LinkedIn is Awful

[@GeorgeM]

I am very silly I just realised i read the post at 1:09 wrong and he was actually talking about delivering it while in Barcelona and not on the plane, my bad, still a cringe post though

[@Georgie-vg2ns]

Haha oh George

[@sageghosts]

You like kids

[@epicladgaming1623]

George your crimes have not been forgiven

[@Georgie-vg2ns]

@@sageghosts what

[@eliedwards7693]

I was just about to scold you for this

"Everybody has to be there, nobody wants to be there" is really Linkedin summed up.

[@JFTB.]

bot

[@alishahandley2142]

Unless its these psychos making twits of themselves.

[@babadilly]

U also have the top comment on the aimsy vid I watched

[@NyxTheRandomPerson]

Heya you again!

[@abzinhoo]

Stolen no doubt

[@manboy4720]

i just interviewed 30 candidates and guess what? not a single one of them was accepted. want to know why? they all kept asking about 'safe working conditions', 'being able to leave the building', 'getting a salary' and 'not wanting to be whipped until their morale improves'. 🤦‍♀ job seekers: slave mas- i mean, interviewers don't like all these kinds of questions! it tells them what's important to you and whether or not you're a hard-working sla- i mean, 'committed hustler'.

[@Rugby-yp2kp]

Same here, they kept waffling about human rights and all sorts of other nonsense. Back in my day being whipped was a privilege, it proved you were a man of substance.

[@SxVaNm345]

No joke, I've literally heard a manager in upper management say something along these lines before: "We want to be assured that our employees would be happy to work and provide for both their company's prosperity and their employer's comfort and lifestyle even if they haven't received pay in months or even years time. Sometimes we may even count on your own money to pay for some of the company's costs and mandatory training. It just means we can depend on you to be a subservient slav - I mean a dedicated, good-natured and hard working employee who's valuable to the company. We also don't like hearing employees unnecessarily complain about being mistreated, especially when the mistreatment is being done on low levels, or low levels as perceived by the company. We also value our employees mental and physical well being, that way they can still provide for us at their optimal level." Look, there is some truth that employees should be ready to resiliently and professionally handle some things, as well as prioritize some things in their workplace, especially when its a job working with the public or some sort of client, but to be treated or viewed as a near slave or even mildly abused shouldn't be the standard work life.

[@jin394]

Meanwhile those of us looking for coworkers: pls just hire someone to help lighten our load already!!!!

[@majormothtastic501]

​@@jin394then they hire the one armed gimp who's no use to the Job, so they can click their new disability check list. 😅 Job:duel lifting items with weights from 25-50 kg 😂😂😂

[@Whothefuckisgrey]

I heard this too

[@al-manasama8370]

Fucking hate linkedin. That's a site that needs to go permanently

[@hazukichanx408]

Its main way of attracting new users seems to be having existing users invite everyone in their email contacts without knowing it. Nor consenting to it, obviously...

[@abzinhoo]

@@hazukichanx408probably did consent to it tho when logging in or signing up

[@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally]

The only thing it's good for is seeing how many of my Physics classmates went into consulting and other such wankery

[@AdamOBrien29]

This is an example of when 4chan and anonymous would be very handy

[@al-manasama8370]

More linkedin cringe pls. We need to normalize shitting on this website the same we do with Facebook

[@JUMALATION1]

LinkedIn is a goddamn hellhole when it comes to fake positivity. Everyone is trying to boast about "oh, I attended this awesome seminar", "I got to participate in this cool nation-wide project", "I enjoyed my time at company X, but immediately got hired at company Y, while rejecting company Z because it didn't fit my standards" or even worse "I will take a small break and figure out what kind of job I want next". I'm jobless and actively applying for jobs, and I get mentally nauseous whenever I briefly have to log on just to provide my profile url for the next job search I do. People are so pretentious. F*CKING HIRE ME ALREADY, after 50+ tailored applications and 100-300 applicants for each one I'm literally going insane

[@TeleportUsToMars.]

