The humblebragging dishonesty of LinkedIn

You could just have put Salesforce at the top and I wouldn't have needed to read anymore.

I have had to deal with one arm of their business and fook me pink I have no idea how they ever got so successful.

I recently came across a post from someone who had just been in an accident - her car spun off the road and flipped on its head. She was very lucky to walk away from it.

She posted pictures of the wreckage and a story about what she had learned from the experience and how great her company was for supporting her throughout it (what the fúck was her boss gonna do , sack her?!).

She nearly dies and her reaction is to use it as an attention seeking, arse-licking exercise. Very disturbed behaviour.

The way things are going with these lunatics, it wouldn't surprise me if the whole event had been orchestrated 🤣

Because cancer stories are generally so awesome, this one has to be extra special.

What I actually miss or haven't seen so far on Linked In is all sorts of things and products for men against hair loss, medically proven, or something herbal alternative oriented, and even advertisement for hair transplants. This would also include postings about men having done this treatment and have increased their ego.

Same would go for women, breast implants, etc.....

Ironically, it's something I actually expect by this stage, looking at how low linked in has gone.

But, what hasn't happened on linked in so far, is an idea for the future.....

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I think there’s too much Awesome Sauce being squirted around LinkedIn. Dunno when that particular country hijacked the platform to turn it into the quasi therapy look at me board it has become, but holy fook I hate LinkedIn.

celebrate this, applaud that….. where’s the “call bollox” button….. seriously emperors new clothes has nothing on LinkedIn.

It's either "you need to use social media to signal that you gave up social media so it doesn't count" or "linkedin is not social media, it's professional media or smth"

LinkedIn is one of those things you "have" to have in today's job-hunting world because recruiters live on social media themselves and will question anyone who DOESN'T have a profile - ie: what are they hiding?

As a result, mine is basically my CV. Each company I've worked at with a brief description of each role. I don't post things, I don't "like" things, or engage in any of that nonsense. I don't "do" social media anyway really - with the exception of this place I suppose!

I do however get a lot of requests from sales types in companies looking to sell me something (my last few roles seem to attract these types) and in my current job some of them have gone as far as guessing my work email address to spam me there too which has to be some sort of privacy violation. A lot will be VERY pushy too in trying to setup a call to discuss whatever they're peddling. In any case, I will always be LESS inclined to do business with someone/some company who engages in this.

That said, I was approached for my current role and previous one (and possibly my next one) through LinkedIn so it does still work. When it comes to that though, I'm very clear from the off as to my expectations for a move and don't reply to any of the obvious timewasters ("you'd be a perfect fit for this lower-level role at 20/30k less than your current salary" type of thing).

I've seen a marked increase in this in the past few months, getting emails daily to my work email trying to sell me crap - I work in IT, so it could be anything from QA resources, database platforms to SEO optimization, nothing I nor the company are remotely interested in or anything that I would be in a position to even discuss. Think there's a whole lot of scraping going on, pulling data off linkedin and other sites and just spamming people non-stop, like a 21st century cold-call. If anything, its put me off some big companies whose staff are doing it, that I would have expected to know better.

For some reason when I was on LinkedIn earlier today there was a video of somebody trying to save a dog.

I have no idea what this has to do with getting a job as it didn’t seem to be about someone trying to get a job with a vet.

I look forward to someone posting a video of someone trying to save a cow’s life, or that of a pig, because it wasn’t just someone trying to get likes cos some people like dogs in a non-eating way, right?

The ukraine one-upmanship is even worse on Linkedin than on fb, instagram etc...

....this never happened

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Linkedin gone into overdrive since Ukraine invasion. Every attention seeker looking for their deeply meaningful angle on it all!!