Stefanie Williams
publication date: Saturday, August 30, 2025 (part of August 2025)
category: 
Controversy
clue: Millennials have gotten used to being told that they're lazy and entitled for yelping about minimum wage and not bootstrapping themselves, but they don't expect the criticism to come from their own, like this one at the wizened, world-weary age of 29.
explanation: In 2016, Williams wrote a widely-discussed opinion piece online that criticized another millennial for demanding more than nearly minimum wage from her employer Yelp (and being fired by Yelp within hours of the incident) that cast aspersions on the younger woman's work ethic and made assumptions about her support network. more…
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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