LinkedIn is Cringe

[@TheKavernacle]

The most psychotic thing about LinkedIn is that because it is a job site every post is made knowing current and future employers can see it - which makes it so soulless. Can't talk about politics, cant make any real jokes, definitely cant make jokes about how terrible modern corporate work is. It's like a mass gaslighting echo chamber where everyone pretends to love working lol

[@GregorMcIntosh]

Yo Karvernacle!

[@dh7314]

That’s so true. My employer lays down rules on what we’re allowed to post, so nobody uses LinkedIn

[@daholmes1]

Think of the fun you can have when you retire, posting what you really think about them all shortly before deleting you account

[@fappylp2574]

I'm actually surprised by how political some posts on linkedin can get! It's a whole new form of cringe to experience!

[@bulletproofblouse]

Oh hey Kav, I was just watching this video and I have your Divorced Dad one in the next tab along!

[@ChrisParlett]

LinkedIn feels like a dating site for psychopaths.

[@theeviljames]

Patrick Bateman would make an ideal poster boy for LinkedIn

[@PanteraRossa]

Women whose first date conversation is about your credit score and whether you own or rent.

[@davidr7819]

Actually was offered a date from it…I backed out the day before 🫣

[@futuristica1710]

Agree. I just recently left it. That place is weirder than life itself!

[@1216Rockman]

I hate having to use that sight.

[@Jesus420.69]

My wife and children died in a motor collision.. here’s what it taught me about B2B marketing.

[@animatewithdermot]

You laugh, but there have been posts in that exact style.....one from a guy whose wife died (murdered, IIRC), and who went on to post about glad he was to have married her because she had done so much to help him maximise his career potential. Posted within 24 hours of her death.

[@Jesus420.69]

@@animatewithdermot me wept. Some people are insane.

[@fnuppyfnup]

​@@animatewithdermot that's so mental...

[@martinsmallridge4025]

“Hello? Police? Yeah, I think there’s a motive you may need to explore… Yeah, literally a “motivational” motive!”

[@Edio47]

@@animatewithdermotman that's very sad.

[@bossman674]

‘Your profile has been viewed by 47 people this week. Great, what do I do with this information?’

[@EvonneLindiwe]

Pay for premium account to see who they are 😂

[@RacingS2000]

Understand you need to now graduate to be a LinkedIn rock star otherwise you are a nobody 😆

[@Phongminh13]

@@EvonneLindiwe not so true but I still agree what should we do with that stuff 😆

[@edgepixel8467]

"All those 47 people can kiss my ass"

[@athl0n]

47 people saw your profile and said “meh.”

[@Punky_Brewski]

"My daughter then said we should pour all our money into the sherbet and chocolate button market. Sadly, the market crashed and we lost the lot, but I'm still so proud of her for taking major financial risks with someone else's money. She has a bright future ahead of her."

[@kikidevine694]

Her first name is Liz?

[@PORRRIDGE_GUN]

in NHS procurement.

[@oliverraven]

@@kikidevine694 The real first name of the person you're thinking of is Mary.

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Is she gonna become a Politician or perhaps 'work' (shirk !) for the Local Council ! ?

[@MisterFoxton]

The hardest trivia question gets harder! "What was the first name of the then PM during the passing of Queen Elizabeth II?" Mary.

[@incurableromantic4006]

"We're like a family" This means they expect you to work vast amounts of unpaid overtime.

[@neilmcdougall4927]

And leave when they consider you old enough (could be after a few weeks even)

[@MarianMurphy-rz8ej]

I think it means they’re all stuck together and conjoined at the head. These days it means they’re highly dysfunctional, have 0 ego boundaries, have their own Stewie from Family Guy, and its effectively an incestuous nightmare the likes of which the Royal families of Europe and Ancient Prussia which were particularly known for their instances of inbreeding resulting in any number of genetic deformities for the sake of the consolidation of wealth and power could only dream of in the manner of a nightmare. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It would be nice if people spoke about what’s going on. 666 is horrific….

[@bogdanmihai4599]

abusive family

[@rogerbartlet5720]

Like the Simpsons

[@OsloTime]

😂😂😂😂😂 Too funny, because it's true!

[@mnky75]

One good thing I learned in Linkedin, is that, working for a "Family Business" means your position is safe, until the CEO's Son Rufus, comes back from his Gap Year in Kuala Lumpur.

[@Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood]

Gap “yaah”

[@Biosynchro]

LOL Let me guess: tan, sandals, cargo shorts, man bun, Ray Bans.

[@justwonder1404]

That was incredibly specific.

[@HowardARoark]

Ha!

[@wendymartin6479]

Everyone on LinkedIn is a founder, CEO and philosopher wannabe.

[@bigbanknewyork3655]

Or a "Thought Leader " or "Marketing Expert"

[@CaptainGrimes1]

Or influencer or guru or coach

[@nakatash1977]

Or a "Technologist"

[@ThatOneBiologist-mj7ff]

Not me...I just like to show people fossils. Lol.

