LinkedIn is Cringe
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LinkedIn feels like a dating site for psychopaths.
Patrick Bateman would make an ideal poster boy for LinkedIn
Women whose first date conversation is about your credit score and whether you own or rent.
Actually was offered a date from it…I backed out the day before 🫣
Agree. I just recently left it. That place is weirder than life itself!
I hate having to use that sight.
Everyone on LinkedIn is a founder, CEO and philosopher wannabe.
Or a "Thought Leader " or "Marketing Expert"
Or influencer or guru or coach
Or a "Technologist"
Not me...I just like to show people fossils. Lol.
Or a wannabe life coach 😅
My wife and children died in a motor collision.. here’s what it taught me about B2B marketing.
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.
@@animatewithdermot me wept. Some people are insane.
@@animatewithdermot that's so mental...
“Hello? Police? Yeah, I think there’s a motive you may need to explore… Yeah, literally a “motivational” motive!”
@@animatewithdermotman that's very sad.
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
Yo Karvernacle!
That’s so true. My employer lays down rules on what we’re allowed to post, so nobody uses LinkedIn
Think of the fun you can have when you retire, posting what you really think about them all shortly before deleting you account
I'm actually surprised by how political some posts on linkedin can get! It's a whole new form of cringe to experience!
Oh hey Kav, I was just watching this video and I have your Divorced Dad one in the next tab along!
"We're like a family"
This means they expect you to work vast amounts of unpaid overtime.
And leave when they consider you old enough (could be after a few weeks even)
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….
abusive family
Like the Simpsons
😂😂😂😂😂 Too funny, because it's true!
‘Your profile has been viewed by 47 people this week. Great, what do I do with this information?’
Pay for premium account to see who they are 😂
Understand you need to now graduate to be a LinkedIn rock star otherwise you are a nobody 😆
@@EvonneLindiwe not so true but I still agree what should we do with that stuff 😆
"All those 47 people can kiss my ass"
47 people saw your profile and said “meh.”
"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."
Her first name is Liz?
in NHS procurement.
@@kikidevine694 The real first name of the person you're thinking of is Mary.
Is she gonna become a Politician or perhaps 'work' (shirk !) for the Local Council ! ?
The hardest trivia question gets harder! "What was the first name of the then PM during the passing of Queen Elizabeth II?"
Mary.
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.
Gap “yaah”
LOL Let me guess: tan, sandals, cargo shorts, man bun, Ray Bans.
I posted this on LinkedIn, pretending it's a TED talk.
I need to see what people thought of that
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!
@@resent29 i'd tell you, but then i'd have to log in to linkedin…
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
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.
YES! It's an ocean of disingenuous gibberish and cries for help disguised as flowery claims of achievement.
Very good description!
Yes, every post just screams, “Validate me, Father!”
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.
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?!
It’s dull management failing to look cool.
Those job adverts that you read will be for vacant positions which do not actually exist.
@@amandag5072 At least these days ChatGPT can sort that out in 30 seconds
@@dl8619 Yes, you are probably correct.
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.
The icing on the cake must have been that she was a single mom.
It's absolutely infested with ghost jobs and filtering *out* specific "employers" is not a feature
You also can't sort by salary descending or filter out postings without salaries.
My boss: This company is like a family
Me: Cool, can I borrow your car and 20 bucks?
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.
A daily $7 caffe for 30 years comes out at $76,650.
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.
It actually doesn't. You would expect 7 leap years in that 30 year period which means you're 49 bucks short.
Add compound interest to it and you'll have a lot more than that. Technically he has a point
@@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.
That cringe LinkedIn post unironically went way over your head.
Peak LinkedIn for me was when somebody posted an image of their child's coffin. For clicks. I mean, unbelievable.
You are kidding. You must be kidding. That is near peak awful.
So sad😢
That's messed up. Wow. 😮
Why can people not say ‘Ive got a new job’? instead it’s ’I’m starting a new chapter’ 🤬
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.
George Carlin is rolling in his grave at that one lol
it starts with, "I'm thrilled to announce that I am starting a position as a..."
Because it's a fairytale
Or "I am very humbled to be XYZ"
Been wondering for years why LinkedIn irrritates me and you’ve nailed it in 15 mins.
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!
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!
My greatest weakness is that I always do my utmost best for unreasonable pay!
It's an effective way to advertise, weeding out those who hold mature adult concepts like fair wages and conditions.
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.
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.
