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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.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

I'm only a couple years out of school and say fuck these guys. I don't come even close to overworking lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

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Loyalty to the company is an outdated idea.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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

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.