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94 LinkedIn Posts So Painfully Tone-Deaf That They Ended Up Being Screenshotted And Roasted Online
Work can be pretty hard to come by these days, so the idea of a networking platform that lets you connect with others in your industry and puts your profile in front of recruiters is hardly something to sneer at. But LinkedIn has come a long way since its early days as a straightforward professional networking site, and many of us have resigned ourselves to the fact that it’s no longer just a place to make connections or look for jobs.
It’s also gained a reputation as a hotbed of humblebrags, tone-deaf takes, and posts that read like they were written by people who’ve never touched grass. Fortunately, others online are documenting the platform’s most unhinged moments. From wildly out-of-touch musings to bizarre corporate “bro-etry” written as though the author has unlocked some profound secret to success, these examples show just how cringeworthy LinkedIn can get.
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#1
Hired And Fired On The Same Day. Can’t Be More Lunatic Than This
Heffalump 3 hours ago
Actually, leadership is very much about fairness. Without it your team doesn't trust you, and you can only drive them, rather than lead them. Leadership is _not_ about 'making hard calls', which in this instance means behaving callously and ignoring moral obligations and implicit commitments, all to prove you've got a big, managerial size wi11ie.
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#2
Someone Failed Physics
#3
Youth Loneliness Is Cured By Adults Going Into The Office
LinkedIn launched in 2003, offering professionals a place to share their résumés, look for jobs, and connect with people in their industry. As Medium blogger Usman describes it, the platform was essentially “a digital resume with a social layer—useful, maybe a little boring, but functional.” And for a while, that’s exactly how people used it.
#4
This Is Really Quite Sad
Hippopotamuses 4 hours ago
That is so insensitive to his wife. Presumably, he'll be tapping away during their honeymoon, and divorce proceedings, as well.
#5
Engagement Just Pips It And Makes It Through To The Next Round
#6
If You Don't Get Married At Work You Aren't A Team Player
In a 2015 blog post, one LinkedIn user, Henry Innis, looked back on those early days fondly: “LinkedIn started well. It became my rolodex into a range of professional contacts and I could keep [in] touch with the people I had met. Updates around job titles and similar were pretty handy, and it was a little like listing my resume online.”
#7
He Definitely Did Had A Great Co-Working Day
Space Invader 3 hours ago
This is the new lowest circle of hell installed right after Dante left.
#9
God Forbid A Candidate Asks The Questions That Matter
But by the time Innis wrote that, he felt things were already changing. In his view, users had begun treating the platform as a place to share whatever was on their minds. “There’s no filter,” he wrote. LinkedIn, he said, had “in effect, become a bit of a cesspool of bad, naff updates. It feels like the dorky, sanitised version of Facebook (if there was such a thing).”
#10
So Cringe
#11
Please Leave By 9pm
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
Likes the sound of his own voice, but it's good advice. Just coulda been shorter.
#12
Prove Him Wrong
If LinkedIn was already getting dorky in 2015, things were about to get a whole lot weirder. Usman notes how, in the following years, LinkedIn “took a hard left turn straight into weird territory.” As he puts it, people started treating it like “Facebook for suits,” and feeds filled up with emotional confessions and diary-style posts dressed up as leadership lessons. He jokingly says, “You’d see posts like, ‘I failed my first interview, then I failed five more. But on the sixth, I got hired to refill the vending machine.’”
#13
Retired? You're Non-Existant To Kathy
#14
Sleep Is Overrated. Be Successful Instead!
#15
Absolutely Tone Deaf
I've been following this person for a while on LinkedIn. She's a workaholic lunatic who who pushes her desire to work all the time on to her following. We should not be pushing a culture that drives us to work all the time, especially while we're in the hospital recovering from an emergency or on vacation with our families. This just drove me insane.
Then came the pandemic. With home and work lives suddenly overlapping, people increasingly shared personal struggles on LinkedIn, from homeschooling to working at the kitchen table. Julien Wettstein, LinkedIn’s head of editorial for EMEA, told Refinery29 that the pandemic was “arguably the catalyst” for a major shift in how people presented themselves on the platform.
