It takes a 10-sec glimpse at the LinkedIn page to realize how productive, successful, and virtually unstoppable the people on there are. They did it all—got major investment, took their company profits through the roof, made sure their employees feel like literally the most loved people on this planet, raised six kids, went bankrupt, and started life all over again.
But there’s something suspiciously woke and hyper-inspirational going on on this platform, and the Twitter page “The State of LinkedIn” is dedicated to exposing the not-so-pretty side of these posts.
“LinkedIn is a breeding ground for lies & brown-nosing. Exposing the worst. We are in no way associated with LinkedIn, so class us as a parody,” states their description and 174.4K followers couldn't agree more. So let’s see some of the screenshots right below!
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To find out more about The State Of LinkedIn, Bored Panda reached out to its creator @Brooke_Smedley, who, along with the co-creator @HarryBarnes1, has been working on the project roughly for three years now. “The State Of LinkedIn originally came as a spin-off from one of our other pages, @_DHOTYA, where we found the submissions surrounding LinkedIn-based scenarios.”
The authors then came up with the idea of creating its own page, then it took off from there. “The page is roughly about 2-3 years old and has always had a slow and gradual increase, we’ve never really had a massive influx of followers at once,” Brooke_Smedley said and added: “it seems a lot of people share a common interest in the strange posts that you can come across on LinkedIn.”
As a job hunter, it actually helps. Haven't heard back from company x in 2'weeks and their HR suddenly checks your profile - need to follow up today with person who viewed.
When asked what they think of the LinkedIn culture, Brooke said that “I don’t use LinkedIn, mainly because within my job I don’t really have a need to. However, I can understand how it can be important for some people within their working environments.”
Hey, I met that guy! I think he's still talking about himself. Or to himself. Something like that...
“I think it’s changed from what it was originally designed to do and has turned more into an attempt of a business Facebook where people are more interested in likes and engagements as opposed to what it was created for,” the creator of The State Of LinkedIn explained.
“People seem to get a handful of likes and comments and realize they’ll attract more engagement by following that approach,” Brooke concluded. The Twitter creator duo also runs a few more super popular Twitter pages like @StateOfSelling, @_StateOfFB, @_StateOfTweets and @_DHOTYA (“Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards”.)
You what? So this prick assumes that his interns should be poor, and punishes them for not being poor? How the f*** does a boss have anything to say about an employee's personal belongings anyway? It's insane how many people confuse wealth with personal worth.
With a heart heavy as a stone he sat behind his mahogany desk engulfed in the warm yellowish light of his turn-of-the-century banker's lamps, while he read yet another publisher's e-mail rejecting his manuscript. Apparently his style of writing was deemed to be 'archaic' and 'over the top'.
yes. he is tony stank. he even has a robot to brew his coffee, as his wife is still asleep.
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Jarvis controlled office, was probably his cat that made the coffee.
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These people's lives are motivational videos... pretentious, fake, and infuriating.
Is he an influencer? He writes like a fiction writer, but is a director, ceo, cfo, public speaker, but no actual company listed
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News flash - the smell of coffee can only fill your sense of (wait for it) smell.
I was on the edge of my seat, I want to know what happens next. "I spend the rest of the day taking selfies".
I googled his name to see what kind of company he represents (couldn’t find that, I’m thinking Herbalife, Amway) but his Instagram has soooooooo many selfies and workout selfies. Barf.
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Hm some mornings I wake up grumpy, but usually I let her sleep.
This is the biggest CRINGE so far. Nobody talks this way about their real life, Hemingway.
Can you imagine sitting next to this guy at a dinner ? Do what his wife does and pretend you are asleep !
Who made the coffee? Check your house sir, some ghosts wake up around 4 am and brew your coffee. Yikes!
He left out the part where he emptied his bowels and bladder and checked his nostrils for overgrown hairs. He would have waxed rhapsodically about that too.
Wait... how is coffee already made if he just woke up and is the first one up?
He forgot the part where everybody else sleeps a little better just knowing that asshole left.
he forgot to add the part where he spends an hour turning his daily routine into a novel
A tad too much for someone who spends 99% of the time remote working in his underwear, but OK...
So, if you were first up who made the coffee (freshly brewed) that you smelt - your slave?
One day the kids see me sitting on the toilet -dead. They scream and run to Mum, "MOM! There is a strange man in our house DEAD!" I hear, as I sit in Business Heaven and gaze down, my wife laughing her head off, "Oh, guys, that's your Dad you never knew you had. God, I hope he has an up to date will. ALEXA call lawyer......"
Eh. Some people really do feel like that in the morning. Good for them. I just hope they stay a mile away from me who does not wake up raring to go and would rather just skip mornings altogether.
