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SEX BURRITO
Jun 30, 2007

Not much fun

NESguerilla posted:

I think this person comes off as a huge baby with no sense of personal responsibility, but I have always wondered, what the hell do people who work minimum wage jobs actually do in these comically overpiced cities?

Stay in places like these?

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Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Professor Shark posted:




She seems pretty insufferable

Funny that she didn't mention her other job at Cracked in her angry CEO letter.

Then again it's Cracked, so

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

SEX BURRITO posted:

Stay in places like these?

lol

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

a career in hangin’ out

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
For being an english major the article is pretty poorly written.

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

SHISHKABOB posted:

Living on minimum wage doesn't really work anywhere. 8 bucks an hour for 40 hrs is lol.

If you work min wage you are either splitting living costs pretty heavily or you're working 2 30 hour jobs. Even in low cost of living states like KS the rent is just too drat high to manage anything else

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

turns out a high paying job in hangin' out isnt just handed out to everyone with an english lit degree

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

A Stupid Baby posted:

If you work min wage you are either splitting living costs pretty heavily or you're working 2 30 hour jobs. Even in low cost of living states like KS the rent is just too drat high to manage anything else

And so how many people live like that or worse? Tens of millions?

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx

SHISHKABOB posted:


Did you know that I am legally entitled to liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness?

This does not mean what you think it means.

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

crabcakes66 posted:

This does not mean what you think it means.

I know it's a platitude, thanks.

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

Professor Shark posted:




She seems pretty insufferable

I assumed she migrated to SF from bumfuck nowhere in the midwest. It makes me think she's an even bigger dummy now that I know she moved from LA to SF. It's not like she got dazzled by the dream of big city life or whatever, she just decided "Welp no clever tweet jobs in this major metro area, better move to a more expensive one"

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

im going to get a job at nintendo right out of college and design the next zelda game

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

Mega64 posted:

Funny that she didn't mention her other job at Cracked in her angry CEO letter.

Then again it's Cracked, so

She did, actually. While she whined about her phone and internet bill, she mentioned she was too stressed about money to work her freelance job and make more money

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
i gotta say though anyone who grows up thinking a credit card is their path to liberation has already hosed up big time before even getting started

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

max4me posted:

Am i wrong for thinking that she should not have been fired for this letter. That she have the freedom speak this and keep her job. Hell maybe the CEO could have responded and took her down a few pegs and told her to get back to work or leave.

she probably violated the company's social media policy by publicly talking poo poo about them online. she'll definitely get her dream job writing tweets now, showing social media savvy like that

a shiny rock fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Feb 20, 2016

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms
hmm basically death to america

Cartouche
Jan 4, 2011

SHISHKABOB posted:

So um how does it get fixed?

What exactly is "it"?
Not being able to afford living in or near san fransisco by tweeting?

gently caress millennials

Cartouche
Jan 4, 2011

SHISHKABOB posted:


Did you know that I am legally entitled to liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness? They are not going well for many people atm, and it's not because they made bad choices.

You have way too much freedom, agreed.

ChickenWyngz
Apr 3, 2015

Got them WMD's! Got that Pandemic!
Lmao work entry level with free food around the office and health for A WHOLE year before you get to join the twitter department? Lmao I hope she becomes unemployable now because this will follow her.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.

Aralan posted:

Eat24 sucks and this girl deserves her terrible life for moving into an apartment that costs 80% of her income or whatever

counterpoint:

I love eat24 and strongly support this entitled self-obsessed bit*h getting fired



sorry you spent a ton of your parents' money on a useless degree that has been known to be useless for at least twenty years. at least you have a decent job at a growing compa-- oh, wait.

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Moltke posted:

you cant fix an economic system that is objectively broken because, as this thread shows, anytime you suggest theres a problem, millions of bellowing goons descend shrieking THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE

fixing an economic system and fixing stupid people who make stupid decisions are different problems


like even in my ideal future 2020 after 4 years of miraculous Bernie Sanders Socialism and a $15 minimum wage, there would still be a 25 year old idiot with a VRlog complaining about this exact same situation.

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

do they really have a twitter department lol

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
"Entitled poo poo, I hope she learned something from this. Also I hope she ends up begging on the street for the rest of her short life whether she learned or not." -- gooooonz

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx
Maybe this whole thing is some genius marketing plan becuase I had never heard of this company before today.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

crabcakes66 posted:

Maybe this whole thing is some genius marketing plan becuase I had never heard of this company before today.

