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Loyalty to the company is an outdated idea.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.
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.
Employees: lol no (opens new tab, starts looking for a new job)
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.
Reminder that Wayfair supplied beds to ICE and harassed and fired employees who protested.
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