Recently an employee of Yelp, the big consumer ratings page for everything from garter belts to pizza joints, was fired for, well, rating Yelp as a miserable low wage employer, forcing customer service personnel to subsist on $8.15 a hour, which might be okay for a job in Alabama, but for the Bay Area is impossible to subsist on. How telling that a company which makes its bread and butter encouraging consumers to rate and review goods and services, would fire one of their own for rating them. Here is one of many sources for the story:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/02/21/3751918/yelp-employee-fired-low-pay/
I have read some online commenting and much of it was extremely critical of the employee. It is considered a no-no to go online and diss your employer. Also,it was noted that a customer service worker does not have the technical expertise of, say, a software engineer or a business analyst and therefore is nt entitled to a cushy wage---even if said company makes billions of dollars. But cushy wages and perks aside, shouldn’t a large employer be responsible for paying a LIVABLE wage in an area like San Francisco, which has some of the highest rents and food prices in the country? And what does it say when you as a business exemplify a classic case of we can dish it out but we sure can’t take it?