Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email::Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent a year-end note to employees, suggesting they work longer hours and do better at mixing work with their personal lives.
Reminder that Wayfair supplied beds to ICE and harassed and fired employees who protested.
I’m going to be honest. I’ve met quite a few ex Wayfair employes. Working longer isn’t going to solve their problems.
- Wayfare throws so much fucking inventory into the trash, just ask anyone who’s ordered from them. Seriously, everyone who has ordered from Wayfare has a “they fucked up and then sent me 3 couches for free” story.
- The decision making at Wayfare is stupid. I’ve met quite a few ex wayfare or current workers looking to leave, some stuff sounds cool but it’s never really helping the business get better.
Wayfare’s reputation at this point is “shittier than IKEA, and you’ll get the wrong thing”
Last two times I’ve ordered from them, I’ve wound up with extra stuff. I ordered a set of 8 patio cushions and received 12. Ordered a patio set and coffee table and received a whole extra coffee table.
Quality, as you said, isn’t great. IKEA can be a pain to get to (for me), but you know their stuff is designed well.
This guy comes off like a jerk. Terrible sounding person.
You don’t get to be CEO without being a fucking psychopath.
Normal respectable humans stop acquiring money when they have enough. Only people with undiagnosed mental disorders strive to become billionaires.
I’m a little dissappointed that stories like this are upvoted so much in /c/Technology
I want tech news, not news about companies that happen to have a website and sell furniture…
LOL fuck you.
If the company isn’t viable without squeezing unacceptable amounts of work out of individuals, it’s not viable full stop.
This is not a startup or small passion project. It’s a large ship, and a sinking one as well.
As a software engineer myself, I am pretty confident that this is not going to have the effect that Shah thinks it will
Work harder work faster!
Work deez nutz
I would consider working longer hours if I had a shit load of equity. Consider it. No promises. Otherwise, nah. There’s only ever going to be one 12/22/2023 5:00pm, and I’d rather spend that hanging out with family than making money for someone else.
Part of my employers year end message was that they’re giving us even more time off starting next year so we can disconnect more! Sure glad I got a good one compared to this tool. (we all get 5 weeks now)
Sounds a wee bit out of touch with reality. Sure, HE can spend as many hours as he wishes because it basically becomes almost a hobby to ‘work’ at whatever insane amount he gets paid. There’s really no incentive at the lower levels of any company unless there’s true equity and a return on someone’s sweat and diligence.
Are there no prisons! Are there no workhouses!
If they’d rather die then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population!
How is this relevant to the technology community?
The more my employer asks me to do more then my contract says, the more I will stick exactly to what my contract says and eventually just leave.
How about freaking nooo.
Clowns who think like this need to fuck all the way off… and, honestly, it’s up to older folk like me to make that clear. Younger folks are going to be fooled or scared into thinking like this and be unable or unwilling to speak up. We who have less pressing concerns need to have their backs.
We ordered a bookcase and it was trashed, because the seller didn’t package it properly. Never bought from them again. Another company that raced to the bottom.
