2011 • 9 CommentsIt’s Worst Company Of The Year time again here at Bitterwallet and here’s your fifth vote-off in the first round of eight showdowns between the shabbiest companies that the country has to offer.
Ponder for a moment while you decide which you hate most out of BT and British Gas, in a battle between two former nationally-owned companies that were sold off and have constantly pissed you off over the past year.
After that comes the deadly duo that is eBay and Paypal, in the head-to-head that usually causes lots of controversy among certain elements of our readership. Have we pitted them against each other purely out of spite? We couldn’t possibly comment.
You’ve got until the end of Boxing Day to make your decision which of them will progress to the quarter-finals so don’t go making any rash decisions. Catch up with all the voting so far here…
Worst Company of 2011 – more showdowns for you to vote on…
December 22nd, 2011 • 7 CommentsHere’s two more head-to-heads for your consideration in our Worst Company of 2011 contest – it’s a communications special as phone-type providers Orange and Talk Talk tussle in the first one, while Vodafone and T-Mobile go at each other in the second. You’ve got until the end of Boxing Day to cast your vote in this first round, just in case you need lots of time to think about it and you can do all of your voting in one place here.
Worst Company of 2011 – let the voting commence!
December 22nd, 2011 • 43 CommentsIt’s the disgruntled customer service version of The X Factor and it’s BACK! Yes, it’s Bitterwallet’s Worst Company of the Year poll, this year conveniently covering the year 2011. Sixteen companies have been shortlisted from your votes and we’ll be pairing them off in a series of head to heads as we whittle them down to the finalists.
Here’s your first two showdowns – delivery dickheads Yodel and Hermes tussle in the first one, while Groupon and Virgin Media lock horns in the second. There’ll be more later in the afternoon so stay tuned….. oh, and you’ve got until the end of Boxing Day to cast your vote in this first round, just in case you need lots of time to think about it.
Worst Company Of 2011 – nominations closing TONIGHT!
December 9th, 2011 • 64 Comments
Okay people – we’re REALLY not messing about here. This is YOUR FINAL CALL to get your voice heard if you’ve been stiffed by some wretched company or other over the past year. We’re pumping you all hard for your nominations for our annual Worst Company In Britain. The diabolical overall winner (loser?) of the competition will get to appear in the hall of shame along with past winners Setanta Sports (2008), Royal Mail (2009) and Vodafone (2010).
You’ve got until the end of today (Friday) to nominate the company that has riled you the most over the past 12 months, and you can nominate any company as long as they operate in the UK.
For the last time, put your nominations and your reason for naming and shaming them in the box below or if you’re following us on Twitter, you can tell us which company you hate the most over there as well with an @ reply.
DO IT! BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!
Worst Company in Britain 2010? It’s Vodafone.
December 27th, 2010 • 14 Comments
The votes have been counted and the not-all-that surprising result is that the Bitterwallet Worst Company In Britain for 2010 is… Vodafone.
They scooped up two thirds of your votes against HDNL/Yodel in the grand final and win the golden turd award previously held by Setanta Sports and the Royal Mail.
It’s been a grand year for the mobile phone provider – in May they tried to change their Fair Usage Policy for data use but back-tracked when scores of customers took it as an opportunity to cancel their contracts.
More recently, it was reported that Vodafone had dodged a £6 billion UK tax bill, roughly the same amount that was cut from the Welfare budget, a state of affairs that has led to protests in their high street stores.
Who knows what 2011 will bring? Congratulations Vodafone – our readers hate you more than any other company that operates in the UK today. You must be SO proud.
Still time to vote in our Worst Company Of 2010 final!
December 24th, 2010 • 1 CommentBefore all of that (real or otherwise) Christmas cheer kicks in, there’s still time for you to send out a sour-faced message to one of the two finalists in Bitterwallet’s Worst Company Of 2010 awards.
The two companies that are slugging it out for the unwanted title and ceremonial golden turd that may or may not go with it are Vodafone and HDNL/Yodel and you’ve got until midnight tonight to give one of them a cyber-punch right in the chops.
Go here to cast your vote and help crown the prize chumps of 2010, and you can also check out the results so far as the whole thing draws to a close and we turn our attentions instead to gluttony and arguing.