[@agymayachelonia8381]

Or a wannabe life coach 😅

[@klafbang]

I posted this on LinkedIn, pretending it's a TED talk.

[@resent29]

I need to see what people thought of that

[@1midnightfish]

I could post a laughing-crying emoji (or three) but I want to tell you with words that your comment had me literally sobbing with laughter. In the literal sense of the word "literally". Please come back and post an update on this genius move!

[@klafbang]

@@resent29 i'd tell you, but then i'd have to log in to linkedin…

[@UKTonyMagill]

This comment is worthy of LinkedIn. I bet any money that you were not crying, and anyone who says they were 'literally crying' over a mildly amusing post is being disingenuous. ​@@1midnightfish

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Holy fuck that is beautiful😂😂 Anyone who devotes their time to upsetting people who take themselves too seriously is my hero... You have to update us on how this pans out.

[@Zerobob26]

As a Software Engineer, I completely agree about unreasonable job adverts. It's not uncommon to read job ads asking for a "wizard", a "code ninja", or "someone who lives and breathes web development". Why do I have to present myself as some sort of magical being or workaholic in order to get a job in the industry? I'm qualified - as my CV demonstrates - so why isn't that enough? No wonder there's high demand for staff in the computing industry.

[@amandag5072]

I once came across a job ad for a part-time evening cleaner at a local college. They wanted a 500 word essay from each candidate on "what they would bring to the role and how their skills would move the role forward". WTAF?!

[@chriswalford4161]

It’s dull management failing to look cool.

[@JHatLpool]

Those job adverts that you read will be for vacant positions which do not actually exist.

[@EazyDuz18]

@@amandag5072 At least these days ChatGPT can sort that out in 30 seconds

[@JHatLpool]

@@dl8619 Yes, you are probably correct.

[@CheCosaTesoro]

We need to be honest and just acknowledge that 95% of social media is rubbish. Linkin is basically full of pretentious professional wannabes.

[@LandryArri]

Would you be willing to be pretentious in 1 Social Media if that mean giving you a chance to receive more money each month?

[@CheCosaTesoro]

@@LandryArri But that's the pitfall. The client or employer has been deceived. Social media is full of deception.

[@davidhawkeye2298]

Especially if they pay for the privilege of being gaslighted. It’s part of the self delusion phenomenon. linkdin makes you believe the shit you are shovelling because it’s costing you money.

[@MatthewCharmanadventures]

YES! It's an ocean of disingenuous gibberish and cries for help disguised as flowery claims of achievement.

[@Tristan_again]

Very good description!

[@TPRM1]

Yes, every post just screams, “Validate me, Father!”

[@lesteubes-r1t]

Agreed. “Cries for help” indeed.

[@TimSlee1]

Eloquently put

[@saltyabcdef3202]

This is the best description of it I've heard yet. #LOL

[@johnanthony6123]

Been wondering for years why LinkedIn irrritates me and you’ve nailed it in 15 mins.

[@TimSlee1]

Yep, modern work culture is inherently disingenuous and vapid, that's why it leaves a sour taste in your mouth. It's all one big act to keep up appearances.

[@dredknots]

I came off LinkedIn the minute someone posted their babies photo along with a motivational quote about determination and never giving up…because of course the baby was via IVF.

[@nightelfuser]

The icing on the cake must have been that she was a single mom.

[@veganbutcherhackepeter]

But now this useless information is stored in your brain forever. Talk about a waste of resources.

[@ckantrel1977]

😂😂😂😂

[@Aparturum]

So true

[@FrostyButter]

Boss: This company is like a family Me: Cool, can I borrow your car and 20 bucks?

[@diannanagelvoortsaltz469]

I HATE this “ we’re like a family” notion. No! You don’t want that! No one loves like family AND no one HATES better than family. It’s business, let’s keep it that way.

[@TheOriginalCoda]

@@diannanagelvoortsaltz469 Yeah, already got one family, why would I want two of that?!

[@Moodboard39]

@@diannanagelvoortsaltz469 hmmm

[@Gchildwarrior]

​@@diannanagelvoortsaltz469 That's why the follow up question should be "Do you treat family like Dom Torreto?" If they don't know, that's your time to leave Dom throws nice bbqs with his family

[@Seattle-2017]

And can I crash in the den for a few months? Money's a little tight.

[@nickjcresswell]

LinkedIn is like a giant cruise ship with all the middle-class on it. It's slowly sinking, but no one want to draw attention to it!

[@cutiegrl909]

Great analogy!

[@piotrd.4850]

Problem is, that before long whole of middle class will indeed fit into single cruise ship.

[@archimedesbird3439]

It's absolutely infested with ghost jobs and filtering *out* specific "employers" is not a feature

[@DeLorean4]

You also can't sort by salary descending or filter out postings without salaries.

[@shosc16]

Those jobs only exist to collect data

[@Corianderfish]

One of the ‘field experts’ I used to follow is obsessed with LinkedIn, posts random stuff like ‘we are on our way to this conference and almost didn’t make it due to traffic jam etc’. Then one day, he shared that one of his role models in the field has sadly passed away. The interesting thing is, he crafted the whole post with sentences all starting with ‘I’, had the audacity to tag the person who has passed away, and included unnecessary details about his expertise in that post. The level of narcissism was repulsing. Unfollowed immediately.

