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Last two times I’ve ordered from them, I’ve wound up with extra stuff. I ordered a set of 8 patio cushions and received 12. Ordered a patio set and coffee table and received a whole extra coffee table.

Quality, as you said, isn’t great. IKEA can be a pain to get to (for me), but you know their stuff is designed well.

My favorite Wayfair story is when I ordered an entertainment cabinet. The majority was brown, but the doors were white. One box comes in, packed tightly, it's obvious that nothing is missing from the box, but I have no white pieces. Missing the doors plus all the hardware to put it together.

Contact customer service explain the problem, that I think there's supposed to be a second box. OK, we'll send another. Same thing, one box, packed tightly, same pieces missing. Call again, explain again, they send out the same thing a third time. Finally I just cancelled my order and threw all three "Box A's" into the dumpster.

It's the Amazon of furniture, although I rarely have as many issues with the cheap Chinese crap from Amazon. Several times I've gotten furniture with missing pieces and then the item was out of stock or discontinued so I had like 90% of a bedframe but it was just enough that it wasn't safe to use so I had to spend an hour breaking it down to take to a dumpster and then spend another hour finding a replacement.

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

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Loyalty to the company is an outdated idea.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.

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.

Work harder work faster!

Sadly, COVID and a weakened economy have pointed out just how poorly many top companies are run.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and clarify the sad part is that our top companies are poorly run (often showing us that the capitalism doesn't work the way it's supposed to as per ideology). And it's sad that it took a tragedy like the COVID-19 epidemic to put it in sharp bas relief.

It's not sad that high-level mismanagement of companies became visible, except maybe to those managers are going to see consequences for failures they couldn't have prevented.

100%. It's not a good sign even if judged from a totally heartless position, but like you said, CEOs like this are backed by investors who think similarly.

It's such a myth that these attitudes are "just business". It's become so obvious that many investors and executives will go to war against the people who generate wealth for them out of habit and ideology even when every business school lesson tells them that they're gonna kill a golden goose. Oh well.

Hold on: this might look bad, but consider the importance of the mission.

This is Wayfair we're talking about! People jump at the chance to change the world by going to work for Wayfair!

I know that if I worked there, I'd wake up every day knowing that people are counting on me. Counting on me to buy brik-a-brak that they may not remember ordering when it arrives. Counting on me to buy a kids desk that they find is actually smaller than they realized, and then throw out. Counting on me to buy a wedding gift that will get sold for $10 on Craigslist unopened.

That's the kind of purpose that everyone goes to Wayfair with, right? In a world of runaway climate change and empires in decline, who wouldn't work longer hours for THE Wayfair?? /S

You don't get to be CEO without being a fucking psychopath.

If they'd rather die then they'd better do it, and decrease the surplus population!