40 Times Customers Tried To Sabotage Businesses With Their Bad Reviews But Were Surprised When It Backfired
Just when you feel like you’ve got a handle on the depths to which some people sink on the internet, you come across something so bad, you start tumbling into the internet rabbit hole. Destination: absolute entitlement. Population: way too many.
There we were, just randomly internet window shopping when we came across some truly outrageous reviews. They were dripping with dissatisfaction and such a warped perspective about what the world and companies ‘owe’ them that we couldn’t help but share them with you. Bored Panda has collected the very worst cases of entitled online reviews that might just give you a headache.
Meanwhile, if you’re done facepalming at the posts in this list and you feel like you’ve got just a smidge of faith in humanity that you’d love to lose, then you should definitely check out Bored Panda’s previous two articles about absolutely absurd reviews right here and over here. Need a reminder that some people are incredibly kind and not at all arrogant? We’ve got you covered, too.
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My New Veterinarian Is An Absolute Savage
A Review For A Local Gun Range
Reviewing A Place That Isn't Even Open Yet
Of course, everyone’s entitled to have their opinion. However, opinions are just that—opinions.
Subjective and often driven by emotions, they give a glimpse into how a certain person might view the world. It’s fascinating to dive in and see life through their eyes, from their perspective… well, usually.
Lying On Yelp Reviews
Not Open During A Category 5 Hurricane? 1 Star For You
Saw While Shopping On Amazon
The sad fact is that there are some people out there who will always have a problem with you. No matter how good your service. No matter how good your product.
Your best won’t ever be ‘good enough’ for them. And minor quibbles and molehills quickly turn into insurmountable mountains and challenges once they start typing up their reviews.
This Restaurant Has Negative Reviews Displayed Up On The Walls
Customer Is Upset That A Mattress Store Won’t… Help Them Move?
I Have To Pay For Food? One Star
Smugly (probably), they blame you for imagined or overblown mistakes, as they plop down a 1-star review.
The more self-aware might actually give a fairer rating and may even add a star or two. But the words they write are just swimming in entitlement.
They Actually Had Reservations, Too
Lend Me A Dollar Because I Come Here Every Single Day And Ask You To Lend Me A Dollar
Everyone Who Works In Customer Service Should Legally Be Allowed To Fight One Customer A Year
There is a massive gap between their expectations and how reality actually works. This means that somebody ends up getting disappointed… and someone ends up getting review-bombed online for providing a perfectly adequate service.
When You Mess Up An Airbnb And Write A Bad Review
She actually had the balls to write a review, after the police were involved during her stay? Absurd.
I Love Small Business Owners
Does Any Restaurant Hold Pickup Orders For Next Day?
Now that’s not to say that it’s the customers who are always wrong or anything like that. Businesses make errors as well and it’s important to call them out for it.
Everyone ends up winning if companies react adequately to constructive criticism and genuine suggestions for improvement.
On the flip side, if businesses are unwilling to take into account their customers’ needs and wants, they won’t hang on to them for long.
This Choosing Entitled Parent Wants Zoo Staff To "Relieve" An Actual Elephant, So Her Child Doesn't Ask Questions
Response To A 1 Star Review By A Choosing Beggar
A Review On A Vegan Bakery
Meanwhile, it’s also important for customers to go into detail about their problems and dissatisfaction in a diplomatic way.
Usually, it’s a live person on the other end of the line, handling all of these help requests and responding to reviews. The last thing they need is to face verbal abuse or to be blamed for [cough] ‘refusing’ to help someone move their bed two years after selling them one.
Choosing Beggar Angry About Being Kicked Out Of Cafe With Free WiFi For Bringing In Food From A Different Restaurant
A Restaurant Review I Stumbled On. The Customer Is So Many Kinds Of Wrong
This Restaurant Wears 1 Star Yelp Reviews Behind Their T-Shirts
Very recently, Bored Panda reached out for a chat about entitlement with Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., a professor at Northern Illinois University.
She told us that “when friends begin to resent you for the level of 'special treatment you feel you deserve, it's time to back down and remember that everyone deserves to be thought of as special and treated with equal respect."
Review For My Local Vet. Typical Entitled Pit Owner Attitude. How Dare They Accuse Her "Gentle Giant"
A Review On An Apartment That Caught My Eye
Left Nasty Review Because I Wouldn’t Work For 4 Bucks An Hour
"When someone's sense of entitlement begins to encroach on the rights or good nature of others, then it's become a problem that the overly entitled person will need to address if they want to continue to enjoy the company of others," the professor said, adding that if we’re constantly made to feel special, we come to expect similar treatment throughout our lives.
