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3 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

He loves his kid, aren't you supposed to? That's like the idea of having them

Of course. If somebody had posted something similar on, say, here, then I don't think anyone would have a problem- they don't want their child labelled and seemingly dismissed and could presumably cite instances where that had happened to her and others.

 

On a site where the supposed aim is to network for jobs, it's just an announcement that comes across as irrelevant and crass.

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1 hour ago, John102 said:

He is 'building his brand' by, in a rather long winded and roundabout way (as is the LinkedIn way), showing that he in fact doesn't want to drown down syndrome people in the nearest river.

I'm not sure how that sort of socialism is going to work in a Six Sigma environment. 

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1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

If he did he'd take her the park and buy her a magnum, not use her to boost his SEO to a virtual business brunch. First thing that popped into my head was that Tory feeding the CJD burger to his kid on live telly back in the day.

 

Never mind protection, if he loved her he wouldn't even fuck her

 

3 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Post it, can't be that bad surely.

 

I hope you're happy with yourself, you sick fuck.

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I still don't understand the point of it. I was chastised last week by our marketing lead for not having an account, told her it was shite and I wouldn't be signing up. I'm probably on a blacklist now. 

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6 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

I still don't understand the point of it. I was chastised last week by our marketing lead for not having an account, told her it was shite and I wouldn't be signing up. I'm probably on a blacklist now. 

Oh yes mate. In many brainwashed circles Linkedin is a religion.

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2 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

Started using a bit more of late as I'm considering a job change.

 

It's turned into a right cesspit of wankers and like whores posting random shite and Mumsnet style inspirational quotes.

 

What a load of bollocks, basically turned into Facebook with the amount of shite you have trawl through.

 

What it always says to me is how desperate everyone is now, it's sad to see. I think jobs, wages etc are so precarious you've got to tolerate this shite. To think that in eras gone by you could have just satisfied yourself with a good job and pension which you'd probably have largely for as long as you wanted, now there are people actually out there taking pictures of their kid with a bandage around their head and posting stuff like 'this is my lad, he's a winner - be a winner!' in the hope someone might ask them to design their website for a tenner. 

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On 02/05/2021 at 08:44, Karl_b said:

I still don't understand the point of it. I was chastised last week by our marketing lead for not having an account, told her it was shite and I wouldn't be signing up. I'm probably on a blacklist now. 

My boss is always trying to get me on it, no way Jose.

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45 minutes ago, Stouffer said:

My boss is always trying to get me on it, no way Jose.

Our company had a push to get everyone on it last year during lockdown/furlough and sharing business updates, videos etc. I have had an account for years but it's out of date and I'm now at the point that if I update it my company will probably suss that I'm updating to look elsewhere for work!

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It’s fucking awful. I have to use it as it’s a potential source of work and beggars can’t be choosers.

 

There is no social media platform, however, with the capability to make me feel depressed, cynical, isolated, demoralised, useless and out of synch with the world as LinkedIn. 
 

It’s a bit like taking part in one of the GF tournaments, only worse. 

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1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

 

What it always says to me is how desperate everyone is now, it's sad to see. I think jobs, wages etc are so precarious you've got to tolerate this shite. To think that in eras gone by you could have just satisfied yourself with a good job and pension which you'd probably have largely for as long as you wanted, now there are people actually out there taking pictures of their kid with a bandage around their head and posting stuff like 'this is my lad, he's a winner - be a winner!' in the hope someone might ask them to design their website for a tenner. 

My dad managed a carpet warehouse. He worked 9 til 5 and had a company car. We could afford go abroad every year. He had a pension they paid in. Nobody bothered him about work unless he was at work. 

Nowadays the guys at the top are richer but those at the middle and bottom have lost to ensure their boss is richer

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On 31/01/2021 at 17:56, RJ Fan club said:

I’ve been on LinkedIn for a while, in a pretty low key, post very little, only accept invitations for those people I’ve actually worked with or met in real life. 
 

I’ve deleted the app and generally don’t monitor it. Maybe pop in once or twice a month. 
 

