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'.
That might be the dumbest thing I have ever read. I feel we are all a little bit dumber for having read it.
You summed this up nicely, hence our intelligence has been restored.
Load More Replies..."Not today"? I thought she was gonna superhero them back from the edge of death, not inspire a non-winning entry into Things That Never Happened writing contest...
Wow... they eventually poisoned themselves with their own toxic positivity.
So, someone runs you over, knocks you down with a car, and then you're not that angry, because she had a crappy day? Also, the story isn't complete ... the recruiter was the woman's starving dog who died prematurely while being the eldest of his breed ever known, and still kicks ass, or sniffs for that matter...
Plot twist, the driver ran her over on purpose because she was having an awful day and needed someone to vent to!
Load More Replies...'pS I HavEnt HaD mY SyMPatHy yEt sO fEeL FrEe tO gIVe Me SoMe' I laughed so hard at the last sentence, like do they think we believe them or what???
That awful fake story reminded me of my stay in hospital when i was 16. The lad in the bed next to me had been hit by a car (which didn't stop) while doing his paper round. He lay on the side of the road with a compound fracture, part of his bone sticking out of his leg, in shock. And a little old lady walked past and asked him if he was alright. He was incredulous and couldn't help telling her sarcastically that he was fine, perfectly ok, not a scratch. And she said, "ok, then. Well it's nice to meet you" and carried on walking, leaving him there. He couldn't believe it. This was in the days before mobile phones. It was another five minutes before someone came out of one of the houses, found him, and called an ambulance.
Omg guys just a few minutes ago i was actually shot 78 times in the back. Im bleeding everywhere but in just 2 min I crawled over here and typed this out w my bloody fingers...I'm a little annoyed but I'm a good person so I just said I would tweet ab this, but not call the cops🤗cmon pandas one like=one prayer that I wont die in approx five minutes tysm
Give you sympathy ?? With kudos to George Carlin: Don't take my sympathy. The week ends coming up and I only have 2 left.
So... is there a cap to the number of ppl I can run over with the 'awful morning' excuse?
She should have finished the job. You have a better chance getting sympathy from whomever you meet after death than from us regular human beings!!!
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.
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.
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.