'I can’t afford to buy groceries': Yelp employee fired for public letter to the CEO
 

'I can’t afford to buy groceries': Yelp employee fired for public letter to the CEO
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One of the perks of Silicon Valley work culture is a stocked kitchen. But as convenient as free cereal and peaches may be, they are ** substitute for getting paid e**ugh to buy groceries.

At least, that's how former Yelp employee Talia Jane felt. On Friday, she wrote a blog post on Medium addressed to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman that detailed her low pay and struggle to afford both her rent and groceries in the pricey San Francisco Bay Area. A few hours later, she was fired.

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