Well the bay area has pile of food delivery startups since the whole tech model is based around making people work 10+ hour days.

Lots of the startups offer free meals as fringe benefit to keep the techies inside their gilded cages

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Gazpacho posted:

"Entitled poo poo, I hope she learned something from this. Also I hope she ends up begging on the street for the rest of her short life whether she learned or not." -- gooooonz

can somebody please actually say this because i feel bad for this guy

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

etalian posted:

Well the bay area has pile of food delivery startups since the whole tech model is based around making people work 10+ hour days.

Lots of the startups offer free meals as fringe benefit to keep the techies inside their gilded cages
there's a big difference between what google does and what's described here, google's free poo poo is only for the professional caste at the company and not for the operations peons. yelp otoh apparently provides free snacks to everyone, but which are eagerly raided by the operations people whom they pay a poverty wage

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001

TheWhiteNightmare posted:

can somebody please actually say this because i feel bad for this guy

I thought I already said that earlier in the thread

TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Gazpacho posted:

Entitled poo poo, I hope she learned something from this. Also I hope she ends up begging on the street for the rest of her short life whether she learned or not.

:agreed:

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

Klyith posted:

fixing an economic system and fixing stupid people who make stupid decisions are different problems


like even in my ideal future 2020 after 4 years of miraculous Bernie Sanders Socialism and a $15 minimum wage, there would still be a 25 year old idiot with a VRlog complaining about this exact same situation.

Well, not exact same


SHISHKABOB posted:

And so how many people live like that or worse? Tens of millions?

According to a blowhard in the republican primary thread, less than 5%. 80,000 a year jobs are basically growing on trees. I don't think they'd lie to me in that thread.


Cartouche posted:

What exactly is "it"?
Not being able to afford living in or near san fransisco by tweeting?

gently caress millennials

Well you also can't afford that by say, working in a store or as a janitor or any other job that meets your puritan standards (though you'd do better since you'd be making at least Cali minimum wage which is 10)

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
Hahahaha read her twitters for a laugh
She's comparing herself to Snowden

https://twitter.com/itsa_talia

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx
Hey guys I might actually have to work hard with crappy pay and awesome benefits for a little while to prove my value to a company. This is an unacceptable violation of my rights!

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
well snowden is a self entitled jackass, "suspend the espionage laws for me because I''m internet famous" lolstfu

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

Hahahaha read her twitters for a laugh
She's comparing herself to Snowden

https://twitter.com/itsa_talia

do you think snowden ever had to put up with $20 copays?

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
im the snoweden of our times ( i got fired from my 8 dollar an hour job and in stead only received what will probably amount to a crummy 200 thousand dollars in internet donations)

Dial-a-Dog
May 22, 2001
https://twitter.com/fart/status/700850837887660033

Cowman
Feb 14, 2006

Beware the Cow





QUEEN CAUCUS posted:

Hahahaha read her twitters for a laugh
She's comparing herself to Snowden

https://twitter.com/itsa_talia

CEO of Yelp says that he wasn't involved and agrees that San Francisco's cost of living is too drat high and claims he's working to help lower it. He also says that entry level jobs move to low cost of living places which is why they're moving it to Arizona.

https://twitter.com/jeremys

Definitely filtered through a PR agent but sounds like he acknowledges it but obviously won't do anything about the lovely wages other than tell them to move to Arizona where he's moving some jobs.

If the pay were enough to live on then that would be a pretty sweet job. It sounds like everything else (benefits wise at least) is pretty great.

www
Aug 4, 2010

i just looked and its not even cold in SF and shes moaning about using her heater, average of 13c in winter?? thats like the average summer in scotland, give me a break put a loving jumper on idiot.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

www posted:

i just looked and its not even cold in SF and shes moaning about using her heater, average of 13c in winter?? thats like the average summer in scotland, give me a break put a loving jumper on idiot.

Yeah the Bay Area doesn't have real winters.

You only get roughly a week of weather below freezing each year

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Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

what i dont understand is that we put up signs around dangerous things. we tell kids about rip tides at the beach. we tell them not to run between parked cars. we acknowledge that society is better served by educating our young about danger but then we let them maul themselves on the internet without a single thought

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