The humblebragging dishonesty of LinkedIn

lostinsuperfunk · 04-10-2021 08:25PM

This is worth a read: https://theoutline.com/post/5495/how-to-beat-linked-in-the-game

[quote]Work your way through the corporate food chain like an intestinal parasite at a gratis conference buffet.

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05-10-2021 08:40AM

Some millionaire: "the best thing you can offer your employees is that you care".

This sh1t isn't even an exaggeration.

Ash.J.Williams · 05-10-2021 08:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117973826#Comment_117973826

always capture your rolex and high end car keys in your photos of stuff :)

maestroamado · 05-10-2021 08:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058211600/the-humblebragging-dishonesty-of-linkedin

"money isn't everything... its the only thing"

Munstergirl854 · 05-10-2021 11:35AM

Steven Bartlett and the gymshark family come to mind in this one...

I dont think it ever really took off here on a large scale compared to the UK but it suits them because they're full of **** anyway.

It is the home of toxic positivity.

Smash your goals,smash your day..I just bought my house at 24 hows your Monday?

Oh **** off Lucy.

JimmyVik · 05-10-2021 11:59AM

Reading a guy I work withs linkedin you would think he has turned down offers from NASA and also cured cancer in his previous jobs

They are looking for a way to get rid of him where i work. Totally useless.

05-10-2021 12:09PM

Oh yeah I saw a post from a woman letting people know she bought her first house at 23. In St. Alban's, one of the most affluent areas in the entire country. I mean, she obviously got help - nothing wrong with that, I got help - but don't boast about it on LinkedIn and pretend it's a career achievement accomplished alone.

Salvadoor · 06-10-2021 10:10AM

Got my current job through LinkedIn so it does do the basics right

It's great to continually see my old job being reposted approximately every 4 months as that toxic $h!thole with incompetent managers tries to retain staff. The job spec for it is a heap of lies and full of BS: "come work on a great team", "fast-paced environment", "cutting-edge"

06-10-2021 10:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978702#Comment_117978702

In fairness that lad Steve Bartlett has done very well for himself, but I remember him making one of those "you don't have to go to college" proclamations. It's true that you don't always have to, and I agree there can be an unnecessary emphasis on it in some contexts. But ffs of course you have to go to college for numerous careers. And some employers will expect a third level qualification.

He was being really dismissive of college, and running down a massive group of people (of course his lackeys - college educated natch - were falling over themselves to praise him) and it seemed like he just resented not experiencing college himself. Then a guy pointed out "here in Africa you do, it's a minimal requirement no matter what" - to which Steve replied "Oh I'm not having a go at Africa - Africa is an amazing country". Africa - "country".

AckwelFoley · 06-10-2021 10:17AM

Linkedin is the social media platform where you can make your dick 2 foot long and then suck it yourself while wearing a suit you last wore to a wedding in 2018 that doesn't fit you anymore

Kermit.de.frog · 06-10-2021 11:29AM

Linkedin moved some years a go from what it was good for and meant to be. Strictly it was a CV online. Which was great.

Then they decided to go down the social media cesspit and now it's just like any other social media site which in my experience seems to have turned a lot people away. It still is kinda different in a way but it's much of a muchness.

Most people I know don't seem to use it as much, if at all.

As for the endorsements, they are just glorified likes now.

StupidLikeAFox · 06-10-2021 01:09PM

I did laugh at the brazen cringe of this one tbf to him

Donald Trump · 06-10-2021 01:22PM

"I am humbled to have received my first class degree in **** from no-name-IT. Here is a photograph of the certificate to show how humbled I am"

Would ya ever **** off.

Donald Trump · 06-10-2021 01:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117974056#Comment_117974056

He was just posting on boards.ie. His next post is right below this one

06-10-2021 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117976527#Comment_117976527

Management “consultants” , life coaches, self employed trainers- it’s a little merry go round for them- it makes them look “relevant” - all their doing is churning spam

Kermit.de.frog · 06-10-2021 03:34PM

Is "Life Coach" another way of saying unemployed? I love how these "career" terms have taken off in the last 10 years.

