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Fucking cancer website
I’m in the corporate world, I’m a hiring manager. I refuse to have a linkedin. Everyone says they wish they could do the same - then do it. Do he same. Nothing happened to me, nothing will happen to you other than your life being better because you aren’t in Linkedin.
The problem is that there isn’t anything better for job seekers.
I really wish there was one. I’m looking around right now and I wish there was a better alternative
I only use linked in every few years when I job hop. Literally the only reason I refuse to get rid of it entirely is that I doubled my salary the time I got a job.
That seems so weird. Linked in is simply a way to connect with co-workers so you can contact them when you’re no longer at the same job. I don’t have them in my Facebook, I didn’t have them in my phone, but if I want to contact them for connections or anything, LinkedIn is the place for that. How much you interact with the posting garbage is entirely up to you. I do it extremely little and I have no problem with LinkedIn.
That’s the only reason I keep mine as well.
I provide my phone number and email to coworkers that I want to connect with when they leave a job. Linkedin is corporate hustle poison and I refuse to be part of it.
Do he same.
Amen brother.
Amen.
You know I completely forgot I had one
I recently deleted my LinkedIn for two reasons:
Endless horseshit recruiters coming at me with bullshit jobs
I come from a large firm. LinkedIn became what I would describe as occupational hubris as I would see partners from there making prideful post after post about increasing the toxicity of the place in words that made them sound all wise and stuff
I would further see many posts about young people abandoning pursuit of the profession and there being a dire shortage of entry level recruits. Responses to these posts always address lowering the educational and certification requirements, but never address the reality of working eighty hours a week, getting shat on, berated, and dehumanized the entire time for about sixty grand a year with maybe a five to ten percent chance of moving up to the real money.
Fuck all of them right in the eyeball with the white hot barbed penis of Satan himself.
Every once in a while, I’ll drive by that building. When I do, I open up the sun roof and throw them a Bronx salute out the roof as I pass by. I know somebody actually saw me do it because word got back to me about it. Petty I know, but satisfying nonetheless.
I make maybe one third of what I could if I had stuck it out, but I still make plenty to live on, and that increase would require me to be somebody I refuse to become.
I’m very mean to LinkedIn recruiters. I always let them pitch the job, but I always say “please review my job experience first, I don’t appreciate my time wasted”.
And usually my response is something like “What the hell made you think that pitching this IT Technician job on someone with a current job title of Senior Project Manager was a good idea? When I asked you to read through my job experience, I guess I made the mistake of thinking you could read.”
If they actually knew the industry, they’d try to pitch you a job as goat herder.
60k US a year for 8 hours a week getting berated ? Where do I ducking sign ?
Eighty not eight. I didn’t even typo that.
LinkedIn is the human centipede of social media.
yeah, like the social media for the villains in every horror movie. Like this is 100% where the guy from saw posts about the method to get the most fear out of a trap.
The think I find weird is when people start interacting with weird Facebook-y political posts, and interacting with them in a pretty strong way. In my mind, LinkedIn is a picture of what you’re like to work with, it’s how you present yourself to prospective co-workers.
I am almost appreciative that Linkedin just overtly embraces the synthetic and manufactured cultural dance we do in business, like nobody expects anyone to do anything but show their most pretentious and carefully cultivated images. You don’t log into Linkedin expecting to see a video of Uncle Jim ranting from the front seat of his truck about immigrants.
I like the sentiment about social consciousness, but LinkedIn is absolutely not a vision of anything I would want to go back to. 😅
Those people who do that, will also definitely do that in the workplace. You’re getting an accurate image of the person.
That’s his point, when people hide what they are you can pretend humanity is not lost.
Then the corporate speak reminds you that humanity is lost.
Sounds like a self solving issue
all managers are bastards
I’m a floor manager at a bar… what’d I do?
Why does the floor need a manager? It just has to lie there holding shit up.
You need to move to Australia to be promoted to ceiling manager
I’m a manager, why am I a bastard?
I was a manager. It made me a bastard. I went back to coding.
I think our stance was clear
Because they ask obvious questions to make people feel stupid.
Not wearing enough flair
Thank you for sharing! I’ll sub to that haha.
This is missing the super cool and interesting formatting.
Every post on LinkedIn must be formatted for maximum visibility.
The way to do that is by putting a line break after every sentence.
Like this.
Nailed it bro.
What other tips do you have that will allow us to retire at 35?
5s your posts and perform other Japanese buzz words created by our Lord and Savior Toyota
Not F-shaped enough.
Ragebait.
Linkedin is really full of “return to office” propaganda though
Its satire
#heartwarming
I’m so glad I haven’t had to deal with the lifemaxxing sigma grindset types since highschool
No way this is real.
Is… is it?
Read the first sentence of the comment.
I read it…
Stories on LinkedIn be like
Meaning, there are actually stories just like this one. Right? Or are they being pedantic in their likeness? (I hope the latter…)
It’s technically a strawman argument.
It can’t possibly be a strawman argument, it’s not even an argument at all
I’ve seen sadly similar stories spouted…
It’s ragebait
Godamnit Sanjay
It’s a controversial take, OP, but I agree. The world does need more women like Nasim Najafi Aghdam!
Linkedin is the worse social media out there even twitter isn’t that bad compared to it.
Strangely enough, in my bubble it is quite descent. People often posting interesting research and advances in the field.
I mean every social media has good and bad places ofc but for me linkedin has been the worse, idk it felt like I was looking at my bosses jokes and forced to laugh otherwise they’d fire me.
that’s the Facebook font tho
Stories on LinkedIn be like:
I don’t think this is a real story
It’s a screenshot of a Facebook post that talks about LinkedIn.
I can’t read
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not exactly the same, but I once attended a work call when I was staying with my Dad after he had a knee replacement. He had decided to “tough it out” and not take painkillers, and during the call he started screaming “kill me! oh god kill me!” because of the pain, quite loud enough to be heard by everyone on the call. My boss said “it’s OK, ChickenLady, this call isn’t that important. Go ahead and kill your father.”
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I honestly think that humor is the answer to most if not all issues. Bit iffy since we don’t share the same but humor is the answer. That and puppies and kittens…
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
What else can you do on the gallows but laugh?
bitfucker@programming.dev 4 months ago
People take what they love. Username checksout
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
But would you be entitled to paid kill-your-father-leave?