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Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com)
whoever57 writes: Talia Jane was employed by Yelp in San Francisco but after posting in an open letter to Yelp's CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman, that her after tax income of $8.15 was insufficient to provide basic necessities like heating, food, etc., she discovered that she had been fired. How did she discover? Her work email stopped working. Even her boss did not know what had happened. Stoppelman denies having a hand in her firing, making the claim "(There are) two sides to every HR story so Twitter army please put down the pitchforks," replying to the criticism. He didn't personally turn off her email, perhaps he did not even make the decision to fire her, but as the person who ultimately sets the culture and policies of the company, his claim to not be directly responsible is unconvincing.
We're talking about making a respectable living, not luxury. Drop the strawman, you're just looking like a complete idiot.
By "lifestyle choices", you mean her choice to have food and heat.
The slave mentality that a lot of people like you have just amazes me. And by "people like you", I mean dickwads. They're not only unwilling to ever look sideways at the hand that feeds them (or in the case of this Yelp employee, doesn't feed them), but they're also ready to joyfully lick the master's asshole on the smallest possibility that they're fealty will be noticed.
msuave, you are a fucking disgrace. There, I've said it.
You are welcome on my lawn.