https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-posted-a-bad-yelp-review-then-her-nightmare-began?yptr=yahoo
She Posted a Bad Yelp Review. Then Her Nightmare Began.
As a precursor to small business Saturday: We examine Yelp. Yelp is a rating service based on businesses and services..
Now why is this important? It helps those Mom and Pop stores, who get no traffic on other days, since the other big-box stores take up most of the sales.
But Im not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about the other side of the coin...
This woman wanted to vent about a bad bachelorette party for a venue. This turned out to be her mistake.
People became trolls, created fake accounts, and harassed this woman..
"“Aren’t you the girl that was giving hand jobs the other night?” one user, who appeared to be linked to friends of the bar’s owner, posted. "
“They found where I worked. They were able to find my wedding website. They were able to find all the details to my wedding. Where it is, what time,” Araujo said.
another story..
Jenelle Marie Pierce was in the waiting room of Wayne Women's Clinic in Goldsboro, North Carolina, when a pair of police officers appeared.
“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Huh, wonder why they’re here,’” Pierce said of her Nov. 6 doctor’s visit. “Then I think, ‘Wait a minute. I’m the only one who’s caused any fuss whatsoever, but I’m sitting here quietly for my appointment.’”
so the woman exhausts all options and does this:
Finally, Pierce was told she could come in that afternoon for a well-woman exam. “I hang up the phone and I felt defeated,” Pierce said.
She decided to write a brief Facebook review around 11:42 a.m. that morning, because she felt “like it was crappy customer service” and “ the women didn’t get it or care at all.”
The story continues:
But when Pierce appeared for her 1:45 p.m. appointment, she says two cops walked in and told a receptionist that the clinic’s office manager had called for them. The manager opened a glass door to the exam rooms and let the officers inside, according to Pierce.
Pierce’s name was called minutes later. As she walked to the nurses station, she spotted the police officers nearby, at the end of a hallway. According to Pierce, a nurse checked her blood pressure, then loudly declared, “Your blood pressure is very high right now,” before reading Pierce’s medications aloud. One medication was for anxiety, which she was no longer taking. The nurse then asked if Pierce had suicidal thoughts or feelings of depression in the past week. “I think she was trying to flag [for the officers] that I was some concern or risk because of those items,” Pierce said.
Now why would they do such a thing.. If your services suck..
“You called the cops on me?” Pierce replied.
“We saw your Facebook review and our office staff thought you’d be hostile,” the doctor said, according to Pierce.
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So we need to live in fear and reprisals if we speak ill against businesses? I guess there is no such thing as buyer beware. Because if you speak against a business. You will get a mob against you...
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