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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Complaint Tablet of Ea-Nasir

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Turns out, complaining about bad service really is as old as time. Hear the story of an ancient Babylonian clay tablet that has launched a slew of modern memes. Click here for more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Dylan.

0:02.0

Hi, Amanda.

0:03.0

Nice to see you.

0:04.0

Nice to see you too.

0:06.0

I would like to start our conversation today by asking you a question, which is, have you

0:11.0

ever left a Yelp review on anything?

0:15.0

I've left like three Yelp reviews in my life, and I think they were mostly positive.

0:18.6

I'd have to go actually look and be like, what did I say?

0:21.4

I think I was like, oh, this was good.

0:25.4

Do you leave reviews on things?

0:26.4

Are you like a reviewer?

0:28.4

I, similarly, I leave good reviews of things that I like, but I have like a backlog file

0:34.4

cabinet in my mind of bad reviews that I wish I would leave, but I know that I won't.

0:40.1

So currently, I'm like working on in my mind again, this extended review of the management

0:46.0

company that owns the apartment that we just moved out of.

0:50.2

One of those like enormous live-corp, huge conglomerate, international companies that owns

0:55.2

like a million buildings, and as we moved out, there were just like charge upon charge

1:00.0

upon charge, like cleaning the light switch charge, carpet replacement charge, like just

1:06.3

stacking up.

1:07.3

Right.

1:08.3

And they know that you're like on your way out, and so you're just like, they know that

1:11.0

you're going to be like, oh, my God, I hate this, but like, when am I really going to

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