Talia Jane fired from yelp for writing CEO of low pay Vol # Struggles of Low paid tech company emplo

NorthOaklandFC said:
I don't care what anyone says, a full time position at $12.50/hr is less than $20K annually after taxes. She can not drink all the Kambucha in the world, that's still not gonna be enough to live on anywhere in the Bay Area.

Yall grilling her for living beyond her means and need to be on her about her employment situation.

Yelp recruits so aggressively, know a handful of people some with degrees in pottery, who's first job out of school was with Yelp. They were still getting twice what ol girl was making.

Instead of drafting a letter *****ing at her boss she should have picked up the phone and asked HR about exit opportunities to sales.

I'm sorry but in 2016 if you're a grown person in the Bay Area, you must not have a single hustle firing neuron in your brain if you're stuck make $12/hr.
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There's plenty of grown people in the bay area making the $12.25 min wage man.  There's no need for all that
 
Of course there are people in the area who do it, I said if you're stuck in that situation, you're just not very resourceful.

You self admittedly live off your baby momma, I wasn't even trying to enter a paradox but damn, now I'm sitting here trying to figure out which side of the coin you're on.
 
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NorthOaklandFC said:
Of course there are people in the area who do it, I said if you're stuck in that situation, you're just not very resourceful.

You self admittedly live off your baby momma, I wasn't even trying to enter a paradox but damn, now I'm sitting here trying to figure out which side of the coin you're on.
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That's great and all but my original point still stands. If you're a college educated young person living in a major urban area with the access to resources and opportunities most people simply don't have, you have no hustle in you if your job prospects cap at $12/hr. I apologize if that truth is a hurtful sentiment.
 
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NorthOaklandFC said:
Of course there are people in the area who do it, I said if you're stuck in that situation, you're just not very resourceful.

You self admittedly live off your baby momma, I wasn't even trying to enter a paradox but damn, now I'm sitting here trying to figure out which side of the coin you're on.
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which is why people who are more resourceful have more comfortable lives. if you're not as resourceful as someone else you deserve to have a ****ter life than they do, dont cry about it, work harder and smarter. 
 
12.25 here ain't **** though. Like fo real. If it was a base + commission. Different story. But **** this place. I don't like it, it don't like me 
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NorthOaklandFC said:
That's great and all but my original point still stands. If you're a college educated young person living in a major urban area with the access to resources and opportunities most people simply don't have, you have no hustle in you if your job prospects cap at $12/hr. I apologize if that truth is a hurtful sentiment.
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You don't know a lot of people you went to college with that are low income earners cause I know plenty.  Granted I didn't go to Harvard or Stanford or anything but I know plenty of people that are making around $12.25 or not much higher and even people that have been unemployed for years.  Everyone is different
 
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NorthOaklandFC said:
That's great and all but my original point still stands. If you're a college educated young person living in a major urban area with the access to resources and opportunities most people simply don't have, you have no hustle in you if your job prospects cap at $12/hr. I apologize if that truth is a hurtful sentiment.
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You don't know a lot of people you went to college with that are low income earners cause I know plenty.  Granted I didn't go to Harvard or Stanford or anything but I know plenty of people that are making around $12.25 or not much higher and even people that have been unemployed for years.  Everyone is different
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its not random though, the harder and smarter workers get ahead in life and find better jobs. not everyone deserves a good job you have to go out and prove your worthiness. anyone who is perfectly healthy, still young and has been unemployed for years is a straight up bum. 
 
millenial said:
Everyone is different
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No **** - I'm literally stating one way in which people are different. :lol:

To answer your question, no I don't personally know anybody who's financially independent making $12/hr as their only source of income.

Like I said before that's less than $20K a year after taxes. I'm sure it's possible given certain frugal measures but that's really really pushing it anywhere in the immediate Bay Area.
 
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$12/hour? That's only slightly better than minimum wage, correct?

My high school internship paid $15/hour and I thought that was great at the time.
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She should have another job if that pay is too low

Starbucks
McDonalds
Uber
 
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If the only way to have a modicum of economic security is to moonlight as an illegal cab driver, the game is clearly and undeniably rigged.
 
I am better off than most Americans and I haven't worked especially hard. I inherited a lot of capital and benefit from the fact that the game is rigged against workers. Not only that, the working class polices itself and tells each other that capitalism can never fail workers, it can only be failed by workers.
 
