Business Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours - “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.”

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, and which a company spokesperson confirmed to CNN. “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. As of December 2022, Wayfair had around 15,000 employees, according to its most recent filing.

“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?” he said in an email to Wayfair employees earlier this month. The note was first obtained by Business Insider.

Wayfair’s business surged early in the pandemic as home bound shoppers ordered furniture, desks and home goods online.

But the company struggled beginning in 2022 as people returned to shopping in person and shifted their spending from physical goods to experiences.

In 2022, Wayfair announced it was cutting 5% of its workforce.

But Shah told employees in his email that the company is back to being profitable.

“Together we can win much faster than we are winning now if we all row in this direction together,” he said. “Let’s be aggressive, pragmatic, frugal, agile, customer oriented, and smart.”

Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics, told CNN’s Richard Quest in an interview Thursday that “if Wayfair wants to run a business where people work 80 hours a week, he’s going to have to put up their salaries by 50% to pay them for it.”

“I don’t see this as being successful for the typical employee,” Bloom said, noting that the jobs market is strong and employees have options.

A company spokesperson was not immediately available to respond to CNN’s questions about pay.

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[Xarpho's Return]

In my city, Wayfair opened a facility (probably with some incentive dollars), just made it a call center farm, and then fired everyone when COVID started, reopening with a skeleton crew in 2021 before closing permanently.

Fuck these people.

 

[The Nothingness]

There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.

The foreigners who come to America illegally and receive gibs for a lifetime beg to differ.

 

[Safir]

Oh it's a poo/raghead. Lol imagine being scolded by a diversity hire who got a free pass in life.

It's a nepotist hire. Claudine Gay is a diversity hire; diversity is a powerful grifting apparatus but each cog is easily replaceable. The pajeet isn't going anywhere if he doesn't want to.

 

[Hitman One]

It is unironically time to start dragging "people" like this CEO out of their mansions and into the street.

 

[Zoobles]

Burakku Kigyo

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Pretty sure he still shits on the streets.

He probably has a room with a custom built street for shitting. The Diarrhoea Yellow Brick Road.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

“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.”

There is also not a lot of history of Hard Work being Rewarded with Success.

There was a small window in the history of man where you could create your own business and make yourself a upper-middle class success, but The Stupid Fucking Hippie ass Boomers decided that "THE MAN" and "CAPTITALISM" was bad and they refuse to fucking let go of their positions of power because "THE MAN" and "BEING RICH" is only bad if it is someone who isn't a fucking two faced Hippie.

Now most jobs are for retard corporations that are held up by the regulations that their paid shills lobby for so for every Upward Position that exists there are hundreds of people reaching for it.


You want me to work harder? Fucking Prove that I will get something out of it first you Street Shitting Diversity Hire faggot.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Many of the younger people in the United States that this pajeet CEO wants to work longer hours are extremely lazy. They don't want to work a part time job let alone 80 hour work weeks.

The reason the younger people are like that is ultimately because the world Rockefeller truly feared has come to pass. The US has become filled who understand they're being scammed working for major corporations, AND are too incompetent/indecisive/unwilling to do what it takes to undermine and replace them. I'm not defending Rockefeller, he's a horrible fucking guy but the whole purpose he wanted a legion of workers and not thinkers is exactly for this reason. It would be one thing if the world was filled with financially educated people who were rising and creating new ideas and innovation. But the reality is, majority of people can't be arsed. You have to either be one of those people making the corporations or a worker for them. Otherwise, society can't stand and things fall apart.

That being said, go fuck yourself you street shitting pajeet fucking nigger. I'd be happy to work 80 hours a week if you were to going to reward me for it at some point. However, the modern world has made it painfully apparent that it's just not worth it. You won't get any reward for it. Go fuck yourself.

 

[MadStan]

It was the economics guy who mentioned working 80 hours a week. Where did the Wayfair CEO say this? Kind of a meaningless criticism if the hours the staff actually work isn’t even mentioned

 

[Drain Todger]

Those child trafficked pieces of furniture won't ship themselves. We need to make our quotas for Christmas Eve.

I remember that. Wayfair's site had a bunch of different listings for what appeared to be the same item, but with different names and way overpriced. People noticed that the names matched those of missing children.




