Employee gets fired after they leave 1-star review on the landscaper who works with the company due to their poor service: ‘My business isn't with them’

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Nov 11, 2025 6:00 PM EST

As customers, we all have good and bad experiences with the services we are provided with, and we deal with these experiences in different ways. The most common one is by leaving online reviews on the service. Whether you were highly satisfied or extremely disappointed, you can say your piece for others to read and learn from.

That is what the employee in the story below did.

This landscape company was hired to work on the garden of a business's property, and they didn't do a very good job. This led one of the employees to leave a 1-star review on the service. However, the review they left wasn't about the service they received as the customer, but rather the service the company they worked for received, and the company did not appreciate that the employee acted on their own accord.

This whole interaction between the landscapers and the employee led the boss to step in and fire the employee, who, up until then, thought they were doing the company a favor…

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    Got fired for leaving a 1 star Google review on another business

    So I've been working in a fast food place for three and a half years now, and I just got fired three hours ago because I left a 1 star review on the Google page of the landscapers that are hired to "take care" of the property.
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    Dissatisfied customer reviews for selecting 1-star reviews
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    For context I started a native wildflower garden at the back door of our workplace so we can enjoy our time away from orders.
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    I laid down hundreds of natural sandstone blocks and put in nearly a hundred native wildflower species.
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    This garden I took care of was not in the way of the hired landscapers and things were good for the most part of the three years until earlier this year they stole some of my tools and when I called their business asking for them back they said they didn't have them and that
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    my business isn't with them, well eventually they turned around and said they did have them but returned them two months later in poor condition as if they had been trying to cut gravel in half with my limb cutters.
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    So left a bad review on their Google page and then the owner called me yelling asking why I was trying to hurt his business, eventually I was able to get a brand new pair of limb cutters from him after those two months.
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    Nothing had happened since that time in May until yesterday where they mowed down a line of trees I had planted to shade the parking lot.
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    They were clearly marked with a stake, cage, mulch, and some rocks. I found out about that today and so I did what I did last time, I left a one star review, no words no photos, just the one star.
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    Well about two hours after he blows up my phone though I never saw any of the times he called.
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    And now, 15 minutes before my shift ended my manager to me aside with tears in his eyes that he had to fire me because his boss said so.
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    So the question is, are they legally allowed to fire me for a one star review on public forum for a business that is not their own?
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    Boss firing dismissing shocked employee
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  • 14
    Alikona_05 Where do you live? Most places in the US can fire you without reason.
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    OP VULPES117 Indiana unfortunately
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    Lopsided-Moose-9240 Hold up. You used your own money on this garden for work?
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    OP VULPES117 Yeah I gathered the stones where they fall from cliffs and I collected wildflower seeds and plants from various threatened roadsides or from other like- minded people
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    Fogwaveeee Sad to say, you can get fired for anything basically I got fired earlier this year because i got a girls phone number that the manager liked. Got fired for making a "hostile work environment" even though i had nothing but good reviews Imao This was at LUV car wash San Diego rosecrans location
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    No_Candidate_2965 stop going above and beyond. you can see the trouble it's given you.
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    OP VULPES117 I didn't do it for those corporate bastards at the top. I did it so my coworkers and friends could have an easy shift
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    Few-Adhesiveness9670 So wait...you did landscaping and flipped burgers at the same time?
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    OP VULPES117 Tacos, but yes, and also unloaded the trucks that came in, fixed whatever machines I was able, and drove to other affiliated stores to trade product so we could still sell food
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