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.
“There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success. Hard work is an essential ingredient in any recipe for success.”
Says the corporate executive whose success is measured entirely by the hard work of others.
…Is the ‘harsh wake-up call’ that they need to look for a better employer? Asking for your employees to push themselves harder is what we in the business call “Whining.”
Work hard so you can make other people rich.
He could have made it much shorter: “If you’re not already looking for another job, start NOW.”
I’ll paraphrase it a little more clearly:
“To all my best workers that have the highest skills and therefor the most job mobility: Now is the time for you to exit to a better organization leaving behind those that don’t have the same options, opportunity, or ambition you do. While we’ll not notice your departure for a few months because of inertia of the good systems you’ve put in place, rest assured when things start breaking or getting lost and we have no one left who knows how to solve these problems we’ll scratch our heads how this all came to be while you’re gainfully employed at a better organization with more pay and benefits not thinking about us at all.”
Maybe if all those employees were paid the kind of salary, bonuses, etc. this industrial-size douchebag gets, they’d be as motivated as he is to make more of their lives about the company, but that’s never going to happen. Instead, he’ll drive the company into the ground, take his money, and move on while celebrating his business prowess.
It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and
InitechWayfair ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation?And it isn’t just monetary raises that are needed to motivate employees it also takes giving them positive feedback, making them feel valuable, letting the indians have a say instead of just the chiefs all the time. A few rewards and kind words here and there can really make people want to work harder.
I doubt it though. From my own experience I’ve seen how people who swore they’d never be as douchebaggy as the ones higher up instantly became that once they got paid more and moved up the ladder. I’m all for people getting more money but what I’d really like to see is those who are higher up doing some actual work to earn theirs.
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??
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!?”
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.
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.:-(
I guarantee he had ChatGPT write this.
He laid off 900 people last year as the company lost nearly 400 million dollars, selling cheap shit Chinese furniture.
Safe to say, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Despite what Wall Street thinks, layoffs are almost always the sign of a poorly run company, especially when they do it multiple years in a row, and really especially when they do it during good economic years.
Data from the last 40 years, when layoffs started becoming commonplace, show that companies who lay off in multiple years, especially at the end of the year, see two things happen: their stock price goes up, and they are out of business within 10 years after starting the practice.
These numbers are just averages, but play the odds if you invest in stocks: don’t buy stocks of companies that lay people off, just as you wouldn’t bet on an NFL team that fires its coach every other year.
sign of a poorly run company
I agree but can also be a sign of vulture capitalists stripping value out of a company to line their own pockets before the whole thing goes belly up.
