>work at small local restaurant as a waiter
>get fired because the manager is a bitch and was upset at me not selling bough desserts
>make a few fake google accounts posing as old people and over the course of a week i leave 3 star reviews saying shit like “what happened to the nice waiter?”
>convince a few friends to do the same
>review bomb the resturant and it goes from 4.5 stars to 3.5 in no time
>mfw at the end of the month i get called by the manager saying she wants me back
>over the next month i slowly change all the reviews from 3 stars to 5
>get a raise
>mfw

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    It probably would have taken less effort to get another job at a different restaurant. Why would you even want to go back to work at a place where you think the manager is a bitch?

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    When managers chase arbitrary targets, they make arbitrary decisions, which can be easily manipulated.

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        I believe Economists call it Goodhart’s law. “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”.

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    It’s generally a bad idea to create fake Google accounts, if you have a primary account you don’t want banned.

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      I have had probably a hundred accounts through google, all of them almost 100℅ connected to me and have not had an issue in 20 years I used google.

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      Is this in their TOS somewhere? I am 99.99% this isn’t enforced and there are many professional and private reasons to have multiple accounts.

      Edit: I guess if you actively try to cheat the system by exploiting multiple accounts. But i thought the post was a possibly fake funny and not a suggestion/endorsment.

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      Be smart about it. Use a clean system unrelated to anything else. Spawn a few cheap VPS instances with smaller providers, use them as VPN endpoints. It is a bit of effort and it doesn’t scale well, but for a single purpose like this it is possible.

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          Unrelated small businesses, sure.

          But the one that just fired you?

          I think that’s a justified amount of work. Alao you were just fired, you’ve got a surplus work-budget anyway

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    You should have dropped your 3 star reviews to 2 and change them to something like “So nice that the polite waiter came back, but his boss is a giant insufferable cunt.”

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    sounds like bullshit, if the manager wasn’t being asked personally about “the missing nice waiter” even once, she most likely wouldn’t be taking all that much stock in a couple yelp reviews, and when was the last time you heard about a waiter “getting a raise”, lol