This Twitter Account Is Dedicated To Showcasing All The ‘Crap On LinkedIn’ And Here’s 40 Of The Best Finds
If you've ever used LinkedIn out of necessity but thought it was a shallow dump of disreputable content, this Twitter account is for you. Crap On LinkedIn is dedicated to exposing all the lies, toxic-positivity, and straight-up fiction they find on the platform, and they've been making quite a name for themselves recently doing it, too.
"I used to work in sales and we would always share cringy posts around the team," Kirsty Callaghan, founder of RicochetB2B and the main person behind Crap On LinkedIn, told Bored Panda. "We would always wonder why there wasn't [at the time] an online curation of these posts so I put a Twitter account together. It was quite tough finding the posts to share regularly but now we have dozens of suggestions daily from our audience."
Continue scrolling and check out some of the best (or worst?) posts they have tweeted so far.
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LinkedIn was launched in 2003, and Callaghan has also used it. Mainly, for networking and job hunting. "I find it to be quite a poor platform, personally, considering the rich data opportunities on offer. For example, when it was bought by Microsoft, I was convinced they were going to add some feature rich CRM based tools where you could record calls, conversations and information about connections in real time... It still hasn't been done. The advertising is also hugely expensive and judging by the ads I see, really poorly targeted."
To Callaghan, crap on LinkedIn is anything that's blatantly dishonest. Think heart-warming recruitment stories where a company hires someone with no skills just because they showed up dripping wet from the rain because they couldn't afford a car. Or posts that are irrelevant in a business environment -- like how cool someone's kid is. As Callaghan put it, all children are amazing, there's no need to make up a story about how they started a business at 4 years old selling lemonade to show off how great your parenting is. Finally, engagement bait. Like tacky videos of a robot built 10 years ago or a cute dog linked to some tedious business analogy.
In my reading, the tall ones are the stupidly optimistic that believe the plan cannot fail; shorty goes "well but did you check (...)?"
"LinkedIn is unfortunately a really boring platform content-wise," Callaghan said. "While people are scrolling around it, they're looking for stuff that's a bit different that they can engage with. There are tons of blogs online telling you how to use the LinkedIn algorithm to your benefit which certainly doesn't help. Things like long, spaced out posts improve a reader's engagement because they're scrolling through it which in turn improves the visibility to other people."
Callaghan also pointed out that LinkedIn users tend to copy/paste post templates or just the exact same content that they saw viral on the platform, making it so inauthentic, repetitive and cringy.
"People really don't need to resort to posting 'Crap on LinkedIn' to get engagement. How many of those likes and comments result in a sell for that poster? Always ask yourself 'Is this really braggy?' 'Is this false?' 'Do my buyers care about this?' and delete where appropriate," Callaghan added. "In the meantime, if you see your post appear on our feed – take it as a lesson, be a good sport and have a nice day."
As Dan Price has proven, people will do even more when you pay them a decent wage.
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but what are we going to do with 6 billion payment cards?"
Mine is made out of plywood and cardboard with lots of duct tape. It's out back on the forklift.
He's Ferrari-adjacent at best... If I make a photo of me next to the Statue of Liberty, do you assume it's my statue? So how does this suggest he's even allowed to drive it (rent, lease, borrow)?
An oldie but goodie. " If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. After that give up. You're just making an a*s of yourself.
Maybe he deleted his own account after spotting the verb "Marketing" in the title...
To seize true, real, metaphysical opportunity you could have killed the CEO in the first place and swooped in to help hire his replacement...
I'm surprised he wasn't disappointed that LA didn't die just after he successfully poached them and could charge his original client 2x, for both placing his shortlived #1 and then his #2 candidate.
Most large companies have a succession plan in place for events like this. I'm sure there was an EVP acting as the interim CEO until a replacement is found. Most plans even go as far as offering a retention bonus to senior staff that may have applied for the CEO position but we're turned down. You don't want to lose your CEO and then have two or three VPs leave because they didn't get promoted. I audited one credit union where the top 3 VPs were given a 50K retention bonus spread over 3 years to ensure they stayed.
Nothing like money to express appreciation. Not joking.
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If you still wonder what G. Orwell meant when he wrote about "common decency", that's it. That's what this kind of people have completely lost.
