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jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

“this is a company for grown ups.”

That’s too bad. I was thinking of getting their phone when I needed a new one, I guess I’ll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

Sidyctism2 ,

goddamn i read parts of the article trying to figure out which company… Im not a marketing guy, but nobody can tell me that “nothing” is marketable brand.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Allow me to introduce you to their main competitor, elon musk.

Oh, I don’t mean competitor in the business market. I mean their main competitor for worlds least marketable brand identity.

He took twitter, which had it’s own global brand awareness, and blundered it so bad that every media company refers to it as “X (formerly twitter)” because they know that if they had just put X, nobody would know what the hell they were talking about.

And his other company is literally named “The Boring Company”. Where I assume they make disease, and murderous robots that are somehow racist.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Clearly it’s not a company for grown ups because you think they’re all children that won’t play together unless you cram them into a classroom and tell them, “Make nice.”

anon_8675309 ,

I’m a grown up. I’ve been remote for a decade. I’m pretty successful too.

Telorand ,

Right? Imagine thinking that working in a cubicle is something to aspire to as a “grown up.” Fuck that. I’ll continue working from home, like an adult, thanks.

LEVI ,

I guess I’ll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

😆 mental ?! I already have my list in my browser bookmarks

JohnDClay ,

Part of it is literally named teenage engineering! The division working on the earbuds.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Engineering

itchick2014 ,

Teenage engineering partnered with Nothing. That isn’t the same thing.

Arthur ,

Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren’t a division of Nothing and they don’t work on just earbuds.

kantor ,

Ngl, that’s a genius headline

Lifecoach5000 ,

Yeah I was expecting this to be a thought piece in general about companies requiring them be back in office.

return2ozma OP ,
@return2ozma@lemmy.world avatar

I did a double take when I first read it. Then I realized it was, Nothing, the phone company.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

I did not even realize until reading this comment that Nothing was a company.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

nice, yet another company to avoid as either employee or customer

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Every other company:

“Hey, we’re hiring…”

mercano ,
@mercano@lemmy.world avatar

The way this usually works out is you loose all the good employees and you’re left with the dregs who were unable to find another remote position in time.

essteeyou ,

Dead Sea Effect

floofloof ,

"Remote work is not compatible with a high ambition level plus high speed,” Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”

Sounds like he actually means it’s a company for exploitable young people and socopathic assholes. Grown-ups have other responsibilities and don’t want work to commandeer their whole lives.

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

So Carl Pei sounds like a real douchebag

devilish666 ,

It’s shame they already turn into the dark side

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

We had a tremendous office culture in the 1950s. Since then, we have had numerous – very numerous – improvements and innovations in the telecom space, in the office assistant space (think personal digital assistant, or rather all the ubiquitous tools that do what those used to do), and other general improvements which empower significantly enhanced productivity.

To say people still need to be in the office is to say there have been no improvements. The fact is, we can be at home and be more productive than in an office. Anyone who tells you otherwise has ulterior motives.

Company is too invested in real estate? Sounds like an issue that the C-suite caused and that they alone should fix. Middle management needs to feel useful? Maybe they should find a career that actually has a need for their micromanagement instead of forcing other people into an obsolete box to appear useful. Show me a company against remote work, and I’ll show you a company with outdated goals, more outdated methods, and leadership which should be replaced en masse with people from 2024.

SupraMario ,

One person does what 10 people did in the 50s, these assholes just want control, and companies like this shit for brains, is going to have workers who don’t care and just want a paycheck. He’s not getting cream of the crop with his pouting childish screams. He’ll be irrelevant in a few years.

SeaJ ,

I’m sure Carl Pei will always be in office. /s

floofloof ,

He’s not going to exploit himself, silly!

veeesix ,
@veeesix@lemmy.ca avatar

“This is a company for grown-ups”.

Says man who makes phones that sparkle and a fidget spinner earbud case.

Banichan ,
@Banichan@dormi.zone avatar

“Carl” is not compatible with the human race.

We need a human recycling center.

penquin ,

I already hate their name so much and now this makes me hate them even more. Fuck them.

AllNewTypeFace ,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

Well, nothing should require employees to be in the office five days a week

citrusface ,

Guess I won’t be buying the CMF Phone after all.

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