Rexanglorum said:
I am better off than most Americans and I haven't worked especially hard. I inherited a lot of capital and benefit from the fact that the game is rigged against workers. Not only that, the working class polices itself and tells each other that capitalism can never fail workers, it can only be failed by workers.
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Damn
I respect the truthfulness
Wish more folks could be as honest
 
Rexanglorum said:
I am better off than most Americans and I haven't worked especially hard. I inherited a lot of capital and benefit from the fact that the game is rigged against workers. Not only that, the working class polices itself and tells each other that capitalism can never fail workers, it can only be failed by workers.
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this is all true but in 2016 all information is free on the internet, no one has any excuse not to go out and learn what they need to get ahead in life. 

who ever you are, wherever you come from there is always a reason that limits your success. people just need to learn to identify it and change habits to counter it. 
 
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If the only way to have a modicum of economic security is to moonlight as an illegal cab driver, the game is clearly and undeniably rigged.
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She could also probably get rid of or certainly curtail the 24hr Fitness Membership, the $35 bottles of Bourbon, $4 teas, fancy steaks, and fancy cosmetics and foods she brags about, also get a roommate and maybe live a bit further from work but closer to public transport, ditch the $700 iPhone and get on MetroPCS. A quick search and you can find places to live $400 cheaper than what she pays in rent right now. She is clearly lying about the whole 10lbs bags of rice and being unable to afford bread ****. Seems most people making that wage in SF live at home still or have roommates.

And at the end, or beginning, of the day, who the heck told her to major in English and you'd be making 6 figures, 4x her current salary, by the age of 25 to tweet memes and pictures of food? You moved to a top 3 most expensive market in the US with that expectation is the problem.

She's trying to live that glamorous big city life while working a minimum wage, entry level job. Someone has these kids with unrealistic expectations of the real world.
 
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DatZNasty said:
She could also probably get rid of or certainly curtail the 24hr Fitness Membership, the $35 bottles of Bourbon, $4 teas, fancy steaks, and fancy cosmetics and foods she brags about, also get a roommate and maybe live a bit further from work but closer to public transport, ditch the $700 iPhone and get on MetroPCS. A quick search and you can find places to live $400 cheaper than what she pays in rent right now. She is clearly lying about the whole 10lbs bags of rice and being unable to afford bread ****. Seems most people making that wage in SF live at home still or have roommates.

And at the end, or beginning, of the day, who the heck told her to major in English and you'd be making 6 figures, 4x her current salary, by the age of 25 to tweet memes and pictures of food? You moved to a top 3 most expensive market in the US with that expectation is the problem.

She's trying to live that glamorous big city life while working a minimum wage, entry level job. Someone has these kids with unrealistic expectations of the real world.
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This young women is certainly not the most sympathetic case and she is either lying or has some mental health issues. At the same time, we should not lose sight of the fact that 40 years ago, college graduates (and yes that includes English and other humanities majors) made significantly more money right out of college.

Workers make less than they used to and no amount of belt tightening measures can change that fact.
 
I also love complaining about a $20 copay. My insurance is $430 for the ******* silver plan.

Also, she should have majored in marketing. My x who lives in New York made 6 figures working at Razor Fish then got recruited to google. Again, took her longer than a whole year and she has 2 MS degrees and grinds like hell doing her own thing, but the potential is there.

Also, Yelp was rated a top 100 place to work for milennials http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-millennials/yelp-41/

Anyways where can I red more about the Gamestop dude

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Something something millennials.

Conceptually I agree with what she said. It's hard knowing that you deserve better than something and having to deal with it. Reading her story I'm not sure she fit that bill but I knew I deserved better than my first job and it was annoying being there. I look around at my peers and "superiors" and knew I was better than these people and better than my situation.

Her mistake was outwardly expressing it, if you truly know you deserve better you internalize that and just work to climb out and leave.

No sympathy for her and her story though, she made a myriad of mistakes and it's 100% her fault why she got fired as is the case when most people get fired. I don't see how she even gets another job after this, who would hire someone who lacks this much awareness of how the world works? Quick to blame Yelp when it's 100% her fault she's living that life in the first place. Ask her what her college GPA was? Was she pulling a 3.5+? So she can go do whatever she wants post grad? No? Oh OK then.
 
The interview was only a half-hour. I didn't think I got it anyway since I wasn't getting a good perception of the interviewers, they didn't show me around, and they wanted to get me out as fast as possible. So I was really surprised that I got it. But, damn, I don't think I could've handled that. I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I can't just be sitting around and bored anymore.
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I didn't really want this job. I loved my old one working at a small business and working with video games. I didn't actively search it. My mom hooked me up and kinda made me do it because if I said no then I never would've heard the end of it. But now I'm really not hearing the end of it from her because she keeps calling me, telling me that I f**** up my future, yelling at me over the phone, saying "how hard she worked" to get me this job, etc.. It's not really helping my mood and I just want to kill her or myself.
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