Some of Talia Jane’s millennial counterparts understand the ex-Yelper’s plight-working at a minimum wage job and living in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the nation, just do not compute-while others have responded by critiquing Talia Jane’s poor work ethic and sense of entitlement. On February 19, Jane, who worked in customer service at Eat24, wrote a scathing open letteron Medium to remind Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman what life in San Francisco on less than 24,000 a year feels like. Since then a firestorm of both criticism and support has appeared on social media. Happy Yelpiversary An open letter to that ol’ open letter, I suppose. Talia Jane: Yelp employee speaks after being fired for posting open letter about living wage to CEO The Independent The Independent The 25-year-old said she made 12.25 an hour. Not surprisingly, Talia Jane was fired soon after she posted her letter. A year ago today, I wrote an open letter to my CEO calling out the hypocrisy of a well-established tech company founded on open source commentary refusing to listen to its lowest tier employees. Her letter drips with sarcasm (“…if I made $24,000 more annually I could probably get the headlight fixed on my car. Talia Ben-Ora, who goes by Talia Jane online, wrote that she was “balancing all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t involve crying in the bathtub every week.” In the letter she complains about the high cost of her apartment ($1,245/month), the slow pace of promotions at Yelp (“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,”) and how she is unable to buy groceries or pay her cell phone and utilities bills. Recently, an employee at San Francisco-based Yelp sent An Open Letter to My CEO, in which the 25-year-old former English major detailed her long list of woes about her life and job at Yelp.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |