The People Who Voluntarily Write Reviews On Yelp Are Suing Yelp For Treating Them Like Slaves

FB – A group of Yelpers have filed a California class action lawsuit against Yelp, claiming they are actually unpaid employees who deserve compensation for their hard work. According to the lawsuit, a “vast majority of the ratings, reviews, and photos posted on [Yelp’s] websites are created and supplied by a large and ever-growing stable of non-wage-paid writers.” Now, these “non-wage-paid writers” are seeking “just compensation of wages, benefits, and reimbursement for the reviews they created.” The plaintiff argues that Yelp could not exist as a profitable business without their free labor. Flabbergasted? Just you wait, it gets better worse. The suit goes so far as to compare Yelp to heartless slave owners. Seriously: “Business journal commentators have compared said business practices to a 21st-century galley slave ship with pirates banging the drum to keep up the fast pace and to fill the pockets of their stockholders with treasure. . . and with ‘overhead that would shame an antebellum plantation.’”

Absolute lunacy! Are these people taking crazy pills? Either that, or they have the biggest nuts in the world to sue a website they voluntarily visit, saying it’s the same thing to willingly fill out a comment card after a visit to the macaroni grill as it was to be forced into slavery. Even barstool commenters aren’t that fucking dumb (though the thought of imtough suing the boss is funny as shit). Fucking Yelp hipsters, thinking their opinion on some upscale tapas makes a single difference to anyone’s life. I’d trust a commenter from an amateurdumper video before I trusted a person who spends their days reviewing on Yelp. These entitled self important twats who critique the sushi down to the fucking core of it’s being are the worst people on this here planet earth. I love they are asking for benefits too. Like they want fucking dental and vision and Yelp to match their 401k for giving Coldstone 2.5/5 stars because the kids didn’t sing when they tipped them. Eat a pile of grenades, you Yelp idiots.