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Yelp worker writes open letter to her CEO saying her pays too low. She get fired

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"OH WOE IS ME! I only have access to free food every day at work! I'm SOOOO starving, the pain is so debilitating I cant work. It's been 8 hours since I ate!"

HA! HAHAHAhahahaha....

I'd love to see what she thinks of the food I've had to eat (or not eat for several days, as the case may be). Clean rice is a luxury, and fancy bourbon and deserts are way up there.
 
It turns out her old freelance gig was writing for Cracked. I wasn't very far off when I assumed she wanted to write for Gawker.

If only she weren't so stressed that the only thing she can "focus" on outside of work was spending 100% of her time sleeping. Then maybe she could write more for Socially Conscious Magazines. Oh, and all those pictures of her doing stuff on social media was actually of her more functional identical twin.

Speaking of which, this isn't the first time she complained about her job publicly:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-harsh-realities-about-working-at-thrift-store/

Someone should write a listicle about the Harsh Realities of Cracked articles that are neither funny nor interesting.

Ns1 said:
she sure is milking this

http://www.55krc.com/articles/natio...267?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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She's the latest internet sob story, meme, and controversial figure that gets a lot of people criticizing and defending her. Online media absolutely eat this up. I don't think she exactly has to go around asking for interviews, although she's pretty excited to do them.
 
I like how she explains that the pictures on instagram are stuff she did before her yelp job. Too bad for those darn time stamps on the pictures that show they were all after she started working for yelp.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/281791/talia-jane-yelp-privilege/

“A majority of what I posted were things I already had before my move [in August 2015],” she said. “Some were things that were bought for me to make, and some were downright free. You can do the math and probably figure out that the only ‘income’ I had that wasn’t used on bills came from a credit card, which I had nearly maxed out over the past six months to pay for gas, train fare, laundry, and additional ‘luxury’ things that were justifiable expenses in context.”

The cupcakes and the bourbon, she explained, were for a company-wide bakeoff that offered cash prizes.
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Maybe that stuff was given to her by other people, but that still counts as eating things outside of rice.

If what she said about her income and expenses is accurate then she was accruing over $100 a debt most months just from her apartment and train fare. Probably several hundred when accounting for the other things she spends money on. She did this for six months. Nowhere does she talk about where she tried to do something, anything to get out of this impossible situation. Nothing about why she can't move in with her father or friends or coworkers or anything. Nothing about finding other, better or extra work. Only that she could be doing freelancing if she weren't so stressed.

Apparently the only plan she had was her employer giving her a huge promotion before her credit card was maxed out and she got evicted. And what that wasn't happening she made a desperate move to try to emotionally manipulate them into doing so.

You just can't always save people from themselves. Getting fired at this point was probably for the best. I just hope that she uses the few thousand she gets from donations to get her shit together and start making better decisions but unfortunately it'll also be a good lesson that other people will bail her out when she screws up (only they probably won't be next time)
 
poofyhairguy said:
Wow, a lot of entitlement in that article too.
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That lady who definitely had to be wealthy was being so condescending when she gave her a sad look that could have only meant that she felt sorry for her.

But really the majority of customers were just thieves.

Also this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-online-dating-will-never-lead-to-love/

Sorry, but if you look like her, have been online dating for years, and still think no one will ever find a real relationship there it means either:

1) Your expectations are way too high or
2) You have really, really serious issues that everyone else can see a mile away.

And even #2 wouldn't really keep everyone away.

Even I found a long term relationship off OKCupid and the deck is way more stacked in her favor. I also have a really hard time believing that story about the guy who said she was too fat to date right in front of her.
 
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Minor good news: occasionally, I'll bring up current events stories in class. It didn't appear that a single student sided with this entitled idiot.
 
DrPizza said:
Minor good news: occasionally, I'll bring up current events stories in class. It didn't appear that a single student sided with this entitled idiot.
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That's reassuring. I can find comments everywhere defending her, sympathizing with her, and saying how courageous she is.
 
Hmm in all honesty, I feel for her. At the same time she made a series of decisions and agreements for her hourly pay and salary. Maybe she should take a second job or figure out some other source of income. It's easier to whine and beg I guess.

