That senior engineer dodged a bullet.
Top post is satirical, mocking the bottom one
Although the first post is satire, I’ve had people non-ironically say similar to me about how important posting on LinkedIn is.
Why??? Isn’t a good CV enough? Why do I need to turn into an influencer now?
Fuck am I supposed to post? I’m gonna start sharing random FOSS news from my RSS feeds, is that enough???“if he isn’t posting about how hard he’s working, is he even working at all?” is obviously satire
The entire response is satire
6 days a week… Fuck this company, and fuck this idiot.
Pretty sure the entire reply is supposed to be satirising the dumb ass linked in culture, I very much doubt aynthing in the reply is genuined.
They should check LinkedIn before asking persons to come in for interviews if that’s their requirement. Save everyone some time
That sounds entirely too efficient for middle management.
But then they wouldn’t get a story to post about on LinkedIn.
Can we put these people under a giant glass dome and seal them off from the rest of humanity?
Don’t worry—they’re all assigned to B ark.
He was stunned. Lol. These people… They are so far into the matrix, they cant see anything clearly anymore.
I could write a lot about this topic and these people but we all know already.
The first response is in a satirical vein to the second (immediate below) one. The hiring for complex ML model is a dead giveaway.
Are these satire?
Top one is, bottom one not sure
Can’t really ignore advice from a “director of demand generation”.
That’s a mouthful but I guess “director of convincing people to buy our shit products” is too on the nose.
yeah it’s just b2b marketing. Source: I help trucking companies talk to manufacturers about the trucks and trucking services they can use to ship their goods, it’s “demand generation.”
In defense of the lady, it was a marketing position, the guy parody example is an engineer, they’re not the same.
Yeah her post is entirely reasonable, at least depending on the industry, e.g. in my industry LinkedIn is unfortunately where most leads get generated aside from conferences, so of you’re a senior marketing person in my industry then it’s genuinely a red flag if you don’t have an active LinkedIn profile. The post on engineering is satire that kinda misses the point.
Gonna post my fucking furry yiff porn on LinkedIn
Less shameful than the CEOs who go on there and spam AI-generated “Thought Leadership” slop.
Oh, they should post furry yiff porn with the hashtags ThoughtLeadership. Add some human generated text about being a thought leader by posting outside the box and wonder why no one seems to be posting their favorite yiff porn.
You’ve got manager material in you, son.
When the CEOs were talking about inflation, I don’t think that’s what they had in mind LMAO
My crew are the most sought after talent in our little niche of the tech world. To my knowledge, not a single one of us posts on LinkedIn. The people that actually do the work don’t have time for bullshit and probably have multiple open offers to join other orgs at all times.
Idiots, absolute idiots
If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts
Half these posts are just AI bots shouting nonsense at each other.
The other half are worse: people shouting nonsense at each other.
Not even whimsical nonsense, just nonsense about the maximally efficient way to exchange your labor and/or morality for the idea of financial security.
I work/worked with a few executives I look up to, none of them use linkedin. They all have an account as they must, but that’s it. Talking about e.g., SVP, CEO, CTO leading hundreds or thousands of people.
I also know one that owns their own consulting firm, taking out a few millions of profit every year, they still have a picture from their previous job and never post, except job openings.
I absolutely despise current linkedin, it used to be a platform to connect with colleagues and apply to jobs. Now it’s just one of the N+1 social medias where the algorithm can show you content by narcisstic people you don’t care about. It Freak me outTM that somebody could look at this dumpster fire and not understand what is people’s problem with it.
it did let me find out who in my workplace is a nazi sympathizer, by allowing me to view who reposted pro-charlie-kirkk stuff
I knew a C-level who had a social media presence but the company just paid some media manager person to handle it. He had a linkedin, facebook, and a blog. It was all ghost written. He didn’t even read it.
Well, at least I have a spine and refuse to go with the flow. No Facebook, LinkedIn, Xitter or whatever that sewer is called these days and I’m just fine with that. Just a bit of Lemmy for some discussions and memes, but fuck having to share everything you do.
How does sharing my thoughts and strategies with people I am competing for jobs with give me an edge over them?
(I actually do advise my peers all the time but I want to know why these idiots think that)
Highly paid bullshit jobs are all about social perception in networks.
The point is to post something that makes it appear as if you’re already ahead of the game, and to use as many buzz words as possible so that you will appear in searches, or someone remembers you knowing something about those words.
It does not matter if the “strategy” makes any sense at all. It’s not like anyone reads it, or that anyone tries it out, or even if you know anything about it. All these posts with motivational and strategic wisdom are just “tags” for people trying to sell themselves.
The people involved in those games rely on each other to support this self-induced value. It’s like “fake it till you make it”, with the twist that they never actually do anything. When they fail, they’ll hopefully have enough other people involved, so that they can only fail upwards.
