Today, after 3 months of successful business at my restaurant, sales are down the shitter. Why? Because some no-life troll started posting loads of bad reviews online. He uses different names, but nothing in the reviews has ever happened. We can't get the reviews taken down. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I tried to write a bad review for the fast-food place at which I work part-time. My username made me anonymous, but I forgot to change my profile picture. Now my manager and coworkers won't even speak to me. FML
Today, I wrote a bad review for a pizza place after their pizza gave me food poisoning. Now, they won't stop calling me, begging me to take my review down in exchange for free pizza. I have tried to tell them that I wouldn't eat their pizza again even if I got paid to do so, but they won't listen. FML
Today, I found out that I'm being sued for posting on Facebook about a customer service experience with a local company. Even though we have witnesses, the owners of the store claim that we're lying about the whole thing and that we're "malicious". FML
Today, it's been the tenth restaurant meal in a row that my husband has to ruin with Instagram, in the belief that anyone cares. FML
Today, I found out that my restaurant's food is so bad that the only reason some people visit is because they're punishing their kids. FML
Today, my promotion at work was revoked and I was written up, all because some customer decided to write a negative review about me on Google. Apparently, I was “rude” to her and “rolled my eyes at her” and called her stupid. I never met this woman a day in my life, and they won’t believe me. FML
Today, I accidentally posted an extensive, negative review of the gynecologist I visited earlier this week. I messed up and posted it from my work's customer service email, so now it looks like the large, well-known company I work for had a poor gynecological experience. FML
Today, I posted a review, on a strictly anonymous site, about a doctor I went to see for my anxiety but who actually made me worse. A while later, the same doctor called my home phone, addressed me by my full name and threatened to sue me for slander if I didn't take down the review. All of which was 100% true. FML
Today, I'm no longer allowed to work the drive-thru at my job, because over the weekend, 3 dumbasses I go to school with came in and complained to my manager, saying I sounded a creepy pervert and that it scared them enough to take their business elsewhere. FML
Today, a customer at work said his table was dirty. I asked which one he was sitting at so I could clean it for him. For some bizarre reason he got pissed and called my manager over. He ended up reporting us to corporate, and my manager got written up. He's blaming me for everything. FML
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Top comments
Tarlachia 33
Counter troll with positive reviews. Get your friends to do it too as well as satisfied customers.
idefka 34
I agree with 1. I had a little trouble with the same thing a couple months ago.
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Comments (98)
mds9986 24
Are you sure it's a troll, or did you ignore Yelp after their extortion attempts?
benedictjongoh 10
Can you sue him/her , if so just do it
Lalala579121 28
Wouldn't be FML without at least one.
leogachi 15
@31 Name one reason a lawsuit is an unreasonable course of action in this instance.
countryb_cth 38
Defamation of character is a reasonable reason to sue
Rox22_fml 13
Maybe have a competition, only held in store where one random positive review will win free dessert or something?
ThatLastKid 21
Is there another restaurant owner near you that is jealous?
writerchic85 26
I think there is a way to combat this. I've heard commercials on the radio for helping reputations for businesses online. Can't remember what it's called. Look it up.
idk_rose 25
Do the same thing, but with good reviews.
stickthatwhere 16
You can actually get them taken down, you have to contact the website moderaters, explain the situation and request an investigation if they find that the posts are all from the same in they'll remove them
simsgirlgem 25
is your name bob belcher
Emirac 10
#24 just let Louise help her dad.
boredgirl_02 14
My husband used to work for a company that would do that competitors... And then write a bunch of good ones for their own. It sucks but you kinda got to use the system like everyone else.
Emirac 10
I work for a company where they have online surveys that are extremely harsh on the cashiers so a lot of them end up stashing receipts and filling out their own surveys to keep their numbers up. It's ridiculous how much technology can actually hurt people and businesses these days.
AwkwardKarma 18
Track down the culprit. Find him. Kill him.