36 Humorous YELP-Like Reviews And Ratings Given By Customer Service Workers To Their Clients

There is a viral thread in the AskReddit community, the author of which once wrote: "Imagine having a reverse Yelp where we rate customers on their attitudes, manners, and how well they tip. What review would you leave?" And now, as of today, the thread has almost 88K upvotes and nearly 6.6K various comments made up by witty participants.

Some of the reviews there seem like a blatant parody, but most of them reflect the business owners' and employees' experiences, so please enjoy the selection of the best ones carefully made for you by Bored Panda!

By the way, Yelp is one of the oldest such solutions on the market - it was launched almost twenty years ago, in October 2004. At that time, it was a solution exclusively for the San Francisco service market, but the idea skyrocketed, and in a couple of years Yelp was available in the entire American market.

Moreover, over the last decade, Yelp has expanded to 111 countries, and today it is a large international corporation with almost five thousand employees. I wonder if they leave their reviews too?

"The idea is actually not new - after all, in small, local markets, where everyone knows everyone, this is practiced between business owners and employees," says Vlad Ostrometsky, the administrator of UNIT Cafe in Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. "For example, I know most of the employees and owners of cafes and restaurants in my area, and sometimes we share stories from our experiences - without any specifying, of course."

"Yes, the situation sometimes doesn't look very fair in relation to service workers - after all, there can often be some entitled customer who writes negative reviews simply because of a bad mood - and we can’t actually do anything to them. Remember how in the 'Ratatouille' cartoon the chef was literally devastated because of the opinion of the restaurant critic?"

"On the other hand, this is the service industry and its specifics - and, in any case, if the client's behavior is completely outrageous - for example, they make a scandal or fight, then the police will get involved... Although, of course, it would be interesting to see such an application - just out of fun..." Vlad summarizes with a smile.

Well, we'll not detain you any longer in reading these reviews - especially since among them there are real masterpieces of humor and sarcasm. So now feel free to scroll this selection to the end - and who knows, maybe leave your own 'review' of any 'made-up' customer, based on your own experience! That would be really interesting to read, I do believe.