Yelp Fired A Single Mother Today: Me
Jaymee Atlas (Senigaglia)
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You Owe Yelp An Apology

I waited over a day to respond to this. I wanted to get the opinion of my younger friends. After much discussion, I can only conclude that you are a bad bet.

I have come to this for four reasons :

1. You lack common sense.

The decision to move to San Francisco was a a math problem you failed. If you knew what your salary was going to to be, then common sense should have told you that you could not afford to live in that city.

You said you did not get help from government, well you live beyond your means with your parent’s help,

2. You are bad with money.

No one with decent credit would ever get a loan with a 300% payback clause. If all your money was going towards rent, then how did you even start to pay it back, or was that up to your parents too?

If you make $2000 per month, you cannot afford to live in a $2500 per month apartment.

Who paid for childcare, transportation, food? Incidentals? your parents, again?

3. You used you child to gain sympathy from readers, when the child was not a factor in your firing. This was manipulation at its best. I know many single moms, and the good ones take are of business. They will eve work multiple jobs if need be. They would not jeopardize the roof over their head to play nurse to a guy in the hospital who has nurses. They would visit him after work.

4. You willfully misrepresented the truth when you failed to disclose you were absent 20 percent of the time you were employed.

Let me give you some life truths. You are an employee, and your employer is not obligated to accommodate you needing to visit a boyfriend, sick or not. Your schedule was such that you could visit him after work, but my guess is, you couldn’t do that because your kid could not visit. This is not on Yelp, this is just the way things are.

Your work ethics are weak. Your character is even weaker. You seem to think the world revolves around you, when it doesn’t. That you are a single parent was your choice, so please stop using it as an excuse for not being a person of your word, and trying to destroy the reputation of the company which went above and beyond for you. You owe them an apology.