#16
I Was Waiting For This One
As usual bro missing the point - it’s about how much is ethical to spend and the message it sends to society. pure selfishness. feed poor people instead.
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
Yeah. Nah. The "I have a right to spend spend spend, display opulences in public, and remind everyone I'm effing rich and will do what I want and I'm better than them" routine is not just getting old, Jeff, it's a dinosaur....
#17
Thanks For Sharing
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
Sounds like a sensible woman maximising her time and responsibilities with what her body and mind need.
#18
This Is Crazy
LinkedIn leaned in. In 2021, it launched Creator Mode, a free setting designed to help users build an audience around their content. It replaced the “Connect” button with “Follow,” highlighted users’ original content, and made them easier to discover.
#19
You’re Not Busy, You’re Just Lazy!
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
An entitled little nobody with rich parents. We're not all born equal, you wad of stupidity!
#20
Taking New Clients!
#21
Thoughts?
That same year, LinkedIn announced a $25 million investment in creators, including a Creator Accelerator Program. In other words, LinkedIn wasn’t just adapting to the shift from digital résumé to personal brand. It was actively encouraging it.
#22
Good Morning People
#23
Stud
#24
Disney Trip
Hippopotamuses 4 hours ago
Has this guy been smoking a hell of a lot of wēed. Genuine question.
But the thing is, LinkedIn isn’t Instagram or TikTok. Every story, opinion, or milestone shared there is seen by colleagues, recruiters, managers, clients, and potential employers. As Refinery29’s Sadhbh O’Sullivan puts it, “LinkedIn You is the work version of yourself: polite, organized, a clear communicator, only makes jokes when appropriate, and can stare confidently down the barrel of a camera in a formal headshot. Instagram You, to a certain extent, can be hungover. BeReal You absolutely can. LinkedIn You most definitely cannot.”
#25
Yeah Sure This Happened Fr!
Space Invader 2 hours ago
Imagine having business views so puerile you have to pass them off as a child's...
#27
53 🤝 17 = Inspiring?
Hippopotamuses 4 hours ago
Apparently Charlie Chaplin found many 'young loves' during his lifetime.
So what happens when a platform encourages people to share personal stories, but they still have to be “LinkedIn You”? For some, personal moments get filtered through a professional lens. The grocery run becomes a leadership lesson, the toddler’s tantrum turns into a masterclass in stakeholder management, and a minor Slack exchange becomes a career-defining epiphany. As Usman jokes, LinkedIn is the only place where someone can say “won my first match of Fortnite” and get 20,000 likes, as long as it’s framed as a story about perseverance.
#28
Not Sure If The Picture Is Legit But Yeah…….. No Thanks To That “Work Culture”
#29
This Is Just Sad
#30
Lunatic Thinks You Can Just Work From Any Office
Hippopotamuses 4 hours ago
Another Job Coach. Fortunately, everywhere I worked has had rules regarding non-staff being on-site, and especially attending meetings. For silly reasons like, security, privacy, health and safety, etc....
For O’Sullivan, this gets at what she calls the “cringe crux.” On Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, people started out simply being themselves, and the selling came later, once advertisers caught on. LinkedIn worked the other way around. Its users were marketing themselves from day one, since a résumé is essentially an ad for why you deserve to be hired. The personal storytelling came afterward. So on LinkedIn, a personal story can end up feeling less like an experience shared for its own sake and more like a sales pitch, usually for the person telling it.
And when that intention feels too obvious, the cringe follows.
#34
Here’s Some Chicken Being Cooked In A Hotel Kettle For Your Morning Viewing
#35
Unbelievable Stuff
#36
Nope
#37
Spit Fire Linda!
#39
Pack It Up, Lil Bro
#40
Property Bro Doesn't Like The Minimum Wage
#41
So Is Hiring Based On Appearance Rather Than Skills/Knowledge?
