'It felt petty [...] but I didn't care': Woman leaves one-star review of high school Mean Girl's salon, creates domino effect

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 26, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes it just takes one voice to create a wave. Usually when we're talking about this kind of domino effect, we're talking about larger issues that affect populations of people, but it can work on a small scale as well, especially when it comes to petty revenge.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/georgialucy, who opened up about how she got back at the mean girl who made her high school experience a difficult one. Many years later, she discovered that Laura, the mean girl in question, started a beauty salon in the area. The Redditor couldn't resist. She created an alias ("Sarah") and gave the salon a savage one-star review online. Apparently, Sarah also happened to be the name of one of Laura's former employees, but as it turns out, this review unintentionally encouraged Sarah to speak out about her poor experiences as well. And that, folks, is how the universe validates someone's petty revenge.

 

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    Light - "[She] was unprofessional, the nails were awful and I wouldn't recommend this place to a friend."
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    Font - One petty comment to an old bully started a domino effect that affected her business This is really petty and not recent at all, but considering I'm not in the area anymore and time has passed, I thought i'd share it.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - I was badly bullied in secondary school. I was a chubby kid and the target of a lot of bullying for the year I was at this particular school, especially from one girl I'll call Laura.
    via u/georgialucy
  • 04
    Font - She was beyond cruel. I won't go into detail but she and her friends made my life and I ended up suffering a nervous breakdown and having to leave that school.
    via u/georgialucy
  • 05
    Font - A few years ago or so I saw an ad for a beauty salon that was having a sale on nail treatments. I went onto the website and saw Laura's face on the frontage. I instantly felt my stomach drop having not seen her for years and decided that I was going to get some petty revenge.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - I made a second email with a generic fake name, Sarah, and left a review. I said something along the line that Laura was unprofessional, the nails were awful and I wouldn't recommend this place to a friend. I was a lot younger then and knew it felt petty, because it was, but I didn't care, it mostly felt good.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - I thought nothing more of it until a few days later a post from someone called Sarah came up on our local Facebook page. Turns out that Sarah was an ex-employee of Laura's who had not been treated well (no surprise) and had been accused of leaving the review as I had unknowingly used the same name.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - I guess this was the tipping point for Sarah and her post was a list of Laura's wrong doings, the abuse she had received working under her, the training and insurance the salon didn't have and staff not being paid properly. I honestly can't remember it all, there was a lot in there.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - My eyes were wide reading it, she aired everything out and it must of taken a lot of courage. I felt terrible for Sarah but she didn't seem to care about the review, more wanted to get all this off her chest.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - I was anxious about the comments but it turns out a lot of people had been treated badly by Laura over the years and it became a story session of people airing their grievances. There were some comments that said they liked the beauty treatments they received but it was mostly negative.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - Admin of the group removed the post but it had already been seen by a lot of people at that point and the damage had been done.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - Laura made her socials private and never publicly addressed anything that I saw. I know it's all silly and not particularly thrilling, her business didn't close, but it now has a negative reputation with some and if you ask locals for a good place to go they tend to point you in the direction of the beauty salon in the next village over and that's a little bit of petty revenge for me.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - TL;DR - I wrote a negative review about an old bully's beauty salon starting a wave of people coming forward to talk about their negative experiences with her resulting in a poor reputation for her business and customers going elsewhere.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - SheWho LovesToDraw +3 . 14 hr. ago Interesting how it seems Laura never outgrew being a bully and now it's finally coming back to bite her in the one honest review from her former employees at a time! I approve of this level of pettiness. 477 Reply Share
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    Font - CoderJoe1 13 hr. ago +4. Your review was fake, but it nailed her perfectly. 132 Reply Share
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    Font - +3. 13 hr. ago I'm always optimistic that people can change, but this is the very definition of "a leopard can't change its spots." She was who she was in school, and she remains who she was in school. Zero personal growth. baka-tari Nice job getting a chance to show everyone else who she is.
    via u/georgialucy
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    Smile - Otherwise-Wall-6950. 13 hr. ago Karma: the most patient gangster ever!
    via u/georgialucy
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    Mammal - romulationx 14 hr. ago This was iconic. She deserved it so much
    via u/georgialucy
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    Font - pinkpineapples007 +1. 11 hr. ago I bet Laura saw the review and immediately confronted Sarah about it and gave her So sarah was like it, I'll tell everyone the truth
    via u/georgialucy

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