Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food

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Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food delivery firm
Bethania Palma Markus
20 Feb 2016 at 17:40 ET

A fired employee from the Silicon Valley tech firm Yelp! has raised anger over the $1.38 billion company’s labor practices after writing a blog that pointed out that the profitable company’s employees are struggling to survive.

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She had been paid just over $733 biweekly and was paying $1,245 monthly for rent.

“I make $8.15 an hour after taxes,” she said.

Among her other grievances, she writes, “I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. Not because I’m lazy, but because I got this ten pound bag of rice before I moved here and my meals at home (including the one I’m having as I write this) consist, by and large, of that. Because I can’t afford to buy groceries.”

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