Yelp Was Right To Fire Millenial

[Palumboism]

Yelp was right to fire entitled millennial who whined about salary online
By Kyle Smith

Memo to Millennials: Corporate America doesn’t want to have a “dialogue” about your “concerns.” Being an employee is not like being a college student. Your boss isn’t there to give you a cuddle and establish a committee to change his ways for you.

Your employers can and will fire you for making them look bad. This is as it must be.

A 25-year-old San Francisco Yelp employee named Talia Jane didn’t like the salary she was offered at the groovy tech company Yelp. So did she decline the job offer and take her skill set to a higher bidder? No, she accepted the gig, then publicly whined about her salary. In an open letter. To her CEO. Whom she called out by name.

Yelp fired her within two hours, which tells you that even companies with cute names protect their interests as ruthlessly as your average ill-tempered Gila monster.

Jane said she was getting 12 bucks an hour, which isn’t enough to eat. “I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job,” she said, having been living on one bag of rice. She spends 80 percent of her wages on rent, which is $1,245 a month. (She apparently has no roommate.) Also, she has a home Internet connection, which no one in the world had until about 20 years ago, not to mention a car. But she’s considering getting rid of the former, which she bought with intent to pursue some freelancing gigs. Now she claims to be “too stressed” to do side work.

http://nypost.com/2016/02/24/yelp-was-right-to-fire-the-entitled-millennial-who-whined-about-her-salary-online/



Was she right or was Yelp right?  What have been your experiences working with Millennials?

[_aj_]

I'm torn. It would have been great if both the whiny letter writer and all of the entitled corporate "CEOs" in Silicon Valley could have both been annihilated nuclear fire.

[The Wizard of Truth]

People are gone soft, everything has consequences, people think what they say online cannot be used against them in real life

[_aj_]

People are gone soft, everything has consequences, people think what they say online cannot be used against them in real life

Unlike Getbiggers that hide behind a perceived anonymity.

[The Wizard of Truth]

Unlike Getbiggers that hide behind a perceived anonymity.

Some do, some as just the same in real life as they are here

[hardgainerj]

https://medium.com/@StefWilliams25/an-open-letter-to-millenials-like-talia-52e9597943aa#.82m6wc7vk

[SF1900]

“I left college, having majored in English literature, with a dream to work in media,” Talia wrote.

Well, this may have been the issue. At least with a BA or MA in English Lit/Education, she could have became a teacher. Many states, especially in rural areas, are looking for teachers.

Yet, she has a DREAM job to work in media.

Media is one of those careers that requires A LOT of luck. Either you're someone special, or you're not.

Not everyone is going to become a media superstar. But most people have the ability to become a teacher.

[SF1900]

People are gone soft, everything has consequences, people think what they say online cannot be used against them in real life

Its baffling. I mean, look at the medical doctor who flipped out on the uber driver, and it was all caught on cell phone.

In the world of technology, anything you do or say will pretty much be captures. There is pretty much no escaping it. I mean, vent to you friends or family. But to put it on social media for the world to see is just not a smart move.

[absfabs]

I guess people don't get that if USA went by constitution there would be no

fed

public school

universities as we know them aka no grants

pensions

much case law

restrictons on production transport and trade incorrectly labelled regualtions that push the wrong idea that maanged capitalism is better, when it is socialism = 21T debt

[Hulkotron]

- Accepts a "job" offer for $12/hour
- Whines about the "gender pay gap"

[Irongrip400]

- Accepts a "job" offer for $12/hour
- Whines about the "gender pay gap"

If you have a degree and $12 an hour is the best you can do, you deserve it. Anyone that dumb to invest tens of thousands of dollars on an education for a job that pays $12(and then complain about it) should be lined up against a wall and shot. (No homocidal)

[Palumboism]

A group of of Millennial co-workers invited my boss's, boss's, boss's, boss (our fourth level manager) to a meeting.  He thought the meeting was so they could present some project they were working on.  Instead they unloaded on him in a massive bitch session complaining about their jobs.  They're all disgruntled now by the fact they've been labeled complainers.    

I'm not impressed by the work ethic or tactics of this generation.

[phreak]

https://medium.com/@StefWilliams25/an-open-letter-to-millenials-like-talia-52e9597943aa#.82m6wc7vk

Savage. Fully agree with her.

[liberalismo]

If you have a degree and $12 an hour is the best you can do, you deserve it. Anyone that dumb to invest tens of thousands of dollars on an education for a job that pays $12(and then complain about it) should be lined up against a wall and shot. (No homocidal)

Do you have a degree?

[Tapeworm]

my boss's, boss's, boss's, boss

What do you do for a living?  Clean the toilet brush after the janitors are done using it?

[Man of Steel]

After me and my wife married and got our first little place we had nothin.

Apartment was terrible with mold LOL, one old futon, egg crates to hold books and stuff, no internet, no cable, no cell phones, minimal food, 1 old tv and 2 vhs tapes.....that was it.  We both earned peanuts at hourly wage jobs and I was in school.  After I graduated I earned next to nothing for a while and we struggled.  Today we've worked hard, paid our way through school and are doing great, but we did what we had to do.

