Best and Worst Places To Work In 2009

HP needs to be on "worst 50" list...they would sell their employees into slavery if it were not illegal. Working for HP is akin to being a peasant worker during feudalistic times.

HP undoubtedly is the worst companies I can think of. The management plays all sorts of games with the Employees, they lie, cheat, hide the truth and do everything they can to make employees work like dogs and at the end, say thank you bye bye with the shortest possible notice. If you get an offer with HP, think thrice and don't join. Its best to be unemployed for couple more months than get screwed up joining HP.

Add Sovereign Bank (now Santander); they’re managers are enablers of abusive supervisors, the HR dept doesn’t care, and they’re loss prevention department tries to intimidate employees to force confessions, instead of giving due process to investigations. Moreover, in NJ the Newark-Elizabeth area is full of racism against non Portuguese, or Portuguese decedent employees.

I'd like to add Apple Federal Credit Union, head quartered in Fairfax, VA 22030 to the WORST PLACES TO WORK 2009

upper management is are deceptive and underhanded, particularly the SVP of Human Resources Beth Yingling. She is manipulative, egotistical, and will sweet talk and doubletalk her way into getting what she wants and if she doesn't like you you will go no where

Nordstrom...they fired a woman with breast cancer because they didn't want to pay her medical bills, they didn't pay employees for work done and had them do it off the clock, they have racially discriminated against employees and were forced to pay settlements when found guilty, they were sued and made a settlement for using sweatshops in Saipan...I could go on and on about how horrible this company is. Do not shop at Nordstrom or Nordstrom Rack.

Days are gone, when Intuit use to be a best place to work. That was the era of Steve Bennett (Ex CEO), who took the company to heights. Now Intuit has a worst Sr. leadership team. Their goal is not company development, believe or not they may leave behind some trash and dead bodies before they leave the company.

There are 2 Worst people in the Leadership, who are crazy. When our great president Obama is trying to save citizens as best as he can, this crazy company is Opened an office in INDIA and given a chance they want to take everything to INDIA on the name of Globalization.

God should SAVE Intuit. As a company Intuit is great but as long as these crazy people are continued on leadership it will go no where.

By far one of the worst companies to work for is JPMorgan Chase Bank. Not only do they treat their employees with utter disdain but they continually deprive them of promised earnings. Their treatment of customers is likewise abysmal as almost all employees are required to push products and services that will earn top dollar for the JP Morgan Chase group while charging back-breaking interest rates and fees to clients. This is as close to legalized extortion as can be attained. And to top it off our government not only endorses these actions but actually encourages them. Only top management at JPMorgan Chase is assured of multi-million dollar earnings. Everyone else is just a cog in a machine that can be ground up and discarded at will.

Add Metcam Inc Alpharetta Ga to your list. The top managers enable discrimination, poor management, low morale. The plant manager lies to protect people he likes. They hire mostly Bosnian workers that are family members. They pay low wages to everyone that is not white. If you are not a family member then you dont get promoted. The vp is a pervert, the plant manager has all of his kids working there, the president doesnt have a clue how to instruct or manager people. They try to intimidate workers, Ohsa said to have been paid off. Rats in the building, they layoff mexicans and coloreds.. then hire a colored hr lady that tries to teach them the right way but gets ignored.She is probably one of 3 managers that tries to do rite. one bosnian supervisor has all of her kinfolk working there, rumors say she is sleeping with the plant manager or something, while her husband works their too. I know that we had a law suit by this colored guy and it happened becuase the manager didnt do his job. This is one of the worst places every to work. Ignorant, hateful managers..I may not be smart and educated but I do know that we are tiredof this stupid job and plan to petition to the EEoc.

People like you on these sights should know their is a weapon out there for you to use. Its called your right to form a union. And from my experience with unions the one to choose is Teamsters. We as people on a work force need to take advantage of our right to have a voice in the work place. By forming a union it is mandatory that these management teams sit down and work out a contract workers can live with. To many people dont stand up and fight. The weekend (that has now all but dissapeared) came from unions. The 8 hour workday with anything after being overtime came from unions. People died for these things back in the day because company's would literally work them to death. Same as whats happening know. So many people think when they do get a union job with great pay and benifits, that it,s the good ole company just giving it to them.NO its because people fouht their asses of to get it. When they organized they didn't let the company intimidate them. Even if they were afraid of being fired illegally they decided to stand and fight. Let's say you work on a production line-should a ceo make over 900% more than you do? Let me help. Does he have a production line running to make the company money without people working the production line.NO. Quit beleiving what I call the big lie. We are not indespensible. And as long as were afraid to lose our menial job as they put it-by not taking advantage of our right to freedom of association(formimg our union)and we just keep quitting or getting fired without trying to fight-then expect to be a menial person in what will become a menial world. It doesn't matter what union. A union is always the people in the work place. Just like you want to hold your company accountable you need to hold the union that represents you accountable. My pesonable preference is Teamster. You can choose a union, look in the phone book and give them a call and let them know you want to organize. A good one will build a campaign with you and your co-workers without the company even knowing so that when you file for the election the company wont know what hit them. Just remember stay strong and dedicated.

it should be AT&T DSL as worst too...I think the company as a whole sucks

Stephen Gould should be on the worst places to work list.

HP is a caricature of Dilbert.

...I would recommend you take a more global view to creating these lists as you would see there are some real nightmare companies to work for outside the USA