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question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months (self.unitedkingdom)

submitted 11 months ago by snacks to c/unitedkingdom

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we dont need to have a legislative response but that would also be pretty funny. I was struck by how evil that mcdonalds worker hosing down the homeless guy was but couldnt put my finger on the correct punishment. Obviously the worst offences deserve lifetime ‘never again will I’ but as time passes… I once swore to never eat burger king after they sacked me over something really stupid, but these days I happily spend money there and enthusiastically went for the plant based whopper for a few months before it got really boring. Likewise facebook, I will never. But it does seem to be popular despite how shit it is.

so in degrees of severity for any business:

a PR blunder like a stupid tweet or dumb error: a week. food poisoning: 6 months serious PR error: 1 year hosing down/assaulting the public: 3 years amazon plotting to destroy everyone: until next christmas when you need to sort shit out

whats the strongest boycott length but not a fundamental falling out/never again?

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[–] Teknikal@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I personally only Boycott companies I feel have wronged me currently that's Sony and Virgin Media.

Neither will ever get a penny from me again. Sony deleted my account with bought Vita/psp games they sent an email saying some UK law made them have to unless I logged in on time the account was already gone when they sent it. (also bullshit no other company has deleted any of my accounts especially with items I'd payed for).

Virgin made me go to an ombudsman because they refused to cancel my contract after raising prices and telling me I could leave if I didn't accept it.

They kept me on hold, transferred me around for hours at a time to Indian call centres I couldn't even understand then eventually would either hang up or outright lie about cancelling. This went on for 2 months.

So yeah those two are boycotted for life and they are lucky I'm not in a position currently to sue them.