This one is kind of bizarre, honestly, and kind of hard to believe. Public listings? Really? What if an unsuspecting customer tries buying one of the overpriced items not realizing that they're buying a sex slave? Would they actually go through the whole song and dance with the client and figure out if they wanted furniture or an abducted child? How would they explain away the price reduction if all the client wanted was furniture? What if someone gets suspicious and busts them? This is an extremely ballsy way to sell trafficked kids. It's right in plain sight. Did they just assume most people wouldn't even try buying something so obviously overpriced, or what?

Also, there was that one sex trafficking bust in Atlanta, Georgia, where one of the perps was wearing a Wayfair logo shirt in his mugshot:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/georgia-man-prison-sentence-sextorting-dozens-of-girls/85-5afb3f71-e3bb-47e5-81b3-bfbbcba39a26

Who the fuck wears a Wayfair logo shirt except an employee? That's like wearing a UPS logo shirt. Nobody does that as a fashion statement.

As usual, the Snopes explanation makes zero sense.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wayfair-trafficking-children/

[quote[Generally speaking, the images showing expensive cabinets and large price differentials on pillows, shower curtains, and other items on Wayfair's website are real. However, it takes quite a leap in logic to arrive at the conclusion that this is evidence that the store is engaged in child trafficking.

In fact, the more we pondered this claim, the more nonsensical it appeared. Would a large business really use their official website to allow people to purchase children online? As these items are available to anyone with internet access, wouldn't it be possible for someone to accidentally become involved in child trafficking? Why would a child trafficking operation use a method that would be so easy to track?

This claim is largely based on the idea that $10,000 is simply too expensive for a cabinet, and that there has to be some other explanation — child trafficking — to justify its cost. In a statement to Newsweek, however, Wayfair noted that these were industrial grade cabinets, and that they had been accurately priced. Wayfair said that they temporarily removed these items, as the accompanying descriptions did not accurately explain the reason for the price point.[/quote]

Why are the listings duplicated, then? Why the fuck would they sell a shower curtain for $99 and a nearly identical one for $9,999?

Also, $10,000+ is not a reasonable price for an industrial-grade steel storage cabinet. Like, at all. Especially not for ones that are visibly $300 Chinese knockoff quality.

Furthermore, Wayfair's claim of the cabinets being "industrial grade and accurately priced" doesn't explain the multiple listings for an identical $9,999 throw pillow under a bunch of different names.

Completely bizarre.

 

[Johnny Salami]

Unless you're a wayfair CEO.


Oh it's a poo/raghead. Lol imagine being scolded by a diversity hire who got a free pass in life.

America needs to realize that any more of these poos in charge and well be going back to the 6 day 12 hr day work schedule

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

@Drain Todger I swear, if the world wasn't in full on fucking clownworld mode all the time, I'd suggest you were paranoid.

But nobody fucking posts goddamn storage cabinets and pillows for $10k. My money would be on some sort of laundering scheme, but child trafficking is sadly plausible.

 

[Drain Todger]

@Drain Todger I swear, if the world wasn't in full on fucking clownworld mode all the time, I'd suggest you were paranoid.

But nobody fucking posts goddamn storage cabinets and pillows for $10k. My money would be on some sort of laundering scheme, but child trafficking is sadly plausible.

The most expensive industrial storage cabinets I can think of, the heaviest-duty ones, made from the heaviest-gauge steel, are like the Extreme Duty cabinets from StrongHold, like the ones you get off Grainger. Those are only a couple grand. They have a 1500-pound shelf capacity for holding things like piles and piles of great big diesel engine parts.

Wayfair's "industrial cabinets" are made of thin steel and have a 90 to 120 pound shelf capacity. They're not even close to being built to the same standard. Their claim of "accurate pricing" just makes the whole thing that much more suspicious when you actually consider the specs of the items when compared to real heavy-duty industrial cabinets.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

This one is kind of bizarre, honestly, and kind of hard to believe. Public listings? Really? What if an unsuspecting customer tries buying one of the overpriced items not realizing that they're buying a sex slave? Would they actually go through the whole song and dance with the client and figure out if they wanted furniture or an abducted child? How would they explain away the price reduction if all the client wanted was furniture? What if someone gets suspicious and busts them? This is an extremely ballsy way to sell trafficked kids. It's right in plain sight. Did they just assume most people wouldn't even try buying something so obviously overpriced, or what?

Now I'm trying to imagine a Pajeet customer service representative on the phone trying to sus out whether the client wants the cabinet or the child.

