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Going on LinkedIn is very much like going through the looking glass into Bizarre-O Land. It’s a wild ride. Maybe you spot a few genuinely good briefs with some practical advice in your feed, shared by seasoned industry veterans. Then you sidestep a hundred or so people robotically bragging about how they’re so grateful/happy to quit/start a position at their old/new job. At this point, you’re so deep down the rabbit hole that you start noticing the most awful stuff that LinkedIn has to offer—clearly fake, extremely cringy self-promo posts that ‘professionals’ write for views and likes.

You know, the ones where CEOs, recruiters, and high-flying managers do their best to seem human while they offer banal, double-spaced ‘wisdom’ just to stay relevant online. JR Hickey, from California, shares the very worst examples of brain-rotting content on his ‘The Best of LinkedIn’ Twitter page. Scroll down to check out the very worst LinkedInfluencers’ posts and remember to upvote the ones that made you facepalm.

JR, the founder of @BestofLinkedin, answered Bored Panda's questions about why these LinkedInfluencers behave the way that they do, as well as what LI users could do to stand out without resorting to lying online. Read on for our full interview!

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sproutdidydoodah
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3 years ago

no it's true, i was the line

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    Kat Pekin
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    3 years ago

    Well, I showered today so f**k you, Sarah.

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    Marcellus II
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    3 years ago

    He'll do it again also because he has a wife at home that resents him & wants him out.

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    Sad Quokka
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    3 years ago

    Yes Libby, of course Libby

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    Sad Quokka
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well done Jeff, another year of Jeffness

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    HogHedge
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    3 years ago

    5 people died and he's bragging about his new job. Because, hey they're gone now and life moves on, right?

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    Láďa Durchánek
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    3 years ago

    She is a true Story Teller

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    Serial pacifist
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    3 years ago

    I have a secret…that I will only share on a social network.

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    Corvus
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    3 years ago (edited)

    If I were the hotel manager, I'd totally ask him to pay for this coffee machine.

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    Corvus
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    You call them "hacks", I call them red flags.

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    Stephanie Barr
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    3 years ago

    I have had managers like this. But they didn't brag about it on Linked In

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    gmf
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    3 years ago

    The only difference between this and a TikTok post is the suit

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    Willow
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    3 years ago

    Oddly enough, there are more than 40 people on LinkedIn

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    HogHedge
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Can't believe he even has a gf. He's a complete t0ss3r.

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    Jason
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    3 years ago

    Mom is always on her phone at the park. She doesn't even know where I am. I bet if you send her a message on social media she will respond

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    Sad Quokka
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    "now daddy has all the toys" 👀

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    Sad Quokka
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    My version - I was on my way to the interview but I saw a cat stuck in a tree, so I chose not to go to the interview and rescued the cat instead and ruined my new suit. It turns out that the cat was the interviewer and hired me on the spot

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    Jason
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    3 years ago

    Strangely enough I have been using please and thank you for almost 4 decades and never assumed people would want to give me things for being a decent human being

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    Emma S
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Poor woman just wanted to eat her burger in peace.

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    Adam Zad
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    3 years ago

    Courage is working in your p**s-soaked pants. Intelligence is changing out of them. Planning is bringing spare pants to change into.

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    HogHedge
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    An idiot marketing to idiots.

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    Marno C.
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Spoiler: His favorite band is Insane Clown Posse and now his wife won't speak to him for dragging their daughter to a Juggaloo gathering on a school night.

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    Jason
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    3 years ago

    My toddler just tells me he's the boss when I ask him to do something. Does this count?

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    Sad Quokka
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Apparently I hate grandma

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    Tammy
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    3 years ago

    I like turtles.

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    N Miller
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, I'm disappointed this is being used for shameless self-marketing, because I'm fully prepared to believe that, outside of LinkedIn, this conversation did happen, based solely on genuine real world conversations (about Alexa and Siri, but the gist is the same) with my then 6-year-old nibling.

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    Cara
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    3 years ago

    Woah, that is seriously messed up thinking.

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    Lyone Fein
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    3 years ago

    Whatever

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    Shyla Bouche
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yes, I often find funerals "fun."

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    Butler Amadeus Torso
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    3 years ago

    I have family in Utah. Utah is another world. Utah nonsense is next-level. And this Utahs so hard that it is actually the one of the most Utah things I’ve ever read or heard.

