I would love to see you dig into the return to work for Federal workers. As I am one and I know the real reason we have to go back. Most people don't know or realise that most Federal buildings are rented/leased They are not actually owned by the government. Not only that, but people think we are lazy and that's why we need to go back. Everything gets recorded and reported to upper managers almost everywhere in the government. So if someone is not doing their job people know about it. They are punishing all of us remote workers even though we get our jobs done on time. Like you said in some of your videos that I tell people "Work is a task not a place for most jobs" I can do my job and have been remotely. I say those who are not doing their jobs make them come in don't punish everyone. I get more work done at home because I don't have to run to building to building for a dumb meeting I don't need to be in. Or have 20 people visit me daily at my desk interrupting me. Plus there are two types of organizations within the government those who get funds from congress aka taxpayers and those who make their own money aka franchise funds. My group makes our own money and we save taxpayers money on top of that. We have contracts that have due dates no matter what, so we can't just goof off and never do our work, it has to get done per our contracts. I feel like they are punishing us and we didn't even do anything bad. It should be a case by case.
Trying to reply to you again. I keep getting my comments deleted by youtube. You should looking into RTO for federal government workers. The real reason they want us back in the office is because they mostly rent/lease buildings. The government doesn't own most buildings they work in. So taxpayers are paying other rich people rent for government employees. I know I work for the government and it's not just buildings sometimes it's the land they are on too.
“And I ended up doing ***insert cringe humble flex done**** and just like that my wife came back from the dead from all my work hard.” (If this WASN’T a joke and if your wife actually died pls ignore the LinkedIn joke I made above - condolences💐)
@@lesath7883Clear as can be on page 286, in the employee handbook, no these are not eligible for overtime. Feel free to put any questions or concerns in the suggestion box for review.
CEOs: Foolish sheep, you need to produce more BABIES so we can exploit them in the future for low paid wages to barely survive. Or we will shame you for not starting a family and not getting married you uncooperative peasants.
Yup...a lot of copywriting gurus there telling peopel to add personal stories to differentiate themselves from the generic pieces of copy and content online to get noticed. Folks don't understand limits and boundaries though.
LinkedIn went from a networking and recruiting site to a cringe corporate bootlicker fest where Employees love to get humiliated by CEOs and Managers and then praise the same Company that laid them off.
The best part is the narcissist ceo/managers…they’ll say some condescending post and be like “Other managers will agree with me right? 😉” And it’ll be like 20:1 disagree to agree ratio and many of the 20 are actual managers 😂
Worked at LinkedIn last year. Quit before the layoffs and department closure came. Internal is just as corporate, stupid and toxically positive as the front page of the website 😂.
"I was in the office the other day getting coffee in the break room when the 500 lb industrial copier tipped over and landed on my foot, fracturing four metatarsal bones. Instead of complaining and filing a workers comp claim, I decided to walk it off because I know that in time my company culture will miraculously heal my foot during our daily positive affirmation and yoga sessions."
Everyone is a founder and CEO, and all the women are boss babes. I expect to see a post "My husband just doesn't have the length to hit the spot. It got me thinking about how we need to learn how to hit our targets with a long outreach of clients"
I worked at a corporate tire shop. They fired a mechanic for taking a day off to go to his fathers funeral. They said "You know you should have had that on a Sunday anyways." They have a 100 million dollar fund just fir employee lawsuits. They scare every lawyer away, they flat out said "We would rather spend 10 million fighting you than spend ten dollars settling with you." Companies dont care and WONT be held to account, they wonder why people have walked away.
@@WickedParanoid No, its code for we dont really have any meaningful framework or processes and decisions are made randomly depending on how the micromanager feels that day.
"That's when we realized he wasn't the right fit for us." Which was about 10 minutes after he realized the same thing about you. I love how companies use all this word salad as an excuse to be tyrannical about demanding loyalty, while saying the job seeker is bad just for demanding stable compensation. Make it make sense.
