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LinkedIn has the atmosphere of working at a 200K employee multinational that even the CEO isn't really energized by. It's honestly amusing how similar it is. Whenever I go on there I think of a job I had once in which people tried to one up each other for "most robotic". Beep boop. The policy section 5 b says you have used Beep 7 of your allotted holiday days. Boop Please report your time sheet (my old manager, livin…
Virtue signaling, culture that celebrates positivity-at-all-cost, and worshipping of executive leadership through emulation. That's why that "i got pip'ed at Amazon" was such a breath of fresh air. By far the best thing I've seen on Linkedin.
The most value I've got out of the brief period where I occasionally logged in was periodically threatening to endorse for proficiency in .
(obviously I never actually did it, but given how I relate to my friends the faux threat was absolutely funny to both of us every time)
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YES! AMEN! It reminds of the time I was going to a job interview, saw a homeless dude and went for a coffee with him. Turns out he wasn’t homeless, he was just CTO of a funded startup. The same startup I was interviewing for. We rebuilt the whole app over coffee and they named the company after me. (It’s not directly named after me, but the company name and my name have vowels and consonants.) Remember to ask homeles…
I really was once in a meeting where a homeless guy had his face against the window peering in from the outside. While we were discussing what, if anything to do about it, someone recognized the homeless guy as our corporate lawyer. In fact, he wasn't homeless at all, just disheveled. We went outside and brought him in as he was supposed to be attending this meeting.
LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…
Once I'm a billionaire, it's the first thing I'll do after paying for WinRar: deleting my LinkedIn account. I never respond to anything, just keeping it around for now for the connections. I recently checked the inbox and noticed something very weird. It showed a list of recruiters that had sent me a message and their profile picture. There were about 15 on screen. All 15 were hot white blond women in their mid twent…
I never understood why I always got so depressed reading LinkedIn, until I read The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao. And then I saw that LinkedIn consists almost entirely of clueless people talking to other clueless people, and exclusively in posturetalk (these are Rao’s terms - “clueless” means something specific). And if you haven’t read The Gervais Principle, I highly recommend it, although it may bum you out.
I love the Gervais Principle, but only as a cynical joke that can sometimes be applied to real life. There's really no need to read the book. If you're interested in a laugh, just see the blog post [1]. The gist of it is that there are only three types of people who work in organizations: 1. At the top of the food chain are the sociopaths. Executives. 2. Below it are the clueless, the mid-manager who works nights and…
