the punishment does not match the crime" is the whole thing right there. 400 one-star reviews and a job on the line over a bad tweet from 2011 is insane, and the apology proves he's not that guy anymore. My group chat from 2009 alone would get me run out of town, so yeah, nobody survives a full dig. The internet needs a statute of limitations.

Try cooking it in the oven instead, rice cookers aren't made for that and you risk food poisoning.

Something very similar happened to my wife with a lab bill a couple years back. What saved us was calling the collection agency directly after we got the letter from the dentist's office, because they can sometimes flag the account as "disputed" while it's pending removal, and that stops it from hurting you more in the meantime. Also pull your reports from annualcreditreport.com, the free one, not the paid sites, and file a dispute with each bureau yourself once you have that letter in hand. Keep a paper copy of everything, dates, names, who you talked to. In our case the score bounced back within about two weeks after it came off, but the hit itself stayed on the report as a note for a while. Your mileage may vary by bureau though, they don't all move at the same speed.