If they're offering a decent amount of shares it might be ok to take a low salary ,but none at all when you have bills? They are dreaming and will go bankrupt when people don't want to work there
Looking at LinkedIn is like watching someone "please ure" themselves. Self-congratulatory, humble-bragging posts with no job opportunities. Other than staying in touch with former colleagues, it has no utility.
"Every issue is top priority" = We put new mail on the top of the stack, better hope yours isn't on the bottom. We only pay attention to the most recent thing brought to our attention and everything else can go fsck itself.
I work in a production support role and literally every issue I am assigned is "escalated" and "high priority". Not every issue is critical, most can wait a bit.
Yeah, I thought “thank god that kid didn’t get that job, they did him a real favor.” I love these bosses that think it’s my privilege to work for them. Do you call the power company and tell them why they should be willing to give you free electricity and so you won’t be paying your power bill? Let me know how that goes.
I literally don't use LinkedIn. I don't like it. It's like a social media for your accommodations and job titles. I don't partake in that kind of flaunting.
Linked in and the corporate world in general is middle school for adults who didn't grow up. I couldnt stoop low enough to work for one. The coming crash will be glorious
On the post about the woman complaining about her husband not getting any promotions or rewards. He commented. He got his Master's the previous year and was working as an officer in the military. Somehow, that wasn't enough.
Linkedin has become the DMV of the internet. You go there to get necesary things done which is finding jobs but as soon as you do, you don't go back there as it's beyond depressing.
Man, the daughter almost dying in a car wreck would more likely lead to wanting people to work-from-home to avoid unnecessary driving and wrecks. That sales pivot was gross.
"An interviewee asked how he can trust us to pay him. I wasn't sure how to respond. It was a good question that made me uncomfortable...so instead of answering we didn't hire him and now I'm here to preach..."
Joshua, you have a big enough audience to launch a LinkedIn competitor! It should be centred on projects you’ve worked on / working on instead of a digital CV, which doesn’t fit modern work in many cases.
there are two kinds of people in security; 1. Those who collect certifications that mean nothing (which is all of them) 2. Professionals who quietly do a great job of actual security. There is no in between. There is no "womeninsecurity", no "certificationegoboost", no "imbetterthanyou". There are just professional and arsehole. Guess which one the woman bragging on LinkedIn might be.
I had a call with a startup guy when it got to pay structure he talked about equity in the company and that in 3-4 months maybe they could pay a base salary. I told him I'm not sitting on a pile of money to pay my bills for the future potential of pay. My bills can't be paid with promise.
That 3-4 months would have led to more time and maybe eventually a low wage if yr lucky. Did they advertise the position being paid? Sounds like a slow con.
I feel sorry for that woman’s husband. Would you imagine being married to somebody who just loved to disrespect you that much? Why isn’t he obsessed with his career like you are because he’s a normal human being?? Because it’s not normal or healthy to be this obsessed with your career. Let’s just say that if he leaves you in a few years, I can see why.
If you need entertainment, some of it is popcorn worthy. like the first post in this vid, the CEO guy. the comments on his post had me ROTFLMAO. most of it is 2nd rate.
@@JoshuaFluke1 yep, pretty much :)) . I only recently started hanging out there again, trying to see if there are any business opportunities there (other than content for videos like yours :)) ). There really aren't.
The modern work environment, social media, and hustle culture have made so many people self-centered and borderline narcissistic. Work SHOULD be about doing your job and going home. Cause you get paid for the job that you do. Working harder just gets you more work and higher expectations that you'll never meet. I learned that the hard way. The ones who get to the top are usually ushered in via neopotism and other connections, or pure spite and pride. Those aren't the people you'd want to work for anyways.
Those employers are so funny “You must be available 24/7 and answer your phone right away. We only hire OBSESSED people!” *pays well below industry standard for the role*
I'm at my 5yr old daughters funeral right now, and I just said my last goodbyes, so I have a few minutes while others say theirs. As I was sitting here looking at my dead daughter, It made me think about how your caereer can become a coffin if you let things like this stop you from working.