[BBSSchlemiel]

I know right. People have some nerve to demand pay that keeps the lights on and food in their bellies. Like, pretty soon people are gonna get rich on fifteen bucks an hour and we're gonna see 20-buck Big Macs, 100-buck haircuts, 1000-buck restaurant meals, and 10,000-buck hardcover books at Barnes and Nobles. Who the fuck do these people, living in America, think they are? I mean, look at our good old favorite comparison: "You can have it much worse. People in some parts of the world don't even have drinking water."

Americans have become pathetic traitors to their fellow Americans, just ready to ridicule and shame the person one notch beneath them socioeconomically. While I don't want my country devolved to some egalitarian-communist pesthole, it is perfectly reasonable to ask for pay that doesn't degenerate one's life to that of a bum and beggar.

Fuck the CEO and fuck the dimwit who wrote a public response to the former Yelp employee.

[Yamcha]

[phreak]

I know right. People have some nerve to demand pay that keeps the lights on and food in their bellies. Like, pretty soon people are gonna get rich on fifteen bucks an hour and we're gonna see 20-buck Big Macs, 100-buck haircuts, 1000-buck restaurant meals, and 10,000-buck hardcover books at Barnes and Nobles. Who the fuck do these people, living in America, think they are? I mean, look at our good old favorite comparison: "You can have it much worse. People in some parts of the world don't even have drinking water."

Americans have become pathetic traitors to their fellow Americans, just ready to ridicule and shame the person one notch beneath them socioeconomically. While I don't want my country devolved to some egalitarian-communist pesthole, it is perfectly reasonable to ask for pay that doesn't degenerate one's life to that of a bum and beggar.

Fuck the CEO and fuck the dimwit who wrote a public response to the former Yelp employee.

I know GB is not the place for fair discourse, but I would like to try nonetheless. While I agree with you that a minimum wage that actually pays a living wage is a good idea, I do also feel that this particular cunt should have kept her mouth shut. Yes, $12 is a very low minimum wage. True. But she did not have to take her utterly useless degree to the most expensive city in the US. She could have taken her degree to Bumfuck, Idaho, where the minimum wage would have bought her a lot more. Same job prospects (i.e. slim to none), but much more livable.

[youandme]

$12 an hour. Way to oust Yelp.

[BBSSchlemiel]

I know GB is not the place for fair discourse, but I would like to try nonetheless. While I agree with you that a minimum wage that actually pays a living wage is a good idea, I do also feel that this particular girl should have kept her mouth shut. Yes, $12 is a very low minimum wage. True. But she did not have to take her utterly useless degree to the most expensive city in the US. She could have taken her degree to Bumfuck, Idaho, where the minimum wage would have bought her a lot more. Same job prospects (i.e. slim to none), but much more livable.

Fair points.

If I recall correctly she has an degree in English. I've seen some people do well with that degree in PR, journalism, or, obviously, teaching, which in the right county (Suffolk, Long Island, say) is good paying job with excellent benefits.

[SaintAnger]

I worked in "media" as a writer for about 10 years.  I worked my way to the top.  I never had a degree in journalism -- hell, I don't have ANY degree.  I taught myself how to write.  All the while, I worked a tech support job at an Internet company making $8 bucks an hour.  I brought my interviews and would transcribe them while at work.  I put in a lot of time into it.  So, you do what you have to do.  I did that for 3 years straight.  Eventually, I quit my job at the ISP and wrote full time.  I have to say, if it hasn't happened for her, it may never.  I think its one of things where you either got it or you don't, sorry to say (depending on the niche).

Anyway, I feel for this woman, though.  I've lived in CA and it is very expensive.  There is no middle class so to speak like in other parts of the country.

[BBSSchlemiel]

I worked in "media" as a writer for about 10 years.  I worked my way to the top.  I never had a degree in journalism -- hell, I don't have ANY degree.  I taught myself how to write.  All the while, I worked a tech support job at an Internet company making $8 bucks an hour.  I brought my interviews and would transcribe them while at work.  I put in a lot of time into it.  So, you do what you have to do.  I did that for 3 years straight.  Eventually, I quit my job at the ISP and wrote full time.  I have to say, if it hasn't happened for her, it may never.  I think its one of things where you either got it or you don't, sorry to say (depending on the niche).

Anyway, I feel for this woman, though.  I've lived in CA and it is very expensive.  There is no middle class so to speak like in other parts of the country.

How did you feed yourself earning eight bucks an hour?

[Walter Sobchak]

I know right. People have some nerve to demand pay that keeps the lights on and food in their bellies. Like, pretty soon people are gonna get rich on fifteen bucks an hour and we're gonna see 20-buck Big Macs, 100-buck haircuts, 1000-buck restaurant meals, and 10,000-buck hardcover books at Barnes and Nobles. Who the fuck do these people, living in America, think they are? I mean, look at our good old favorite comparison: "You can have it much worse. People in some parts of the world don't even have drinking water."

Americans have become pathetic traitors to their fellow Americans, just ready to ridicule and shame the person one notch beneath them socioeconomically. While I don't want my country devolved to some egalitarian-communist pesthole, it is perfectly reasonable to ask for pay that doesn't degenerate one's life to that of a bum and beggar.

Fuck the CEO and fuck the dimwit who wrote a public response to the former Yelp employee.

I didn't read this whiny response, but I will give the chick $50 to pump a few loads up her shitter....

[SaintAnger]

How did you feed yourself earning eight bucks an hour?

I didn't.  In true Getbigger fashion, I lived with my mom!