

He called me back a few minutes later and told me someone from HR was there with him.’ He didn’t know what I was talking about and said he’d call me back after he looked into it.

So I called my manager and told him I got fired. About two hours after I posted the letter, my phone vibrated but didn’t have a notification-my mailbox does this sometimes, I don’t know why, so I checked my inbox for all my linked email accounts…That’s when I knew, because they terminate all your access to the system before you come into work. Told the employeewho arguably could represent the common denominator for many American employees living a similar dystopian nightmare: Talia’s dismissal led to the former employee recounting her firing via gawker. It wasn’t too long before Talia Jane found out she’d been fired. Shortly after posting the piece, Jane’s corporate email account was disabled. Have you ever slept fully clothed under several blankets just so you don’t get a cold and have to miss work?’ According to the infograph on PG&E’s website, that cost was because I used my heater. I also have to pay my gas and electric bill. I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1245) for my apartment that’s 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. ‘I just got a text from T-Mobile telling me my bill is due. That’s gotta be a little ironic, right?’ Talia JaneĪnd more eyeball stuff here, which many of you will recognize: Isn’t that ironic? Your employee for your food delivery app that you spent $300 million to buy can’t afford to buy food. Do you think he’s okay?’Īnd here ‘Because 80 percent of my income goes to paying my rent.

I actually haven’t seen him in the past few months.

Another wrote on those neat whiteboards we’ve got on every floor begging for help because he was bound to be homeless in two weeks. She ended up leaving the company and moving east, somewhere the minimum wage could double as a living wage. One of them started a GoFundMe because she couldn’t pay her rent. They’re taking side jobs, they’re living at home. Every single one of my coworkers is struggling. ‘So 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. Wrote in part, Talia Jane in an open letter addressed to Yelp CEO and founder, Jeremy Stoppelman: ‘Fxck the homeless’ Justin Keller San Francisco yuppie on why only rich people matter The woman’s dismissal over the weekend (barely two hours after a blog post made the rounds) comes after the customer support employee published an essay on Medium Friday evening explaining how little she was paid, and how she couldn’t afford to buy groceries or heat her apartment on her $8.15 an hour after tax salary. Talia Jane a former Yelp employee has been promptly fired after an open letter she wrote addressing the company CEO in which the worker complained of being paid too low to even be able to afford to buy food. Did one woman get what she deserved? Pictured Talia Jane an inspiring media writer. Did one woman get what she deserved? Talia Jane fired from Yelp.
