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
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 ordered a pizza online to be delivered to my apartment. After an hour of waiting, I called the pizza place to ask what the problem was. Apparently, the people at the apartment below me took my already paid for pizza and ate it. FML
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
Today, I was bitched out by a pizza delivery man. I didn't have the cash to pay him for a pizza I didn't even order. 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 got a letter from a hostel I stayed at saying they were going to sue me for leaving them a negative Google review. I was the victim of a $7000 theft crime there. They refused to call the police and ambulance when it happened, and they didn’t even give me my money I paid to stay there back. FML
Today, I ordered a pizza for delivery, and when it arrived, the box was completely empty except for a receipt and a piece of lettuce. I called the restaurant, and they insisted I must’ve eaten it all, and was just pretending. I took a picture of the empty box and the soggy piece of lettuce to prove them wrong. It didn't work. FML
Today, my parents told me not to make plans for dinner as they were bringing it home. Normally, that would be great but they brought home slop from some buffet that had just opened. Everything was greasy, too salty, or bland. I told them they could have it, and made my own dinner. Now I'm being called, "The Food Network critic." FML
Today, a man attempted to sue my business for giving him food poisoning. I make soap. When I called the cops on him for disturbing the peace, I was told, "Maybe next time you'll put 'not edible' on your label." FML
Today, I called Pizza Hut to order a pizza. A voice recording was reading me their specials. The man had a horrible country accent so I began to make fun of it. Then I realized it was an actual person on the line. FML
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Top comments
Solano2580 24
Either write another review saying how annoyingly persistent they are to get it removed, or report them to someone. **** it, do both.
RichardPencil 32
Give it to me! I'll take my chances. Worst case scenario: I lose a few pounds.
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Comments (70)
sarcasmismyno1 22
If they are calling that frequently, it may be because you have significantly impacted their business. There could be a lot of jobs on the line. You may want to consider working with them. It's hard to be a small business owner and people make mistakes. Unregulated reviews can have very long lasting impacts.
JocieM 9
OP should leave their review. Reviews should not be regulated, they should be honest.
cocainewhore 30
What the business is doing to OP is called harrassment. Reviews are supposed to be honest, not just positive experiences. The OP has no obligation to remove the review, if anything they should update it adding in that the restaurant has been continually harassing them! Rather than working with them, the op should tell them to contact them only through a lawyer, or should threaten them with police action. In no way should they accept that behaviour, it's possible to die from food poisoning, the fact the restaurant is trying to bribe customers they poisoned is absolutely awful.
LyricaSilvan 30
21, the argument that it's hard to run a business is not going to help them when it comes down to the facts. Which are, in short, that they shouldn't be serving food that is ill-prepared and making people sick. They also shouldn't harass people over reviews. If they aren't following certain food service standards and their products are making people ill, they should have to answer for that. If they get shut down and people lose jobs, it's the business owner's own fault for not enforcing proper hygiene and food safety.
infinitemonkey 21
Are you sure they were the source of the food poisoning? Food poisoning typically takes 8 - 24 hours to come on, so people often blame the last place they ate, even though it was likely a meal or two (or 3) before that caused it. Still, all the stuff other people are saying about the harassment is true.
greeniegenius 20
This is a more accurate time frame for food poisoning 3-10 days pfffft
yoporch 3
Idiot
Mutchock 1
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Heres the thing, 1st its probably a small place being they are personally calling begging for a second chance...pizza hut wouldn't care! Second you probably didn't get food poisoning you probably just got a 24hr virus because everyone CLAIMS food poisoning when its anything but that. A bad review on a mom and pop joint can destroy their livelihood. Way to go!
finalyearsofhate 22
Hate to break it to you, but most of those "24 hour viruses" you speak of are in fact foodborne illnesses.
cocainewhore 30
You know what else destroys their livelihood? Poisoning their customers!
DamnGina 3
You are absolutely correct. I just posted the fact that it takes 3 to 10 or more days for actual food poisoning to show symptoms. People are so quick to claim food poisoning and they have no idea what they're talking about.
cocainewhore 30
@43 that's not right. It can be several hours, not several days.
InfiniteSecret 20
Do you work in this pizza place? It sounds like you are trying to convince people to eat at a place that can give you food poisoning and than harasses you until you take down the truth
Tommy3555 0
Tell them that you will take down the review if they use non spoiled ingredients in the free pizza and the cook it properly.
renegadekid2002 14
Tell them that what their doing is harassment and if they don't stop calling block their number. If they keep calling get a lawyer involved.
KaylaTackett 18
Block their number?
colo16_fml 10
You should tell them to get you a gift card to a pizza place you actually do like.
JPGRIMM 2
At least there are still establishments who give a shit about making things right. It's more than a lot of places do. Just do the review, dude..
possomman 10
It's just a business trying to survive, give them a second chance. Don't pretend to be a food critic- you aren't. Don't be a self entitled prick with nothing else better to do than critique restaurants.
gracehi 33
If I was vomiting or ******** or both, I'd have nothing better to do than alert the public to the establishment that caused my illness as well. That would be true for anybody.
DamnGina 3
Please look up how many days it takes to show symptoms of actual food poisoning. Your system was probably already teetering on the edge from previous meals you had eaten. If the pizza wasn't quite right enough to give you vomiting and diarrhea that night, you should have smelled and or tasted something completely off as you were eating the pizza.