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h_m_boro

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A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?

Hibernated my account for a few months as was getting daily approaches from recruiters. Really, really couldn't be ars*d. Logged back in and wish I hadn't 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish my arms were a couple of feet longer so I could give myself a great big pat on the back for doing my job.....FFS.
 
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h_m_boro said:
A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?

Hibernated my account for a few months as was getting daily approaches from recruiters. Really, really couldn't be ars*d. Logged back in and wish I hadn't 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish my arms were a couple of feet longer so I could give myself a great big part on the back for doing my job.....FFS.
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Full of the worst types of brown nosing, self congratulatory idiots imaginable. The types of people that make the Christmas party unbearable.
 
h_m_boro said:
A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?

Hibernated my account for a few months as was getting daily approaches from recruiters. Really, really couldn't be ars*d. Logged back in and wish I hadn't 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish my arms were a couple of feet longer so I could give myself a great big pat on the back for doing my job.....FFS.
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Did exactly the same thing at the same time. Constant spam from people who don't do jobs anything like what I do, and then the mortgage advisors started.

The majority of posts you read on there are shameless acts of self-promotion and usually completely cringeworthy.

Haven't missed it for one nano second.
 
h_m_boro said:
A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?

Hibernated my account for a few months as was getting daily approaches from recruiters. Really, really couldn't be ars*d. Logged back in and wish I hadn't 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish my arms were a couple of feet longer so I could give myself a great big pat on the back for doing my job.....FFS.
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depends, as an independent consultant it's a huge tool for getting my name in front of people for contracts.
 
atypical_boro said:
Did exactly the same thing at the same time. Constant spam from people who don't do anything like what I do, and then the mortgage advisors started.

The majority of posts you read on there are shameless acts of self-promotion and usually completely cringeworthy.

Haven't missed it for one nano second.
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I went back on....don't know why......and my eyes have seen things they can't unsee......😭😭

That'll teach me to be a nosey get .......
 
h_m_boro said:
A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?
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Originally it was the former but as companies built their social media policies for their colleagues it encouraged the latter behaviour on the site - to the point now that it is full of pretentiousness, virtue signalling and personal brand enhancement.
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Originally it was the former but as companies built their social media policies for their colleagues it encouraged the latter behaviour on the site - to the point now that it is full of pretentiousness, virtue signalling and personal brand enhancement.
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Yes, there is clearly a drive by companies to utilise their employee base to promote how amazing their business is and how great it is to work there. I never read them because they feel like press releases. In fact, I only ever go on LinkedIn to tell recruiters I'm already in contract, or to update my CV at the end of my contract
 
"I'm pleased to share ......" - winds me up no end

I have to be on there because that's where a lot of my contracts are advertised these days, but I don't "engage" with it as a platform. Having said that, most of my contracts come from Agencies who I've worked through before and they approach me direct
 
Annoys me when the MD sends me a lead from LinkedIn for a project I’ve been all over for months and even told him about, lazy.
 
It's useful as a tool but I cringe at some of the stuff that goes on there, tons of people trying way too hard. It's become more facebookified as well with people posting their mundane daily activities and what I'd describe as chain letters, essentially stories that clearly never happened and either written or copy pasted to drive engagement.
 
Glad it's not just me.

Does seem to have gone down the sh*tter over the last few years, with people treating it as an extension of FB / IG for tedious work activities.

This enormous "need" for self promotion and being part of the work in crowd just comes across as desperate. Our work is getting full of them, young bullsh*tter go getter types, probably absolutely shyte at their jobs but because they tell everyone how good they are, what amazing social groups they belong to and poxy internal awards they've won.......you get the picture.

Me.....old, cynical, looking disdainfully at them for the chebs they are....you betcha 👍
 
h_m_boro said:
A useful social media platform for business types, or a platform for "LOOK AT ME ! LOOK AT ME!!!!" work (loose term) achievements?

Hibernated my account for a few months as was getting daily approaches from recruiters. Really, really couldn't be ars*d. Logged back in and wish I hadn't 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish my arms were a couple of feet longer so I could give myself a great big pat on the back for doing my job.....FFS.
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its a sign of old age.

The Yoot love it apparently.
 
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