Young Employee Asks CEO For Living Wage; Gets Fired Instead
I remember what it feels like to be out of college and have your first job. I even remember stretching that paycheck way farther than it could stretch, and what that felt like.
But this story. Just so wrong. The writer used to work for Yelp/Eat24. Until she wrote her CEO, she was an employee. Shortly after she sent this, she was fired.
I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. Not because I’m lazy, but because I got this ten 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. Because I can’t afford to buy groceries. Bread is a luxury to me, even though you’ve got a whole fridge full of it on the 8th floor. But we’re not allowed to take any of that home because it’s for at-work eating. Of which I do a lot. Because 80 percent of my income goes to paying my rent. Isn’t that ironic? Your employee for your food delivery app that you spent $300 million to buy can’t afford to buy food. That’s gotta be a little ironic, right?
She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, which is one of the most expensive areas in California, because so many Silicon Valley firms headquarter there. But she did get benefits.