Woman Rips Into Yelp Employee Fired For Complaining About Salary

By Lina Bryce

Stefanie Williams took to Medium on Monday to compose an open response to former Eat24 employee Talia Jane, whose post on poverty allegedly resulted in her termination.

Williams’ brutal honesty serves as a wake-up call for anyone looking for employment, while unwilling to do what is necessary to pay the bills.

“She is on the receiving end of my disdain for multiple reasons, none of which are because she lost her job,” Williams stated in a comment after a someone asked her why Talia deserved such ridicule.

Reiterating some of the points I made in Monday’s article published by The Libertarian Republic, Williams began to dismantle Jane’s argument:

First, her poor decisions lead to an immediate self pity [sic] party. As I’ve said numerous times, she openly accepted the salary promised, chose to live alone in the Bay Area without a roommate, and the hyperbole of her “poverty” is easily debunked by a quick glance through her Instagram account where she has pictures of the procuitto [sic] apps she made and the expensive bottles of bourbon she had. She is not what poverty looks like. Got o [sic] inner city Baltimore and take a real look at poverty and hardship. Full benefits and above-minimum wage at a tech company? Not poverty, no matter how much rice you buy.

As a little bit of truth about Talia Jane’s actual circumstances oozes out, she doesn’t neglect to point out Jane’s total lack of work ethic and a basic understanding of how markets work, and that is ultimately the cause of her own demise.

Work ethic is not something that develops from entitlement. Quite the opposite, in fact. It develops when you realize there are a million other people who could perform your job and you are lucky to have one. It comes from sucking up the bad aspects and focusing on the good and above all it comes from humility. It comes from modesty. And those are two things, based on your article, that you clearly do not possess.

Trust me when I say, there are far more embarrassing things in life than working at a restaurant, washing dishes, or serving burgers at a fast food window. And one of them, without one shred of doubt, is displaying your complete lack of work ethic in public by asking for handouts because you refuse to actually do work that at the ripe old age of 25 that you think is unworthy of your witty tweet creating time.

Many commented after reading Williams’ retort on Medium and thanked her honesty, but not everyone was quick to agree. One person suggested that Talia Jane deserved more compassion due to the reality of having a low wage in an expensive city like San Francisco:

“…why is the story about Talia and her character, rather than the issue of a living wage in SF? Do Talia’s flaws make the facts about living wages and the cost of living in SF any less true or less worth debating? I don’t see anyone here defending Yelp’s wage structure. Indeed, the CEO of Yelp himself has publicly stated his concern for wages in SF…”

However, this individual misses an even bigger point and that is exploring the answer to the question: Why is the cost of living so high in the San Francisco Bay area in the first place?

Williams concluded her open letter with one final blow: “You wanted to write memes? Darling, you just became one.”

Read Williams’ original open letter on Medium.