#42
His Poor Wife
#43
Grinding… On Your Wedding Day… And Taking A Professional Picture
#44
Let Me Brag About My Husband Ignoring Me. Bonus Points For Self-Like
#46
She's So Full Of It
She is so full of it. She was head of sales for 6 months lmao and now she's a CEO of... Herself?
Adam Arnold 2 hours ago
I'm also the founder and CEO of myself, I've even got a mobile phone I can hold to my ear to look important. I still don't have a REAL job though
#47
I Don't Think He Has Seen His Twitter Activity
Hippopotamuses 4 hours ago
Shame on you Elon. Private school education, and you put an apostrophe in weeks.
#48
No Pony For You
#49
Chatgpt, Make It Look Like Women Like Me
Adam Arnold 2 hours ago
All fake and embarrassingly so, why do people try and big themselves up with fake post's like this when they are actually deeply insecure and unhappy and cry themselves to sleep yearning for the life they try to pretend they have
#50
This Guy's AI-Generated Profile Pic vs. What He Actually Looks Like
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago (edited)
Trim the beard, add some product to the hair, and very discreetly smudge a little kajjal on the eyes/eyelashes. Will almost match the picture. Just looks like a younger version of him
#51
Sir This Isn’t Twitter!
#52
Yeah, Ok Buddy
David Jeffery 4 hours ago
Do any of these "CEO'S" actually make any money? And is the money really worth the time?
#53
Insane Take On Recent Boeing Crash
#55
This Belter From Jake Humpfrey May Never Be Topped
#56
Wow... Some Comparison
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
Ugh. Using your daughter's car crash to "realise" how you can apply it to business? Stop trying so hard: it's a loser scenario
#57
Updating Your New Position To Being An Inmate In A Prison Is The Kind Of Fun I Can Get Behind
#60
I Wish This Was Satire
#63
The Forbidden S Word
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
Good, clear indication that the applicant should get up and run fast, GTF outta there!
#64
Watching The Clock
#65
Boomer Baited
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
My five year plan sure doesn't include working 12 hours a day. Not a chance, amigos...
#66
Another Kidney Warming Story Called Out Right!
#67
Proud Mama
100% happened like that (not).
#68
Yuge Roi
#70
How To Slap Someone Through The Screen
But of course he has a course….
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
I was looking for the instructions on how to slap someone through the screen, cos it's this guy who needs the slap
#73
Don’t Ever Buy Coffee
#76
Forget About The Wife! It’s Christmas Jumper Day
Adam Arnold 2 hours ago
You can't 'Cancel' anyone's Birthday, it'll happen with or without you regardless you ar,se hat
#77
LOL
#78
Nothing Says ‘Peak Productivity’ Like Operating Heavy Machinery With A Bac Of 0.2
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago (edited)
...and that lasted for about, oh I dunno, 5 years max, then their health went to hell and they died of bowel cancer. (Yeah, I keep reading how these 30-somethings are dying of bowel cancer). Their livers can't be good, either.
#79
Fake It Till You Make It
Moonie Pinkslip 4 hours ago
...and then publicised it everywhere so everyone knows he's a liar and a cheat. Great thinking, díċkhead!!
#80
Has 14 Years Of Professional Experience Of Being A Reddit Mod
Didn't know being a Reddit Mod counted towards professional experience.
#81
Found One
Adam Arnold 2 hours ago
Wow another bul,lshit,ter. I manage to cram in doing absolutely nothing for 24 hours and I'm still knackered
#82
A Billionaire And A College Student Have The Same Phone And Laptop
#83
Personally, I Rejected A Founder For Sleeping. How Are They Supposed To Maximise Profits If Theyre Laying Unconscious For Hours On End?
#87
Ok, Justine
#89
Guy Uses AI And Ruins A Childhood
#90
The Bartender Just Knows Me
#94
Dehydrating For Our AI Overlords
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Robert Millar 43 minutes ago
Screenshotted. Past tense is screenshot or screenshat, depending on your opinion of the fiction site Linkedin.
Robert Millar 43 minutes ago
Screenshotted. Past tense is screenshot or screenshat, depending on your opinion of the fiction site Linkedin.
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