Procter & Gamble

Eh like this company sucks and is one of the most wasteful companies on the planet. You know how I know this??? I work there. I wash my hands 20 times a day and go threw countless paper towels… oh you to good for a Dyson hand dryer PG???
Lets get real real real here. P&G products do not work and basically poison you and your family. Shampoo is bs, deodorant turns men into women and toothpaste blocks your brain from forming thoughts. I know this cuss guess what no one at PG using their own products. Ever product is just a reformulated version of another product.
Get real get free.

I am a fan of their products, specially the fabreeze. and the swifter clothes that I use on a semi regular basis. They win fan points with me ’cause a valid coupon that my mom used for fabreeze wouldn’t scan or register into the system at the Extra Foods by my house even though she was entitled to the discount. I sent an e-​mail of minor complaint and the sent my mom a new coupon. Actually it ended up being a bottle for free for the trouble = awesome. I wasn’t expecting that at all. They do other stuff like cold medications which I am a fan of when I am sick.

P&G have been very helpful whenever I called them about a product.

Wow! I sent a contact message to Proctor & Gamble’s URL regarding the Swiffer vacuum I purchased would not retain a full charge; the Swiffer vacuum would lose its charge after using it for two to three minutes.
Anyway, from sending my contact message two weeks ago, I received an expedient response from Camille, a Proctor and Gamble Swiffer Representative. As a result of contacting regarding the Swiffer vacuum’s inability retaining a charge, Camille said she’d send a coupon replacing the defective Swiffer vacuum I purchased!
Guess what? A week later, I received a Swiffer vacuum replacement coupon! So AWESOME! Thank you, Ms. Camille for sending me a FREE Swiffer vacuum coupon so, I can get another Swiffer vacuum replacing the defective Swiffer vacuum I currently own.
FYI: Please read my letter from Proctor & Gamble. .. So sorry-​the pic is somewhat unclear, but I hope you can read what Camille, the Swiffer P & G Representative sent me.

This is my 800^th review (I know, right?) and I figured I needed to review something that was classic Cincinnati — something I hadn’t reviewed before but deserved a go. And when I saw I hadn’t done P&G yet and given them thanks for supporting Cincinnati, then I thought it was time to start.
P&G is a fortune 500 company who’s headquartered themselves right downtown and their contributions to CIncinnati cannot be missed.
Let’s start with the Skyline, since you can see the giant P&G «Dolly Parton» towers from anywhere you look. It wouldn’t be home without them.
Then, the jobs they bring in (although they’re technically on a hiring freeze right now.) This company has done more to bring YPs to Cincinnati than maybe any other in Cincinnati, and that’s what a city needs to keep growing, prospering and becoming better. Cincy’s one of those cities where you love it once you live here, but it takes something to bring you here in the first place. P&G does that.
Speaking of buildings, every once and a while they’ll add something new that’s a fun surprise, like the newish think tank they have on Vine Street in OtR which always has great decorations from one of their products in the window. Love that.
Also, they’re a great sponsor of a lot of different charities, events and more. I wish they would sponsor more local things here in Cincy to give back to the community (every once and a while they do, like with the Freestore Foodbank’s Taste of NFL, but it seems they only reach out if there’s a national presence associated with the event.) Still, I know they’re more big picture than anything else.
Then, I just love the small things, like their beautiful garden outside of their building that you can sit in when walking downtown (and it’s also where they set up a stage during things like Taste of Cincinnati) or the fact that they have their own secret Yagoot in their building that anyone can come up and buy from. Mmm, Yagoot.
Plus, they make some of my favorite products, including Bounty, Crest, Duracell, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Swiffer and Tide, so that’s a win.
Are they a giant company who do things you might not like from time to time, sure. But them being located here, in a city I love, helping to contribute to make it better.

I went to P & G’s donated zen garden like square before one of the Reds games! It was soo peaceful, absolutely lovely. A very scenic site to have in the center of Cinci.

For years I’ve been doing consumer testing and studies for P & G, through what has been recently reorganized into something called ICF Research.
At my last study, I was told they’ve now gone to compensation via a bank card sent in the mail, as opposed to the paper check they used to hand us before we left. I wasn’t crazy about the minor inconvenience, but I didn’t really mind, either.
But when the card didn’t arrive in the promised 7 – 10 days I tried to phone about it. I ended up spending close to a half hour going through various 800 number voice message systems, till I finally hit the Zero button and reached a guy who didn’t speak English. He said to check on the status of my payment that I had to give him a bunch of personal identifying information, which didn’t make me real happy, either.
Long story short, the card had not even been sent out by the bank after 10 days. Who knows when I’ll receive it. I spoke to a person at ICF about the problem. She snapped «that’s our system. Do you want to be removed from our list?» I decided I can live without the hassle. I told her yes.
Too bad. I used to think P & G was a quality company.

Proctor and Gamble makes a line of over-​the-​counter meds under the brand name Vicks. One of these over-​the-​counter gems is NYQUIL, a liquid cold medicine that relieves the symptoms of the cold so you can rest enough for your body to start the healing process.
Normall I don’t take anything over-​the-​counter, meaning no pills for headaches, no pills for stomachaches, nuthin. I go natural… echinacea, ginger, pineapple, sage, etc. But every couple of years I get a killer cold that needs something more powerful, and that’s where Nyquil comes in.
Two tabelspoons of this stuff knocks me out for hours, and opens up my sinuses so I can breathe enough to sleep, which is what my sick-​as-​heck body is craving. I’ve been down for the count for two days now and have taken three doses of this stuff over the two days. I’ve finally broken my fever and have gotten two 4-​hour naps in, which is amazing for a tweaker like me who normally would be cleaning the house or doing something else productive to take advantage of not being at work. Good job, this stuff does the trick.
Less two stars for their bad history of animal testing. They say they’ve stopped but I still have my doubts… and besides, the Gestapo stopped killing people but that doesn’t necessarily make them 5 star people.

Couple of cool things, if you enter the main lobby there is small museum to the company. Also there are about 20 PG sites around cincy.

Proctor and Gamble is one of the largest fortune 500 companies in Cincinnati. They make a lot of the home, food, pet, and family products that you know oh so well. Check the back of your products and you’ll be surprised how many brand names are made by this company.
The company is interesting and unique because of their hiring and training strategy. They hire undergrad graduates right out of college, use the skills they have, and train them for what they don’t have. They also have used very innovative marketing strategies for their products.
Now their buildings are pretty famous in the area. I’ve always called them the «Dolly Parton buildings». They are twin towers that look like, well, boobs. The building has sky walks that connect it only about halfway up.
The other neat thing about this building, and what is useful to those of us who don’t work there or won’t go to this business, is the courtyard they have outside. It looks like a roman bath garden with trellises and ivy everywhere. It’s a gorgeous place for a walk or to eat a picnic lunch downtown. Check it out sometime!