Of for f*cks sake, surprised this guys ego isn’t too big for that mirror. Wanker
on the up side, he seems to have a good chance of becoming a writer!
Waiting for the part where he said he’ll eat lightning and crap thunder, it never came.
If I ever write a book I might just steal some descriptions from LinkedIn.
A schedule you can only survive with the abuse of psychoactive drugs like coffeine.
Who is the poor sap that has to brew his coffee for him? They are the real hero!
So who and when made that coffee? Other than that, I just hope this is 100% made up. Because if someone lives like this, that's pretty sad.
Some coffee machines come with a timer and programs now, so this one is for show off, I think. Like "I have a programmable coffee machine, so that I don't lose time in my morning routine, uhrr-duhrr." What keeps me wondering is the 24 screens in his office. Has nobody told him about alt-tab / command-tab ?
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Really, nunchucks? What kind B-grade movies has this guy been watching to think that any biker-looking guy will 'go berserk' in a random place because someone on the phone told him to?
They're not meetings, they're classes, you self-important beetle. And he's probably heard his parent say that on a daily basis so he trotted it out to impress them.
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Most of these read like people with low confidence desperately trying to convince themselves that they're doing well, fishing for external validation.
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For an IT guy, LinkedIn is like a reverse dating site. Pretty girls write to you and you ignore them.
I just wrote my 'Year Review' at work, in which we have to write about our achievements over the past 12 months. And I've now realised I sound like one of these LinkedIn wankers. I just hope my reviewer is also a wanker.
Yeah, but in the annual review you're supposed to toot your own horn--unless you're fortunate to have a manager who fights for you. Only managers/directors above you making decisions about a pay raise will see it. In LinkedIn's case... the world sees it. Go easy on yourself, friend, and brag when it's the right--and expected--thing to do.
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LinkedIn, the place where Charwoman can be Cleaning and Facilities Manager (full respect for charwomen) :D
'Charwoman' - mate, it's a cleaner. The word 'charwoman' is straight out of Dickens and quite offensive these days. Fair enough if your first language isn't English in which case I would unlearn this word.
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For unknown reasons one teacher forum put the names of everyone who had ever commented there on Linkedin along with phoney CVs including their email details. This was when Linkedin was just starting up so maybe it was to look busy but few if any of the people's names were their real ones although the email addresses were the real ones they had given when joining the forum. Many of us are still getting messages from Linkedin despite never having consented to be part of it.
They also get permission to access their members' email address list. I received many "invitations" from friends to join LinkedIn that my friends never sent.
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So LinkedIn is basically for people who are too stupid to post cringe videos on TikTok.
I read 3 or 4 and quit. I have no idea what it was all about & it wasn't very interesting.
British LinkedIn seems worse than US LinkedIn. Or maybe I’m just pickier about connecting with people?
Lots of pathetic blowhards in this thread... I skimmed over the majority of posts.
Most of these read like people with low confidence desperately trying to convince themselves that they're doing well, fishing for external validation.
Load More Replies... LinkedIn : the site where pretentious jerks use manager bullshit to humblebrag.
For an IT guy, LinkedIn is like a reverse dating site. Pretty girls write to you and you ignore them.
I just wrote my 'Year Review' at work, in which we have to write about our achievements over the past 12 months. And I've now realised I sound like one of these LinkedIn wankers. I just hope my reviewer is also a wanker.
Yeah, but in the annual review you're supposed to toot your own horn--unless you're fortunate to have a manager who fights for you. Only managers/directors above you making decisions about a pay raise will see it. In LinkedIn's case... the world sees it. Go easy on yourself, friend, and brag when it's the right--and expected--thing to do.
Load More Replies... LinkedIn, the place where Charwoman can be Cleaning and Facilities Manager (full respect for charwomen) :D
'Charwoman' - mate, it's a cleaner. The word 'charwoman' is straight out of Dickens and quite offensive these days. Fair enough if your first language isn't English in which case I would unlearn this word.
Load More Replies... For unknown reasons one teacher forum put the names of everyone who had ever commented there on Linkedin along with phoney CVs including their email details. This was when Linkedin was just starting up so maybe it was to look busy but few if any of the people's names were their real ones although the email addresses were the real ones they had given when joining the forum. Many of us are still getting messages from Linkedin despite never having consented to be part of it.
They also get permission to access their members' email address list. I received many "invitations" from friends to join LinkedIn that my friends never sent.
Load More Replies... So LinkedIn is basically for people who are too stupid to post cringe videos on TikTok.
I read 3 or 4 and quit. I have no idea what it was all about & it wasn't very interesting.
British LinkedIn seems worse than US LinkedIn. Or maybe I’m just pickier about connecting with people?
Lots of pathetic blowhards in this thread... I skimmed over the majority of posts.
