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'.
How would you like to have your patience tested every day? Congratulations, you're just the kind of doormat we're looking for!
I'd so leave. If a company's time management is that bad and they're proud to make a point of it, no way I'm dealing with their annoyed clients or lax HR
"Congratulation, you let me disrespect you and make you waste time to an extent which can sensibly be considered psychological torture. That's exactly what my employees have to handle everyday, so the job is yours!"
That wasn't a test of patience, it was to see which applicants were so desperate for a job that they'd be willing to put up with the bosses BS even before they were paid for anything. Proof that you are willing to work hard off the clock. They also suck at math. Six people show up, 3 leave and only two left that are hired...what happened to the sixth person?
In a depression, so they have to leave it out for publicity
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I would have left after 30 minutes. No interest in working for a company that can't be on time for a job interview.
So, he wasted 11 hours of their time as a test? That's longer than a normal work day. Not to mention, when I'm job hunting, there are days I could have multiple interviews in one day. If they can't respect my time, they don't deserve me.
You don't keep an appointment YOU are unprofessional, and a rotten person to work for. The end.
Well why don’t I Show up late for work all the time in tell my boss thanks for your patience.
Truly distopian joke to tell, but then some HR people actually did it..
WOW, if anyone sees positives in this story that they need to share with others, I really hope their friends and family can also see the type of power play that the poster thinks is impressive.
Why would you want to hire someone who has nothing better to do than wait around for an interviewer that can't even meet his own schedule. Hire the guy that left at 9am after he was left hanging in the waiting room for 2 hours without so much as a word of explanation from the interviewer.
So what happened to the 6th person? 6 - 3(that left) - only 2 = 1..... that's pretty f'd up.
How would you like to work for someone that deceptive and petty enough to think that your time is worth nothing?
This is just idiotic I would not work for a company that wastes my time so much,plus I doubt if this is even true.
An 11-hour interview. What a jerk thing to do. Hope neither one accepted the position.
Hi about "wasting the interviewee's time?" "Showing yourself to be an abusive employer?"
Who would want yo work for an employer who thought so little of a person's time?
Yes, I want to work for someone who values my time so little that they think I should wait for 11 hours.
wow, what bull s**t is this? just goes to show, you need to have no social life to work for that plumb
No, that was just to see who was the most desperate/doormat-ish so they could exploit them.
The asshole employer clearly failed his interview. It's a two way street.
We had a TV ad just like this, it was pretending to recruit cheesemakers - Good things take time was the theme.
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.
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.
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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.
