As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn't a meeting though, they were the only one in it.<p>After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is "moving in a new direction" or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other.<p>For the last few months, they've been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves.<p>They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately.
Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves.<p>Of course they were told not to go posting about it on social media, and I couldn't find anything yet, so I took it upon myself. What a trash company that doesn't care about its people one bit.
A friend of mine was just fired after he worked on a 6-month death march project. He worked until 2am almost every night with meetings at 7am the next day, including weekends. He missed New years, Christmas events, kids birthdays/other family events, and any planned vacations.<p>His reward was the elimination of his position at the end of the project.
Oh yes, Wayfair. In this case I’m pretty sure AI will be an improvement. Their customer support was abysmal. I needed to send a package back, they sent a company to get it and then refused to refund me because they somehow lost a piece of furniture and it never arrived.<p>I sent them the documents showing that the package was collected and then came a reply if I could check the apartment better, maybe I’ll end up finding the missing piece of furniture
Wayfair has demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt at this point that as a company they place little value on their employees. They're certainly not the only ones, but this is a timely reminder to be watchful of the signals companies send and be clear about your priorities.
To me was always weird how a company whose only means of doing business is a website, always had friction towards testability, to the point where I was continuously told by managers “we’re not a tech company”, while also having to revert multiple commits per day because of broken / untested code
AI is not your friend, it is the corporation's friend. AGI by meaning means "do what humans do, even better". AGI === cheaper human that takes no breaks, doesn't get sick, needs no benefits.<p>If AGI gets here faster than natural decline in human population, we are fucked! Likely scenario is that it will.<p>The divide between poor and rich is ever growing, middle-class being eroded. If you are an employee, you are never secure.<p>Not worth sacrificing your health and relationships for a job, unless they are paying you $$$$ worth early retirement.
Step 1: have a moral compass and don’t work for shit tier companies.<p>Is it really that hard?<p>I find it hilarious when people work for these garbage companies in the first place. And then I’m supposed to do what when they turn on you? Cool story?<p>It’s really on them imo. There are other jobs out there. Better yet you can do your own thing. But nah fam.