@@felinefurkin4275i love those ones. “Must have egcelent attension to detal”
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
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.
Dare I ask DuckDuckGo what that is
Mindshare sounds like something out of a dystopian film.
That sounds like it's straight out of "Drop The Dead Donkey" 😂
@martin-1965 count me in! To quote the title of an underrated indie movie, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
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.
I kicked back but I didn't relax. I watched Tiger King.
I was an essential worker.
You all applauded for me 🥰
@@pinkdiamond1847lol
Those people that say 'ha! I loved lockdown, had the time of my life!....🙃
@@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.
I'm so tempted to post this video to Linkedin.
I did, and mentioned my love of irony. I never post anything to LinkedIn.
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.
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".
Yup. It ruined my job search and i cant find anything
I read the "applicants" count is people who viewed the position, not applied.
@@snorman1911 If that's the case then that's very misleading.
"I just sold my wife to the 3 Amigos"
Could of been worse, for her, El Guapo! Yikes!
The Singing Bush and the Invisible Swordsman just didn't bid high enough.
It’s for buttering up the rung of management above , self glorification , pseudo motivational posts to fill the void within and recruitment spam.
Spot on....and I know this to be true because I was once THAT guy! Embarrassing.
They actually walk amongst us....Scary
AMOGUS!
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!!!!
It's like dating apps, but without any promise of romance whatsoever.
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.
What drives me up the walls too is that in these "inspirational" posts, you have to end
every 🤪
single 🤗
f*Ing 🤨
sentence 🙄
with an emoji 🤮
👍
It is for children, correct 😊
👌
I used to type with fully formed paragraphs.
Then I realised paragraphs were killing my business.
Be honest in evaluating where you can improve and always strive to be your best.
#LinkedIn #MondayMotivation
A word salad of fart-sniffing, pretentious nonsense, with a gratuitous selfie at the end.
Agree?
" Your kid did not say that, and also I dont think you got a kid" LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
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"...
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"
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.
Was it for a job clearing out old Woolworth stores?
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……
I don't know what that is, am I a natural aristocrat?
😂
I don't like corn on the cob, which I guess is an accurate reflection of how I'd feel working for that guy
The knob with a cob😊
My current employer did find me on Linkedin! But I religiouisly do NOT use Linkedin for any personal stuff.
I found my current job on there, but had to endure months and months of bs!
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.
From “30 under 30” to “30 to life” was genius.
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.
I really thought he would stick it in his forehead or something
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.
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.
Oh, that really is cringe.
Remember the 'today I closed the my biggest deal ever, and it was the worst day of my life' type humble-brags.
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.
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?😆
LinkedIn sends notifications to people when you view their profile
@@fruitloopz311 I don’t have a LinkedIn profile. It has absolutely no idea who I am when I visit the page
@@fruitloopz311Only if you're logged in.
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.
“Is this baby going to get me a job?” 😂
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. 🤦🏾
The soup spoon/fork thing had the energy of a Taskmaster task to it
I agree completely ! For every one hour spent on Linked In, 59 minutes and 55 seconds will have been time completely wasted.
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.
The ‘interviewer’s” face when he’s talking about soup is extremely, extremely funny.
That was so, so painful... when they guys stands up and walks off at the end I cheered out loud
@@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!
It reminds me of Monty Python.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
^ This.
did you stay or resigned eventually?
@choosyduchess25 stayed, I needed the income and made the most of it
Is there a glossary of these work terms so we can all be alert?
@sheerbeauty 'corporate bullshit bingo' games are a good place to find the words to watch for
It turned into social media site 10+ year ago and turned into crap
I suppose we can blame the users for most of that.
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.
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.
^ This.
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.
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".
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
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.
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.
2:12 That's not just any Patrick - that's Patrick Bet-David, the founder of Valuetainment.™ He's on a whole other level of cringe.
He’s the dictionary definition of cringe.
“The wind burned her a little bit in the pool”
no, hes a legend with one of the most popular podcasts on YT.
Thank for doing this. I thought it was just me that found it full of corporate shit.
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.
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! 😞
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.
Mainly use it to identify tosspots and try and spot companies to avoid.
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!
People at my work call it a "legacy hand" when someone leaves the raised hand sign on in a Teams meeting by accident.
Someone saying spending 7$ for a coffee everyday for 30 years costs 1million dollars doesn't know math.
But they do know compound interest at 20% p.a.
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.