It's truly awful, I only joined to job search and left a year or so later because it's filled with monumental pricks! It sucks for job searching too, had zilch from there. Don't give up hope! I've always had better luck with recruitment agencies or other job sites, LinkedIn sucks ass... best of luck to you 👍

[@Derafog]

😊😊

[@jin394]

I managed to do my last job hunt without using linkedIn and I'm so grateful. It probably took me longer and I lost on some jobs automatically for sure but god, I hate linkedin and having to build a network.

[@ohdear_marty7672]

omg tell me abt it ;-; ive been trying to find a job since i graduated HS and for abt 3 years now, 30 diff accounts of job sites, 7 diff resumes and im just tired of looking,, it sucks seeing other ppl have such an easy time with it while not even getting your foot anywhere near the door

[@theguy8265]

"Great initiative Tom!" It just all seems so fake, I'm only on there to follow the organisations relevant to me, which are Government Orgs.

[@rayradiant1828]

"Shut up..." is the best possible response to this nonsense

[@123izzyb4]

Saw someone on LinkedIn post about the brith of their new baby. They called it “the companies newest shareholder” and put it in a company branded baby grow 💀

[@jaspermooren5883]

Some people are just disgusting. Is there anyone that actually believes this bullshit? Or are all these people just going through the motions thinking everyone else will believe it?

[@richgerow3472]

You know that saying about how every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child? Yeah, that seems extremely pertinent here.

[@cmposting]

to be fair, that sounds like a joke that wasn't executed well

[@simonchalmers6377]

''there is no point being the richest man in the graveyard....,,'' quote my late father , he left me some things not much , but he and my mum enjoyed life to the full and good on them ,expect nothing anything you get is a bonus

[@mcbigboy4611]

Damn thats a good quote, sounds like a good guy

[@JustDaniel6764]

My Grandad used to say that, And "You cant it with you" whenever he spent any

[@Cassxowary]

@@JustDaniel6764 you can’t it with you? you mean take?

[@Balfe46tm]

LinkedIn just the tinder for jobs except almost everyone there is insane

[@rosiebellamy9061]

so the yubo for jobs 😭

[@chetmanley1885]

So quite like Tinder.

[@Maquenaz]

so tinder but for jobs

[@KasabianFan44]

The “except” part doesn’t exclude Tinder.

[@MrPAULONEAL]

It's probably more like Grindr...

[@TheGhostofAbigailMills]

I'm still coming to grips with the fact that LinkedIn is considered a social media platform now. I haven't opened that coffin since at least 2014-ish and it was just a place to put your resume back then ... Jesus, this is like waking up from a coma and finding the world altered in a way that you could have never predicted.

[@bfinleyxo]

i thought linkedin was a job application site

[@yamiali1783]

It is, don't forget, you need 5 years of experience at the age of 18

[@NewPaulActs17]

@@yamiali1783 by the age of 18 they expect 21 years of experience

[@bfinleyxo]

@@yamiali1783 i thought it was and yeah gonna go start grafting at 13😂 people baffle me with there ideas tbf

[@TheAncientAstronomer]

​@@yamiali1783And 20 by 25!😁

[@xenon8927]

It’s supposed to be. In practice, it’s what happens when you try to make an internet community out of nothing but finance bros

[@GhostofKittyKatDawg]

I feel sorry for the grind people. They always seem miserable

[@WesTV]

"My dentist said I grind in my sleep...he's real as for saying that"

[@ethnsn]

Fr, it's their whole personality and it's dreadful

[@laurieharper1526]

That's why they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are. Helps them feel better about their sad, pointless grind of an existence.

[@mcbruh14]

Dont feel sorry for them, they're the fools who wanted to everyone miserable, a negative emotion black hole

[@Ryan-wx1bi]

Can't be miserable if you're always grinding, no time to think about it, because there is no sleep, just more grinding

[@maisiemciver]

‘the weekend is a modern invention’ compared to when workers had no rights?? also literally in the medieval age they worked short days, they spent a lot of time recreationally

[@johnroach9026]

There is a slight caveat to that, a lot of 'free' time was spent for religious purposes (Sunday mass, religious holidays, etc). Summertime was spent mostly harvesting - one could expect to work 12+ hours a day while doing that. However, in winter after crops were sown, there was more free time

[@Taylorjay99]

5:57 Chris Donnelly's tiktoks are worth watching, he basically exposes dumb bosses and managers and it's so infuriating

[@epicfail7874]

Not to get radical on a George Memeulous video but to get radical on a George Memeulous video. I fucking hate how capitalism has created a society where there are people who think that people should put all there time into working and that being capable of doing work is a necessity for people being able to live

[@manboy4720]

no one's last words was ever "i wish i worked more".