I used to be like that in my 20s and early 30s: I always had a phone close by and answered every message asap. Now, I deliberately leave my phone at the desk and call back people that I want or have to talk to; others I just ignore. And you know what? Nothing happened. The sky didn't fall on earth, my family didn't disown me, I've not been fired, and even product managers didn't get mad at me; they just accepted that this is what it is.
Linked-In is like having a Million Donkeys blindly following a Million Carrots, and EVERY Donkey gets to see the Other Donkeys Carrot at the same time, as well as instantly knowing HOW MUCH all the other Donkeys WANT the Carrot
This whole this has me cracking up. One of the funniest RUclips videos ever...But yeah...LinkedIn has gotta super weird with people and their personal issues, romantic seeking (treating it like a dating site), writing out their inner thoughts like a journal or a therapy session...folks are getting wild.
This is crazy to me in an economy where we are stuck between, " there aren't enough employees quotation mark and quotation mark nobody wants to work these days"
Obsession? Sounds more like desperation to me. And even if it is indeed obsession, it's still not a good look. It's arguably even worse than desperation, in fact.
I saw a post the other day about a manager saying how his employee lost her apartment and that he let her sleep … in the offices. And that this took place in 2014. Not sure what he was expecting but a lot of people kissed his feet for being a hero.
How to fix LinkedIn: Stop allowing people to post anything unless they meet a certain criteria. Charge people per word on every post. Charge extra for pictures, and triple that for selfies. Allow people to downvote posts. If a post hits a certain threshold for bad quality, the poster will be charged more per word until their quality improves. If they fail to improve, they'll be banned from posting. Topics like religion and politics should not be allowed. Users will be required to specify the topic of their posts (via categories) so that people can filter out what they're not interested in. Quality over quantity.
Rather than automatically showing the selfie but making you click to see the rest of the text, LinkedIn should show the text but make you click to see the selfie.
I hate LinkedIn so much. If ever there was a “social” platform I wished would go away, it would be right up at the top of the list (only because I don’t use TikTok and was tweeter banned after years ago 😅)
The LinkedIn job postings are also a joke! The search tool is broken and a complete waste of time. Too many 3rd party recruiters and no way to filter these jokers out of search results.
Our Chihuahua accidentally jumped in our neighbors wood chipper. This got me thinking about agile planning and always being one step ahead of the competition.
@5:40 Instead of turning his daughter’s accident into a teachable moment about not living to work, dealing with the panic and anxiety many feel when having to show up at work (on time), and how to slow down, I made it into an MLM-like pitch.
"Every issue is our top priority." I wouldn't be the customer of a fool who doesn't know how language works. I prefer to talk to people who value accuracy in communication.
I am impressed by the sheer number of South Asian PhDs who use LinkedIn to spam clickbait posts pushing cliches on leadership and teamwork. It's almost like it's all just a click farm operation. If a post is actually a real person, 90% of that is from some HR team pushing the same drivel but in a slightly less artificial manner.
The guy with the daughter who was in a car crash reminds me of MLM huns who swoop in when someone is going through a difficult situation, spewing fake condolences just so they can try to sell them snake oil.
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I would love to see you dig into the return to work for Federal workers. As I am one and I know the real reason we have to go back. Most people don't know or realise that most Federal buildings are rented/leased They are not actually owned by the government. Not only that, but people think we are lazy and that's why we need to go back. Everything gets recorded and reported to upper managers almost everywhere in the government. So if someone is not doing their job people know about it. They are punishing all of us remote workers even though we get our jobs done on time. Like you said in some of your videos that I tell people "Work is a task not a place for most jobs" I can do my job and have been remotely. I say those who are not doing their jobs make them come in don't punish everyone. I get more work done at home because I don't have to run to building to building for a dumb meeting I don't need to be in. Or have 20 people visit me daily at my desk interrupting me. Plus there are two types of organizations within the government those who get funds from congress aka taxpayers and those who make their own money aka franchise funds. My group makes our own money and we save taxpayers money on top of that. We have contracts that have due dates no matter what, so we can't just goof off and never do our work, it has to get done per our contracts. I feel like they are punishing us and we didn't even do anything bad. It should be a case by case.
I get you gotta get the bag, but man, this is too low for you.
