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.
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.
Busting your ass for your current job will never be better than expending the same amount of energy finding a better job.
Are you content with your current job and getting good pay, good benefits, normal promotions/raises etc. while performing a reasonable workload? Great, keep it up. If you have extra time and energy, focus on self-improvement, family, hobbies, etc.
Are you feeling underpaid, under-appreciated, or generally unhappy with your job? Are you in a position where you can maintain your health and sanity while working harder to improve things? Great, keep working just hard enough not to get fired, and pour all of your extra time and energy into finding a better job. Never give it to your current job.
Loyalty to the company is an outdated idea. Dont let some out-of-touch CEO sell you on that bullshit. The way to improve your situation is to job hop. There’s no shame in it. Expect to do it several times before you really figure out where you want to be.
It’s one thing to be the way he is (workaholic). I’ve worked with people who really love working really hard for really long hours.
Advocating for it gets you into different territory as evidenced by the X-Twitter complainers.
Even if you take the cuntish language away, if I were a shareholder I would be spooked by a leak like this.
Anyone, even VC’s and middle-management types that share memes on LinkedIn can tell you that “working smarter” is better than putting in long hours. The latter is a desperation move, usually kept for when goals aren’t being met, or when you want to mask the problem of poor planning, over-promising, or under-delivering.
If the CEO is coming out with rhetoric like this, it shows that things aren’t going well, and that any plans to correct course are probably misguided. It also likely points to future dissent in the ranks, as any good VP or SVP that isn’t in their position through ass-kissing would likely laugh this off and do their job properly, against the CEO’s direct call - the kind of person the shareholders would actively want in the main leadership role.
Sadly, COVID and a weakened economy have pointed out just how poorly many top companies are run. Whether it’s continuous layoffs, misguided RTO demands, calls to “do more work” from employees, or belittling your own IC’s, it’s probably a sign that the “old ways” of management are showing their flaws in a modern economy, and that new ideas will likely be what rules the market for the next 10+ years.
Sadly, COVID and a weakened economy have pointed out just how poorly many top companies are run.
I’m going to take a shot in the dark here and clarify the sad part is that our top companies are poorly run (often showing us that the capitalism doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to as per ideology). And it’s sad that it took a tragedy like the COVID-19 epidemic to put it in sharp bas relief.
It’s not sad that high-level mismanagement of companies became visible, except maybe to those managers are going to see consequences for failures they couldn’t have prevented.
I’m no fan of capitalism, but it is kinda working. These companies aren’t seeing extended growth, so they are suffering. Sadly, that is being put on the workers instead of the leaders, and managers at a certain level are avoiding all blame and consequences. Internally, if you were to look at most of the tech companies that have made huge job cuts, you’ll see dozens, if not hundreds of executives that were drafted from failing arms of the business to a new area entirely, days to weeks before layoffs. At both Google and Amazon, it’s now basically an exodus sign for many when a VP moves from, let’s say YouTube, over to Search.
It’s why I really wish that the tech industry in particular was smart enough to unionize. The problem that tech faces is that many view it as a meritocracy, and they’re happy to see widespread decline…as long as it doesn’t affect them.
I enjoy the schadenfreude and I’m happy to play the game. Having worked in door-to-door sales, phone sales, warehouses, as a barista, bartender, gigging actor, musician, dancer, comedian, supply teacher, retail, children’s birthday party magician… my office job is the least hard work I’ve ever done but one where I have to play the part as if it’s incredibly difficult and taxing. And then go into meetings where I say, “hmmm… well if we’re going to market this product… we have to really think about the market we’re bringing it to.” And everyone nods sagely. h If capitalism is a machine that sucks up money to the top by pretending CEOs are working hard, it’s perfectly fine for me to suck money out the side by pretending being a senior manager is working hard.
I can and do work hard when I have to, but also, American culture is so fucked that people genuinely think it’s better to seem like you’re doing something than actually doing something
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
Then work the shaft
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this is why i save money and spend less, so i can amass wealth until I have “fuck you” money where I can just dip if they start this shit on me.
Save some of your money in Monero. Bitcoin is a Snitchcoin. Once shit hits the fan, Monero is Digital Gold.
Or just save it in actual money instead
That’s what I said. You’re a moron if you think the USD will retain value.
It sure will for longer than make-believe imaginary monopoly money
You’re accusation is pretending to be anything other than exactly that.
Monero is published Open Source.
I’m betting you can’t even become aware of your own ignorance if I punch you with the truth in the balls just like this.
Lol
Reminder that Wayfair supplied beds to ICE and harassed and fired employees who protested.
This guy comes off like a jerk. Terrible sounding person.
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Normal respectable humans stop acquiring money when they have enough. Only people with undiagnosed mental disorders strive to become billionaires.
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.
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.
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…
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?
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