AckwelFoley · 06-10-2021 03:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983429#Comment_117983429

I know 2 of these guys..

Absolute wankstains. Pure spoofers. One was about to engage in a multi million euro take over of a business. The guy hasn't a pot to piss in.

Another guy is a life coach and motivational speaker and sells what ever the next bollocks of a fad is, be it water that will make you healthier or juice plus. Again..not a single pot to piss in. He's got good hair though

06-10-2021 08:06PM

There's one insufferable fúçker who works in a university. Recently posted an entire email from a student who had thanked him for his help, under the pretence that he was congratulating the student after she graduated.

It was probably a complete breach of privacy to post the email. He's bloody awful at his job too and his LinkedIn posts are terribly written. Another of his ridiculously long posts was boasting about his father who "established lots of really successful companies" and helped poor people to get into college. Shocking lack of self awareness.

06-10-2021 08:44PM

Lack of self awareness is exactly it. Look at this shyte from someone who makes a living from social media. And the utter state of the comments - "omg so thought provoking!"

road_high · 06-10-2021 08:57PM

Thought it was just me but the last few years in particular it is just endless American psycho babble. Also a seemingly endless parade of new graduates telling us how thrilled and proud they all are to achieved their 2.2 degree from Tralee IT and how marvellous it all has been…in 2007 I graduated from a masters and didn’t even go to the graduation. And there was certainly no big announcements on non existent social media. Maybe I’m just old fashioned now, probably! But modesty to me was and still a strong virtue. Maybe there’s just no place for that anymore where things are more cut throat than ever

Donald Trump · 06-10-2021 10:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983257#Comment_117983257

#sap is right 😄

Feisar · 06-10-2021 11:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117983315#Comment_117983315

It's the "humbled" **** that annoys me. Why would one be humbled for something they strove to achieve?

vixdname · 07-10-2021 04:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117973956#Comment_117973956

Brilliant

road_high · 07-10-2021 08:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117986255#Comment_117986255

Yes those posts are on nearly every time I flick in to LinkedIn now. With the complementary graduation pYou’d swear it was an Oscar acceptance rather than done generic degree that ten million other people have too

07-10-2021 10:32PM

I understand posts about completing a tough degree or masters later in life, but the "certificate in spaceology from the Correspondence College of Tampa" ones... dude, it might have been an enjoyable course but it ain't a career achievement.

07-10-2021 11:10PM

Ye will all love the new trend coming of Video CVs. Recruiters don't want traditional ones anymore but a video cv that shows who you really are according to the last "recruitment guru" (yes that's what a 55yr old lad from Cork called himself) who emailed me through it asking if I was interested in a position. I told him that I couldn't post a video of myself online because "they" would find out that I was still alive.

Motivator · 07-10-2021 11:17PM

I got sent a screenshot of a girl posting her new job on LinkedIn before.

“Congrats Jennie, best of luck in your new role”

”Thanks Mark, it’s a great relief to leave XXX because I couldn’t take another second of you staring at my tits every day”.

08-10-2021 08:27AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117990942#Comment_117990942

ah yes. Jameson do this for their graduate programme (videos are on youtube I think). Ive seen it with a few "cool" morkeshing jobs too. Absotuely fúçking horrendeous carry on.

Also, "mental health" is so last year. It's mental fitness now. Or mental agility. Prepare yourself.

08-10-2021 09:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117991488#Comment_117991488

I work in IT (security currently) and wouldn't be the stereotype, as neither would any of the folks who I work with but none of us would do this crap. It's aimed at jobs where you can't show the results of your work or skills through a simulation/problen solution, like marketing, sales and management level positions IMO.

setanta1000 · 08-10-2021 09:33AM

My company offers LinkedIn profile management courses as an employee benefit, including a section on the best way to incorporate news about our company in your posts......but always remember that "anything you post while an identifiable employee must be within company guidelines, otherwise you are open to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal."

LinkedIn is what it is....its a marketing tool, nothing more or nothing less

The humblebragging dishonesty of LinkedIn

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