About as cringe as the car crash post. What's next, gas station boner pills?
@xloppyschannel4881 True
Trying to reply to you again. I keep getting my comments deleted by youtube. You should looking into RTO for federal government workers. The real reason they want us back in the office is because they mostly rent/lease buildings. The government doesn't own most buildings they work in. So taxpayers are paying other rich people rent for government employees. I know I work for the government and it's not just buildings sometimes it's the land they are on too.
"My wife died from cancer last night, let me tell you what this taught me about toxic office culture"
I'm so sorry for your loss
Did she die in that office, and the company haven't paid her because she left early ?
Was she paid overtime for the days she laid there in the cublicle?
“And I ended up doing ***insert cringe humble flex done**** and just like that my wife came back from the dead from all my work hard.” (If this WASN’T a joke and if your wife actually died pls ignore the LinkedIn joke I made above - condolences💐)
@@lesath7883Clear as can be on page 286, in the employee handbook, no these are not eligible for overtime. Feel free to put any questions or concerns in the suggestion box for review.
LinkedIn has become an even more worse version of Facebook. I didn’t even know that it was possible.
Unlike Facebook if someone quits LinkedIn, they might become homeless. Talk about a captive freaking audience
@BowBeforeTheAlgorithm now i see why LinkedIn is still a thing. Because of weirdos like you.
CEOs: Foolish sheep, you need to produce more BABIES so we can exploit them in the future for low paid wages to barely survive. Or we will shame you for not starting a family and not getting married you uncooperative peasants.
Sheep you need to create BABIES
We need more cheap labor
The obsession with personal branding has lead to collective douchery.
Underrated comment!! 💯
it was inevitable that narcissists of all flavor would use linkedin like that.
I would say that it increased the collective douchery. It was always there lurking under the surface.
Yup...a lot of copywriting gurus there telling peopel to add personal stories to differentiate themselves from the generic pieces of copy and content online to get noticed. Folks don't understand limits and boundaries though.
@ in trying to differentiate themselves, they sound just like everyone else now.
LinkedIn went from a networking and recruiting site to a cringe corporate bootlicker fest where Employees love to get humiliated by CEOs and Managers and then praise the same Company that laid them off.
Reminds me I need to remove my former manager from my contacts. I only added him so he could see when I quit to get paid more at a competitor.
No. It’s all of the above.
LinkedIn was bought up by Microsoft, Microsoft bloat everything and ruin it.
Unironically, same people that complain Gen-z is on their phone too much, tells you to be on the phone 24/7......
They want Gen-Z to be on the phone 24/7 for THEM.
Ain’t it?! 😂
Omg lol. I didn't even think about that.
but only to answer work call.
And worse still, are the ones pushing the overeliance on tech that addles Millennials & Gen Z's brains!
LinkedIn is super depressing right now
LinkedIn has been trash forever. If it's worse now, than I'm impressed they've found a way.
agreed, I don’t even look at it anymore, it’s a wasteland
Its always been cesspool for terrible ideas...
Yeah the toxic toxic positivity is overwhelmingly annoying.
One of the reasons why I keep my LI deactivated at most times!
"I messaged a team member an urgent request during their chemo-therapy session just to see if they were really committed and fully in the game"
WTAF?
There's more garbage on LinkedIn than ever before.
It’s cringe level accelerates during recessions/hard times finding jobs
Idk 2020 was awful
LinkedIn is now Facebook, and Facebook is now ads and random tiktok repost.
@@invisibleloveone Facebook is now full-blown right wing propaganda. While Twitter is pure Nazism.
Bunch of narcissists on LinkedIn
They are your boss, your colleagues.
@@UNMEASURED100 they are losers and will be miserable once they're old.
The best part is the narcissist ceo/managers…they’ll say some condescending post and be like “Other managers will agree with me right? 😉”
And it’ll be like 20:1 disagree to agree ratio and many of the 20 are actual managers 😂
Worked at LinkedIn last year. Quit before the layoffs and department closure came. Internal is just as corporate, stupid and toxically positive as the front page of the website 😂.
