Wayfair

They provided free snacks. I guess that's good if you eat that stuff.

So after being let go several months ago, I felt it was time to write a jail sentence at Wayfair.

Funny thing, all of a sudden, tons of positive reviews after all the negative.

So this explains why, all of a sudden, in the last 4 months, there is a rise in reviews.

So, if you’re a college student, get ready because Wayfair is coming to your campus to recruit you. Why? Because you have an Ivy League degree, you need the money, so they will lowball you, just to get you in the door.

They tell you about the free wall of snacks on every floor, and the beer on tap, the game room, and pod outings. Like most companies, they will inflate their egos to get you in the door.

Then you will be given a cool project to work on but very little direction or documentation, and they expect you to get it done better.

If you ask your manager for training or documentation, they will yes you to death but never follow through. I was promised from my first week I would have training in software that pertained to my job on the 1st month, the 4th month, the 6th month. Then, on the 8th month, I was told it’s not coming and to get over it by my manager.

But wait, don’t I need the tools necessary to perform my job? Of course, you do, but they will not give it to you.

If you ask a mid-level (4) manager or director for thoughts, they see it as an attempt to steal their jobs, and then they find ways to make you look bad, like you’re not knowing your job or make up a lie to say you didn’t complete a task.

Some employees actually act and verbally show themselves as they run the show and don’t care how they speak to you or what they say. I had this happen to me in a warehouse in front of a senior director, but that director didn’t care when I said to him, “What’s the deal with her attitude and condescending remarks?” He laughed it off and said, “Oh well.”

The level 3 managers are pretentious engineers. They all have rude behavior and are out for themselves by throwing you under a bus. These managers' favoritism is rampant. If you kiss their butts, and be a yes man, and bend over backward for them, and rat on other people, you will make it at Wayfair.

They hire young, inexperienced kids, yes, kids, not seasoned, highly experienced adults who have been in the industry for years, that’s because they couldn’t afford to pay them. It is by far the most judgmental place; it’s about playing favorites and playing the games.

Everything changes constantly, from pushing out system production updates every 4-6 hours during live work time, and then to have the live production updates fail, and then everything shuts down, including the warehouse ops.

I was placed on a PIP that I wasn’t performing as expected and was told I had to turn myself around and present a plan to fix it. If I was never trained on process and procedures, and never received the training I was promised during my interviews by level 3, 4, and 5 managers, how can I improve myself or the ways to fix it if I don’t know what it first entailed?

During my weekly PIP meetings, I was never told if I am on track or doing what I need to do, or how am I presenting it correctly. All I was told is, “There is a new sheriff in town, and my manager wasn’t going to be the one let go.”

My manager was offsite and had favorites in his office location, and I had a few words with some of those other staff members who were rude and belligerent to me, and then lied to my manager that I was the problem.

I then submitted the issues to the so-called anonymous board that reviews problems for their departments, and when they read my issues in our monthly meeting live, not knowing who presented it, they had no idea it was happening? Really? That means you have no idea what is going on overall in your department as a level 6 senior director/VP level.

Nothing was done about it. There was only a quick comment live that, “Oh wow, we didn’t know this, we will get it resolved.” I still talk to people who work there, and it’s still happening.

So, as some of the posts mentioned: If you want to be kicked around, talked down to, disrespected, and thrown under a bus, this is the place for you. At least I heard one of the level 5 went back to Portland, so that’s a good thing; he was useless anyway.

If you get on someone’s bad side by voicing your opinions, watch your back; that person and their clan are coming to get you out.

Okay, so now the person who monitors people’s comments will post up: “First, I wanted to thank you for providing feedback. Second, I am very sorry to hear that your experience was far from ideal.” Ready? Set? Go…

It doesn't matter what we type; they will never listen or follow through.