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Yelp Employee Fired After Public Post To CEO Saying She Can't Afford Food [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
Yelp Employee Fired After Public Post To CEO Saying She Can't Afford Food
"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.”
02/21/2016 04:47 pm ET
Nina Golgowski
Trends reporter, The Huffington Post
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.
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“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.”
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"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.”
02/21/2016 04:47 pm ET
Nina Golgowski
Trends reporter, The Huffington Post
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.
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“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.”
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yelp-employee-fired-after-complaints_us_56ca00bee4b041136f1760eb
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