[@Biosynchro]

Oh, that really is cringe.

[@donquique1]

The worst is when people get laidoff and are thankful. Ffs.

[@giacobbeperales5926]

🤦🏻

[@Seattle-2017]

Yeah, that one makes my blood boil. Stockholm Syndrome on Linked In.

[@DoctorVision]

My experience of LinkedIn boils down to seeking out job vacancies with 100+ applicants already and scrolling through the news feed seeing how well many of the students from my university course appear to be doing in their fancy new positions. Doesn't do much to bolster your self-esteem.

[@deanchur]

Everyone is always blowing up their achievements on there. For example: "I was responsible for simultaneously managing a team of 12 people as well as ensuring the smooth set-up and operation of an IT network for them = I had 12 people over for a LAN party and had to make sure it all worked".

[@smthnew861]

Yup. It ruined my job search and i cant find anything

[@snorman1911]

I read the "applicants" count is people who viewed the position, not applied.

[@DoctorVision]

@@snorman1911 If that's the case then that's very misleading.

[@wicket042]

I laugh at how people talk ( write) about their work, position and/ or achievements when i know first hand they are any number of things that make them beyond basic rather than exceptional as their profile would have you believe while parroting TED Talks or plagiarizing Harvard Business Review articles... or someone i had to fire because they were inept at their job. But hey, A+ on being a sociopath and creative with your fascade!

[@imaginitivity7853]

It's worse than you realise. In the company I work at we are constantly badgered to post our corporate successes in order to win, and I'm not making this up, mindshare. I don't participate

[@martin-1965]

That's it... "mindshare" has now pushed me over the edge. I'm off to build a hut in the Outer Hebrides and live off kelp and rainwater for the rest of my life.

[@FelineFurKin]

Dare I ask DuckDuckGo what that is

[@katec9893]

Mindshare sounds like something out of a dystopian film.

[@MyMateGeorge]

That sounds like it's straight out of "Drop The Dead Donkey" 😂

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

@martin-1965 count me in! To quote the title of an underrated indie movie, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

[@Novacification]

I love that some people assume that everyone just kicked back and relaxed during the pandemic. Many still had to go to work and everyone in the IT sector, for instance, were just working from home - sometimes more than they did before.

[@Nickelodeon81]

I kicked back but I didn't relax. I watched Tiger King.

[@pinkdiamond1847]

I was an essential worker. You all applauded for me 🥰

[@RankinMsP]

​@@pinkdiamond1847lol

[@juliawalker7224]

Those people that say 'ha! I loved lockdown, had the time of my life!....🙃

[@pinkdiamond1847]

@@juliawalker7224 actually I also loved lockdown. Even though I was an essential worker, my life still became much easier and my wedding to my now abusive ex got cancelled and I ended up leaving him I would be married to an abuser with his kids if it wasn't for lockdown.

[@tovsteh]

I work in recruitment and have a very broad network in my city. Trust me when I say that the people who virtue-signal and post the most "Look at what a good person I am and how I care about others" are usually the worst and most incompetent people out there. Virtue-signaling attract those who do not act on the values they spout to compensate for their own behavior in reality and receive validation for who they wish they were, and we see that in politics as well.

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

^ This.

[@joselao9]

This is a PERFECT analysis of this plague that is virtue signalling ("VS"). Everyone involved in it does absolutely NOTHING of value in real life

[@Escapetheratrace-ji6rx]

You are so right, and this irritates the f*ck out of me. Similar people at my organisation who spout virtuous BS but they are the worst and m9st incompetent people and in reality treat others like dog shit and arse lick like their life depends on it

[@TheMemoryPolice]

" Your kid did not say that, and also I dont think you got a kid" LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lukedogwalker]

I had an employer who inhaled all these business advice and life hack memes like they were oxygen. His inbox was full of newsletters about this crap. He was awful, both as a businessman and a human being. Unfortunately, he still made money, which is a horrible lesson for us all.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

I mean, yeah, being an awful person is often a pretty good way to make lots of money. That's why so many people in high positions are clinical psychopaths, in order to get to that level you have to have absolutely zero empathy and not care who you step on to achieve your goals... Honestly most people I know who are into the whole "entrepreneur lifestyle" thing (and I know quite a few for some reason) range from "a bit of a dick" to "I can see you going to jail for murdering a hooker one day" lol. I call it "Patrick Bateman Syndrome"...

[@mikespike2099]

It’s a problem with the hyper capitalist system! You can still make money in a sick society!

[@yshwgth]

I'm so tempted to post this video to Linkedin.

[@rachcampb]

I did, and mentioned my love of irony. I never post anything to LinkedIn.

