1/2/2024 0 Comments Yelp ceo open letterBut the back left tire is flat and the front right headlight is out and the registration is due to be renewed in April, and I already know I can't afford any of that. Should I sell my car? It's not my car, actually it's my grandpa's. Have you ever slept fully clothed under several blankets just so you don't get a cold and have to miss work? Have you ever drank a liter of water before going to bed so you could fall asleep without waking up a few hours later with stomach pains because the last time you ate was at work? I also have to pay my gas and electric bill. I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1,245) for my apartment that's 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. Do you think it's because the pay your company offers is designed to attract young people with no responsibilities? Twenty bucks each is pretty neat, if spending $20 didn't determine whether or not you could afford to get to work the next week.ĭo you know what the average retention rate of your lowest employees (like myself) is? It seems like every week the faces change. $20 to see a doctor or get an eye exam or see a therapist or get medication. I've got vision, dental, the normal health insurance stuff - and as far as I can tell, I don't have to pay for any of it! Except the co-pays. Isn't that ironic? Your employee for your food delivery app that you spent $300 million to buy can't afford to buy food. Because 80 percent of my income goes to paying my rent. But we're not allowed to take any of that home because it's for at-work eating. Bread is a luxury to me, even though you've got a whole fridge full of it on the 8th floor. I got this 10-pound bag of rice before I moved here and my meals at home consist, by and large, of that. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. A whole year answering calls and talking to customers just for the hope that someday I'd be able to make memes and Twitter jokes about food. Then, after I had moved and got firmly stuck in this apartment with this debt, I was told I'd have to work in support for an entire year before I would be able to move to a different department. 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.Ĭoming out of college without much more than freelancing and tutoring under my belt, I felt it was fair that I start out working in the customer support section of Yelp/Eat24 before I'd be qualified to transfer to media. 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. I left college, having majored in English literature, with a dream to work in media. But boy did I not anticipate that a car and a credit card and an apartment would all be symbols of stress, not success. Now, 17 years later, I have those things. I told my 8-year-old self, This is what it means to be an adult. 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.
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