Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Yelp Employee Fired After Public Post To CEO Saying She Can't Afford Food
2 views
Skip to first unread message
Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 24, 2016, 12:26:24 PM2/24/16
to
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yelp-employee-fired-after-
complaints_us_56ca00bee4b041136f1760eb
A Yelp employee who was fired shortly after posting an open letter to the
company's CEO about not being able to afford food with her entry-level
salary is sparking an online debate, not only about fair wage but
"entitled" millennials.
Talia Jane, a 25-year-old recent college graduate, announced her
termination shortly after rattling off her complaints Friday in an article
posted to Medium titled, “An Open Letter To My CEO.”
In the letter, addressed to “Jeremy,” or Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Jane
blames her daily hunger and the lack of heating in her apartment on the
bi-weekly $733.24 wage she earned while working in customer support in the
San Francisco Bay Area. The letter also describes Jane's crushed
expectations after learning she wouldn't be promoted to another department
in less than a year’s time.
“Coming out of college without much more than freelancing and tutoring
under my belt, I felt it was fair that I start out working in the customer
support section of Yelp/Eat24 before I’d be qualified to transfer to
media,” she wrote. “Then, after I had moved and got firmly stuck in this
apartment with this debt, I was told I’d have to work in support for an
entire year before I would be able to move to a different department.”
Jane states that after earning an English literature degree, she moved to
the Bay Area so that she could be closer to her father and because “I like
the weather up here."
She found an apartment about 40 miles away from work, but her $1,245 rent
gobbled up about 80 percent of her paycheck -- leaving her barely able to
afford food or her $11.30-a-day commute. She does note that the company
provides “great” benefits, though she says she couldn't afford the $20
copays.
"I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. Not because I’m
lazy, but because I got this ten pound bag of rice before I moved here and
my meals at home (including the one I’m having as I write this) consist,
by and large, of that,” she wrote. “So here I am, 25-years old, balancing
all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t
involve crying in the bathtub every week.”
Shortly after her post was published, Jane reported that she had been
fired. She also posted links to sites where people could send her
donations online.
“The HR lady & my manager straight up told me that the letter violated
Yelp's 'Terms of Conduct' and that's why they had to let me go,” she later
tweeted. “My manager wasn't even notified until I called him. this didn't
come from my department. this came from................the Big Guy.”
Stoppelman personally addressed Jane's letter on Twitter on Saturday,
saying he was not “personally involved in Talia being let go and it was
not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me.”
He did use the letter as an opportunity to address San Francisco’s cost of
living, agreeing that it’s too high.
“I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group [the San
Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation] and speaking out frequently about
the need to lower cost of housing,” he wrote. "The reality of such a high
Bay Area cost of living is entry-level jobs migrate to where costs of
living are lower. Have already announced we are growing EAT24 support in
[Arizona] for this reason.”
A Yelp spokesperson reached by The Huffington Post on Sunday backed
Stoppelman’s response while calling Jane’s post “an important example of
freedom of speech.”
"We do not comment on personnel issues. However, we did agree with many of
the points in Ms. Jane's post and we viewed it as her real, personal
narrative about what it's like to live in the Bay Area,” the spokesperson
said in an email. "We agree with her comments about the high costs of
living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are
expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where
[we] will pay the same wage."
Online commenters showed a mixed response to Jane's letter and her
termination.
"If you wonder why 18 year olds that live with their parents are doing the
same job as you, it is because it is an entry level position with minimum
wage pay that does not require a college degree," reads a post by user
Kris Gellci. "While I think that minimum wage should be higher, that is
not what your post was about."
"Talia, I'm sorry there are so many unsupportive garbage-person comments
on your post. The way you've been treated at Yelp/Eat24 isn't OK, and it
took a lot of guts to write this letter. How can we help?" wrote Rebecca
Searles, who had the top-rated comment as of Sunday afternoon.
"I'm going to be brutally honest. You do in fact, like many others have
pointed out, sound like a stereotypical, entitled, and whiny millennial,"
user rileybon commented. "The reason why you were/are in the predicament
you are now is because you put yourself there. You made poor financial
decisions because you wanted to live in a fancy apartment that you could
not afford."