One Star After Occupying A Small Cafe For 20 Minutes And Buying One Coffee Between 5 People. Owner Replies To Accusations
As a Scottish person I'd have yeeted their asses out pronto - it's one thing going into a big chain pub or restaurant to use facilities, although still somewhat frowned upon, but to take up a third of a restaurant while buying one drink? No, nope, not happening. We're a welcoming and friendly bunch of people (mostly) but we have a limited tolerance for arsehole behaviour, which this group most certainly are guilty of. It astounds me that these people didn't come to their senses and realise they were being unreasonable
This Is How Decent White People Who Tell The Truth About Slavery On Plantations Are Reviewed By White People
What the f**k were you expecting from a plantation tour then? What's next an architectural tour of Auschwitz, then complain when they talk about the treatment of Jews?
Hmmmm on Italian and a German..... Complaining about having a lesson in the horrores of slavory..... S**t i hope to God She never visits Poland....
You go visit the slave quarters, you're going to hear about the slave life.
It's a very important topic to learn about, but also a very painful and depressing topic, so it's totally legit to not want to learn about this during your vacation in which you just want to relax and feel happy. But why on earth would you then go on a tour on a plantation, how could you not think they were gonna tell you about that?
Apparently only the tour guides who are "radical about slave treatment." Did she think another tour guide would speak of a different history?
Load More Replies..."I'm not racist" if you fail to acknowledge acts of racism, yes you are.
Whenever somebody says or writes "I'm not xxx, but..." you know fully well he/she is xxx.
Load More Replies...She wants to hear the history of a southern plantation but only the parts she likes.
I have news for this person that’s going to burst their little bubble. Gone With the Wind is fiction. Real life on antebellum plantations was sheer hell for the majority of the people living in them. That majority consisted of slaves, who weren’t even counted as whole people, much less treated as such. Theirs was a brutal existence, with the spectre of inhumane punishment for even the slightest mistake hanging over them. Hell, considering this was the middle of the 19th century, to a way lesser extent it wasn’t all moonlight and magnolias on Easy Street, even for the white families that owned them. The husbands generally had some kind of work they did, and the wives worked at managing the household, which consisted of many people who all their own specific duties. So, the tour guides are telling you the truth, warts and all, instead of perpetuating the kind of myth that would only please members of the Daughters of the Confederacy, whose families want to gloss over their own part in the brutality. Wake up and smell the cornbread, lady.
If I read it correctly, she says that her ancestors were from Sicily and never owned slaves. Not saying anything about Sicilians in general. (BTW assuming she is a woman and not a man).
Load More Replies...The history of every Southern plantation is the history of white people being cruel to their slaves. That IS the history. I know, how about they toss some chains on you and have you pick insects off the tobacco or cotton for 12 hours instead? I mean, you want to feel the history, right?
It's a Southern plantation. What else do you think was going on there that would be noteworthy?
Seriously. Who would choose this as a fun vacation spot? Historical and interesting, yes. Lighthearted and feel-good? Not so much.
Load More Replies...Since I read 'The 1619 Project' I have stopped using the word plantation and call them slave camps or slave farms. (& btw- their ancestors most definitely owned slaves, if not African ones. But every person, including myself, in the US still enjoys the immorally gained advantages of that forced labor. Not anything I can do will change that but refusing to teach or learn about it does nothing to prevent it from happening again).
What did they think the history of slave plantations was? Prancing in daisies and dandelions?
I am sure this was the Whitney Plantation. I visited before my last cruise. I am not sure how you can plan to visit there are not know what it's about. That's like visiting the Holocaust museum in DC and complaining it made you feel guilty about the Jewish genocide in Europe.
I thought it was too but then they said they would go back to LA to look at real plantations.
Load More Replies...Loool you won't find a southern plantation that doesn't talk about slavery, that's how they were all run
Unbelievable. It's just like when you visit Dachau, all they wanna talk about is racism! /s
Only show us the pretty things so we don't have to face the the pure cruelty and ugliness that made these pretty plantations possible.
It would never cross my mind to describe touring a real plantation as enjoyable but...mmkay.
What is the "radical" view about slave treatment???? Also, wtf kind of person plans a southern parade of plantations as their vacation?
If talking about racism and slavery makes you personally uncomfortable, you're the racist.
Maybe I am reading this wrong. It make me uncomfortable because I dont like that it happened ( and is still happenning with racism). Is it the " uncomfortable". Should I say upset ?
Load More Replies..."My husband and I wanted a staged show of Gone With The Wind, not cold hard facts."