Three words that sum up LinkedIn - Smoke, Blow, Derrière.
Is this some French saying I'm too uncultured to get
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.
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.
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
It's truly terrible. Never found a job on there. Too full of self promoting bullcrap, lies and agents
I used LinkedIn for approximately one month after I got hired I never bothered any more
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.
This episode was: 💪!
Spicer will make history as one of the 10 greatest YT-cynics ever.
To be frank I have no clue about who the 9 others could be, probably all English.
I used to Nanny for A child who went to private school and he was absolutely looking up stuff about Investments at the age of 11.
That woman sent her kid to private school. They are taught differently In private school they learn things us peasants can never know.
Tim Curry sardonic vibes. Love it.
LinkedIn makes me physically sick 🤮
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.
LOL! OMG "PUNCH THE FACE OF GOD" ahahahah Oh lord have mercy
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.
It's a platform where people regularly talk with authority on subjects they know just regular amounts of stuff about. Work-life balance is a popular one. Then other people contribute their thoughts, and the OP feverently engages them with further discussion and thanks the commenter for driving up the exposure of the post, sorry I mean thanks them for sharing their valuable opinion. Thus, devolving the post into yet another self-congratulatory-PR-wankathon.
Going to linkedin to find a job is like going to a brothel to find a wife.
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.
LinkedIn is where workaholics can be influencers and unemployed are involuntarily co-addicted to work
LinkedIn is just facebook with job titles.
It amazes me how many individuals are “honoured” or “privileged” to go to conferences……
I'm humbled to reply to this comment.
I had the hardest time trying to unsubscribe from LinkedIn. I kept leaving messages about how I'm retired and NOT looking for a job. Took months for them to finally stop sending me stupid posts.
LinkedIn seems to think I know everyone who ever graduated from the universities as me or worked at the same business.
LinkedIn is my 84 year old father's favorite social media site, and that tells me all I need to know about it.
Bashing linkedin has been a trend for a while now, but your take on it is great and amusing as always. Biden joke was spot on. Rock on, Michael! :)
LinkedIn has become a hollow and depressing cesspool of people posturing and self-congratulating their soulless, empty lives.
I’m looking for a job now, and this is 100% accurate !
I get a notification once every couple of months stating 1 person has viewed your LinkedIn profile and that I'm being noticed. Loool, just how I like it.
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 UA-cam 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.
I worked all the way through the pandemic. Some of us weren't furloughed. We got fewer tips, people complaining about us not taking cash any more, people not understanding the idea of contract-free delivery as they breathed over the top of you before make were commonly used while you tried to leave their pizza on the doorstep.
What's make?
I for one have decided all of these "social" media apps are not social at all. Why does this happen time over time on every single platform?
I see Linkedin just as a public CV which is kinda validated by the few contacts I have there, it'd be pretty ballsy for sb on Linkedin under their real name to claim to have worked for some big companies (if they did in fact not do this...) but yea that's where the usefulness ends... the rest is indeed cringe!
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?
The LinkedIn community is the result of the Golgafrinchian B-Ark, instead of crashing into prehistoric Earth, crashing into a Dilbert strip circa 1998.
Totally agree! I used to be a fan of LinkedIn but over the past 4 years the censoring, self-aggrandizing, solicitations, and over sharing keeps me away
Whole thing is an exercise in self-aggrandisement.
"The difference between a boss and a leader is that a true leader doesn't post on LinkedIn."
I’m a 8 year line cook (2 as a sous chef) transitioning into a permanent career into Network analytics so I see alot of posts from kitchen folk around the world. Last month I saw a post that read “All chefs can be millionaires, most don’t want to be” I really had to reconsider how much I value LinkedIn.
Can relate to this. Some of my less favourite experiences of LinkedIn? 1) AI this, AI that. Superficial applications for AI like generating video. 2) Virtue signalling: people posting their schedule: "get up at 5am... 532am do this, 6am do that etc" 3) Training certificates sharing 4) Long self-promotional posts with attempts to make web-readable by one or 2 sentence space separated paragraphs with emojis
It's not bad for some things, can get to know what's going on. Free news instead of buying a paper. It's not bad for seeing who is associated with organisations of interest.
Not sure if the Premium feature is worth it - what do others think?
I kind of agree with the pandemic assessment. A friend of mine wrote a book and created a career for herself as a public speaker. I gained 40 pounds and had the bathrooms renovated. I do lack discipline. 🤷🏼♀️