That's a heartless and utterly stupid attitude. Smells of a dissection table.
Sounds like the old-time bible sales scam, read to see who died and show up at the family's door with some overpriced bible saying the their dead relative bought it but it was a COD delivery.
When did it become acceptable to call “lessons” “learnings”? It sounds like someone doesn’t speak the language when I hear that, but it seems to be coming more and more often from the “C-types”.
Takeaway is you’re not very caring about someone dying a few weeks ago as your harass their employee.
What the f**k? Show some respect! The name dead and all you can think of is a business opportunity? That’s messed up
So I can't read any books anymore until I have transformed into a vampire and sucked the blood out of countless virgins? Bummer....
Strange, because when people over 50 apply for a job, the companies tell them the exact opposite..
You'd be surprised how many times you get conned if you treat everyone like they are the CEO of your favorite company.
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This isn't even the worst stuff on LinkedIn. There's a huge industry of "coaching" which is pseudo science mixed with fortune cookie wisdom all packaged up by talentless charlatans to take advantage of people in desperate need of guidance and support in their professional lives. They flood LinkedIn with these posts in the hope of scamming some cash from them. Most of the other posts are "that happened" humble brag asshats who say stuff like..."I had an interview today.....the candidate was nervous....because she was actually a talking goat....i didn't care...i hired her on the spot...good managers don't judge a candidate by their species...agree?" Eughhhh.
Actually, a talking goat would've been an improvement on some people I've worked for. And with.
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I hate entrepreneurship arrogance enough already. I don’t mean ANY person who starts a business. I mean THOSE types. You know. These people in this list. I couldn’t even get through even a quarter of this awful list. It’s just too f*****g embarrassing for humanity.
I like your posts. You speak your mind and it's refreshing :)
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Knew it was useless when the basis was lying...so and so suggested you for linked in.
Former employer put everyone on Linkedin without their permission. Using our resumes and filling in any details he didn't know with his fantasies. The women got so many contacts from creeps it was not funny.
Elis James & John Robins would have loved these. Come on, someone out there must be on email! 🤗
Ive been on linkedin for a long time, but I never really use it other than a way for people I know to keep in touch when I used to lived in different places in the world. It was a bit better then, until linkedin became stupid and offered me up to complete strangers to link up with for whom I had no connection. It was very unprofessional for them to do it. Now its being taken over by virtue signalling people who think they are more special than others with the occasional scandal such as charlotte proudman career destroying move whilst being a hypocrite( no wonder the press went after her). Linkedin is becoming another version of facebook...
This isn't even the worst stuff on LinkedIn. There's a huge industry of "coaching" which is pseudo science mixed with fortune cookie wisdom all packaged up by talentless charlatans to take advantage of people in desperate need of guidance and support in their professional lives. They flood LinkedIn with these posts in the hope of scamming some cash from them. Most of the other posts are "that happened" humble brag asshats who say stuff like..."I had an interview today.....the candidate was nervous....because she was actually a talking goat....i didn't care...i hired her on the spot...good managers don't judge a candidate by their species...agree?" Eughhhh.
Actually, a talking goat would've been an improvement on some people I've worked for. And with.
Load More Replies... I hate entrepreneurship arrogance enough already. I don’t mean ANY person who starts a business. I mean THOSE types. You know. These people in this list. I couldn’t even get through even a quarter of this awful list. It’s just too f*****g embarrassing for humanity.
I like your posts. You speak your mind and it's refreshing :)
Load More Replies... Knew it was useless when the basis was lying...so and so suggested you for linked in.
Former employer put everyone on Linkedin without their permission. Using our resumes and filling in any details he didn't know with his fantasies. The women got so many contacts from creeps it was not funny.
Elis James & John Robins would have loved these. Come on, someone out there must be on email! 🤗
Ive been on linkedin for a long time, but I never really use it other than a way for people I know to keep in touch when I used to lived in different places in the world. It was a bit better then, until linkedin became stupid and offered me up to complete strangers to link up with for whom I had no connection. It was very unprofessional for them to do it. Now its being taken over by virtue signalling people who think they are more special than others with the occasional scandal such as charlotte proudman career destroying move whilst being a hypocrite( no wonder the press went after her). Linkedin is becoming another version of facebook...