"I was in the office the other day getting coffee in the break room when the 500 lb industrial copier tipped over and landed on my foot, fracturing four metatarsal bones. Instead of complaining and filing a workers comp claim, I decided to walk it off because I know that in time my company culture will miraculously heal my foot during our daily positive affirmation and yoga sessions."
The best medicine is hard work *insert Josh’s boomer Corp cringe laugh*
Everyone is a founder and CEO, and all the women are boss babes. I expect to see a post "My husband just doesn't have the length to hit the spot. It got me thinking about how we need to learn how to hit our targets with a long outreach of clients"
Career women in a nutshell, haha! XD
LOL!!
😂
girl boss
When your LinkedIn post has the phrase “Not to be a jerk . . .” It most likely means you ARE a jerk.
I worked at a corporate tire shop.
They fired a mechanic for taking a day off to go to his fathers funeral. They said "You know you should have had that on a Sunday anyways."
They have a 100 million dollar fund just fir employee lawsuits. They scare every lawyer away, they flat out said "We would rather spend 10 million fighting you than spend ten dollars settling with you."
Companies dont care and WONT be held to account, they wonder why people have walked away.
Name and shame please.
@@zidedeikery7224 Kal Tire in Canada. Think Les Schwab exact same style of company and the the founders of both companies were best buds.
Drop the name
@@zidedeikery7224 Kal Tire in Canada. Think Les Schwab and in fact both founders were good buds.
I would take them on that offer and drag that lawsuit through the press.
"Every issue is our top priority" really means that the company will have absolutely no respect for your personal time.
Phone down! Time for YT - fixed. Now you have 10 more urgent tasks that just landed on your desk😁
Is it just me or is this code for "we're understaffed AF"?
If every issue is top priority then no issue is top priority.
@@WickedParanoid No, its code for we dont really have any meaningful framework or processes and decisions are made randomly depending on how the micromanager feels that day.
@@Debilinside Eh, might be both. Likely is both, actually.
"That's when we realized he wasn't the right fit for us." Which was about 10 minutes after he realized the same thing about you.
I love how companies use all this word salad as an excuse to be tyrannical about demanding loyalty, while saying the job seeker is bad just for demanding stable compensation. Make it make sense.
If they're offering a decent amount of shares it might be ok to take a low salary ,but none at all when you have bills?
They are dreaming and will go bankrupt when people don't want to work there
Linked in is hunger games, for real. People that are supposed to be professional and classy are putting themselves into shame in a race to the bottom
Literally
This is why LinkedIn is a platform I would use to disqualify candidates. Engage in LinkedIn douchebaggery? Disqualified.
Looking at LinkedIn is like watching someone "please ure" themselves. Self-congratulatory, humble-bragging posts with no job opportunities. Other than staying in touch with former colleagues, it has no utility.
Yeah it’s full of useless recruiters too asking if you want a job that is worse than the one you already have
@@woodrmp1As for me, I only get offers for online courses and services that I have no use for, nothing resembling any job opportunities.
What happened with genuine, open bragging? "I am the best at X, you corporate insects are beneath me!"
"Every issue is top priority" = We put new mail on the top of the stack, better hope yours isn't on the bottom. We only pay attention to the most recent thing brought to our attention and everything else can go fsck itself.
I work in a production support role and literally every issue I am assigned is "escalated" and "high priority". Not every issue is critical, most can wait a bit.
When you ask a company if they can pay you, and they can't say if they can, it means they can't. Dodged a bullet there.
Yeah, I thought “thank god that kid didn’t get that job, they did him a real favor.” I love these bosses that think it’s my privilege to work for them. Do you call the power company and tell them why they should be willing to give you free electricity and so you won’t be paying your power bill? Let me know how that goes.
Average LinkedIn post:
My employee asked me time off, here's what i told him
Some narcissistic essay ignoring the basic needs of their employees
I literally don't use LinkedIn. I don't like it. It's like a social media for your accommodations and job titles. I don't partake in that kind of flaunting.
Linked in and the corporate world in general is middle school for adults who didn't grow up. I couldnt stoop low enough to work for one.
