![]() ![]() Jane's open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said her job on the customer support team earned her $8.15 an hour after taxes, and $733.34 bi-weekly – of which 80 percent goes to paying rent. UPDATE 2:44 pm: San Francisco radio station Live 105 - which, like CBS San Francisco, is part of CBS Radio - announced that Talia Jane would fill in as a traffic reporter for two hours on the Kevin Klein Live show Tuesday morning. In the meantime, Talia Jane is accepting donations.SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - An employee for Yelp has been fired shortly after publishing an open letter to the head of the company detailing her daily struggle to pay for food and rent because of low wages. ![]() One Twitter user criticized Stoppleman's response, calling it a "symptom of corporate cancer." Others advised her against posting scathing letters to her CEO next time. The Internet continues to respond to Talia Jane’s post with mixed reviews, with some calling her “brave” for not accepting her work conditions. The millennials who live in San Francisco have the second-highest median income in the country, according to a recent study by personal finance firm SmartAsset. “We agree with her remarks 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.” Ben-Ora's freedom of speech." (Talia Ben-Ora is Talia Jane’s legal name.) “However, we did agree with many of the points in the post and thought it served as an important example of Ms. “We do not comment on personnel matters,” a Yelp spokesperson said Monday, when asked to comment on Talia’s assertions that she was fired for writing the Medium post. “I've not been personally involved in Talia being let go and it was not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me.”įlashing ‘X' sign apparently removed from company's San Francisco headquarters ![]() “Late last night I read Talia's medium contribution and want to acknowledge her point that the cost of living in SF is far too high,” Stoppleman tweeted Saturday. Stoppleman lent his voice to Talia Jane's frustrations - as did Yelp - but stopped short of offering any kind of of a pay increase to employees. “This was entirely unplanned (but I guess not completely unexpected?) but any help until I find new employment would be extremely appreciated,” she wrote in an update to the Medium post, later tweeting that she was told by human resources and her manager that "the letter violated Yelp's 'Terms of Conduct.'" Talia Jane claims that Yelp responded to her post by firing her: But we're not allowed to take any of that home because it's for at-work eating." “Bread is a luxury to me, even though you've got a whole fridge full of it on the 8th floor. "I haven't bought groceries since I started this job,” the 25-year-old customer service rep for Eat24, which Yelp bought for $124 million last year, wrote on Friday. Tales of how excruciatingly expensive the Bay Area is are pretty rampant these days, so Talia Jane’s post from Friday hardly comes as a surprise. No one - including Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman - rejects the struggles of former Yelp employee Talia Jane, which she detailed in an open letter to Stoppleman on Medium outlining how hard it is to pay her rent, buy groceries (she can’t even afford bread and lives on rice and water) or even drive to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. ![]()
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