[@hazukichanx408]

Balance in all things; a lot of work will always need doing for a society to prosper and provide for its citizens. But yeah. Our current society provides way too much for a select few of its citizens, with no particular correlation to actual merit or effort involved in their work or anything. In fact, the most privileged tend to do the least work. They just sit, and own, and collect the fruits of others' efforts. This is not a working economy, this is banditry in a metaphorical silk gown - or in the Emperor's New Clothes, that we are only just beginning to gather the courage to admit are just not there. Much like the 'value' of the wealthy themselves.

[@Rassilons-hand-me-downs]

Anti capitalism on a George m video… so real of you

[@kodiwtf]

I mean being capable of doing work has always been a neccesity for people to live so I'm not sure if I get your point there.

[@epicfail7874]

​@@kodiwtf my point is, though I should've clarified it more, that a universal basic income should exist which covers the base essentials in life

[@chickensticks4life]

I’m an 80 year old

[@overratedgalaxi]

hello mr. cat

[@GummitMan]

Hah im 81 nerd

[@averagelizard2489]

I'm 81 year old

[@Razzy5]

I’m 82 take that

[@GummitMan]

@@Razzy5 nuh uh im 83 now

[@Malik-ji1kx]

bro was dead for 9 mins? wow hes a real hard worker since the brain is alive for only about 3 mins max after oxygen loss

[@kingayman5225]

Such a weird place filled with people virtue signalling non stop.

[@Fr0stbite1801]

And the virtue is always not virtues at all like "give up your family to hustle 25/8"

[@kingayman5225]

@@Fr0stbite1801 it is to the target audience 😂

[@anthonystewart3915]

I hate LinkedIn so much but unfortunately it’s necessary for the job search ☹️

[@anon_0x02f0bcd4]

So here's something I've learned pulling an 16 hrs a day, 7 days work (yes, weekend was not off the chart, very huge crunch time) It made me so much exhausted that by the time I was done with the work, my brain was constantly saying "please leave, please leave, I don't need the money, please leave." It was as if I were in a survival situation, like you see in horror movie. Kinda reminded me of the "Ready Or Not" movie.

[@Thurnmourer]

I hope you listened to your brain, mate. Please, tell me you did?

[@anon_0x02f0bcd4]

@@Thurnmourer Yes I did, Im now working for a much better corpo. Salary is good, worktime is usual 9-5, overtime aint a thing here, in short situation is much better. Well, thanks to that workplace, my current employee took me in for the experience.

[@Wunderwolf]

Everyone thinks that reddit and twitter have the most unhinged opinions on the internet So linkedin is like the corporate version of those, i say this because I've been there(still recovering to this day)

[@Jayfabri575]

0.8 miles is just a little over 1 km, on average that would take at most 16 minutes. Okay it’s snowing and they’re bare foot, that should make you move faster honestly. I live in Canada and I had to walk like 1 km to get home from the bus stop, even when it was snowing or pouring rain, if my shoes were soaked through it made me walk faster because they’d be wet and then freezing at the same time. I’m really stuck on the fact they repeated 0.8 miles a couple times as if that’s the longest walk they’ve ever been on 😭 Edit: where I live in Canada when it gets cold it gets COLD, like in the negatives

[@SpaceshipRocketFuel]

'Imagine where you could be working 80 hours' Divorced, probably in the grave by the time I'm 40

[@HockeySemp]

I once walked 15 miles home in the snow because my work didnt let me go home when it started knowing I catch buses and sure enough they all got cancelled. They said how I could just sleep in office, but I would have to sleep in my office chair and would be woke up when the early shift came in. I left work at 7pm, and didn't get home until about 2am. Needless to say, I did not turn up the next day and my work actually did want to give me disciplinary for missing the day

[@Cassxowary]

I’m sorry!