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    Foxinamug
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    3 years ago

    To be honest, if I was a parent, I would hope anyone admiring my daughter(s) would be the type to practice safe sex rather than carry a random hair tie. I would also have taught both daughters and sons the importance of consent and the potential consequences so they can make their own, informed decisions. Purity ideas like his will only make his daughters worse equipped to be safe when they start dating.

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    Jason
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    3 years ago

    Would have been icing on the cake if she mentioned the open positions

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    Shyla Bouche
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why would anyone shake a beta? It's poor little fishy brain would get all bollocked up!

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Alright, time for me to ruin the picture for everyone. Anyone else notice the fact that he’s photoshopped into the car?

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    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Started out decent then completely flew off the rails

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago

    Wow, those kids’ handwriting is really impressive. Even more impressive is how everything is spelt 100% correctly and it’s written so formally. Definitely something that the kids made. /s

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    Sad Quokka
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    3 years ago

    Complete tonka

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    Mama Penguin
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Does that excuse also apply in the workplace?

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    gmf
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    #justcreepyguythings

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    BewilderedBanana
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    3 years ago

    wait... your kid wanted to play so you took him for breakfast? do you understand the concept of playing at all? Did everyone at the restaurant clap after the 6th hug?

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    Kate Jones
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    3 years ago

    Oh yes so many messages about a cross that, like, hundreds of thousands of people wear regularly. All these people who don't know what that means and are so confused.

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    Lil Miss Hobbit
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    3 years ago

    Oh man. Idk what he thinks this is saying, but he just sounds like a wimp.

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    Jason
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    3 years ago

    Is bullies just randomly finding people 20 years later and cold calling them a thing?

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    LH25
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, just keep telling yourself your 4 YO is OK with all those broken promises and long hours away from her.

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    James016
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    3 years ago

    IIRC one of the people he laid off defended him posting this.

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    Mama Penguin
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Just shut up, Braden.

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    Kate Jones
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    3 years ago

    I don't understand why this is here. This is actually really nice.

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago

    Added a few Easter Eggs. Aka; Built the entire thing myself, then said my child built it for internet clout

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    never-wake-up (fae/faer)
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    3 years ago

    nothing infuriates me more than those "hidden" ads actually. if you're trying to sell me something, at least be upfront about it. advertisements are never honest, but how am i expected to trust you on your product if i can't even trust you on your ad? I remember watching Love Simon 5y ago. one character wore a bright red coca-cola t-shirt in a neutral/blue coloured scene. it was the only thing you saw and it drew your eye immediately. the only thing i remember about that film is the blatant advertising throughout it all.

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    BewilderedBanana
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    3 years ago

    that's way too many words when a simple "dafuq?" would do

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    Lynne Hammar
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    3 years ago

    This is called using your kid as a prop.

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    Mama Penguin
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    3 years ago

    What?

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    BewilderedBanana
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    3 years ago

    Most of these can be so much shorter... "I'm rich so i always fly first class, unlike the peasant sitting next to me. She's so excited about everything while to me, this is all just very normal and mundane"

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    Full Name
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    3 years ago

    There he is - surrounded by all his friends.

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    3 years ago

    So you're an arsehole to strangers.

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    3 years ago

    A word is what it is, it is the context that makes it derogatory. So in this context, i suggest we keep the word savant and throw you in the bin

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    BewilderedBanana
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Maybe i'm a bit out of touch, so open to being educated about this, but that seems to be an awfully long-winded way of saying "Hey, they made a movie about me"

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    Kate Jones
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    3 years ago

    The only one....who doesn't know he's not the only one.

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    Rali Meyer
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    2 years ago

    no breakfast before 07:00 (military time), why are you in the dining room?

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    Kate Jones
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    3 years ago

    #lies #insecurity #8-year-olds don't know what an ulcer is #i don't think you know what the word illusion means #why can't you just be proud of your kids #without feeling like you have to lie about the things they say #making you think less of them the more you do it #and causing these kids to grow up as neurotic messes #maybe stop trying to get attention

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    Lynne Hammar
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Ugh he took a picture 🤢

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    adam yauch
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    3 years ago

    Okay, but this... This is kinda cute. Her daughter's power suit is definitely powerful.

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    3 years ago (edited)

    Posting that you're shocked by NYC prices just makes you look like a rube. And no street vendor cares to "look into your soul"

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    2 years ago

    #Ønly fØur

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