A long time ago, a coworker complained that I didn’t associate my social media presence with my employer more.

Later on they left the company after being passed over for promotion. At their next employer they were hit during the layoffs despite being a textbook employee on social media.

That’s why

A job is just a transaction, the company gets work out of you and you get a paycheck in exchange.

Brown nosing your employer on social media is doing free labor for a business unless it’s part of your job description.

@carnage4life, yep, that’s so true.

I think it’s genuinely great when people can’t shut up about their companies because they love them so much.

But if one does that because “it looks good”, or “will help stay at the company”, or the company explicitly asks all employees to promote their social media content, that’s a nope for me.

@carnage4life I just ignore whenever HR or marketing ask me to update company email signature or boost a LinkedIn post for an event or something. Most devs do too. Email signature is professional courtesy not an ad banner and personal LI is none of their business.

@carnage4life It's supposedly hard to find new hires who buy into corporate values, because gen Z is all "lazy."

I'm of the opinion that more people are just wisened up and know all corporate values are a pile of bull that corporate leadership uses to manipulate us.

Meanwhile, leadership operate exclusively on the value of "profit over people" to appease shareholders like they're bloody Cthulhu and might devour us all if the corporate cultists don't raise revenue 2.1% at the altar of Q2.

@carnage4life I'm also like, I don't post on LinkedIn, I only go there when looking for a new job… LOL