[@AdrianJayeOnline]

beat you to it

[@stormchaser419]

😂😂😂

[@PaulSmith-om4dj]

I will also

[@NibberKSmooth]

Just did

[@thereapersperch]

I cannot stand those job vacancy ads like the one shown in this vid where they expect the applicant to live and breath their job, are overflowing with enthusiasm for selling insurance or were born with a passion for party planning, are a jedi at call-center telephony or a ninja at dealing with customer service. Just F*** off!

[@blurgle9185]

My greatest weakness is that I always do my utmost best for unreasonable pay!

[@lllordllloyd]

It's an effective way to advertise, weeding out those who hold mature adult concepts like fair wages and conditions.

[@DM-kl4em]

Don't ever do that. Management will not be appreciative. They will only see you as weak and easy to manipulate. They will pay you about the same, while loading you up with all the extra work that your coworkers are too lazy to do. Managers are busy with their own jobs, and the path of least resistance is to take advantage of their most enthusiastic employees. Do only enough to be in the 50th percentile and you will be fine. You will get roughly the same pay, with a lot less stress. You will need that extra energy for your family. Family comes first. Work is only important in the context of providing money for yourself and them.

[@FelineFurKin]

Meanwhile just enough ads to irritate the f out of us are one huge paragraph and/or lacking in punctuation, spelling or proofreading, but they want everything.

[@davecliffton2113]

@@FelineFurKini love those ones. “Must have egcelent attension to detal”

[@NeilBolandGuitaristWriter]

When LinkedIn first appeared, my very first question was, "Why would I want to talk about work after work?" Absolute muck.

[@gman21xx]

You do it during work for work because it's one giant advertising square

[@BigGoucho]

"I just sold my wife to the 3 Amigos"

[@generalpublic3744]

Could of been worse, for her, El Guapo! Yikes!

[@peterrenn6341]

The Singing Bush and the Invisible Swordsman just didn't bid high enough.

[@geebeeinga]

Did they have a Plethora of piñatas!?

[@BigGoucho]

@@geebeeinga I was at a funeral the other day and said plethora to the grieving widow. She said "Thanks, that means a lot."

[@JanStrojil]

From “30 under 30” to “30 to life” was genius.

[@Gensys0]

Are there Nurses on this site going "took blood form 9 patients today, wiped 3 butts. Keep grinding 💪." Lmao

[@alibarznji2000]

Corporate social media is the worst form of social media ever

[@mrdobalina3451]

Too true…, I hold back vomit whenever I am forced to read something on ours and see all the pathetic sycophant comments. Some people have no self respect 😂

[@NTJedi]

Linked-In use to be a place where only professionals were helpful and shared ideas and a place to look for work. Today Linked-In has lots of "Influencers" which spam meaningless videos and shallow motivation posts... wish the owners would remove that trash

[@Gumby6583]

Truth.

[@benayers8622]

what happened to forums, supressed by search engine methinks

[@MerdaLegal]

LinkedIn surely is a mess... On the last two months I had 4 HR people contacting me saying that I would be a possible fit for a position. They all asked for my CV, they asked when I could do a interview and then completely disappeared the next day. I contacted two of them just to check if the interview was still on, and nothing, viewed, but no reply. WHAT A JOKE!!!!

[@Biosynchro]

It's like dating apps, but without any promise of romance whatsoever.

[@RE71476AD]

Happens to me also. No job/HR/recruiter via LinkedIn has led to an interview. I think many of the jobs are either fake or old, so when HR find you, ask for your CV etc and then they will contact the head of the applicable department to ask for interview times etc, HR are then informed that the department no longer needs anyone, and that job position is very old. Just that no one ever removes it from LinkedIn.

[@gmonkman]

Its a hotbed of data miners as well. I'd be very very wary of sending a CV without checking really carefully.

[@davianoinglesias5030]

They are selling your data

[@JonasHamill]

@@Biosynchro So like all dating apps

[@markdolan8507]

A daily $7 caffe for 30 years comes out at $76,650.

[@Biosynchro]

Not if you put it on a card and never pay it off. Which is probably impossibl,e but hey the modern world is weird.

[@Monochromatic_Spider]

It actually doesn't. You would expect 7 leap years in that 30 year period which means you're 49 bucks short.

[@SF-eo6xf]

Add compound interest to it and you'll have a lot more than that. Technically he has a point

[@Monochromatic_Spider]

​@@SF-eo6xf You wouldn't buy all that coffee on a credit card and never pay off the debt, though. The point he does have is that leaving debt on a credit card over the long term is a waste of money. But the chosen example of $7 coffee and a cost of "over 1 million" is hardly convincing. I seem to remember that an English politician a while back suggested that English students would be able to afford run-away prices of home ownership in the UK if they gave up avocado on toast. That statement also failed to inspire people for similar reasons.

[@coffeebot7016]

That cringe LinkedIn post unironically went way over your head.

[@JuiKuen]

LinkedIn has become a hollow and depressing cesspool of people posturing and self-congratulating their soulless, empty lives.

[@bdelphan]

In the pandemic, I worked as a health worker on the response to the pandemic. My new skill was driving to work on empty roads.

[@gregnoon9234]

They actually walk amongst us....Scary

[@zidan40o0]

AMOGUS!