I think seeing the general swamp that LinkedIn is, encouraged me to go the other way. I decided after being locked down with children, various family members having fallen ill and having had poorer mental health lately I would turn down a head of service/leadership promotion, leave a managerial job and take a pay cut to move closer to home and do the aspects of the job I actually like. 
 

I find the whole experience of LinkedIn terrible, exploitation of tragedy, children etc to be the last straw. 
 

Very sadly last week a ex  colleague in very tragic circumstances lost her only child, she survived but remains ill.


I Popped on to LinkedIn today as someone told me they’d heard I was leaving and wanted a nose around. What did I see? the partner of the ex colleague and father of the deceased child post the news on LinkedIn, with a link to a news article.

 

I just don’t know would drive somebody to do that about their own child?

 

Think when I move job in the next month I’m turning it off for good. 
 

Shithole of a platform

 

 

Saw a few weeks ago her husband filmed her getting into the car after being discharged from hospital. She looks well awkward, wearing an eye patch, sat in her seat waiting for the door to be closed.

 

Maybe the footage would just about be passable for close friends and family on Facebook. Why it’s on LinkedIn I have no idea. Still someone got plenty of networking engagement 

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On 08/06/2021 at 17:09, YorkshireRed said:

It’s fucking awful. I have to use it as it’s a potential source of work and beggars can’t be choosers.

 

There is no social media platform, however, with the capability to make me feel depressed, cynical, isolated, demoralised, useless and out of synch with the world as LinkedIn. 
 

It’s a bit like taking part in one of the GF tournaments, only worse. 

I hate it, but it is unfortunately a useful tool for me at times too. But the number of people I know who are on there messaging "look at our new bag of shit we want you to buy, we are great, we're shitting in a bag in a way nobody thought was possible" pisses me right off. And even worse when people use it for their social life "I'm doing a egg and spoon race, sponsor me". Fuck off. 

 

I 1st went on LinkedIn when it very 1st came out as some people told me it was great for work. I'd run a project abroad where while I had 20-30 people working for me on a reasonably permanent basis, because the project was so fucked (which was why I got the work), the service provider I was doing it with would just chuck me all their randoms who were on the bench from all over the world who could speak English. I could have 50 people fly in on a Monday from India, 20 from the UK and be gone in a week. I barely spoke to any of them, how could you? But then I found the pain of linkedin. After that project got finished, it was almost a daily request for people asking for references - I genuinely didn't know who they were or if they were capable. That must have been around 2007, I fucked it off and started using it again about 3 or 4 years ago as it seems to have become ubiquitous. 

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I'd rather people were just honest on LinkedIn. People don't add you because they want to be your friend, but rather they think they might be able to work with you in some way. What's wrong with adding a Web designer and simply saying "I night need a Web designer, but I'm an SEO expert so in the future, bear me in mind."

 

Why does it have to be.

 

"My nan died on Saturday and I remembered how she used to make chicken and leek pie, and how a good pie is multi layered like an effective seo strategy."

 

Maybe it's business culture in Britain more widely that's the problem? I dunno.

 

I used to go to business brunch type shit about 20 years ago with my mate when he was starting his own business and it was like that even then. People would ask you what you did and if it became clear you had no money to give them there and then their eyes would glaze over. You could literally see the switch go off like you might as well be dead. It's shortsighted, because who knows where any business relationship may lead as companies evolve over time, plus, people know other people. 

 

Another presentation I went to back then was mad too. Some woman was talking about how they had millions to give tech startups (this was about 2006) and she said she couldn't give it away. She said that in the States, tech entrepreneurs all wanted to be the next Google, but in the UK they wanted to sell up as soon as possible and retire.

 

As a freelancer in the past I've dealt with companies all over the world of all different sizes. When they're talking about you doing some work for them, the yanks and Europeans tend to ask you "what can you do?", I've actually been offered more than I'd quoted for by yanks because they seemed to have this "more money = better" attitude (which may of course may not always be true.) 

 

the British always, always without exception ask you "how much?:. Many don't like the idea of paying you at all.

 

It just always smacked to me of a business culture (certainly a small bigness culture) that's about bullshit, front, sleight of hand, short termism and general caper rather than long term success and building whole industries in partnership with other people.

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