On the other hand, yes, an area like San Fran is going to be insanely expensive to live in, and I do support the idea that a business should attempt to pay a liveable wage (I do not believe in a forced minimum wage however). Happy, healthy workers tend to be productive and loyal. But realistically a worker should be paid in accordance with their worth and what they bring to their employer, and often it means a job really is worth a meager amount when the supply of workers is high and therefore cheap.

Seems like we have the case of an idiot who works for a douchey company. Not going to work out well for anyone involved.
 
Wouldn't hurt to share rent either.

I make about $1,200/month. Average rent for 1 bedroom apartment outside Seattle is ~1,250 (inside it's ~1,750).
I do fine, even if I am living in a basement.
 
I've lived in the Bay Area. She needed to get a roommate and try to cut down her rent to about $900 a month or less. The commute is still going to completely suck and the pay isn't going to be great because companies will simply stick to the non-livable minimum wage for their entry level jobs. They have no incentive to change because they will always have an endless supply of people applying for these subsistence-level jobs and the jobs themselves aren't critical.

The author can just vote with her feet and find another job doing something else, but another warm body will just fill her position for the same pay and undergo the same issues, and another after that, and after that, etc...
 
I hope the criticism against her doesn't help give the inaccurate perception that Yelp's business is anything more than a vile scam, which it isn't imo.
 
fuzzybabybunny said:
the pay isn't going to be great because companies will simply stick to the non-livable minimum wage for their entry level jobs. They have no incentive to change because they will always have an endless supply of people applying for these subsistence-level jobs and the jobs themselves aren't critical.
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Pretty much. You'll always get people willing to work those jobs because they live with family, significant others, or roommates. Maybe some of them pay less because they're grandfathered into rent-controlled apartments, but I doubt that's a huge difference.

SF's population has been gradually going down over time but it seems like lots of the media writers I see online (especially anyone writing about feminism) live there. It's amazing just how reliably I can guess that someone's in SF. And most of these people have fairly limited earning potential, or at the very least are certainly not meaningful players in the Bay Area tech industry. So I assume they're all living with roommates and a lot of them are probably working a lot of hours at multiple jobs. Some of them have Patreon accounts, but those tend to be meager at best. Some of them rail on wage standards like Talia has, but a lot of them don't - and that's saying something because they rail on so many other things.

Really have to stress that they, like Talia, moved here deliberately and voluntarily, and generally because they feel like it's a nice place to live. They're not people who were born there and are stuck there. So I guess they understand that really they don't have a lot of room to complain.

SF has raised their minimum wage and AFAIK is on track to raise it to $15. But let's face it, people like Talia aren't going to feel like they're getting a "liveable" wage until they're making like $25+. Someone needs to bring these people back to earth. You just can't have pretty much any form of capitalism (regardless of how broad the safety net is) and not expect wealthy enclaves to form where people with modest wages just can't afford to live in an apartment to themselves. At the same time, I'm guessing people like the culture and the scene there, so they put up with it. For the most part. Those like Talia just want to have all of the cultural amenities but don't want to take the standard of living sacrifices. It just can't work that way. You can't have all the nice clubs and restaurants and progressive environment and curb demand to where anyone could afford it without sacrifice. It just doesn't make sense.

I mean, she says she's just there because of her father but I very seriously doubt that.
 
Exophase said:
You just can't have pretty much any form of capitalism (regardless of how broad the safety net is) and not expect wealthy enclaves to form where people with modest wages just can't afford to live in an apartment to themselves. At the same time, I'm guessing people like the culture and the scene there, so they put up with it. For the most part. Those like Talia just want to have all of the cultural amenities but don't want to take the standard of living sacrifices. It just can't work that way. You can't have all the nice clubs and restaurants and progressive environment and curb demand to where anyone could afford it without sacrifice. It just doesn't make sense.
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There's an older neighborhood in town that 10 years was known as the cheap place to live close to downtown. Lots of people in their 20's and 30's rented there, lots of large old 3-story homes converted to multiple apartments. Then new trendy businesses moved in due to cheap rent and lots of people in their target market. Craft breweries, upscale tattoo joints, one-of-a-kind restaurants, etc. The neighborhood developed a lot of buzz. Now rents are going way up due to demand and the people with entry-level jobs can't really afford to live there any more. And they aren't happy about it.
 
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