[@S5Dic09]

The heels and beards are talesigns

[@RacingS2000]

It’s for buttering up the rung of management above , self glorification , pseudo motivational posts to fill the void within and recruitment spam.

[@RE71476AD]

Spot on....and I know this to be true because I was once THAT guy! Embarrassing.

[@drditup]

LinkedIn is where workaholics can be influencers and unemployed are involuntarily co-addicted to work

[@sdsloveslife]

I summarise LinkedIn as “you pump up my narcissistic tires and I’ll pump up yours”.

[@annagornas3572]

This video is mental. 😂😂😂 I came here by accident but I was actually considering LinkedIn for jobs because I'm unemployed. Thanks for all the warnings. I'm a bit worried, though, because most jobs ads out there, regardless of the platform, sound like this. I particularly love the ones that are looking for problem solvers ready to take on any kind of crisis. I'm sorry, I don't go to work to give myself a heart attack every day. Why can't we expect any kind of stability in a job and a day without a challenge a minute? I've been looking at editing jobs at publishing houses, and they literally want you to do book editing, admin, copywriting, public relations and acquisitions. All within your 9-5. It's ONE job, 24k for full time. 'No thank you' doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about it.

[@elly7199]

That’s horrible!!

[@Stettafire]

TBH in my industry I'm stuck using linked In anyway since that is where all the jobs are. If you're in IT you gotta suffer through LinkedIn regardless

[@richardhall485]

I once saw a job ad on there, and one of the benefits an employee could enjoy were "all the pick n mix you can handle"

[@MichaelBosley]

Always a red flag. Especially when they describe it as a "fun place to work". Basically means it's a disorganised hell-hole full of grown children. Or they're overcompensating.

[@steve16384]

Was it for a job clearing out old Woolworth stores?

[@SussexMatt]

Yeah, sadly I work there… it’s a tech company hellscape that deletes staff by the thousand, but at least there is free Pick n Mix……

[@GreenTeaViewer]

I don't know what that is, am I a natural aristocrat?

[@nakatash1977]

😂

[@heikevau9238]

Peak LinkedIn for me was when somebody posted an image of their child's coffin. For clicks. I mean, unbelievable.

[@Biosynchro]

You are kidding. You must be kidding. That is near peak awful.

[@Lady_Tee15]

So sad😢

[@levio1314]

That's messed up. Wow. 😮

[@MasouShizuka]

Not much different from Tiktok where actual porn exist. Even the creepy ones. Its hard to tell nowadays.

[@escarlit]

omg

[@D.M.S.]

"This is a world in which spoons do not exist. How do you solve the problem now?" "I invent the spoon and become rich. Bye."

[@carrotman]

2:15 urgh. even the idea that everyone all had so much spare time during the pandemic is annoying. Everyone I knew was an 'essential worker' and not the type that got clapped, the type that stocked shelves, got ill and got yelled at. None of us have had a year off in so damn long.

[@DM-kl4em]

I know, right? The days before the pandemic, when the day job was enough to pay the bills, almost seem quaint. Nowadays, people are driving doordash, running Amazon deliveries, or starting side businesses, because the day job isn't enough to pay the bills by itself anymore. A lot of people are coming out of retirement too, because the fixed retirement income can barely cover the cost of groceries and utilities anymore. They are working 2 or 3 jobs when they don't even want ONE.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@DM-kl4em Everyone is obsessed with the idea of having a "side hustle", where in reality that just means you're _always_ working and now have very complex tax affairs to deal with. Not to mention many corporates will consider _any_ side hustle a conflict of interest that has to be registered - best case scenario they tell you you're not allowed, worst case scenario you don't declare it and get fired when they find out. The real risk of working so much is that you burn out and run into medical issues which mean you can't work _any_ of your jobs. And that is disastrous. The other issue with "passive income" is that it requires a hell of a lot of "active income" and too much of your spare time in order to get going.

[@carrotman]

@@halfbakedproductions7887 I mean yeah? The comment you're replying to explains that people don't want to work multiple jobs. It's basically inforced by the fact that a home takes two thirds of your paycheck and you either try to spend the last third on life or you find a supplementary source. And as you say, they suck and are a tax nightmare. But it feels wrong to put that on the people that are trying their best to get by though.

[@IamRobotMonkey]

Fellow key worker here, was in food retail until approximately 32 months ago. Remember when we were recognised? What a crazy ten minutes that was. Granted we're not saving lives, but a bit of appreciation would be nice. My wife, also in retail but clothing, was climbing the walls at home after about 10 minutes. I'd have loved the opportunity to have been bored. Or just stayed in bed catching up on kip. She couldn't, of course. There was a a period of time when I'd come home to a newly redecorated flat room virtually daily for half a week. Incidentally I know I was hardly saving lives, but still.

[@SussexMatt]

Not a key worker but my company had me hitting 8/ 9 hours a day while everyone around me was on furlough drinking beer in the garden and crying on zoom calls. I spent the whole time working my ass off.