Yeah that's a little messed up... Although I do sometimes feel uncomfortable with the historical slavery, it's better to try and turn that into passion and love rather then guilt and hatred
I adore visiting historic sites. I used to think it was weird when we moved from the north to the south, and the tours stopped having any mention of slavery. I guess now I know why!
This isn’t going to be a popular comment but perhaps the OP has a point that has been very badly made. If you visit a plantation you do want to hear about its history, which INCLUDES considerable commentary about slavery but does not consist solely of it. I would also like to learn, for example, the crops grown and why; about living areas for residents, servants and slaves (noting the considerable differences); whether it is known what some of the slaves did after freedom granted; and so on.
....a new note for white privilege: going to southern plantations and expecting them to just skip over the whole slavery thing which is how they were operated...
Whenever you have to point out "I am not racist and never owned slaves", you are a racist.
It's one thing to teach the history about slavery it's another thing to be lectured and bashed which is what this person described about their experience.
I'd like the historical tour, but please remove any parts of history that make me uncomfortable.
Truth (and history) can be difficult to hear..... I wonder if your German husband would be the same with Nazi Germany between 1932-1945?
Must be one of those Trumpers who scream about schools teaching something called "Critical Race Theory", whatever that is.
Not sure what the person expected seeing that they took it upon themselves to take a plantation tour. That said, there is something to be said about stereotyping ppl together because of the color of their skin. I am a first gen American born of two Sicilian parents that came to America in the late 50's / early 60's. Just because one's skin color is white or their ancestors came from a certain part of the world does not mean they or their ancestors owned slaves or treated ppl poorly irrespective of ANY skin color. They were poor ppl that came to this country looking for a better life for their family..... just like the vast majority of ppl here. I believe we are ALL children of God or whomever is your "Higher Power". ALL lives matter. ALL are equal. It is a disgrace that humans would enslave another person. But the shame rests with those that did not those that did not. God will judge each according to their actions. Not each according to the color of their skin in a stereotypeical way.
I would just like to add that this plantation does focus on the history of Slavery and doesn’t romanticize the idea of the good ole genteel South. And also this person is all too common thinking they live in a bubble here in which the long-standing idea that slavery is over and so has no effect currently on people is too common but it’s also not the attitude of everyone. Let me run into this person and let them bring this up to me.
Load More Replies...A Review On A Friend's Bar
Seeing as you were either too ignorant or just didn't care about your own skin in general, it's only fitting that the Irish Curse of Fiery Red Painful Skin be upon thee XD
Which of these reviews did you think were the most ridiculous out of the bunch, Pandas? Have you ever come across an online review just as bad (or even worse!)? What do you think it would take for these overly entitled people to finally realize they need to be more humble?
Share your thoughts and feelings in the comments—we can't wait to read what you have to say.
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Certain journalists especially. Doom Eternal kept getting dinged because the platforming was too hard for folks. And, you know, I get it. I actually suck at platforming. Doesn't make it a less amazing game just because I dunno how to jump.
Context Matters
Choosing Beggar Leaves One Star Review After Getting Free Replacement Pizza But No Salad
I worked at a bakery/cafe and a woman left a 1-star review because she tried use the drive-thru to pick up her the custom cake that she ordered. What she failed to SAY in the review was that we had her pull forward 20 feet and BROUGHT THE CAKE OUT TO HER CAR so she wouldn't have to wake up her kid! The thing that really pissed me off about it was that the owner of the place didn't say anything about THAT in her response to the review, just kissed the woman's butt in order to make sure that we "didn't lose a customer". She wouldn't have needed to be rude to the lady! Just let the readers know the other half of the story!!
I Don't Get To Experience These Much
They Give Me A Discount But I Wanted More, One Star Rating
Military discounts hardly make sense anyway (Brit). Why would you idolise soldiers?
“Extremely Rood And Overpriced”
A Grocery Store Downtown In My City Has A Number Of 1-Star Google Reviews Because They Don’t Allow People To Park In The Very Tiny Parking Lot To Go Eat And Shop Elsewhere
This Guy Is Savage
A Review Of The Tattoo Place I Go To
Giving Your Church A One Star Review For Giving You A Free Turkey
These types of people make me so disgusted by people. Thank goodness they are a minority (Or so I choose to believe, tho some days it’s hard)
Received Free Glasses, And Left The Only Negative Review Of This Company. Owner Calls Out Her Bs
Mario Kart On iOS/Android Has Come Out Today For Free And This Is One Of The Reviews
From A Local Chocolate Shop's Google Reviews
I seriously hope they tore your application up in front of your face smh...
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