Yelp Employee FIRED After Posting Open Letter To CEO

Talia Jane was an employee for Yelp making minimum wage in San Francisco. She posted an open letter to her CEO decrying the conditions she has to endure because of her low pay. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and Hannah Cranston hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“When I was a kid, back in the 90s when Spice Girls and owning a pager were #goals, I dreamed of having a car and a credit card and my own apartment. I told my 8-year old self, This is what it means to be an adult.

Now, seventeen years later, I have those things. But boy did I not anticipate a decade and a half ago that a car and a credit card and an apartment would all be symbols of stress, not success.

I left college, having majored in English literature, with a dream to work in media. It was either that or go to law school. Or become a teacher. But I didn’t want to become a cliche or drown in student loans, see. I also desperately needed to leave where I was living — I could get into the details of why, but to sum up: I wanted to die every single day of my life and it took me several years to realize it was because of the environment I was in. So, I picked the next best place: somewhere close to my dad, since we’ve never gotten to have much of a relationship and I like the weather up here. I found a job (I was hired the same day as my interview, in fact) and I put a bunch of debt on a shiny new credit card to afford the move.”

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The Young Turks February 22, 2016 Hour 2

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