Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Hi everyone. Today, while driving past a pizza place, I noticed something: The dude who normally stood at the corner wearing a toga and spinning a giant arrow sign pointing the way to the shop had been replaced by what looked like a cardboard cutout. It was holding the giant arrow, but the sign was hooked to…
In October 2015, Wil Wheaton, well-known for his brief turn as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and as a celebrity blogger, created a stir when he declared that he had turned down an offer to write for the Huffington Post. He refused, according to him, because they had declined to pay for…
36 year-old DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her salary ♬ Listen to this Story or Read it in German, French, Spanish On Friday, a Yelp/Eat24 employee wrote a blog post to her CEO about her minimum wage compensation, which she said came out to about $8…
You may have seen a story kicking around these here internets over the weekend — that is, if you weren’t busy laughing at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz celebrating their second-and-third-place victories in South Carolina. The story involved a Yelp employee who dared to criticize the company publicly for employee mistreatment, then was almost immediately fired….
If you look very closely at America, you can see the poor physically growing apart from the rich, like a polar bear drifting out to sea on a broken chunk of ice. A new report out today from the Economic Innovation Group (a “centrist” think tank funded largely by civic-minded tech executives) examines inequality in…
Read the Open Letter to the CEO of Yelp thing. Also, the reactions to it. It’s hilarious to me, how this now works. “You should’ve expected to be fired for this.” Yeah. She did. But after months of starving herself and recognizing she will never claw her way out of this hole, she at least…
In 2008, billionaire venture capitalist and real selfish bastard Vinod Khosla paid $32.5 million for an 89-acre beachfront property in California. Now, he’s asking for $30 million just to let the public use the beach. To be clear, Khosla—whose Twitter bio reads “entrepreneurship zealot,” if you can fucking believe it—is not offering to sell his…
If you haven’t heard, this post entitled “An Open Letter to My CEO” went viral over the weekend on Medium. Talia Jane, a 25-year-old employee of Yelp/Eat24, wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman to tell her story–a story that includes “crying in the bathtub every week” because of hunger pains and taking a…
San Francisco needs to lower the cost of housing. That’s the CEO of Yelp talking. Jeremy Stoppelman made those comments via Twitter in responding to a former employee’s open letter complaining about the company’s low wages and the struggle to get by in San Francisco. The letter, written by Talia Jane, detailed her experiences working…
Dear Jeremy, 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. I told my 8-year old self, This is what it means to be an adult. Now, seventeen years later, I have…