[@larsegholmfischmann6594]

LinkedIn is also the reverse of Tinder, where women makes themselves attractive to nerdy men who reject them

[@Phoenix-MX1]

Orson Welles made a movie about how trying to always prove yourself leads to a life of misery, solitude, and regret.

[@123batina]

Those are super insufferable ppl. Seen them in most of companies i worked for. Constantly "working" and doing so little. I realized i do more productive work in 1 hr then they do in a day.

[@Cassxowary]

I* than*

[@georgehelyar]

Someone working before their start date is someone currently unemployed. The start date is generally the notice period that they have to give for their current job.

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

The last job I took (still my current job) I joined a week early, but only because it was a week away working and staying in a Hotel every night. It saved me a bunch of money that I didn't need to spend on food back at home!

[@Cassxowary]

@@nickmaclachlan5178it saved you money to pay for hotel and takeaway instead of just a bit of food at home?

[@jrproductions7713]

People in secondary school with Linked In profiles always annoyed tf out of me 😭😭

[@justaguywithapowerpole]

wa people in academy/ highschool/ secodnary have profiels ruhh waaa

[@jrproductions7713]

@@justaguywithapowerpole Its just a bit wet mate imo

[@zoeyc5851]

I feel like they're the type of ppl to make Andrew Tate like courses

[@mattbarber97]

My English teacher forced us to make one in year 7

[@OmiWatanube]

I remember accidentally making a LinkedIn when I was like 10 or 11 because you could sync it with Google or something like that

[@Jinn174]

that woman in the private plane got caught out for faking it from her Instagram,, she actually hired a fake private plane for one hour that was in a hangar to take her Instagram photos, you can see it is in a hangar if you zoom in and look through the windows, there are also no pilots in the cockpit. you can see the bad paint job on the step up to the cockpit, the thrust levers are in the ground idle position, so it is not in the air, the panel above the pilots is missing lots of switches that would normally be there.

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

There are plenty of aircraft interior mock-ups around that are exclusively hired out to Insta-whores et al on an hourly basis so they can fake it rather than make it!

[@btecxsvr]

the hotel lobby one is literally a wheterspoons in Dublin lol

[@KeepItFresh02]

linkedin has done absolutely nothing for my career and job search. I was getting recruiters reaching out but they end up ghosting me, when I try to follow up about a SWE role I know I can do in my sleep.

[@OmiWatanube]

Old people will ache and groan about participation trophies then hop on LinkedIn where they expect people to care when they attend a meeting

[@AlexPatterson-co4gh]

Haha stupid OLD people. If they were smart they would have stayed young.

[@TPJH850]

5 minutes of a LinkedIn reaction video is 10 minutes IRL

[@joeaverage3444]

There's one thing that's evidently missing in the minds of those posters who think they are HR geniuses for squerzing the last bit of lifeblood from employees that way. And that is that as a candidate, you are free to tell them anytime to get bent, and go look for a job elsewhere where they don't treat you like you're in a Soviet gulag.

[@LockedDownSpectator]

I am on LinkedIn by virtue of being potentially seen by future employers. No more. No less.

[@jonnycola86]

Linkedin is full of roasters

[@alphabetaomega265]

10:40 “What you accomplish in a year Others will do in six months” 😂😂😂

[@maxsredditreadingclub8353]

RIP To That Person’s Dad 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@mel8236]

i had to use linkedin for a school project and i remember i got a comment from some random guy that was like “this is a great video! but here’s some feedback on what you can do better!” FIRST OF ALL WHO ARE YOU???

[@chronicbrightside8757]

LinkedIn started as like, a way to check out jobs and make career connections, right? Did I dream that? Is there some sort of singularity that slowly transforms every app and website into Facebook/Twitter?

[@Gorts-got-bars]

Every person in this vid should start an alpha podcast.

[@JamesMaund538]

I’d love to see the parents story of why they were chatting about their kids dead dog on linkedin

[@hazukichanx408]

4:55 - Imagine bragging about how smart you are for "investing" your money ($35 of it, about enough to buy a one-billionth ownership share in some utterly worthless company, I imagine), while failing a math question as simple as "15+15=...?", in a hypothetical context _you_ created in the first place. Smh, smh. Just goes to show, rich people =/= smart people... as much as they love to pretend the opposite.

