Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving

Re:Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about sta... by kdamken on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:32PM (#11152561)

But they can offer whatever they want as allowed by law. They're a business, not a charity. People can choose to apply and work there, or not. No one is forcing them to.

I would recommend looking through her post and also some of the links posted. It looks like she wasn't living within her means. When that's the case you can either:

1. Work to increase your means

2. Reduce your expenses

3. Sink deeper and deeper into a pit of debt and despair

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Re:Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about sta... by mcphage on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:16PM (#11153450)

> They're a business, not a charity.

She's not a charity, either—she works for them, in exchange for the money to live. If they're not offering enough for that to be possible, then they're expecting for people to work for them as a charity.

> I would recommend looking through her post and also some of the links posted. It looks like she wasn't living within her means.

I'm not going to try and assess that based on pictures someone found on the internet.

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Re:Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about sta... by kdamken on Monday February 22, 2016 @03:32PM (#11154045)

You are 100% right - she's not a charity. If she's unhappy with the amount of payment she's receiving, she can leave and find another job. It's not like she signed a lifetime contract.

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Re:Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about sta... by mcphage on Monday February 22, 2016 @11:25PM (#11156538)

Unfortunately since they've mis-priced their offering, her replacement will be run into the exact same problem.

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