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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by madengr »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #261
ramenbytes wrote: post #165

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You'd hope as much, but it reads very similar to other serious corporate-speak. Take the explanation for why Keysight Technologies is called Keysight Technologies: 'The name Keysight is built from two English words: key, meaning indispensable or essential, a means of access; and insight, meaning the power of seeing, having vision and perception. The name connotes seeing what others cannot, having the critical or key…

Eh, I don't see anything wrong with that. You have to rename the company. "Agilent" and and "Hewlett Packard" are taken. So you pick a name and make up some marketing fluff to justify it. "Keysight" sounds like "key insight," which is what you get from decent test equipment. They could have done much worse.

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Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by low_tech_love »

jjgreen wrote: post #321
2143 wrote: post #289

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I'm confused and curious. Please elaborate if you don't mind. What happens afterwards?

Nordics (in particular the Finns) are renown for their heavy drinking to the extent that their disapproving states try to price them out of the habit. They don't care and get pissed anyway, which I find endearing, and real in a nice way. More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.ht... What happens afterwards? Yeah, just fall asleep (probably in the chair).

It’s endearing from an external perspective because of how the narrative sounds to outsiders (“the government is protecting the citizens from themselves”). The inside truth is much less romantic: Nordic governments are authoritative and jump at any opportunity to tax the hell out of their citizens. Nordics don’t drink even remotely as much as for example Germans and I don’t see Germany in trouble for that. They get away with it because Nordic people live in a golden cage and as long as you conform and lower your head, everything kind of moves forward comfortably.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by garrettgrimsley »

jxramos wrote: post #218
88913527 wrote: post #192

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You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don't see how that's necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it's up to date. Then, don't use it. Simple enough.

I wish there was a way to never accidentally click on or navigate to the feed at all on LinkedIn. Could be a good opportunity for a browser extension to just nuke that part of the DOM.

If you use uBlock Origin you can do

     www.linkedin.com##:matches-path(feed).scaffold-layout__main
     www.linkedin.com##.global-nav__primary-link.global-nav__primary-link--active.app-aware-link
The former will block the main content of the page while on the /feed/ path, while the latter will block the "Home" button in the header nav.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by Ms-J »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #330
Ms-J wrote: post #287

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I've never had a Linkedin nor any other type of social media, not even a public Github page, and I've received many simply great job offers, especially in 2022-2023. Putting this out there so people don't think they need to join some absolutely shit random corporate social networks to get a job.

What's your secret?

Either Indeed, or from email. The emails usually come from recruiters using databases, but I've also received emails directly from the companies using word of mouth, too.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by iancmceachern »

deepspace wrote: post #100
izzydata wrote: post #60

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Meatspace. I don't think any digital platform is ever going to fill that role. By default anything online is already way less genuine feeling.

> Meatspace Easy to say flippantly, but my colleagues (let alone my network) are distributed across 10+ countries on four continents. My local 'meatspace' has nothing to offer me career-wise. A professional network needs to be online.

It doesn't have to stay that way. You could work to build connections locally as well.

Re: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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Post by jxramos »

garrettgrimsley wrote: post #333
jxramos wrote: post #218

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I wish there was a way to never accidentally click on or navigate to the feed at all on LinkedIn. Could be a good opportunity for a browser extension to just nuke that part of the DOM.

If you use uBlock Origin you can do www.linkedin.com##:matches-path(feed).scaffold-layout__main www.linkedin.com##.global-nav__primary-link.global-nav__primary-link--active.app-aware-link The former will block the main content of the page while on the /feed/ path, while the latter will block the "Home" button in the header nav.

wow I didn't know uBlock Origin was also capable of DOM cleanup. I really need to give that tool a second look.
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