![]() Jeremy Stoppelman made those comments via Twitter in responding to a former employee’s open letter complaining about the company’s low wages and the struggle to get by in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco needs to lower the cost of housing. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ![]() Isn’t Yelp like very well known for treating their employees like trash? Moving to the second most expensive city in America to take a low paying job at a company famous for mistreating low level workers…yeah, don’t think I’ll be contributing to the GoFundMe.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Or, option C, write an open letter to the CEO and go viral as hell. But if you’re a college grad hitting the job market interested in the tech sector …maybe pick something that A) pays better or B) pays minimum wage in a more affordable city? That’s an issue that probably needs to be addressed for the poor to earn a living wage. If you figure out a basic budget for yourself and see that you can’t afford fucking bread at the end of the week, time for a different plan. Did you do literally any research before accepting it? Did they not inform you of what you’d be paid before moving there? Was it like a surprise or something where you show up to your first day and you pick out of a hat what your salary is? It’s like taking a job at the new Barstool headquarters then being shocked when NYC apartment prices are really high. Did somebody put a gun to this girl’s head and force her to take a job at Yelp and buy a 1 bedroom apartment in San Francisco? Is there like a serial headhunter running around the Bay Area kidnapping people and enslaving them into tech jobs? Unless that’s the case I’m having a hard time joining the pity party here. Yelp seemingly responded pretty quickly to Jane’s note - by letting her go. Isn’t that ironic? Your employee for your food delivery app that you spent $300 million to buy can’t afford to buy food. “Because 80% of my income goes to paying my rent. Many tech companies keep snacks and even lunches in their office kitchens. ![]() 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. Not because I’m lazy, but because I got this 10-pound bag of rice before I moved here and my meals at home (including the one I’m having as I write this) consist, by and large, of that. “I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. The average one-bedroom apartment in the city is around $3,500 a month. Jane goes on to detail that she currently can’t afford groceries because 80% of her income goes to paying rent, as the tech boom has pushed the San Francisco rental market to nightmarishly high rents. 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,” Jane writes. 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.
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