52 year old agrees with 41 year old who validates 36 year-old that DESTROYS 29-year-old millennial who “ripped” 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her salary

I’ve been seeing this post floating around on Medium, Twitter and Facebook.

First of all you don’t get to devalue someone’s education and a degree in English is very pertinent to working in media if you will be say, writing content for their social media pages, writing press releases, contributing to their blog etc.

Secondly, she needed to escape a situation that had her contemplating suicide. She…

In Response to Talia Jane

I’ll start this off by saying that there are probably salient, necessary points to be made about entry-level pay and employee satisfaction and turnover rates at tech startups.

Talia, you are not the right person to be making those points.

Yelp Didn’t Have to Fire Talia Jane. They Could Have Promoted Her Instead.

Sorry, Ms. Jane. The internet has denied your request for sympathy due to your failure to disclose cupcakes.

I guess I’m surprised at the acidity of the responses here because your story runs so counter to the story of me and my fellow happy CS friends in our happy tech bubble.

For reference, here are some 2014 internship numbers:

Omg Dylan Gifford give me a break dude. Seriously. 1. You’re a dude. You have no uterus or or a vagina. Nor are you on welfare. You probably never have. Are you in silicon valley. Omg you start up wiz kid techies from the Bay who probably have gone to or are likely supported yourself by your parents up to that point, make me ill. I don’t think your…