Some nutters on LinkedIn

h_m_boro said:
I'm on an indefinite break from LinkedIn. It's getting far too FB/twitter lite with people "look at me" and posting political/personal sh*t completely irrelevant to what the platform is intended for.

That and being stalked by agents "hi, I've just seen your profile/CV and have a great opportunity. Give me a call........no. F*ck off.

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Yeah agent stalking is terrible on LinkedIn at the moment. I get inundated with connection requests and emails. Shame it COULD be a good platform but, like twitter, it gets abused
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Rishi Sunak posted on LI under the Office of Prime Minister account. A 'mental health advocate (homemade jewellery, hippy chain smoking professional)'. Her words, not mine, started accusing everyone who wasn't sucking at Rishi's teat of being a racist and that we should accept an Indian being in charge because of what the British did in India.

Upon immediately getting called out on that, person then resorts to personal insults. When responded to with, thats not very nice for an advocate of mental health to say, then deletes the comments from her post making her look bad and blocks any further comment on her post to ensure she comes out in a good light.

All in the space of about 10 minutes.

Honestly beggars belief sometimes how people behave online.
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Do you have a link to this woman?

LinkedIn has become a monster and it was always going to be so.

I used to look after our company's Linkedin policy and of course the first law we applied was that our employees should not post anything which would harm the company in any way. Thry were representing the Company to the business community. No contentious political statements or internal messaging. I see the original reason Linkedin came into being as a business tool to network and make new relationships and to promote yourself to the wider business community.

It quickly started to be misused.

1. A self congratulatory forum for employees to signal/ show evidence to their boss how well they were doing. for example posts about how great an internal meeting went or the brilliant piece of business they have just won with congratulation to team members. I hate reading that tosh. This is no doubt encouraged by performance plans which have a LinkedIn usage objectives. I bet some will recognise themselves here. It reads good internally but externally it really doesn't to anybody but your boss.

2. Virtue signalling on a grand scale. For example a lawyer/ accountant may (snd I have seen) write how well things have gone at work despite juggling domestic chores too and will remark how their support network have been ever so wonderful including their clients. Then there are the gushing over the top congratulations to stakeholders which clearly don't sound or read at all genuine.

3. Fishing for likes. You can spot these posts a mile off. Populist statements about the world that have nothing to do with their job. It is classic social media behaviour and has crept more and more into Linkedin. It is now a jungle of people fighting to get noticed. Companies have allowed employees and managers to jump the shark and media are picking up on stories of sexism and racism in the workplace as anonymity doesn't exist.
 
I have two pieces of advice

1. Stay off Rishi Sunak’s LinkedIn profile especially the comments section.

2. Stay off LinkedIn
 
Zoophonic said:
Do you have a link to this woman?

LinkedIn has become a monster and it was always going to be so.

I used to look after our company's Linkedin policy and of course the first law we applied was that our employees should not post anything which would harm the company in any way. Thry were representing the Company to the business community. No contentious political statements or internal messaging. I see the original reason Linkedin came into being as a business tool to network and make new relationships and to promote yourself to the wider business community.

It quickly started to be misused.

1. A self congratulatory forum for employees to signal/ show evidence to their boss how well they were doing. for example posts about how great an internal meeting went or the brilliant piece of business they have just won with congratulation to team members. I hate reading that tosh. This is no doubt encouraged by performance plans which have a LinkedIn usage objectives. I bet some will recognise themselves here. It reads good internally but externally it really doesn't to anybody but your boss.

2. Virtue signalling on a grand scale. For example a lawyer/ accountant may (snd I have seen) write how well things have gone at work despite juggling domestic chores too and will remark how their support network have been ever so wonderful including their clients. Then there are the gushing over the top congratulations to stakeholders which clearly don't sound or read at all genuine.

3. Fishing for likes. You can spot these posts a mile off. Populist statements about the world that have nothing to do with their job. It is classic social media behaviour and has crept more and more into Linkedin. It is now a jungle of people fighting to get noticed. Companies have allowed employees and managers to jump the shark and media are picking up on stories of sexism and racism in the workplace as anonymity doesn't exist.
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Good post Zoo, this has even extended to 'Teams'. Self promotion and fishing for likes is rife amongst the young and perpetually insecure 🤣
 
LinkedIn is full of Bertie bullshitters, I refuse to play the social media game and don't have a profile on principle. I recently filled an online form a job application, and they had a box to add your linked in profile, thankfully it wasn't mandatory, but things like that legitimise the service. Thankfully it didn't influence my application.
 
