people that YELP are scumbags

don't spread it around too much

https://www.dropbox.com/s/adcsvx9adll9out/Journal%20of%20Consumer%20Culture-2015-Zukin-1469540515611203.pdf?dl=0

http://www.eater.com/2015/11/12/9723896/yelp-reviews-race-gentrification-brooklyn-study

this commercial made me think of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXPY2dBq9I

Ugh cant believe he sold out

Why is he wearing so much makeup

fwiw it's a supercut of several longer ads, still pretty embarrassing but Sinclair is the best part of each

― gr8080, Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:33 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.zhg8q53sh

Fuuuuuck.

How she didnt think she'd lose her job doing that I have no idea.

The depressing thing about the comments to that piece tho is shit like "you get free healthcare, suck it up, thats a luxury!" and at that, I want to bang my head at the idea thats a luxury for americans.

she did lose her job

sorry misread, it is late and i am tired

but from her timeline it seemed like suicide by cop rather than she was surprised

https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701091286325985280
https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701094909072150528

What a maroon. And the ps ends with a paypal where you can send her money now that she just got herself fired from the job she hates!

"They actually want me - a recent grad with little work experience - stay a whole year in customer service when I should be getting paid good money to write funny tweets! And the indignity of my bosses rejecting my submissions to the suggestion box!"

She killed my sympathy early on with her dismissal of being a lawyer or teacher as too cliche.

cool reaction

her job may be stupid, but if it's something the company feel they want done, they need to be willing to pay a living wage for it. i mean nobody needs to eat strawberry milkshakes, preparing them is basically harmful to society in the grand scheme of things, but if burger king wants them made, and wants people to spend their day doing it, then i believe they should pay the shake-makers enough to live on.

dude's scumbag victim-blaming/subject-changing tweets are also pretty impressive. i don't know how they rank by the standards of scumbag worthless-app CEO mentality tweets, but i wanted to punch him in the face. his photo may also play a part in that though tbh.

There's some naivete in the open letter for sure but her take home pay is less than what I pulled in at an entry level job at 25 and it was only enough for me cos I lived with my parents.

Add in inflation and I get her gripe. CEO could have taken it as an opportunity to dialogue with a concerned employee but instead decided to show how big his dick was.

oh jeez and she lives in California? that salary there, good lord.

The pay is astonishingly poor esp considering its in tech, which even at entry level should be at least better than min wage (and I wont start on min wage in the US, yeesh). She did undermine her argument with things like saying she lived alone - no one does that on low wages, its just impossible (it certainly is where I live, and min wage here is like $16 an hour at least).

Like as a comparison, 7/11 in Aus have just been hauled over the coals for paying some migrant student workers $10 an hour, and thats BAD.

I get her gripe, but yeah "I didn't want to drown in student loans or be a cliche, so instead of teaching for a roughly middle-class salary, I took a job in a capricious industry in the most expensive city in the country for less than I'd make at any given retail job in the hopes I could do something fun down the road" isn't going to garner a lot of sympathy. Ditto her pity party story about the co-worker who moved to a place that isn't obscenely expensive. Disappointment that you don't make enough to be one of the young people pushing established residents out of their neighborhoods isn't a good look.

Her situation is less an indictment of Yelp than the lack of a comprehensive welfare state or guaranteed minimum income in this country. The "customer support team" at Yelp (based on my interactions) are the bottom-rung call center salespeople who push the Yelp scam on businesses - that's not a tech job.

Both/and, not either/or. She's terrible, politics are terrible, capitalism is terrible, Yelp is terrible.

OTM

yes

people that MEDIUM about YELP are scumbags

http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-ate-nothing-clif-bars-whole-year-and-their-ceo-s-3935

This woman's job and pay do seem to suck, and I feel for her even as I'm thinking "you could def live somewhere comfortably with roommates at your age," but I'm pretty sure she wrote this letter so that she'd get fired because she was a little to scared to just outright quit on her own. Some people, I'd say a lot of people, just need that kind of push.

She's effed getting another job in media now though.

Oh she'll probably just go to law school now

Only half joking

i'm glad i got this kind of stuff outta my system before the internet became what it properly is

in case you haven't been following this (and why would you?):

an open letter to the open letter writer:
https://medium.com/@StefWilliams25/an-open-letter-to-millenials-like-talia-52e9597943aa#.jzt7bs8fb

an open letter to the open letter to the open letter writer:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/debunking-that-4512375

an open letter to any open letter to open letter writers regarding open letter writing:
https://medium.com/@emeyerson/a-self-righteous-open-letter-to-people-who-write-self-righteous-open-letters-to-people-who-write-3da86178cdb4#.4pel664e2

the original open letter writer writes another open letter to YOU in which she reiterates her argument as less about having her CEO pay her phone bill and more as her desire to change the world
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-you-69ed3f150540#.k2wsaxanf

etc ad infinitum

This is in all seriousness why I support a basic income. Jobs are bullshit.

Blog will eat itself

Jobs are bullshit.

Word!

https://medium.com/open-betters/an-open-letter-to-the-36-year-old-who-destroyed-the-29-year-old-millennial-who-ripped-the-25-year-98b79c905788#.ivq1v7dpz

basically what happened is she yelp'd YELP

https://medium.com/life-tips/yelp-fired-a-single-mother-today-me-fe9c87e71be9#.zfjhmw6wl

https://twitter.com/Yelp/status/704590955341438976

Please shorten thread title. I suggest omitting either "people that" or "that YELP".

A local store has a one-star review from a woman who's mad because they wouldn't trade her too-small Harley Quinn sweatshirt that she purchased elsewhere straight up for a different size off their wall. The nerve of this store to not trade your used sweatshirt from Hot Topic for a new one.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-el-bajio-santa-barbara?hrid=290ykbtwvH8sCo3C-w_kmw&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)

I'm struggling my shoulders at that

I will throw my post on the ground and leave

Who the fuck throws their food on the ground, what is he, six months old?

exactly

wow this guy's yelp account is a treasure trove

"Once we were done eating and our plates were cleared Michelle came back out on the floor. Looked over at us and just walked off. We waited for 10 minutes with no one around and we eventually had to ask the bartender for the check. He printed the bill and suddenly Michelle appears again! Brought us the check smiles and all like I was going to congratulate her or thank her. I left her no tip and wrote "you must be fucking kidding" on the tip line."

HAHA! All I can say is this was an insult to A) Seafood, and B) Restaurants.

The food was beyond salty. As much as it was, a suitable reaction is "Oh grand I get fish with my salt!"

if he's choosing to brag about these behaviors i shudder to think what bad things he does that he does not think are cool enough to post on social media platforms