[@alicegallagher9291]

George…. I think he meant he was giving a seminar in Spain, not on the actual plane

[@jonnycola86]

Never had LinkedIn profile and never will.

[@AndreaLogiudice]

Imagine being smart enough to invest on trading platforms all your money, when you are convinced that 15 + 15 = 35.

[@jennabrazel7860]

linked in was supposed to be for people looking for work just ended up being bitcoin stans

[@Viva-Cristo-Rey-]

Funny how we can both work hard and have 6 weeks of vacation a year in my country. You need to unionize.

[@grabble7605]

15:30 Listening to music in explicitly scheduled 10-minute blocks is legit American Psycho behavior.

[@zachpeters7899]

HES SAYING HE DID THE SEMINAR IN BARCELONA NOT WHILST ON THE PLANE

[@lookhow2547]

Calm doon

[@Trashpanda115]

Parik Patel to my knowledge is satire, and the math being wrong might just be rage bait because the interaction gives him joy.

[@vividwinter1221]

funnily enough, that chris donnelly guy i’m pretty well off and has a tiktok talking about how insane some bosses are towards people; definitely can’t get promoted bc he is the boss/co-boss of his companies

[@Thog25]

I love the fact that people who say : "work more, ears more" are also the same people who don't pay overtime to their employees. I don't want to work more if you don't pay me my overtime hours

[@TesterAnimal1]

Yes it really is. Absolutely toxic.

[@mag3nta_m4sk]

LinkedIn? More like LockedIn, we found the threat.

[@connor7565]

3 weeks of off time even PTO would get me fired for sure 💀. 3 weeks is wilddddd

[@SilverBlackBird1989]

Not in Europe, where we have 4 weeks plus some extra days off.

[@AndreaLogiudice]

I think most of those who preach about working 20 hours a day simply don't realize that they are wasting time on a social thinking that someone will actually find them cool 😵‍💫 Of course, if you have the opportunity it's better to spend extra time working than to throw it out the window, but you also need to be able to re-establish your mental serenity in order to perform at your best at work. 🤷‍♂

[@bekr3473]

The guy with working on weekends has a point sometimes at my job someone has to be at the company on Saturday for 12 hours with nothing to do. Due to it beeing the weekend the 12h „work“ are 27h pay(9h*2+3h*3) 😂.

[@devon-aire]

11:30 I was about to say “104 days off? That’s the lyrics to the Phineas and Ferb song,” but then I googled how many days of weekends are in a year and it’s also 104. Mind fucking blown.

[@JHatLpool]

Great video ! For every hour spent on LinkedIn, 59 minutes 55 seconds is completely wasted and is time that you will never get back. There you are super-performers, that is my productivity tip-of-the-day.

[@Charted]

If LinkedIn was owned by Andrew Tate 💀

[@laurennyeleti7077]

2:03 I read so many books, not sure they are the kind Daniel Grissom would want me reading expecially on a plane (the horror of reading for fun omg) lmaoo Also i find it so so funny when people act like reading a book is so intellectual when really im just enjoying myself a good book about dragons and people like Aaron Warner :)) lol

[@gameplaykingz9545]

I think he meant he was delivering the international sales seminar from Barcelona Spain, George 😂😂

[@st4r_gaze_]

yk it’s a good day when u get that georgeM youtube notification

[@BillLaBrie]

I gotta thank LinkedIn for setting me free. I realized I could never be among those people, though I had come from the same world. It was a real ugly duckling moment.

[@maxsredditreadingclub8353]

RIP To The Dog 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@ilovelagrangiandynamics]

anyone who has a packed linkedin profile is either a narcissist or just extremely good at what they do

[@Scyllaya]

I'll be honest, I don't think UK LinkedIn is this dire. American grind culture is just wild... and bizzare.

[@filteredjc4653]

They should try having kids if they think getting up at 4am is some kind of flex 😂

[@GlenCurtis-e6h]

A lot of stuff posted on Linkedin these days is a wind up

[@Juithyz]

I love how at 7:10, he says : but for me it was normal, and then proceeds to making an entire post about it. Sure buddy.

