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.
"Misterscooter, sir, what made you stick out for me wasn't the 2.4GPA, 3 years of repeating your senior year, or the 5 failed college courses. It was what you said about anthills and pizza. The anthills tell me that you are a determined worker who will destroy anything in his path for this company. But the pizza toldme that you are also human. You are a good person at heart, and will treat everyone at this company as if they were your family. So i am happy to announce, that, after interviewing 187 promising applicants, you made the cut: Welcome to Nasa"
Load More Replies...Will everyone please notice what company he works for? New York and Company. The cheap crappy retail clothing store that works their employees til they drop and pays them a pittance, even before the wage theft, to do it. And he wants people to work that hard to apply for a job there? And calls himself the “Career Whisperer” to boot? Thinks a lot more of himself than I’ll bet any of his coworkers think of him. Delusional MFer, isn’t he? Sadly, his type is all too typical, especially in the most exploitive industries. Like retail.
He's very delusional, and I'm sure they're not hiring. NY&C's parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July and all of their retail stores are closing.
Load More Replies...I'm not like other girls, I eat the pit of the avocado in one bite and I tie my shoelaces with strands of my neighbour's hair.
Shitt... I was using random hair I found in the dumpster behind a hair and nails school. Now I know what I was doing to not get hired.
Load More Replies...1) 3.7 GPA? Should show you I am able to learn and master new material at a higher level than just and average 2.0 GPA level. 2) Health Sciences Major? Should show you that working at New York and Co is just a b******t placeholder job until something in my (legitimately potentially lucrative and way more necessary than your dress shop) field comes along, at which time I will just walk out of your store with zero notice. 3) Internship at Facebook, Amazon, Google? See answer to Question #2 above. F**k you and your b******t retail job, “Career Whisperer”.
I got rejected because my application was all about me and not about what I had to offer to the company.
I applied for nearly 80 jobs before I got the one I have today. Took me several months but just keep trying.
Load More Replies...So this "Career Whisperer" pats himself on the back while his crappy company files bankruptcy and closes all stores, according to USA Today article dated July 13, 2020
So then how about me as a single mom of a 5 month old starting school and working really hard, taking a full load including summer semesters, having 2 major surgeries, working thru 2 close family member deaths and getting a bachelors, 2 minors and then a masters in the matter of 4.5 years start to finish with a GPA of 3.66? If that doesn't tell you what type of person I am then I have no desire to work for a company that can't see me as a valuable asset. But yeah it's just a piece of paper.
I can twerk while reciting the Declaration of Independence in Pig Latin. I think I’m overqualified.
I very passionate about blowing up balloons with a straw, throwing eggs at senior citizens, squeezing hamburgers into hotdog buns and everything related to the art of taxidermy... How about you, Chuck? Are you passionate about anything or are you just a meatbag of bones?
I hate this trash. When parasite employers demand you prostrate yourself before them and pretend you want to dedicate your life to making the boss of that business richer. How about recognise skill and effort, reward merit, or a working class mob meets you in the car park and plays with you like a cat does a mouse.
Because so far your company sucks and perhaps you need someone who can actually get the job done, like write a proper post on Linked...what's it called again??
"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..
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.
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...
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...