Late Friday afternoon, Yelp customer-service agent Talia Jane published a Medium blog post called "Dear Jeremy" — an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman claiming that some of his employees just can't make ends meet.
"Every single one of my coworkers is struggling. They’re taking side jobs, they’re living at home. One of them started a
("Talia Jane" isn't her full name, but she asked not to be identified.) Late Friday afternoon, Yelp customer-service agent Talia Jane published a Medium blog post called "Dear Jeremy" — an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman claiming that some of his employees just can't make ends
Talia Jane's lengthy Medium post paints a grim picture of San Francisco-based Yelp, the Yelp Eat24 food-ordering subsidiary at which she officially worked, and of being a low-paid worker in the extremely expensive San Francisco Bay Area.
About two hours after posting her essay, Talia Jane took to her Twitter account to announce that she had been fired from Yelp.
She says there was no warning, just a disconnected email account and, later, a call from HR to discuss severance, indicating that her public story may have led to her termination. But of course, other factors outside of the post may also have been at play and led to the decision.