Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In October 2015, Wil Wheaton, well-known for his brief turn as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as a celebrity blogger, created a stir when he declared that he had turned down an offer to write for the Huffington Post. He refused, according to him, because they had declined to pay for…
36 year-old DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her salary ♬ Listen to this Story or Read it in German, French, Spanish On Friday, a Yelp/Eat24 employee wrote a blog post to her CEO about her minimum wage compensation, which she said came out to about $8…
You may have seen a story kicking around these here internets over the weekend — that is, if you weren’t busy laughing at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz celebrating their second-and-third-place victories in South Carolina. The story involved a Yelp employee who dared to criticize the company publicly for employee mistreatment, then was almost immediately fired….
Read the Open Letter to the CEO of Yelp thing. Also, the reactions to it. It’s hilarious to me, how this now works. “You should’ve expected to be fired for this.” Yeah. She did. But after months of starving herself and recognizing she will never claw her way out of this hole, she at least…
If you haven’t heard, this post entitled “An Open Letter to My CEO” went viral over the weekend on Medium. Talia Jane, a 25-year-old employee of Yelp/Eat24, wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman to tell her story–a story that includes “crying in the bathtub every week” because of hunger pains and taking a…
San Francisco needs to lower the cost of housing. That’s the CEO of Yelp talking. 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. The letter, written by Talia Jane, detailed her experiences working…
Dear Jeremy, 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…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) Three years ago, Jay Porter, a former restaurant owner who abolished tipping at his restaurant, made a powerful case against the practice, an industry standard in the United States. Everything at his establishment, he wrote in a 2013 Op-Ed for Slate, improved after he enforced a mandatory 18 percent service charge—the…
The only part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation likely to attract public interest is his plan to limit in-work benefits for migrants. No.10 adopted the policy after focus groups found that it had more “cut-through” than a limit on numbers. Reports at the weekend suggested that Jeremy Corbyn, who is in Brussels for a meeting of the Party…
Workers trying to leave Levi’s Stadium after Super Bowl 50. Gabriel Thompson This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. On Super Bowl Sunday, a few minutes before 7 a.m., I park in a crowded dirt lot behind Avaya Stadium, home to the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. I’m carrying…