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Wayfair CEO sends a harsh wake-up call to employees (www.thestreet.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The CEO recently informed employees that further blurring the line between work and life is the recipe for success and is pushing for staff to put in more overtime, according to an email Shah wrote to his employees, which was obtained by Business Insider last week.

“Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from,” he wrote in the email. “There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success. Hard work is an essential ingredient in any recipe for success.”

Shah informed staff that this is a change that will be pushed for in the “weeks and months to come,” citing that the most successful people he knows follow this work culture.

“Everyone deserves to have a great personal life – everyone manages that in their own way – ambitious people find ways to blend and balance the two. I think that is what we all should do,” he wrote.

He is also encouraging staff to be “aggressive, pragmatic, frugal, agile, customer oriented, and smart” and to be more careful with spending company money going forward.

“I would also encourage you to think of any company money you spend as your own. 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? Everything is negotiable and so if you haven't then you should start there,” he wrote.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess that means we should move our beds into our cubicles and bring in a pickle jar so we have a place to pee. I have to stand in amazement at the blindness of people in management. Do you really think employees want to spend more time in the office with no incentive of any kind, other than you telling them that work and life should blend together more?

It's like when I was in healthcare billing and our boss would say, "OK you did 42 accounts today, tomorrow let's try for 45." And my reaction was always "and why should I when I can barely get 42 done in a day, I'm making a lousy wage, nobody ever acknowledges the work we're already doing, and all the managers keep telling us we're not working hard enough." I mean - wow, could the corporate people be more clueless??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You missed the part where the boss fires those who don't comply.

"Want to" isn't a natural language statement, it's a bullying one as in "You want to do this, or else, RIGHT!?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

True that. I actually walked out of my job when my boss started to get angry over us not doing more than humanly possible. No I do not WANT to do this or else. They don't seem to get why dangling a sword over our heads isn't much of an inspiration to keep going.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not every boss earns the respect of their employees... in fact most people worthy of respect end up being removed from a managerial role, I've found. Sorta like a good politician - more likely to end up killed than reforming the system.:-(