[@taridean]

My LinkedIn feed is fast becoming Instagram 2.0 showing mostly posts of recruiter girls in my network liking other recruiter girl selfies or "back in the office" holiday photos. 🤦🏾

[@Denniss7420]

They all need to go the way of Myspace!

[@S5Dic09]

Exactly 💯, girls Posting a Pic of themselves and finding a cringe phrase to justify it made me skip the feed forever, and the complain about equal pays when they're so f obsessed with their image all the time.

[@djalland1]

I don't like corn on the cob, which I guess is an accurate reflection of how I'd feel working for that guy

[@Talentedtadpole]

The knob with a cob😊

[@FelineFurKin]

Best LinkedIn profile I found was my late dad’s, it was short and I’ll paraphrase “No uni, worked all my life. Fun!” He’d have liked to stay on at school and university. He was cabbie for nearly 50 years, did The Knowledge in just 18 months, before that spent a decade in a factory cutting fabric, aka the rag trade, and random happenings were blamed on “Old Prick!” He’d been in the kitchen of Fortnum and Mason for a year or so before that. Never peeled another spud either, he was a good cook, but any time my mum went away she’d buy a bag of ready potatoes.

[@jausel1]

LinkedIn used to be good. Now it's overcrowded, so much that networking is not possible and effective job search gets lost.

[@Seoras111]

My current employer did find me on Linkedin! But I religiouisly do NOT use Linkedin for any personal stuff.

[@fattysl26]

I found my current job on there, but had to endure months and months of bs!

[@peterfarrell66]

“Is this baby going to get me a job?” 😂

[@chrisc9421]

Remember the 'today I closed the my biggest deal ever, and it was the worst day of my life' type humble-brags.

[@trobuk99]

Once got a job in 'a dynamic environment' which I found out to mean it was a disorganised shitshow where nobody knew what they were doing

[@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter]

^ This.

[@choosyduchess25]

did you stay or resigned eventually?

[@trobuk99]

@choosyduchess25 stayed, I needed the income and made the most of it

[@sheerbeauty]

Is there a glossary of these work terms so we can all be alert?

[@trobuk99]

@sheerbeauty 'corporate bullshit bingo' games are a good place to find the words to watch for

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

Last job I looked at on LinkedIn has "insane level of commitment" listed as a job requirement.

[@penelopehughes-jones5265]

The ‘interviewer’s” face when he’s talking about soup is extremely, extremely funny.

[@1midnightfish]

That was so, so painful... when they guys stands up and walks off at the end I cheered out loud

[@penelopehughes-jones5265]

@@1midnightfish Yes. Me too. It is evolution…my parents’ generation would have messily consumed the soup with the fork and then blamed themselves for not getting the job. We owe it to them to keep walking!

[@elmike-o5290]

It reminds me of Monty Python.

[@JWZRD23]

I never liked the concept of LinkedIn back in 2015 but I hated it even more after the military. It makes sense that a platform full of weirdos that support AI would over flood the platform with corporate drone garbage. I’ve also noticed content theft is rampant along with false information no one called out and the same posts pop up every few weeks.

[@Serpsss]

Linkedin is just another Facebook wannabe. I was told I needed one and it mostly boils down to a bunch of self entitlement, circle jerking & unprofessional comments that nobody who's looking for, or trying to retain a job, should be expressing. Then there's the site itself being overrun with adverts & nagging emails etc when you've not logged in for a day or the lying "you have x invitations" ones which makes Linkedin like an abusive ex trying to keep control.

[@gmonkman]

Quit linked-in ages ago. It only benefits fradulent data miners, Linked-in and scammers. And any company making a hiring judgement from a user profile needs to sack their HR department.

[@NoamMendelssohn]

My favorite thing to do on linkedin is engage with random CEO / Entrepeneur / innovator / thought leader titled people , and wait after a 10 message exchange to see how they are desperate to peddle their wares and make an extra 0.3 cent from me. To me that sounds like THEY lacked discipline.

[@futuristica1710]

And then there’s the Musk cult on LinkedIn: “Another X rocket exploded! Learn from your mistakes! That’s genius! Elon should be king of the known universe!”

[@GiantSlayerSVK]

What I've noticed about women on LinkedIn is that they write some meaningless text about nothing just as an excuse to post a photo of themselves.

[@drw1926]

True af.

[@EarthScholar]

These mini-skits are absolutely hilarious! 😂

[@DanLovesBooks]

I’ve started openly making fun of my former university on LinkedIn. No longer worried about it affecting my job prospects because literally nobody has ever replied to any of my employment queries in at least 10 years. Don’t need LinkedIn to serve tables.

[@lbenegas]

I am fed up of idiots posting life reflections/lessons, advertise getting a certificate printed in 7/11, and even pictures smiling like in facebook. It became a total joke of a site.

[@RoyLake]

It's truly terrible. Never found a job on there. Too full of self promoting bullcrap, lies and agents

[@lunachu8691]

LinkedIn is good for one thing. You can cyberstalk people with consummate ease. I now know that Claire Grigg works near Liverpool St station so now drink in the pub outside her workplace every week day. I also now have an irrational hatred of a reinsurance company because the kid who regularly beat me in maths exams works there.

