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Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:44 am
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:44 am
Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life.
“Winning requires hard work. I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,” CEO Niraj Shah said in a note to employees earlier this month celebrating the company’s recent success. “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”
Shah also encouraged Wayfair employees to think of the company money they spend as their own and negotiate prices.
“Would you spend money on that, would you spend that much money for that thing, does that price seem reasonable, and lastly — have you negotiated the price?
“Winning requires hard work. I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,” CEO Niraj Shah said in a note to employees earlier this month celebrating the company’s recent success. “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”
Shah also encouraged Wayfair employees to think of the company money they spend as their own and negotiate prices.
“Would you spend money on that, would you spend that much money for that thing, does that price seem reasonable, and lastly — have you negotiated the price?
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Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:45 am to CaddoTiger64
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blending work and life
No problem as long as you’re also blending your bank account with mine
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:45 am to CaddoTiger64
The can suck my proletariat wang. bourgeoisie Scum.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:46 am to CaddoTiger64
100% chance the CEO votes Democrat and champions leftist causes. Lol
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:46 am to CaddoTiger64
Agree, but thats a hard sell. Every employee has their own personal gripes against their employer. Some of them have even convinced themselves their gripes are real.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:50 am to CaddoTiger64
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This post was edited on 3/13/24 at 11:53 am
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:52 am to CaddoTiger64
This message will not be well received. 
As Christopher Walken (Clem) said in Joe Dirt, “You're talking to me all wrong... It's the wrong tone. You do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.”
As Christopher Walken (Clem) said in Joe Dirt, “You're talking to me all wrong... It's the wrong tone. You do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.”
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:53 am to CaddoTiger64
Sounds like Wayfair is in trouble, how is their DEI department performing?
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:54 am to CaddoTiger64
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“Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”
So are you paying me to be on call in this “blending”? Have good benefits? Pension? Good wages comparable to the work effort? Any share of the profit that you’re pimping as the reason for this declaration?
My guess is it’s probably a big no on a lot of those.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:57 am to CaddoTiger64
Im sure their department of diversity and equity can pull the load.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 8:57 am to CaddoTiger64
At most large businesses, long hours and being prudent with company expenditures doesn’t bring anything of benefit to the employee. More often than not, the employee gets more work for the same pay while also having the department’s budget reduced to bake in the procurement savings the employee achieved, making future procurement more difficult.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:02 am to CaddoTiger64
CEOs don't talk like this unless the company is on the ropes. I'd get the f out of there.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:03 am to CaddoTiger64
This reads "We need to reduce cost, soooooo, we are probably firing people and we need you to pull the load on Jack & Jill's duties, now that they are gone."
"Wait, what's that? You are asking for more money to work 3 people's jobs and go home later every night..."
"Wait, what's that? You are asking for more money to work 3 people's jobs and go home later every night...
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Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:05 am to CaddoTiger64
quote:
“Winning requires hard work. I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,” CEO Niraj Shah said in a note to employees earlier this month celebrating the company’s recent success. “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”
More evidence that to become a CEO, you have to have the dark triad traits.
How out of touch with reality and how narcissistic to believe that your employees actually care about the well being of your company? They just want the paycheck for hours worked. Want more hours? Pay more money. Even then, employees deserve a life away from work and will be happier to contribute to their profession if it’s not owning their entire existence.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:08 am to CaddoTiger64
We call it “pansy time off” around here
We used to call it something else but the hr ladies shut that down
We used to call it something else but the hr ladies shut that down
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:08 am to CaddoTiger64
Happy employees are more productive employees. This message will not make people happy.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:12 am to CaddoTiger64
There are a lot of businesses where this pitch would have some merit. Mostly small/mid-sized, of course. Just because you don't own it doesn't really mean you can't have pride in it, mutually benefit from the success, etc. I think it's harder to find that but it does exist and it's certainly something to be celebrated/encouraged.
Pretty doubtful this applies to Wayfair, of course. If the principal(s) of the business don't know most of the core workforce personally, I suspect that is a pretty reliable eliminating factor for this.
Pretty doubtful this applies to Wayfair, of course. If the principal(s) of the business don't know most of the core workforce personally, I suspect that is a pretty reliable eliminating factor for this.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:29 am to CaddoTiger64
Don’t work for high achieving Indians. They are not culturally compatible and are incapable of understanding real humans.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:29 am to CaddoTiger64
I work to live , not live to work .
Posted on 12/22/23 at 9:35 am to CaddoTiger64
How am I suppose to blend work and life if my work involves gluing crappy pieces of wood together?
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