Spence will receive a cash severance of $1,875,000, per SEC filings. He will also get $7,500 per month and serve as a Sonos board advisor until June, and his unvested shares will vest.
If I was this bad at my job, I’d be shitcanned with no compensation. It’s pretty cool how we reward failure at the highest levels.
Golden parachute successfully deployed.
$1.8M is pretty small as golden parachutes go. Was probably the smallest amount allowed under his employment contract which avoids a lawsuit.
To paraphrase OP’s body text, if I did a shitty job I wouldn’t be receiving $1.9M checks in the mail.
i don’t know if any of you lot have experienced the sonos app firsthand, but let me tell you that it is worse than you could possibly imagine. it takes ages to open, has a million buttons, and pretty much all of them are useless. it has a play/pause bar on the bottom of the app that does not go away. if you want to change your speaker settings, that’s hidden away in a menu (within the app) called “system settings”. why would they call it that?
the app makes you type in the wifi password when pairing a new speaker, even if that speaker has the ethernet cable plugged in. the app also doesn’t support certain wifi passwords so i had to change my wifi password before connecting my speaker.
I have an easier time using my Home Assistant dashboard to control my Sonos devices rather than the native app. Takes forever to load in Sonos but with HA, it’s near instant.
- 2015: There’s an app for that! 😮📱
- 2025: There’s an app for that… 😞🔫
The worst thing they’ve ever done is remove functionality from the desktop app and have it exclusively in their mobile app.
I love the idea of Sonos. Being able to have whole house audio without having to run a shit load of cabling would be a dream come true, except they do it so badly it is often a nightmare.
Like I’m a programming dullard but they had to go out of their way to filter out allowable WiFi key characters? I don’t see why they’d even bother…?
maybe they were afraid of bobby tables
Damn, I’m in the wrong business. Been making really bad decisions for free
Just as a way to soothe the outrage about this POS of an app: A fair share of the problem can be minimised by using Home Assistant and Music Assistant to control the Sonos devices. This way you very rarely need to actually use the app anymore.
Which is good because it’s indeed shit.
Literally just started doing this last week. I did NOT expect it to work so much better than the name-brand app for such a “closed system” as Sonos.
The Peter Principle in practice. A Quibi exec is taking over for him, I shit you not.
I feel like they couldn’t make things much worse apart from just making the app say, “Lol, fuck you,” every time you tried to do anything.
It’s so bad, I’ve mulled just trashing the one speaker I have that I didn’t even pay for, just to move to something better.
I just grabbed the old app from The Aurora store and told my speakers not to update their firmware.
I’m using my kitchen S5 exclusively in aux mode with a spare phone which runs the Malopieds fork of Innertune. It’s the perfect music kiosk / jukebox and I never have to touch their apps (unless I change up my network).
Most of what I use the speakers for (other than surround on the TV) is automatically starting lullabies from Navidrome for my kids at bedtime.
The new app broke the hell out of that whole chain.
Now I’m extra mad because their new app is messing with sleepy time for the bebis 😠
fuck those guys. Glad you gave a workaround in place.
Y’all are the best. Will have to try these ideas later
no u
Hope it works out for you tho. Hit us up if you need a hand.