[@divyanshu.26]

Yes, a trend i noticed as well! On other platforms people are like oh privacy and on LinkedIn they have their emails on their public profiles and even if not, will be found commenting under posts with their emails. Whatever happened to privacy?😆

[@fruitloopz311]

LinkedIn sends notifications to people when you view their profile

[@lunachu8691]

@@fruitloopz311 I don’t have a LinkedIn profile. It has absolutely no idea who I am when I visit the page

[@CDB79-xs8rk]

​@@fruitloopz311Only if you're logged in.

[@evasco1979]

​@@CDB79-xs8rkhere in Continental Europe, if you're not logged in, you can't see anything on LinkedIn

[@Sarge17]

Everyone I know uses the word "gratitude" a lot, even when they've been fkng laid off. An ex colleague even posts yoga sh1t in some weird and strange correlation to his career path. Amazing video as usual Michael x Has anyone created a fake profile just to harass people in their network?

[@wtorules4743]

Thank for doing this. I thought it was just me that found it full of corporate shit.

[@mariowerner239]

I'm working in the IT industry since over 20 years. I think I'm a talented full stack developer. But still, these job descriptions on Linked make me feel like I'm completely unqualified for any of them.

[@aluisious]

"30 years of buying a $7 coffee could cost you over $1m." No coffee cost $7 30 years ago. God I can't stand these mouth breathers.

[@saltyabcdef3202]

At least not coffee-flavored coffee.

[@christoph1246]

Why can people not say ‘Ive got a new job’? instead it’s ’I’m starting a new chapter’ 🤬

[@4879daniel]

The overriding mentality there is that your career is your life. I don’t even have a career, just a succession of jobs, some more tolerable than others.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

George Carlin is rolling in his grave at that one lol

[@choosyduchess25]

it starts with, "I'm thrilled to announce that I am starting a position as a..."

[@edgepixel8467]

Because it's a fairytale

[@RE71476AD]

Or "I am very humbled to be XYZ"

[@shia_labeouf]

This motivated me to go back on LinkedIn for the first time in ages. It was like walking into a party dedicated to me and attended entirely by enthusiastic stalkers and psychotic exes. I'll leave it another 5 years I think.

[@TheEnglishBrit]

It’s also trying to be a dating site, people use it to cheat on their partners all the time, I know of 3 instances that their partners had “business meetings” with endless people every week, and ended up sleeping with a few of them!

[@karlimo4034]

I ate eggs for breakfast today. This is what it taught me about business...

[@viceroy7740]

Sounds about right 😂

[@Warren_Lifts]

saw a job post once where one of the requirements was to be active and regularly post on linkedin. This was for a technical job with no involvement in sales, marketing or social media whatsoever

[@id70b40]

LinkedIn is just facebook with job titles. It amazes me how many individuals are “honoured” or “privileged” to go to conferences……

[@threethrushes]

I'm humbled to reply to this comment.

[@id70b40]

@@threethrushes I’m privileged to havereceive your reply;)

[@piotrd.4850]

No, actual Facebook has somewhat functional groups and actual job postings....

[@z3160200]

I hate linkedin a passion, I do legit know people who put more effort into their linkedin profile and linkedin post than their actual job.

[@m0L3ify]

LinkedIn is my 84 year old father's favorite social media site, and that tells me all I need to know about it.

[@WeirdVideoGames]

I think this convinced me to delete my LinkedIn. I created an account 10+ years ago, don't even remember what I put in there, and haven't checked since. I just get periodic emails telling me minor trivia about people I may or may not known in my extended network, and occasionally a job posting that has similar keywords to what I do, but that I'm not even remotely qualified for. Yes, I am a "video producer" but you're sending me a job for a video producer for Disney. They don't want someone who can make a KZbin video about silly kung fu movies. They want someone who went to college for video production and has 8 years experience in colour correction and can work in Los Angeles.

[@WeirdVideoGames]

Update: I'm glad I didn't because I found an unread message my dad sent me on LinkedIn and he's since passed away. That was a bit of a gut punch.

[@f9w99]

LinkedIn is also one big self congratulatory for employees within a company. My colleagues will post something and the only likes are from other employees internally…

[@Trypyyyy]

Thank you for making this video. I never post on LinkedIn because and I cringe at what people post on there. This has convinced me to never post... EVER!

[@stuartmckee1655]

After years of trying to get off LinkedIn email list and receiving multiple emails a day. I finally achieved a LinkedIn in free life after having to sign up and then jumping through multiple hoops and leaving a site I'd never joined in the first place, except to leave. That was years ago and I've not been bothered by them since, yeh.

[@jarrethcutestory]

"What I learned about leadership while taking a dump"

[@godieinafirenow]

Going to linkedin to find a job is like going to a brothel to find a wife.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Eh, it can be pretty useful in job hunting if you know what to look for. Just go straight to the search bar and avoid all posts like the plague. It's not great, though, I'll give you that. There are way better job-hunting apps out there, and most of them have the advantage of not having the option to make posts, unless they are to do with advertising a vacancy.

