Benjamin van den Hout
JA WestenbergNobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."
Didzis π@Daojoan Perfect, made my day π
Thank you!
ben moretti@Daojoan I need it for work but have stopped all notifications and stopped looking at it. Life is much better.
Petra van Cronenburg@Daojoan I know someone working in the hospital. She says, these managers, if their life style makes them seriously ill, are the worst patients. They've never learned to ask for/need help and often get aggressive against the personal. Others don't stop whining. The cardhouse gets destroyed ...
Albert CardonaAlways quite the unveiling of someone's character when, upon starting an internship, they post about it in LinkedIn ... and their description is several octaves above the actual work. Conversely, there are those who don't do that.
Straw Dog in the Wires@Daojoan that's because we don't have down-to-earth LLMs writing linked in posts in a shitty/depressed mood.
Confused Middle Aged Dad@confusedMiddleAgedDad @Daojoan maybe that's what finally differentiates us form AI ... irony and daytime depression. Or we just need to star training a model from scratch.
amedee_de_murcia@Daojoan Reminds me of an 80's french dark comedy where some people get their brain "flashed" to be constantly happy and productive. An horrifying and smiling new humanity emerge.
Hans-Cees π³π³π€’π¦ππππππ@Daojoan there's a meme for that
but also a server failure, meme follows
but also a server failure, meme follows
Paul Harrison
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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D.
Mark Lynch
Adam Hay@mark_f_lynch @hanscees @Daojoan I have a 'razor focused spherical object acquisition manager who takes every opportunity to seek engagement and make new connections'
Least we forget that #LinkedIn is owned by #MicroSlop , formerly #Microsoft
GeoloicO
Schall und Stille@Daojoan I once invented the "great LinkedIn drinking game", which is great fun and dangerous to your health, albeit in German only.
Google Translate does quite a good job translating it, but it has a few German peculiarities in it (Frank Thelen for instance is a German wannabe-Musk imitator and minor celebrity who gets interviewed by tabloids when they need someone from 'the economy').
Maybe it's time for an international versionβ¦
Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.@Daojoan It's the facebook for companies.
Mad Argon 
@paulk @Daojoan in some circles "I am not on LinkedIn" became new "I am not on Facebook". Yesterday I experienced it literally.
And "but you should have company info if you would change jobs some day"... As if it was factual info there, not emotional, cheer-generating posts, currently often automated to LLMs...
Professional work networking should never mix with social media emotion-driven mechanisms, I guess.
And "but you should have company info if you would change jobs some day"... As if it was factual info there, not emotional, cheer-generating posts, currently often automated to LLMs...
Professional work networking should never mix with social media emotion-driven mechanisms, I guess.
Sergey SAV π§@Daojoan This is awesome! Made my day also π
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Brandon Rohrer@Daojoan Iβm thrilled to announce that Iβm in this picture and I donβt like it
Peter BloemWe've added iceberg interaction to our experience portfolio.
Dany 
snowyfox
Ridscherli
RRBAnne Applebaum has her bluesky account bridged here @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and there is also @anneapplebaum
@albertcardona @Daojoan @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @anneapplebaum Belt AND suspenders.
I am also signed up for her email notifications. JHU sends out notices on her work.
I do not want to risk missing one of her articles.
She and Molly White ( @molly0xfff ) are ground truth for me
ΠΠ ΠΠΠΠ« ΠΠΠ’Π¬@Daojoan kill it with fire. Or is that make it "pleased to announce its new role in a storied and expansive void with multidimensional opportunities for expansion through innovative integration of pyrotechnics, heat and the exploration of iron implements and bladed tools"
dasgrueneblatt
John S. Erickson π@Daojoan β¦and every third sentence is a new thought. A new paragraph. Disruptive! Innovative! π
Dziadek
Duckbilled Plattypus.@Daojoan "Corey and I pleased to announce our new exciting new opportunity as Special Envoy to the new Shield of the Americas, expanding our portfolio from head of the Homeland to head of ALL of the Americas. And yes, we get to keep the deportation jet! "
"I'm pleased to announce my exciting new opportunity as Ambassador, expanding my portfolio as surprised former girlfriend of Don Trump Jr where I offended his family, to a whole new nation I can offend if they can learn to speak American. So grateful."
Joan Combs Durso@Daojoan People canβt go public with their reaction to being let go for fear no one wants to hire an embittered, angry, almost bankrupt, new employee. Displaying the green banner of βopen to workβ in a kind of proto-solidarity is the most radical some people will ever becomeβ scared to lose their health insurance and cash for housing, comforted to know it itβs not a solo quest. Good luck to the seekers!
Β‘Abbie!
andrew_meir@Daojoan please tell us that you cross posted this on LinkedIn π
fabiosantoscode@Daojoan the productivity deity known as "In" is fickle. Followers of "In" must perform acts of forced positivity at scheduled times to keep it from erasing the family savings.
Frieke
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane@Daojoan /me looks around, finds cardboard box, puts it under the router so that it is no longer dangling from the network cable from the patch panel, closes the rack door and goes off to update linkedIn with something about "overcoming logistical challenges with dynamic real world innovations"
Coding Gardener@Daojoan A fair few of these posts are probably written by a language model.
Joanna Holman@Daojoan every fight with their wife is an opportunity for a blog post about the 3 leadership lessons they learned from it
Jeff Grigg
Ernst Greiner πͺπΊ
an actual bus@Daojoan To be fair that's american business culture in a nutshell. I say this as a canadian who has worked with lots of american clients (though not before linkedin existed), y'all just have this trademark lingo for positively framing any and everything.
Dubi is here 
@Daojoan I was fired half a year ago, and have to use LinkedIn to look for a job, but I hate this exact thing, and I both can't and refuse to write anything positive about this shitty experience, but also feel it will undermine me to write what I really feel, which is that this is soul wrenching, and I took a temporary contract job in the meantime to pay the bills but I hate waking up every day, and I viscerally hate the people who fired me from a job I loved because of politics.
Buck
Nichol Brummer@Daojoan cheerfully we must go under and let others trample on us..
noplasticshower@Daojoan also. Sheeple are sheeple wherever you go.
Srob
Stephen π (he/him)@Daojoan Well nobody who gets massive engagement anyway. The toxic positivity echo chamber is real. π
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
maya_b π¨π¦so bored of "success" bias.
especially when it comes to startups - it completely distorts and buries the reality that 96% of all companies fail within their first 2 years.
and then there are failure reasons that are just out of everyone's control. I was in a growth phase when every resource I needed became unobtanium - components first, then funding, then future development, and finally the company went because without development, components to build devices, no funding was coming in (to basically sit and do nothing), and then buh-bye.
everything was done right, then covid came along and said "hold my virus"
Rahul Setrakian@Daojoan hilarious but honestly, the only point of it is to show that we are perfect metahumans because companies aren't looking for people who have bad days, they want subservient employees with growth mindset.
Lyubomir Ganev 
@Daojoan it's a genuine social media then.
Drew π΅π βΎοΈ@Daojoan Not sure if you're aware but there's a whole #subreddit full of people on #LinkedIn outrageously humblebragging and generally being obnoxiously optimistic:
kaaswe
Monsieur Ralph@Daojoan These are some of the reasons I deleted my LinkedIn account. I need less drivel in my life.
alexdev