Yelp jobs eat24 white label12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Will you pay my phone bill for me? I just got a text from T-Mobile telling me my bill is due. Did you know that after getting hired back in August, I’m still being trained for the same position I’ve got? But Marcus at CVS has six dollars in his wallet, and I’m picking up coins on the street trying to figure out how I’ll be able to pay him back.Īnd then it gets really sad, with Jane pointing out how working at Yelp (a job she likely took out of necessity) is actually costing her more than it’s helping. A manager spends half an hour training you on the cash register, you watch a video, maybe take a brief quiz, and you’re fully trained to do the entire job. That’s gotta be a little ironic, right?ĭid I tell you about how I got stuck in the east bay because my credit card, which amazingly allows cash withdrawals, kept getting declined and I didn’t have enough money on my BART Clipper card to get to work? Did I tell you that my manager, with full concern and sympathy for my situation, suggested I just drive through FastTrak and get a $35 ticket for it that I could pay at a later time, just so I could get to work? Did I tell you that an employee at CVS overheard my phone call with my manager and then gave me, straight from his wallet, the six dollars I needed to drive into work? Do you think CVS pays more than Yelp? I worked a job similar to one at CVS. ![]() 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. 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. I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job. The open letter, published on Medium, details how difficult it is to survive at a company that promises so much (snacks! benefits!), but offers so little: Especially because, as Jane states in her letter, she sometimes had so little to eat that the only thing she’d have for dinner is a liter of water and sleep. Grub Street is calling this a “PR bind” (a very generous way of putting it), but it’s about to be much more. Two hours after the letter went up, Jane was cut off from her work email and removed from her position…even before her manager knew what had happened. Eight bucks an hour, she reasoned, isn’t enough to live on when your bills include gas, food, and lodging (you know, all the stuff that ensures you’ll stay well enough to continue working at Yelp). But on that day, Talia Jane also published an open letter to the company’s CEO pointing out that she couldn’t continue living in the San Francisco/Bay Area on the wages she was being paid. Yelp is all about linking the consumer to the business, so the acquisition of an online order/delivery service just seems logical, and like a total Yelp thing to do.Until last Friday, Talia Jane worked at Yelp’s food delivery company EAT24, where she was a customer service representative dealing with the comments and complaints of people who’d ordered through the app. Yelp has officially swallowed Eat24, and soon you’ll be able to order via an app or directly from the Yelp site itself. I would like to imagine that this scenario has played out in the minds of business owners and the Yelp folks enough times that they finally decided to streamline the whole shebang. Since when did being lazy require so much hard work? Yelp acquires Eat24 Who am I kidding? I might as well just heat up a Hungry Man if it’s going to take this much elbow grease to order out. We both know I’m too awkward over the phone to successfully complete a transaction with no speed bumps. Wait, you’re telling me I need to go all the way to the restaurant’s website to order? And then I might have to call and talk to somebody? Yikes. Read also: Why “Yelp Deals” makes sense for small businesses ![]()
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