Comedy Gold.

 

[dustbuster]

Bloom said, noting that the jobs market is strong and employees have options.

WTF kind of gaslighting is this?
Tech companies have laid off an aggregate 45% of their workforce between 2021 and today, and are still operating under restrained or outright frozen hiring.
Fuck these people.

The US has become filled who understand they're being scammed working for major corporations, AND are too incompetent/indecisive/unwilling to do what it takes to undermine and replace them

Government regulations literally make it illegal to start an insurgent in the market.
When paypal was started there were no regulations on what paypal does.
Now you need a legal team and half your budget will go to ongoing court cases against the FTC and SEC trying to shut you down on paypal's orders.

Let's not get into the cartel behavior used to shut down twitter and reddit competitors over the past 10 years.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

This one is kind of bizarre, honestly, and kind of hard to believe. Public listings? Really? What if an unsuspecting customer tries buying one of the overpriced items not realizing that they're buying a sex slave? Would they actually go through the whole song and dance with the client and figure out if they wanted furniture or an abducted child? How would they explain away the price reduction if all the client wanted was furniture? What if someone gets suspicious and busts them? This is an extremely ballsy way to sell trafficked kids. It's right in plain sight. Did they just assume most people wouldn't even try buying something so obviously overpriced, or what?

It's really quite simple, same thing as spending $100k on a Hunter Biden original. If you're on the list you're getting influence, if you're a random retard congratulations you just wasted $100k. If you go to a brothel in Manilla and ask for an underage girl you get the taste slapped out of your mouth, if you say James Kimbal recommended the place - the James Kimbal you met diving in Palawan you get taken to the back room for the VIP experience.

Now less sophisticated operations will actually do the pajeet thing @Lobster Cult High Priest describes. I once ordered a pizza at a ridiculously cheap ( and I do mean ridiculously cheap ) pizza place because I was drunk and they were the only ones still delivering. I ordered and less than 5 minutes later I get called and essentially pressed on whether or not I forgot something in my order - maybe a drink or side dish.

20 minutes later a swole ass ethnic in a Mercedes pulls up - extremely polite and friendly to hand me an actually delicious pizza. 100% a front for selling narcotics.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There is also not a lot of history of Hard Work being Rewarded with Success.

There was a small window in the history of man where you could create your own business and make yourself a upper-middle class success, but The Stupid Fucking Hippie ass Boomers decided that "THE MAN" and "CAPTITALISM" was bad and they refuse to fucking let go of their positions of power because "THE MAN" and "BEING RICH" is only bad if it is someone who isn't a fucking two faced Hippie.

Now most jobs are for retard corporations that are held up by the regulations that their paid shills lobby for so for every Upward Position that exists there are hundreds of people reaching for it.


You want me to work harder? Fucking Prove that I will get something out of it first you Street Shitting Diversity Hire faggot.

Workers are squeezed from both ends. Founding your own business is impractical unless you're already wealthy...Domino's rubs it in employees faces (via signs everywhere, lobby, bathroom) that the founders were able to get an operational business in 1960 for $1,400 total, which is around $14,000 today...but you can't start a brick-and-mortar business for even $20k today.

Meanwhile, corporations were quite generous to employees back in the day (pension, benefits, all sorts of things even for non-unionized workers), and over time these benefits have been whittled down to almost nothing. People quit jobs all the time because they know that their loyalty to the company will not be rewarded.

 

[Town Drunk]

Reminder, a family could buy a house, a car, and take trips on a 40 hour a week income 40 years ago. This is why they flooded the labor market with women and illegals, so that you were so easily replaceable that you would eat shit for a low paying job because you were grateful to have it.

 

[Cybertonia]

Meanwhile, corporations were quite generous to employees back in the day (pension, benefits, all sorts of things even for non-unionized workers), and over time these benefits have been whittled down to almost nothing.

Important to note that much of the fringe benefits that used to be around in THE GOOD OL DAYS was due to the way U.S. tax law used to be structured. Your company would give you a car or pay for a vacation as a form of compensation as a loophole around the ludicrously high income taxes that we used to have. But since personal income tax policy became far more relaxed over the last 3 decades now you just get paid more.

I think people have also just gotten much worse at professionally negotiating, in general.

 

[Daniel Wallace]

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?

Of course the pajeet wants his employees to haggle over every last penny.