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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.”
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…
Edit: and elephants!
What else can you do on the gallows but laugh?
People take what they love. Username checks out
But would you be entitled to paid kill-your-father-leave?
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 the same. Nothing happened to me, nothing will happen to you other than your life being better because you aren’t on Linkedin.
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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
The problem is corporate culture. LinkedIn is merely reflecting it. Any other platform for job seekers would have the same issues.
Not if it’s treated like a social media for whatever reason.
Xing (German) and Headhunter (Russian), for instance, both allow you to hunt for jobs and browse companies all without Facebook-like posts and corporate culture.
LinkedIn is a very curious artifact of moronic cargo cult-like chase for money and market share where companies just try and copy whatever the big player did, like Facebook at the time, hoping to make loads of money for the investors and stakeholders, but the absolutely anti-human corporate culture of the US makes the place is even more moronic.
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.
Hey, whatever works for you. There are many people who I’m friendly with, but I’m not friends with, and they can be useful to find out information about employment opportunities or other things like that. Whether or not you want to call it “corporate hustle poison” or networking, or just being friendly is up to you. If you refuse to be part of it, no skin off my back, but if someone wants to be part of it then that’s perfectly fine too. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with LinkedIn, Facebook or almost any other social media platform. It’s really in how you use it.
Do he same.
Amen brother.
Amen.
You know I completely forgot I had one
I recently deleted my LinkedIn for two reasons:
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Endless horseshit recruiters coming at me with bullshit jobs
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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 to someone with the 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.
Oh man, that would have sounded so nice when I was still working in the industry.
I could just picture being stuck on site being berated in the middle of the night since some far away NOC thought deleting the switch configuration files was a good idea (again) and getting the offer to be a goat herder.
“Wait your telling me no human contact at all? Comes with a hut? Many KMs from the nearest technology?”
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.
eight zero, friend
Ah well that’s not worth it even if they were nice about it
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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 thing 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, and that’s almost beautiful.
It brings me back to an age when people actually tried to conform just a little for the sake of social progress, people kept their shit to themselves and worked to be part of a system. It was as close as we ever were to being even remotely socially conscious.
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
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.
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.
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Manage these nuts.
You seem to have a very immature view of life.
Yes.
If you were a good manager you would have the skill to successfully manage that and everyone would be happy
I think our stance was clear
Clearly it wasn’t. The original post showed one manager being an asshole. OPs follow-up is that all managers are assholes. The leap and logic there is a relatively stupid way to view the world. It’s the same logic that says my sister is bad at driving, therefore all women are bad at driving. If you or the op want to have an immature view of the world, that’s your prerogative, but I’m interested in understanding at least the first level argument to be made for why all managers are bad.
I love my manager, she’s awesome
My last manager was great. Never told me how to do anything and basically kept me insulated from the higher-ups so I could get shit done. His only negative was that as a former dentist he kept telling me I should floss more.
Imo, it can be generalized that most people in power are asshats because the only people that want to wield power do so for all the wrong reasons
Personally, were I to be a manager, my reason would be money.
When I was in the Marines I was a manager of sorts. Was in charge of 12 guys, direct report for three teams of four guys apiece. I made demands of them, but when our goals were met I let them use their time as they wanted. I got down into the shit with them, I taught them, I made them teach each other. Overall, we all performed well. I liked being in charge because I felt I could help make them better, and I think I did. I am certainly not the only person to have been that way.
I think your generalization is overly broad, and it just reeks of nobody should have to do anything. There needs to be some structure to things, we’ve had hierarchies going back a bajillion years, they exist in the animal world, it just makes sense. To claim that all managers just want to put their thumbs on people sounds ignorant.
I eventually got out, and it was basically because I knew that I was no longer going to be able to lead the same, my priorities in life had changed, and it was time to step aside. Again, I’m confident I’m not alone, and I say that becaue I’ve had very good leaders. To your point, though, I have had some absolute shitheads who were my bosses, managers, leaders, but far from all of them. But they do exist.
My manager recently denied some of my PTO requests, so whatever you just said (I didn’t read it) doesn’t count and all managers are bastards. QED.
Not wearing enough flair
Because they ask obvious questions to make people feel stupid.
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
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It’s a controversial take, OP, but I agree. The world does need more women like Nasim Najafi Aghdam!
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…)
Exaggeration is being used for comedic effect.
No, I got that part. Sorry. I don’t think I’m explaining myself properly. Has a similar story been posted with the same “I’m an awesome manager” pretense that they’re specifically making fun of, or is the post making fun of the types of posts on LinkedIn in general? I think, if I’m understanding the responses here correctly, it’s the latter and I just took it too literally.
I think it’s the latter.
Understood. Thanks for taking the time here. I promise I wasn’t trolling. I know it sounded like it, but I genuinely misunderstood.
I’m in your boat often enough. Sometimes a post assumes familiarity with a context and it may be hard to figure out the intent or sincerity without that familiarity.
no the “xyz be like” phrasing implies means it’s parody
It’s technically a strawman argument.
I’ve seen sadly similar stories spouted…
It can’t possibly be a strawman argument, it’s not even an argument at all
Straw man fallacy then?
The word you’re trying to shoehorn strawman into is “sardonic”.
It’s ragebait
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.
