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.
Taiwan was testing, tracking and quarantining everyone entering their island as early as January. When everyone else was still denying reality.
Are you kidding me? The semester was delayed by two weeks and we’ve been wearing masks from January up until now. Even more, public gatherings are still closely monitored and three of our field trips were cancelled for this reason. Taiwan was in fact one of the first countries to begin this. End rant
The U.K. is an island and we have the highest rates in Europe. It's the leadership that makes the difference.
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I wonder if my neighbors STD was caused by the cell tower down the road? She swears she hasn’t been spreading for every Tinder date she’s had in the past two years. I wonder if 5G will make the Herps spread ever faster? What a COVIDIOT and why the hell is this dumbass employed ? Or able to freely speak?
It probably has more to do with the huge amount of experience they have combating the selection of coronavirus epidemics they've been experiencing for years, but oh! They're not from the Western world so it couldn't possibly be that - it must be some crazy reason that even high school kids can see is b******t.
"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...
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..
One of the many stories in "Things that never happened" Volume 13.
You'd be surprised how many times you get conned if you treat everyone like they are the CEO of your favorite company.
You don't need to review the calendar if you do the same thing EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Again, show some respect! If somebody died, it’s DISRESPECTFUL to try and use the death to get more likes. I realize I sound like an old woman, but PEOPLE!!!! Come on!
Bottom line "My co-workers had the brains to know that it was time to step out of the rat race, while I believe that I shall live forever because I deny that growing old is a reality.
If "Hustle" is an essential part of your succes you either are a motivational speaker or an influenza.
Homeless people: Oh my God you're right! I need to get a job with the college degree I couldn't afford and stop buying beer with the money I don't have! The education I didn't get sure will pay off now!
I have NEVER done a single moment of work on the train into London. And I never will. That is my time. I have read books, tried some sketching (turns out I am not very good), and even just nestled up to a partition and caught up with some zzzzz, but I will NEVER check my emails until I walk through the front door of the office.
Reality: He was fired before he was hired because no one hires a guy who can't enter a room without slipping.
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...