The coming crash will be glorious
On the post about the woman complaining about her husband not getting any promotions or rewards. He commented. He got his Master's the previous year and was working as an officer in the military. Somehow, that wasn't enough.
I assumed he was probably more successful than his wife is what prompted her post.
What a marriage, communicating thru posts.
Women are very easy to understand, they only want one thing. More. Doesn't matter what it is, it's not enough!
Linkedin has become the DMV of the internet. You go there to get necesary things done which is finding jobs but as soon as you do, you don't go back there as it's beyond depressing.
That post by someone talking about his daughter's car crash and then segueing into corporate cringe was so beyond cringe itself. Just awful. Horrible.
Agreed. It reminds me of what MLMers do
Man, the daughter almost dying in a car wreck would more likely lead to wanting people to work-from-home to avoid unnecessary driving and wrecks. That sales pivot was gross.
"An interviewee asked how he can trust us to pay him. I wasn't sure how to respond. It was a good question that made me uncomfortable...so instead of answering we didn't hire him and now I'm here to preach..."
Joshua, you have a big enough audience to launch a LinkedIn competitor! It should be centred on projects you’ve worked on / working on instead of a digital CV, which doesn’t fit modern work in many cases.
I asked my bank if I could make my car payment with learning opportunities. They said they'll send the repo guy over.
Deep belly laugh, yet 🥹
Meanwhile Joshua Fluke is friggin killin it!
Never place anything on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is ABSOLUTELY a horrible place. It's gotten so bad. Like, beyond bad. It's a vacuum of nonsensical ego-posting.
Linkedin became a failure when it became a gaslight engine with minimal successful job opportunities
We’re at the point where we need community notes on linkedin
I went to a memorial site for atrocities around the world. Here’s what it taught me about B2B.
Dude, I’m dying 😅
there are two kinds of people in security;
1. Those who collect certifications that mean nothing (which is all of them)
2. Professionals who quietly do a great job of actual security.
There is no in between. There is no "womeninsecurity", no "certificationegoboost", no "imbetterthanyou". There are just professional and arsehole.
Guess which one the woman bragging on LinkedIn might be.
New CEOs always have to "improve/destroy" things.
I had a call with a startup guy when it got to pay structure he talked about equity in the company and that in 3-4 months maybe they could pay a base salary. I told him I'm not sitting on a pile of money to pay my bills for the future potential of pay. My bills can't be paid with promise.
"Well, maybe try calling back in 3-4 months."
That 3-4 months would have led to more time and maybe eventually a low wage if yr lucky. Did they advertise the position being paid? Sounds like a slow con.
0:23 So if I quickly respond "Get lost" or "Get a life", am I "in the game"?
Every time I look on linked it I mostly see people giving themselves way more importance that anyone cares and just patting themselves on the back.
I feel sorry for that woman’s husband. Would you imagine being married to somebody who just loved to disrespect you that much?
Why isn’t he obsessed with his career like you are because he’s a normal human being??
Because it’s not normal or healthy to be this obsessed with your career.
Let’s just say that if he leaves you in a few years, I can see why.
She’s probably a democrat Karen.
have you read his response? He doesn't want to be 'saved'. He deserves it.
Naw, she'll leave him first more than likely, and dude is probably better off 😅
@SableTwoSevenI hope they divorce! You're right, his life will be better unless he's got low self esteem.
Wow, LinkedIn is really on fire! I've been missing out. I should log in more often just to witness this train wreck.
If you need entertainment, some of it is popcorn worthy. like the first post in this vid, the CEO guy. the comments on his post had me ROTFLMAO. most of it is 2nd rate.
Companies taking their sweet ass time to respond to applications with an algorithm tells me everything about the company.
Prove me wrong.
Impossible, you are totally right.
Man you are destroying them so much I am starting to feel bad. Ah who am I kidding, please keep going.
"Let them burn" - Saving Private Ryan
After I got a job, I deleted all my posts
I dont even post my new job on LinkedIn because my previous buffoonery coworkers are nosey.
My honest reaction to the title is: "It's a trainwreck...right now? Or since forever?"
