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.
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.
When my order is correct but there’s extra – I assume the person packing it knew exactly what they were doing, just didn’t get a raise or bonus this year.
I often wonder how much loss companies suffer due to disgruntled employees doing stuff like that.
It’s a lot. General “disappearance” of goods from any source is referred to as “shrinkage” or just shrink. It’s fairly easy to look up once you know the name.
Off the top of my head, shrinkage typically ranges from 3-10% of inventory. Feel free to find sources and correct me.
Yes, but I’d be willing to bet that most shrinkage isn’t due to disgruntled employees; it also covers non-employee theft, accidental spoilage, non-malicious misplacement, etc. It also varies wildly by industry.
I think there’s some ability to distinguish as anything intentionally discarded due to spillage or damage should be accounted for directly, as opposed to only showing up at inventory
Obviously it is impossible to separate out honest mistakes, intentional theft, and disgruntled employee semi-intentional shrink. If you ask the company, 500% of shrink is theft by organized crime rings and the general public should definitely be spending taxpayer dollars on police enforcement and jail time for pretty thieves. So I would assume most of it is actually accidental check out mistakes and employees “accidentally” checking things out wrong.
“I’m not getting paid enough to count.”
My favorite Wayfair story is when I ordered an entertainment cabinet. The majority was brown, but the doors were white. One box comes in, packed tightly, it’s obvious that nothing is missing from the box, but I have no white pieces. Missing the doors plus all the hardware to put it together.
Contact customer service explain the problem, that I think there’s supposed to be a second box. OK, we’ll send another. Same thing, one box, packed tightly, same pieces missing. Call again, explain again, they send out the same thing a third time. Finally I just cancelled my order and threw all three “Box A’s” into the dumpster.
Could have painted it with IKEA furniture paint!
It’s the Amazon of furniture, although I rarely have as many issues with the cheap Chinese crap from Amazon. Several times I’ve gotten furniture with missing pieces and then the item was out of stock or discontinued so I had like 90% of a bedframe but it was just enough that it wasn’t safe to use so I had to spend an hour breaking it down to take to a dumpster and then spend another hour finding a replacement.
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.
I’m only a couple years out of school and say fuck these guys. I don’t come even close to overworking lol
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.
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
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.
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.
Uh oh, Shah. This is a textbook 3 ghosts scenario.
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
Listen, I know You’re holding the bags on monero, but this isn’t probably going to work.
Did. Did work. Worked better than the Snitchcoin.
Employees: lol no (opens new tab, starts looking for a new job)
Reminder that Wayfair supplied beds to ICE and harassed and fired employees who protested.
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.
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)
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.
Are there no prisons! Are there no workhouses!
If they’d rather die then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population!