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ne...@netfront.net ---
complaints_us_56ca00bee4b041136f1760eb
A Yelp employee who was fired shortly after posting an open letter to the
company's CEO about not being able to afford food with her entry-level
salary is sparking an online debate, not only about fair wage but
"entitled" millennials.
Talia Jane, a 25-year-old recent college graduate, announced her
termination shortly after rattling off her complaints Friday in an article
posted to Medium titled, “An Open Letter To My CEO.”
In the letter, addressed to “Jeremy,” or Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Jane
blames her daily hunger and the lack of heating in her apartment on the
bi-weekly $733.24 wage she earned while working in customer support in the
San Francisco Bay Area. The letter also describes Jane's crushed
expectations after learning she wouldn't be promoted to another department
in less than a year’s time.
“Coming out of college without much more than freelancing and tutoring
under my belt, I felt it was fair that I start out working in the customer
support section of Yelp/Eat24 before I’d be qualified to transfer to
media,” she wrote. “Then, after I had moved and got firmly stuck in this
apartment with this debt, I was told I’d have to work in support for an
entire year before I would be able to move to a different department.”
Jane states that after earning an English literature degree, she moved to
the Bay Area so that she could be closer to her father and because “I like
the weather up here."
She found an apartment about 40 miles away from work, but her $1,245 rent
gobbled up about 80 percent of her paycheck -- leaving her barely able to
afford food or her $11.30-a-day commute. She does note that the company
provides “great” benefits, though she says she couldn't afford the $20
copays.
"I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. Not because I’m
lazy, but because I got this ten pound bag of rice before I moved here and
my meals at home (including the one I’m having as I write this) consist,
by and large, of that,” she wrote. “So here I am, 25-years old, balancing
all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t
involve crying in the bathtub every week.”
Shortly after her post was published, Jane reported that she had been
fired. She also posted links to sites where people could send her
donations online.
“The HR lady & my manager straight up told me that the letter violated
Yelp's 'Terms of Conduct' and that's why they had to let me go,” she later
tweeted. “My manager wasn't even notified until I called him. this didn't
come from my department. this came from................the Big Guy.”
Stoppelman personally addressed Jane's letter on Twitter on Saturday,
saying he was not “personally involved in Talia being let go and it was
not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me.”
He did use the letter as an opportunity to address San Francisco’s cost of
living, agreeing that it’s too high.
“I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group [the San
Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation] and speaking out frequently about
the need to lower cost of housing,” he wrote. "The reality of such a high
Bay Area cost of living is entry-level jobs migrate to where costs of
living are lower. Have already announced we are growing EAT24 support in
[Arizona] for this reason.”
A Yelp spokesperson reached by The Huffington Post on Sunday backed
Stoppelman’s response while calling Jane’s post “an important example of
freedom of speech.”
"We do not comment on personnel issues. However, we did agree with many of
the points in Ms. Jane's post and we viewed it as her real, personal
narrative about what it's like to live in the Bay Area,” the spokesperson
said in an email. "We agree with her comments about the high costs of
living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are
expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where
[we] will pay the same wage."
Online commenters showed a mixed response to Jane's letter and her
termination.
"If you wonder why 18 year olds that live with their parents are doing the
same job as you, it is because it is an entry level position with minimum
wage pay that does not require a college degree," reads a post by user
Kris Gellci. "While I think that minimum wage should be higher, that is
not what your post was about."
"Talia, I'm sorry there are so many unsupportive garbage-person comments
on your post. The way you've been treated at Yelp/Eat24 isn't OK, and it
took a lot of guts to write this letter. How can we help?" wrote Rebecca
Searles, who had the top-rated comment as of Sunday afternoon.
"I'm going to be brutally honest. You do in fact, like many others have
pointed out, sound like a stereotypical, entitled, and whiny millennial,"
user rileybon commented. "The reason why you were/are in the predicament
you are now is because you put yourself there. You made poor financial
decisions because you wanted to live in a fancy apartment that you could
not afford."
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $19 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his muslim goal of disarming America while ObamaCare
increases insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ne...@netfront.net ---
0 new messages