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Rank Folly's avatar

Delete 👏 your 👏 LinkedIn 👏 everyone 👏

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xDEADxCAPITALx's avatar

more 👏 linkedin 👏 profiles 👏 in 👏 prison 👏 camps 👏

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Rank Folly's avatar

👏noooooooooOOOOoooooo👏

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b-rar's avatar

I'm estranged from my braindead Trumper dad (my choice) but I'm able to keep up with his unending spiral into psychosis because his rants are frequently featured on r/linkedinlunatics, so that's something

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J_'s avatar

To be a consistent standout there is certainly something.

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b-rar's avatar

It's a wild but very validating feeling to read hundreds of strangers clowning on a relative you've disowned for being a fascist shitbag

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Vince Mancini's avatar

Anyone who posts on there regularly should be in prison. Researchers will one day be able to find a direct correlation between how often someone "posts their wins" on LinkedIn and how little actual valuable work they were ever doing. It is the town square for soulless corporate dweebs.

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J_'s avatar

Between this and the denunciation of Hokas, Discourse Blog has engaged in the worst kind of discrimination, the kind that directly affects me (sarcasm, obviously, as I and all others in my industry deserve to be ridiculed forever and always).

LinkedIn is a scourge. The other day I saw a paid advertisement post making a psychotically attenuated analogy that too many lawyers with A-cup (yes, referring to boobs) level arguments acted as if their arguments were great by doing the legal equivalent of wearing a low-cut top (whatever that means), whereas the lawyers with double F level arguments were too busy hiding their stellar arguments under a frumpy sweater, and so if you’ve got it flaunt it? Complete with a picture of one of the female actors from Suits.

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Jack Crosbie's avatar

sorry i tried to read this but as soon as you said boobs i made a cartoon dwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh sound and my tongue rolled out like a carpet

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Jack Crosbie's avatar

which female actor was it

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J_'s avatar

According to a search of IMDb, Sarah Rafferty.

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xDEADxCAPITALx's avatar

jesus that’s bleak. professional analysis straight from a 12 year old boy

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Gina P's avatar

I have one of those LI accounts too, it was created automatically and the only way I could access a way to delete the account was to conjure a password that I never set up in the first place. In other words, I feel your pain.

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defineandredefine's avatar

This is my relationship with Nextdoor, which I downloaded onto my phone and then deleted but I still get a bunch of emails about people's stolen bikes or whatever.

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Vivian Thonger's avatar

I am old, haven't used LinkedIn for years and have forgotten my password etc. And still they hound me through the ancient means of emails, tempting me with watery non-news from ex-colleagues or people I trained a quarter century ago. I feel you.

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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

"[M]y current browser’s automatic sign-in integration with Google" is a far worse problem than LinkedIn. Stop living your life through Google! I have a goal this year to de-Google my life as much as possible (moving from Gmail and switching from Google Fi are the big ones). More people should do this!

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Jack Crosbie's avatar

this would require me to largely change my entire work process for my professional career and also to convince the editorial staffs of half a dozen national publications and the IT administrators of at least one university to go on different systems so unfortunately it is not an option

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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

That sounds extremely annoying. My sympathies.

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