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.
Especially since an unpaid intern is likely to be young and working off of "family money".
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unpaid interns --- nuff said! you cant sack someone yo don't employ -
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"Asking him why he felt ENTITLED to wear AirPods as an UNPAID INTERN". This guy is definitely entitled to get kicked it the ass as a huge bastard.
It's not "I don't have airpods", it's "the bossman Rand has no airpods"... it's a low-ranking kissing-up-and-kicking-down person that writes.
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My boss rode his bike to work. So I would have to walk? No. He had a frigging own house and I lived in a flat. Also it's a bloody unpaid internship. In my opinion that intern earned the right to wear a goddamn sombrero if he wants to. Obviously this isn't about safety concerns its about small p concerns.
WOW! Petty af. You could just make no AirPods part of policy, but you went straight to Douchville on that!
The problem with any hierarchy is that the people who want power over others are usually the ones who get it, and are the absolute last people who should have power over anything.
Our species survived for hundreds of thousands of years without capitalism or government and we act like we’d all be doomed without institutional power imbalances
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Oh ok so now besides documenting yourself about the company your are interviewing for, you have to hire a private investigator or sit in the bushes in front of the hiring manager's house to check what car they are driving, because God forbid you might turn up to the interview in a nicer car than theirs...
Why are you "entitled" or not entitled to wear airpods? Why not just say "Hey we don't do earbuds in the workplace." Oh right, because you're an absolute jerk and it's not about the earbuds.
All interns better start shaving their heads; because the day she has a bad hair day they're fired.
Apparently emotional maturity is not a requirement for management. That explains so much.
So I can't have anything nicer than my boss? What if I have a hobby my boss doesn't?
Irwin: Please could you direct me to the policy that says I cannot wear AirPods? Douchebag Manager: I don't need to have a policy - I just decided it Irwin: Ok, see you in court loser...
It reminds me of when my parents moved to a new job when I was little, they bought a house, and my dad's boss was upset because it was nicer than his.
Then Irwin turned up that afternoon with his legal representative and sued them for unfair dismissal
Yeah, not nice. The sort of boss that won't employ anyone cleverer than them, always feeling under threat and damaging the business. There is a lovely Alex (from the Telegraph) cartoon where there intern (a bank) is the son of a billionaire who can't work out this thing about turning left when you get on a plane as he has always turned right (private jet)
How can you fire someone you didn't even hire or pay in the first place?
If I had a nicer car than my boss, hell yes I'd drive it to work. If I were taller than my boss, would I slouch to protect their feelings? NOPE.
I had an intern who I caught about to have a cigarette outside the back of the building, near the bins. I said to him, "what do you think you're doing?" "Lighting up" he said, the cheeky bugger. So i told him that i decide when to light up and I poured some gasoline over him and lit him up. Do you see what i did? I set a benchmark for future interns. Burning to death is a rite of passage. You earn them. Would you show up to your new job acting like a bigger prick them your boss? No!
No such thing as a right of passage. A RITE of passage is the initiation into a new and different part of life as we grow. Example: first time driving with a license, first legal beer, joining a fraternity, first job. It has nothing to do with earning the right to do something.
Why was Irwin even drinking that water? The audacity of an intern drinking water as if he was an employee.
Yeah... Pretty much all unpaid intern should f**k'n pay this thing higher respect. You are just not worth paying, so why bother using expensive stuff.. That expensive stuff is for the paid intern and up.. Sooorry Guys.. Face palm
Why can't he have airpods? Oh, is it because he shouldn't have money to spend on airpods, because you're not paying him?
Why would this person give a flying f*ck when they're not even paying poor Irwin. If he's producing the work that's assigned to him, who gives a s**t if he's wearing airpods. What an absolute piece of garbage this poster is. Next!
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'.
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.
