Can confirm. I was one such member of this underclass working as a developer on Gmail in 2007. The pay was quite low by bay area developer job standards at $25/hr with no benefits. I loved the work, the product, the people, my boss, the atmosphere of the Google campus in Mountain View, the free meals, etc, but I only stayed for a month. Once I got a better offer that paid twice as much, I was gone.

To this day it's such a weird story to tell people.

"You worked at Google?"

"Yeah."

"For how long?"

"A month."

"Whoa, really? Why? What happened?"

"The pay was really low so I left for a higher paying job."

"Google's pay... was too low...?" They say with disbelief.

"Yep."