[@Tis1kay]

U will never convince me to work longer hours if you arent guaranteeing me the salary. A suggestion that in the long run i’ll be richer for giving 50% extra without a direct paycheck, is absolutely ridiculous. Dont give in guys. Work what u have to, then go home and have fun, enjoy your life.

[@pumacatmeow]

12:44 you can actually take animals with you in economy class , you just have to buy a separate seat for them, that’s how I transported my cat once

[@Cl4rendon]

And they wonder why people don’t want to work anymore - Just look at this mental environment…. What a turn off.

[@eadaoinl]

Calling a place that's hiring to ask to move back an interview because your car broke down is a bad look Having to get an ambulance called to the place interviewing you because you walked in the door and left one of your little frostbitten shrivelled black toes after you is an even worse look

[@clara5924]

Linkedin is where toxic positivity is glorified. I rarely use n only there to filled professional info. Nice and convenient to connect with many people from different background, just do not glued yourself in their posts. overdone motivational bs and "I am 24 and a CEO" kinda things.

[@Satan.Himself]

11:10 I’m pretty sure that if you were clinically dead for nine minutes they wouldn’t just send you home the very same day😭

[@djixi98]

I am so glad to be living in Europe where this insane grind culture is no where to be seen.. I think I'd lose it if i had one friend/coworker who was like that lol

[@Jess-r8z]

George will you do a video on Burton and bennets

[@hippierip6695]

please

[@JustKJ429]

6:39 when your parents tell you about how they got to school

[@adamhercik581]

The dude at 12:52 has heard Vergil's theme song for the first time and decided to make that post.

[@TheRealLeewon]

Since you mentioned Come Fly With Me, how about doing a rewatch with your friends, geezer?

[@noodlechild666]

How can you make a bed in just 60 seconds?

[@searlyt]

10:57 damn vergil really let himself go

[@liv1183]

The thing about LinkedIn is that yes it’s awful but it can help finding jobs. My last few have been on there so I keep it for my next move

[@randomeyeliner]

Companies often say one thing regarding wfh in posting and in practice are doing something else, you have to ask.

[@iolacola]

12:22 Hmmm idk MISS fkn *ESCOBAR* , I do have a slight suspicion that ‘private flying’ for you may - _may_ - be subsidised by the ‘extra baggage’, every kilo of which has been conveniently pre-wrapped, that may potentially be secreted within the chassis of said aircraft…? 👀 Small wonder she’s shilling for the PJ, the comparative profit margins must be incredible. Definitely worth it! You go #cartelgirlboss!

[@aaronhurst4379]

12:10 Imagine telling on yourself publicly like this

[@dylanmorlham6297]

George should make a music videos tier list ( when worlds collide by powerman 5000 has a really bad video)

[@JHatLpool]

At 10:50, I completely agree.

[@ellisarnott3613]

LinkedIn is the tory capital of the internet

[@cuttinaboot]

So how is being a CEO or boss ? Not being “bossy” surely the bossiest one can be is being a boss

[@richardhockey8442]

interview questions' what are the security precautions in the office' 'have armed police ever been called to your office' (my office was opposite the incident on Tottenham Court Road, London, April 2012)

[@arsoncat2146]

I thought linkedin was a jobfinding app 😂

[@jay.u]

14:05 of course resolution time went down… people give up if they’re talking to a dumb chatbot

[@megarandom4213]

Takes you 4 minutes to drink water.

[@DestroyTeamAvolition]

Guy on plane has an MBA , says it all really.

[@danthesolarman6480]

11:46 has bro ever heard of the sabbath? It’s a bit more than 100 yrs old 😂

[@Navyhercules357]

Memeulous u r the best British youtuber

[@flacohernandez5129]

He is Flemish

[@Navyhercules357]

@@flacohernandez5129 your the gun slinger that rides with the del lobos in amberino what u doing in 2024 you die in 1899

[@Saint_Dan132]

my other half gets up at 4 to get to uni, we are glasgow based his uni is in edinburgh this is 3 times a week its brutal

[@Saint_Dan132]

for context i get up with him and make his tea etc i have been tired for a year and he is close to a mental breakdown we are moving to the capital but not untill september, cant wait for sleep