people that YELP are scumbags

I love yelpers.

It is a website that requires editing - of little voices in the reviewers' heads saying "me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me! me!"

lol tourists in Montreal trying to describe Montreal food:

http://i.imgur.com/1Rdqv6O.png

is that corned beef hash?

it looks vomitous.

So much hams.

ffs

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/09/harvard_professor_overcharged_for_takeout_read_his_absolutely_ridiculous.html

wow, that is next-level assholery, good job harvard guy

<3 that story for leading me to this classic wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_v._Chung

omg

On June 12, 2007, the trial began. Pearson broke down in tears during an explanation about his frustration after losing his pants, and a short recess had to be declared.[10]

Went in today for taco Tuesday. They have since raised the price and now it's 79 cents for hard shell tacos. I ordered 5 tacos and a medium drink and total came to $7.15 which I thought was strange. The cashier never said thank you and was pretty rude to me. The medium soda was HUGE! I thought they gave me the wrong cup but they showed me the large and it was like half a gallon cup! I then proceeded to eat the taco's and in every single one not much beef and a ton of lettuce with also very little cheese. I plan on writing corporate about this. I basically paid for stale tasting taco shells filled with lettuce. Now after finishing my taco's I thought $7.15 cant be right for what I got. 5 taco's at $.79 is $3.95 as you can see on the receipt picture I uploaded that they charged me $4.45. I told the girl working there and she said that was the right price. I thought my calculator might have been wrong so I left. I then calculated it again and they charged me $0.89 a taco instead of $0.79. Can you imagine if they did this to every customer and no one really notices because they think its just tax. Never coming back here! I will go to taco bell for sub par fake Mexican food. At least taco bell gives you more for your money and are friendlier.

http://www.boston.com/food-dining/restaurants/2014/12/10/there-more-edelman-did-this-before-and-worse/00mTW39jcyXb3VNHZoXEYN/story.html

i call upon you to refund my 50¢ if this taco tuesday is to be worthy of its name

#TacoTRUTHsday

people that meta-YELP are also scumbags

http://www.fastcompany.com/3039952/most-creative-people/the-poetry-of-yelp-how-the-reviews-site-became-a-massive-platform-for-c

There are, truly, only two types of people in the world: those who write Yelp reviews and those who don’t

With a twinge of guilt, I must confess that I fall into the latter category: I regularly consult Yelp for advice about places to check out in my neighborhood, but I’ve never written a review myself. And yet, as I’ve scanned other people’s posts over the years, I’ve often wondered what compels them to spend hours carefully crafting reviews. Are they more altruistic than I am? Are they more concerned with good service and high-quality food? Do they have more time on their hands?

It was with those questions in mind that I set out to examine the inner workings of the Yelp community...

uughhhhhhh

those inner workings in full:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/terminallunch/hulkout.jpg

Clearly Edelman wants his own reality show.

I have only two complaints about this place. First, we came as it was almost closing time. Our food was brought to us immediately after we ordered and it was clear that they had already been cooked and plated before we ordered them. Despite that, the flavors of the dishes were still great. Second, our waitress was not very amiable.

soooo they came in at closing time and are complaining that the food wasn't made completely to order and that the waitstaff wanted to go home. all righty.

But around 2008, Wong felt like his life was missing something. "I wanted to be a bit more creative in life," he says. "It occurred to me that even my emails—which were probably the most original things I was producing—were dry and boring."

Wong tells me that the reason he took the plunge and started writing Yelp reviews six years ago was to improve his command of written English.

frank zappa, singing 'ring of fire':

'IT'S ONE WAY OF LEARNING ENGLISH'

i would like it if all people struggling with english took to writing yelp reviews

I've been holding my tongue on this for a while, but I knew Edelman growing up, and he is mega mega aspie. I don't think he's really a jerk so much as clueless about why this was an obnoxious way to handle a technically correct but minor gripe.

Like I am pretty sure he actually is on the spectrum.

☑ diagnosed

okay, so where's the "redact habitual snark" button?

nah keep that one

even if he is on the spectrum, he probably knows that he has to live in the world with other people, so if he's not treating his asperger's in a way that will help him do that, he is entirely culpable for his jerkiness.

Reading that totally takes the entertainment factor out of things. Or maybe not....

not that i'm some kind of autism expert but that's the first thing i thought when i read his emails, which made me feel a little bit bad for how much it was blowing up

I just thought he was a cokehead.

this guy's probably a yelper so i'll post my anecdote here.

last night (christmas eve) i was having dinner in a busy jewish deli. i noticed that the guy at the table across from mine had a really complicated order, and kept saying things like "i'll have the fries, crispy but not burned" and "i'll have the bean barley soup, but put it in the microwave for thirty seconds" and several other stipulations. these aren't even unreasonable requests, but taken in aggregate along with the fact that the place was slammed and the waitress had a dozen other tables to cover, it seemed ridic to me. and at the end he asked the waitress her name, which is never a good sign -- it usually means, "I plan to tell the manager if you fuck this up."

my old dentist retired last year & a young new dentist renamed the practice & took over the clientele.

old dentist had a yelp page with maybe four reviews, but all glowing five star reviews because he was the best.

new dude has taken over the yelp page & kept the reviews! i already dislike new dentist & this just makes me like him even less

these aren't even unreasonable requests

they are

unless you have an allergy or you want to make a simple substitution just eat the fucking food they make you

^^^

Yeah stipulating your fry doneness is bananas.

i tend to agree, i'm just trying to be magnanimous.

Hi its electricbob
This is a good McDonald's compared to north Ave or greenmount.I've never seen anyone nodding off and the food usually comes out correct and at least Luke warm.being open late and really fast is cool.its cool to tell em a joke because they probably are having a harder day. Sometime I give them a beer or a hit of a joint.

Hi its seandalai
good review

guy sounds cool tbh

electricbobaloo

Least scumbag yelp review ever

useful, funny, AND cool

otm

i can see this mcdonalds from my bedroom window fyi

go tell them a joke

I actually feel kind of guilty now about how inhuman my interactions with mcdonald's workers tend to be the rare times I go to mcdonald's. OTOH I always feel this pressure not to chat with them because they seem to feel pressure to be fast.

I worked at McDo for over a year when I was teenager. trust me we did not care about chatting

Yeah they undoubtedly have throughput metrics

Did you care about getting weeded?