CEO Carl Pei says remote work “is not compatible” with the company.
‘This is a company for grown ups’
And yet you don’t trust your employees to get their work done unless directly before your watchful eye? Get real, chump.
Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week
Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225169/nothing-employees-office-work-mandate-five-days
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
“People can’t communicate as well remotely,” the CEO, projecting their personal lack of communication skills on everyone else.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 months ago
Unironically written by the CEO of a mobile phone company.
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
“I know this is a controversial decision that may not be a fit for everyone, and there are definitely companies out there that thrive in remote or hybrid setups,” he added. “But that’s not right for our type of business, and won’t help us fully realize our potential as a company.”
By comparison, Nothing’s demand for five-day office attendance may sting for employees who helped shape the company while embracing its founding work-from-home environment.
Besides calling people who want flexibility children, the company was founded as work from home even though that wasn’t right for the type of company. Sounds like maybe the CEO doesn’t know how the company works.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He doesn’t want a paper trail
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Nothing CEO Carl Pei suggested that those unable to transition from remote working should leave the company and “find an environment where you thrive.”
Get completely fucked you dismissive shitbag.
Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”
I’ll say it again. Get completely…
I typically cheer device makers because I want competition to force my preferred device maker to compete on innovation. I had been on the side of Nothing. I now want it to fail. I want this dickfaced asshole executive to find out he ran his company into the ground by pissing off the talented people below him.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Most likely his company will slowly crumble over the coming decades as his top talent leaves due to mistreatment while he wonders helplessly and obliviously how it all went wrong
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He will blame it on “the children who don’t want to work”.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Seriously. I won’t buy Nothing-anything at this point over this move. Carl Pei can fuck right off.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
“Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week”
Yes, you’re right. There isn’t a thing that requires this. You shouldn’t be required to do so.
The problem with naming a company an idiotic name like “Nothing” is that it’s so easy to make who’s-on-first jokes.
huzzahunimpressively@lemmy.world 3 months ago
theres nothing i hate more than nothing nothing keeps me up at night i toss and turn over nothing nothing can cause a great big fight Yeah I was really confused when I read the title lol, I have to remember that there is a company named Nothing
sasquash@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
how to get rid of your best and most talented workers
drolex@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I’m assuming he made this declaration from his office, otherwise it would be hypocritical, and that’s impossible. Surely.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I really liked the work Nothing was doing, what a bummer. “Workplace for grown-ups” my ass how condescending.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Wait, a CEO that’s a total sack of shit? I don’t believe it!
/s
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a requirement at this point. Evil is the only way up, or do they tell themselves.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not that it matters but that would make me incompatible with the company.
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This right here. This article title. This is why you don’t name your company “Nothing”.
Red_October@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And when I saw it I had initially thought “Wouldn’t it be funny if someone named their company Nothing and was struggling to push a return to office?”
hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”
During the next pandemic, do employees get to refuse working from home on the basis of being grown ups?
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Why would you want to play into the hands of such a company?
hdnsmbt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wouldn’t want to that. I’m calling for a strike ✊
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why would we listen to this fucking tool? He’s literally the CEO of nothing.
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, if I was ever going to consider buying any “Nothing” product, that’s enough to say fuck that notion indefinitely.
Also makes me wonder about teenage engineering at this point and the company they keep… Nothing and the Rabbit - shit hype products from shit grifter companies run by shit people.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed,”
Because wasting time shipping squishy sacks of flesh through meatspace to push buttons is so much faster than having them push buttons at home. /s
But if you have as shitty a company name as “Nothing” then I guess you need all the ambition you can get.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You forget, said shipping of fleshbags is done on UNPAID time. CEOs love unpaid time.
shutz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The employees should just leave and found a new company. Call it “Something”.
Gilles_D@feddit.org 3 months ago
Ah, layoffs are coming to nothing soon. Well, sorry to hear that they are struggling.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I mean, presumably they had to grab office space to make this move since they started during the pan, so maybe not.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
What an asshole
More tech workers should unionize so they can say “fuck you” to this kind of idiocy.
casmael@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Oh look, Carl pei is scum.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
What a huge L. I thought this guy was cool.
ganksy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s only a matter of time in a position like that before they go full Elon.
not_fond_of_reddit@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Fair enough, I’ll show up at the office when they pay me for the time I just wasted commuting to the office. It’s my only ”asset” that is truly mine in this day and age.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Start the clock when you wake up and begin your morning routine. My getting dressed into anything other than pajamas is an exertion above that required to do my job from home. The one-hour commute? The hastily ingested bagel on the train? The running between stops so I don’t miss my next train that’s pulling into the station? All excess. Y’all are paying for that. If I have to show up to the office, I’m docking at least three hours from my day to make up for it.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My company, after covid said “we are considering moving back to a hybrid way of working”. I replied “Well I am considering resigning to go somewhere that is fully remote. I am not the only one”
And we never had a mandatory return to office mentioned again
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 months ago
And everybody clapped.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No. Why would anyone clap? It was a conversation, which resulting in not having a return to work policy. I doubt I was the sole reason
DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 3 months ago
If you’re confused like me, the company is called Nothing.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Thank you, because I was like, yes, that is a true statement
answersplease77@lemmy.world 3 months ago
factory worker, industrial production, security gaurd, janitor, HR cock sucker, upper mamagment boot licker, …yes so many jobs require you to be in office and cant be done remotely but the problem is slavewaging 50 hrs a week (including commmuting and preparation for work) with minimum to no paid vaccation days a year
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 months ago
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Kinda predictable from a person who claimed their product (Phone 2a) has the best unboxing experience, despite bundling an USB cable to it only.
abfarid@startrek.website 3 months ago
Can we please stop complaining about lack of chargers bundled with phones? If the phone is overpriced, then sure, maybe it’s fair, but if the price of the charger is subtracted from the price of the phone, then that’s the right thing to do, the charger can be bought separately if needed. Everybody has like a dozen USB chargers at home, it’s standard now. No need to bundle e-waste.
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
“Old” chargers are USB-A. Bundled cables are USB-C to USB-C, so you have to buy a new charger for it, or an USB-A to USB-C cable.
Additionally within the same brand you can have cheap phones with full suite of accessories - a charger, a case and screen protector, but once you go higher with a price tag you get less in a box. Example: OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite, which is now just a brand of Oppo, comes with a charger, a case and a screen protector, while their higher end model Oppo Reno 12 Pro comes with just a screen protector.
Samsung went even a step further and started making their boxes thicker, suggesting it comes with a charger, but in reality it comes with just a cable inside. Forgot which model was it though, iirc one of their Galaxy M line.
came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 months ago
let’s find out if my roundhouse is compatible with CEO Carl Pei’s face.
I have a feeling it’s not, but let’s get some empirical evidence.
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 months ago
BUT CREEPING ON UNDERLINGS AND HARASSING THEM porky-point
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nothing doings.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 months ago
That headline is rather confusing. Then I realised that “Nothing” is a fricking company.
Also branding his stuff as Nothing phone/OS/ear is hilarious. Hilariously bad.
subignition@piefed.social 3 months ago
I think it's a bit of a stroke of genius on the article author's part, because it's a great double entendre the way it's written.