Glover_elbow said:
LinkedIn is full of Bertie bullshitters, I refuse to play the social media game and don't have a profile on principle. I recently filled an online form a job application, and they had a box to add your linked in profile, thankfully it wasn't mandatory, but things like that legitimise the service. Thankfully it didn't influence my application.
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It definitely serves a purpose. I've found 2 jobs directly through speaking to people on it and know people that do so exclusively on it, but depends on the industry you work in I suppose.

Lot of jobs don't even get advertised as people network and just get slotted in.

I sort of wish something like linkedin was standardised in that you just have your job history recorded and hit apply rather than crafting a covering letter and application form for everything which takes forever if you do it right; especially if they are using automated candidate screening
 
Zoophonic said:
Do you have a link to this woman?

LinkedIn has become a monster and it was always going to be so.

I used to look after our company's Linkedin policy and of course the first law we applied was that our employees should not post anything which would harm the company in any way. Thry were representing the Company to the business community. No contentious political statements or internal messaging. I see the original reason Linkedin came into being as a business tool to network and make new relationships and to promote yourself to the wider business community.

It quickly started to be misused.

1. A self congratulatory forum for employees to signal/ show evidence to their boss how well they were doing. for example posts about how great an internal meeting went or the brilliant piece of business they have just won with congratulation to team members. I hate reading that tosh. This is no doubt encouraged by performance plans which have a LinkedIn usage objectives. I bet some will recognise themselves here. It reads good internally but externally it really doesn't to anybody but your boss.

2. Virtue signalling on a grand scale. For example a lawyer/ accountant may (snd I have seen) write how well things have gone at work despite juggling domestic chores too and will remark how their support network have been ever so wonderful including their clients. Then there are the gushing over the top congratulations to stakeholders which clearly don't sound or read at all genuine.

3. Fishing for likes. You can spot these posts a mile off. Populist statements about the world that have nothing to do with their job. It is classic social media behaviour and has crept more and more into Linkedin. It is now a jungle of people fighting to get noticed. Companies have allowed employees and managers to jump the shark and media are picking up on stories of sexism and racism in the workplace as anonymity doesn't exist.
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Good post. I'm not going to post her details her as it would also lead you guys to my profile, and I'd rather not link the two :) My company does the same thing around staff being appropriate online.
 
Zoophonic said:
Do you have a link to this woman?

LinkedIn has become a monster and it was always going to be so.

I used to look after our company's Linkedin policy and of course the first law we applied was that our employees should not post anything which would harm the company in any way. Thry were representing the Company to the business community. No contentious political statements or internal messaging. I see the original reason Linkedin came into being as a business tool to network and make new relationships and to promote yourself to the wider business community.

It quickly started to be misused.

1. A self congratulatory forum for employees to signal/ show evidence to their boss how well they were doing. for example posts about how great an internal meeting went or the brilliant piece of business they have just won with congratulation to team members. I hate reading that tosh. This is no doubt encouraged by performance plans which have a LinkedIn usage objectives. I bet some will recognise themselves here. It reads good internally but externally it really doesn't to anybody but your boss.

2. Virtue signalling on a grand scale. For example a lawyer/ accountant may (snd I have seen) write how well things have gone at work despite juggling domestic chores too and will remark how their support network have been ever so wonderful including their clients. Then there are the gushing over the top congratulations to stakeholders which clearly don't sound or read at all genuine.

3. Fishing for likes. You can spot these posts a mile off. Populist statements about the world that have nothing to do with their job. It is classic social media behaviour and has crept more and more into Linkedin. It is now a jungle of people fighting to get noticed. Companies have allowed employees and managers to jump the shark and media are picking up on stories of sexism and racism in the workplace as anonymity doesn't exist.
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🎯 Spot on.

Hence my comment about FB/Twitter/Instagram lite.

Full of "look at MEEEEEE!!!!!" bullsh*tters, posting about how tough life is, juggling childcare and working 70 hr weeks, how they never see their nanny ..sorry kids...while posting an irrelevant photo of themselves in Dubai or the like.

Our company has a very strict policy about posting without permission - ie don't do it. It's in our contract about work related social media use; if something is worthwhile our marketing team will sort and post under the company account. Works fine.
 
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