[@RoaldvdM]

Chances are slim, but not zero 🎉 #wifehack #relationshipgoals #truelove

[@DM-kl4em]

If a company is advertised as being "like a family", RUN!!!! That is code for "You won't just WORK here; you will LIVE here". BTW, I gotta turn off LinkedIn notifications. I got THREE of them just while I was watching this video.

[@adblocker276]

In that fork-for-soup example all you had to do was pinch the tines together so that it resembles a rudimentary spoon and use it. That shows great initiative to mould existing tools for new purposes. Just don’t use it as a shiv on the hiring manager - I’m not making that mistake again.

[@edgepixel8467]

I really thought he would stick it in his forehead or something

[@mettamorph4523]

Not eating food that came from under a desk. Not using a don't know if it's clean utensil.😅 Getting the 'runs' from a job interview? No thanks.

[@JefferyTheriault]

​@@mettamorph4523it's worse. What's the general color of chicken soup? Yeah...from under the desk, a little warmer than lukewarm.

[@asteve4914]

I cannot stand Linked In, but am required to use it as part of my job as a BDM… Just seems to be an endless parade of cheesy virtue-signalling and identity politics. International Women’s Day was the worst.

[@gmonkman]

BDM? Bondage Domination Master?

[@MrKook]

Pride month was horrifying on LinkedIn. It's tough to say what was worse though....

[@NeurodivergentGuy2023]

I also hate the autism stuff being put on it, as an autistic people myself I’m not stupid and know damn sure it’s so recruiters can screen out anyone who likes or engages with the post.

[@Zak_How]

I've watched a lot of videos talking about this. A few of them included the same posts. Glad this was a more original presentation.

[@Support-your-local-team]

People at my work call it a "legacy hand" when someone leaves the raised hand sign on in a Teams meeting by accident.

[@Regulus985]

OH GOD YES. The personal life announcements make me actively angry.

[@genzigzag]

I struggle with promoting jobs, and our business on LinkedIn with all the noise from political commentary, to pointless personal updates and daily zero value posts. There needs to be content guidelines.

[@steeleye2112]

Mainly use it to identify tosspots and try and spot companies to avoid.

[@burgundian-peanuts]

Honestly, I never really stopped to think about just how WEIRD the whole concept of the LinkedIn feed is. You're completely right!

[@Etcher]

When I saw Linkedin back in 2006 I thought it was a load of corporate BS then and I still think that now. I hire people these days as I'm 20 years into my software development career and Linkedin has nothing - NOTHING - to do with our hiring process. All these stupid job listings like "must know JS, Python, React, HTML, C++, Figma, blah blah blah mustlive and breath software development and be a rockstar ninja blah blah".

[@realitywins6457]

Agreed. What process do you do for hiring? Recruiters? Non-LI sites? (I’m actively looking for a new role and LI is challenging) Thank you in advance

[@Monochromatic_Spider]

Problem is, you know what you need. The job postings are written by HR people and they haven't got a clue what any of that nonsense actually means, they just need some buzzwords for their filtering tools.

[@Michael-it6gb]

When a company is using buzzwords like "must live and breath software" or "have passion for coding". That just means they want you to do company's work on your free time as well, YES, they want you to do their projects OUTSIDE work hours. Or they're not gonna hire you. That basically should be criminal. That's like being half a slave.

[@KiloOneThree]

It turned into social media site 10+ year ago and turned into crap

[@Biosynchro]

I suppose we can blame the users for most of that.

[@JohnJones-k9d]

It’s full of sycophants liking posts from the CEO who has recited some corporate garbage about being climate friendly whilst having princesses that destroy the climate.

[@Moodboard39]

thats dumb

[@chromenewt]

I've worked out why I don't get headhunted any more with my motivational line "Climb the highest mountain, punch the face of God" on there. Perhaps my aversion to corporate platitudes is what's limiting me, and not the effort my bosses make me put in.

[@Biosynchro]

LOL! OMG "PUNCH THE FACE OF GOD" ahahahah Oh lord have mercy

[@JHatLpool]

I agree completely ! For every one hour spent on Linked In, 59 minutes and 55 seconds will have been time completely wasted.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

My sister in law persuaded me to sign up to Linked in years ago. Its no use to me, for anything, and when I get a note saying 'you appeared in so ans so and such and such a search', I just think its folk from my past checking to see if I'm still alive! 😞

[@ZetaReticuli_]

It is funny how I am seeing so many more videos popping up about how cringe Linked In is. One of the best decisions I made in my life was deleting my LI about four years ago. The only regret I have, is that instead of just quietly deleting, I should have instead gone scorched earth and just trolled these self-righteous psychopaths in to oblivion until I got myself banned for it.

[@dimitrz2000]

These days it's full of Political posts, useless motivation posts , internal company training completion ( which no one cares about ) and self promotion ( self praise) posts. All of these are just cringe and don't belong there.