Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims

Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by randycupertino on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:37PM (#19222061)

I think this is why companies often have a bias towards hiring naive younger workers- they're more likely to be cool with being exploited and haven't established any healthy work/life boundaries yet.

I worked somewhere that "specialized" in hiring younger newish grads from the midwest. They'd bring them out to the Bay Area, pay them way under market. The people would put in a year to two years at $75k working 70 hour weeks before they realized it was an intolerable and nonsustainable situation. The younger people were more excited over the free lunch and pingpong tables to care about comp, let alone making rent.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by kokokokoko on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:11PM (#19222795)

Not only that, but those hours put your hourly rate around $20. Which is about what you would make as an assistant manager at a retail store in the Bay Area.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by falcor84 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:27PM (#19222314)

> The people would put in a year to two years at $75k working 70 hour weeks before they realized it was an intolerable and nonsustainable situation.

Indeed unsustainable, but getting that experience and Bay Area connections might quite likely be a rational career choice for these grads

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by krageon on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:07AM (#19224024)

This is a variant of "do it for the exposure", which is deeply disrespectful to anyone's time and dignity. Regardless of whether or not you are right in terms of money made, society as a whole would benefit if we stopped playing that particular rigged game.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by Bekwnn on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:37PM (#19223174)

Do you think it's better than spending that same time socializing with coworkers outside of work? Because it isn't.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by gnu8 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:56PM (#19222458)

Negative, those things are external to any employment position and not something an employer is entitled to discount salary against.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by duado on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:02PM (#19222480)

Employers can do whatever they want if the employees are OK with it. When I was 22 I signed up for a job that kept me in hotels 250 nights a year. I loved it but now with kids would obviously tell any such job to go fuck itself.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by jacobreg on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:30PM (#19222621)

Sure, but companies have a heck of a lot more bargaining power than individuals. I don't think "this didn't cause large numbers of employees to quit" means that this was okay.

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by malloreon on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:56PM (#19222744)

this sounds like Palantir to me

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Re:Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Emai... by jtd514 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:36PM (#19222355)

sounds like the game industry

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