Worst Company in Britain 2010 – VOTE NOW in the final
December 23rd, 2010 • 11 Comments*DRUM ROLL* Here it is then – the final of Bitterwallet’s Worst Company In Britain for 2010. From your tens of thousands of nominations (give or take a few) we formed a shortlist of the 16 grottiest organisations operating out there in the UK as chosen by you.
From that shitty sixteen, we’re now down to the two that you lot feel are the worst of the worst. On one side of the arena, we’ve got Vodafone, who famously tried to change the terms and conditions of their customers’ contracts but without allowing them to cancel. Oh, and there was the small matter of the £6 billion tax bill that they allegedly squirmed their way out of.
Then there’s HDNL/Yodel – the parcel bastards who many of you seem to have suffered at the hands of, whether it be missing packages, the failure to put a ‘while you were out’ card through your letterbox or, spectacularly, sticking a parcel in your dustbin on bin day.
You’ve got right through until midnight on Christmas Eve to cast your vote and Santa Claus will deliver the name of the winner on Christmas Day. To track all of the previous results and find out how it all came to this, you can have a butchers here…
Worst Company In Britain 2010 – vote NOW in the semi-finals
December 22nd, 2010 • 1 CommentIt’s semi-final showdown time in our captivating, enchanting Worst Company Of 2010 competition.
We’re down to the final four and you can vote on both semi-finals here and now, before we put the gruesome twosome together tomorrow for what hair-rock legends Europe would almost certainly call ‘The Final Countdown’ (even though that wouldn’t make much sense)
The line-ups are themed – we’ve got a telecommunications tussle between BT and Vodafone first and then a head-to-head between companies who have initials for names – we speak of course of DSGi and HDNL/Yodel.
Voting goes on until tomorrow at noon and we’ll have the final from tomorrow afternoon. The results to date can be scrutinised here.
Worst Company Of 2010 – Paypal v DSGi
December 21st, 2010 • 6 CommentsCan you feel the tension? Of course you can. That’s because it’s the last quarter final in our spine-tingling Worst Company Of 2010 competition. Unfurl your voting fingers dear readers.
This final match-up is between two of the great Satans of the consumer world – Paypal and DSGi (with their Currys, Dixons and PC World axis of retail evil).
You’ve got until midnight to pick a loser and you can also vote on the 3 Mobile v Vodafone battle here while catching up with the rest of the competition so far here.
Worst Company Of 2010 – 3 Mobile v Vodafone
December 21st, 2010 • 3 CommentsWe’ve got two more quarter-finals to go in our knife-edge, seat-edge Worst Company In Britain 2010 competition and the first one is here and now.
It’s a mobile phone showdown and we’d like you to get your teeth into either 3 Mobile or Vodafone – choose one, sink those molars and rip them to bits. Alternatively, you could vote for one of them. That would probably be easier and more practical actually.
Do pop back later on and have a bash at voting in the second quarter-final, and if you’re new to all of this, you can catch up with the story so far here.
Worst Company Of 2010 – Royal Mail v HDNL/Yodel
December 20th, 2010 • 8 CommentsTime for the second quarter final clash in our attempt to find the Worst Company of 2010, according to you, our avid readers.
This time around, we have a delivery theme, with the 2009 winner, good old Royal Mail, up against HDNL/Yodel, the parcel jockeys who have upset so many of you with their ‘unconventional methods’.
You’ve got until midnight to make your vote count and we’ll be back with two more quarter finals tomorrow as the tension mounts. You can also keep up with the results so far here.
Worst Company of 2010 – the quarter finals: BT v TalkTalk
December 20th, 2010 • 10 CommentsWelcome back to Bitterwallet’s Worst Company of 2010 competition – the next phase. The dead wood has been cleared – namely the companies that weren’t loathed enough by you to make it to the quarter finals.
But we have to forget about them now – they’ve got a whole year to screw things up and have another tilt at the title in 2011. Now we begin our quest to find the final four – starting with a telecommunications battle between BT and TalkTalk.
You’ve got until midnight to make your vote count and there’ll be a second quarter final tussle along a bit later on for you to join in with. You can also keep up with the results so far here.
