Are you boycotting any companies?
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Rockstar. They hired a buddy of mine from high-school, worked him for 18 months crunch time and then fired him when the game shipped. They apparently do this a lot. I liked their games but I just can't support a company that's going to treat people like that. San Andreas was the last game of theirs I bought.
There are a few companies I don't deal with, not to maintain any sort of moral high ground though.
McDonald's, because there's something wrong with their beef. Hits the pit of my stomach like a lead ball. This has held true on both US coasts, a couple places in the bible belt, and internationally in Europe. Every.Single.Time.
I'll still eat their chicken if someone else offers it, but I refuse to actually go there myself and pay for their food.
PayPal. I've seen three people with unresolved double-charges through them. I know two more who got their money back from a double-charge in 6 months and 4 months, respectively. I will not give them any banking information. Ever.
Facebook. I was there in the beginning, but after a few months, something didn't seem right about the way they handled information. Pretty sure they sold my email info to several spammer types... and it didn't help that I was being bombarded with messages from people I wanted absolutely nothing to do with. I only let my ignore list get so big before I start deleting accounts.
McDonald's, because there's something wrong with their beef. Hits the pit of my stomach like a lead ball. This has held true on both US coasts, a couple places in the bible belt, and internationally in Europe. Every.Single.Time.
I'll still eat their chicken if someone else offers it, but I refuse to actually go there myself and pay for their food.
PayPal. I've seen three people with unresolved double-charges through them. I know two more who got their money back from a double-charge in 6 months and 4 months, respectively. I will not give them any banking information. Ever.
Facebook. I was there in the beginning, but after a few months, something didn't seem right about the way they handled information. Pretty sure they sold my email info to several spammer types... and it didn't help that I was being bombarded with messages from people I wanted absolutely nothing to do with. I only let my ignore list get so big before I start deleting accounts.
There are a lot of companies I am incidentally boycotting. It's an industry-wide boycott.
Oh, veggie-ninja'd.lRookiel said:
Capcom because they outright disrespected their fanbase. They have been on my no-buy list since Resident Evil Code Veronica. And for the record, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was an open beta and Ultimate was the closed beta. Capcom never finished that game and never plan to do so.
Bioware, cus fuck them. I try to boycott EA too, but they have such an insanely broad reach that it's not possible without severely crippling my game intake, so its typically just another bullet point against it when deciding if I'm gonna buy a game they had contact with.
seconded(or whatevered as far as numbers go). I boycott a few people as well for being assholes and just generally abusing their power they have. Like lawyers who stalk trans*/gay/lesbian/other sexuality that isn't heterosexual and then harass them and get them kicked out of their homes because said lawyer has outed that person to their family who doesn't agree with anything other than heterosexuality and then puts that person in a dangerous situation/and without a home.itsthesheppy said:
Actively? No. Thankfully for me many of the companies I disagree with sell products I don't want any.
However, I do avoid all fruit companies. (Twisted murderous fucking industry)
However, I do avoid all fruit companies. (Twisted murderous fucking industry)
Apple and Facebook, I absolutely refuse to touch their products any more.
I also have a partial ban on some specific Microsoft lines, Office, Bing, Origin, Windows Live, etc.
I'm really pissed off at EA as well, but can't really bring myself to give up on the titles they've hoarded.
I also have a partial ban on some specific Microsoft lines, Office, Bing, Origin, Windows Live, etc.
I'm really pissed off at EA as well, but can't really bring myself to give up on the titles they've hoarded.
Wal-Mart.
I haven't bought anything from them in 11 years, and don't plan to. I don't approve of their business practices, their hiring practices, how they treat their employees, or how their CEOs act.
For the rest, my personal buying habits just automatically exclude some stores. I try to buy American Made when I can, I try to find local produce and food products, and I'm much more comfortable with Windows OS.
For games, I mostly enjoy RPGs and RTS games, with the only FPS game I play consistently being TF2 - so I don't really support EA/Activision/Nintendo/Sony etc. just by default.
I haven't bought anything from them in 11 years, and don't plan to. I don't approve of their business practices, their hiring practices, how they treat their employees, or how their CEOs act.
For the rest, my personal buying habits just automatically exclude some stores. I try to buy American Made when I can, I try to find local produce and food products, and I'm much more comfortable with Windows OS.
For games, I mostly enjoy RPGs and RTS games, with the only FPS game I play consistently being TF2 - so I don't really support EA/Activision/Nintendo/Sony etc. just by default.
Partly because of the way they treat their employees, and partly because of thi- what, what the fuck.Delsana said:
Whoops, I was wrong, I thought that Meijer was the store that fired an employee for testing positive for marijuana...because they had a medical marijuana card. Turns out it was Walmart that did this:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/michgan-man-fired-walmart-medical-marijuana/story?id=10122193#.UAjC7qOpK8A
I take back what I said about Meijer.
Edit: Oh, about the airports, that's the point. I refuse to give money to airports in the US because of the TSA.