The trainwreck continues, the dumpster fire blazes on, the ship continues to sink, water is still wet, lmao. Lots of options. I agree with you
@@JoshuaFluke1 yep, pretty much :)) . I only recently started hanging out there again, trying to see if there are any business opportunities there (other than content for videos like yours :)) ). There really aren't.
When does that lady getting all those certifications actually do HER job? Who wants to bet she’s an absentee CEO.
The modern work environment, social media, and hustle culture have made so many people self-centered and borderline narcissistic. Work SHOULD be about doing your job and going home. Cause you get paid for the job that you do. Working harder just gets you more work and higher expectations that you'll never meet. I learned that the hard way.
The ones who get to the top are usually ushered in via neopotism and other connections, or pure spite and pride. Those aren't the people you'd want to work for anyways.
I hate LinkedIn, from the fake job postings to the weekly inbox sales messages from strangers. Never any messages about job opportunities...smh
Those employers are so funny
“You must be available 24/7 and answer your phone right away. We only hire OBSESSED people!”
*pays well below industry standard for the role*
I'm at my 5yr old daughters funeral right now, and I just said my last goodbyes, so I have a few minutes while others say theirs. As I was sitting here looking at my dead daughter, It made me think about how your caereer can become a coffin if you let things like this stop you from working.
0:44 Nuclear level red flag. Sorry that salary of 60K (or whatever other disrespectful amount) isn't going to buy you that level of service from me
I used to be like that in my 20s and early 30s: I always had a phone close by and answered every message asap. Now, I deliberately leave my phone at the desk and call back people that I want or have to talk to; others I just ignore. And you know what? Nothing happened. The sky didn't fall on earth, my family didn't disown me, I've not been fired, and even product managers didn't get mad at me; they just accepted that this is what it is.
Linked-In is like having a Million Donkeys blindly following a Million Carrots, and EVERY Donkey gets to see the Other Donkeys Carrot at the same time, as well as instantly knowing HOW MUCH all the other Donkeys WANT the Carrot
'You just threw your daughter under the bus.... maybe that's not the right analogy right now...' I about fell out of my chair laughing.
Bring back the LinkedIn of 2013 where there were no posts
LinkedIn has GAMES now that you can play. Imagine the accomplishments.
This whole this has me cracking up. One of the funniest RUclips videos ever...But yeah...LinkedIn has gotta super weird with people and their personal issues, romantic seeking (treating it like a dating site), writing out their inner thoughts like a journal or a therapy session...folks are getting wild.
This is crazy to me in an economy where we are stuck between, " there aren't enough employees quotation mark and quotation mark nobody wants to work these days"
What I still miss now at LinkedIn:
- weird AI images, where CEOs praise how hardworking these false humans are
- healing stones, esoteric stuff 😂
I'm not in the job market anymore but LinkedIn is great for popcorn drama, especially in 2025
0:15 this is what happens when recruiters/employers take guidance from ethots
Obsession? Sounds more like desperation to me. And even if it is indeed obsession, it's still not a good look. It's arguably even worse than desperation, in fact.
I saw a post the other day about a manager saying how his employee lost her apartment and that he let her sleep … in the offices. And that this took place in 2014.
Not sure what he was expecting but a lot of people kissed his feet for being a hero.
How to fix LinkedIn: Stop allowing people to post anything unless they meet a certain criteria. Charge people per word on every post. Charge extra for pictures, and triple that for selfies. Allow people to downvote posts. If a post hits a certain threshold for bad quality, the poster will be charged more per word until their quality improves. If they fail to improve, they'll be banned from posting. Topics like religion and politics should not be allowed. Users will be required to specify the topic of their posts (via categories) so that people can filter out what they're not interested in. Quality over quantity.
You might be onto something. Need a co-founder for a new type of corporate social media? 😅
Rather than automatically showing the selfie but making you click to see the rest of the text, LinkedIn should show the text but make you click to see the selfie.
@@amicaaranearum that’d definitely deter many of the narcissists.
I hate LinkedIn so much. If ever there was a “social” platform I wished would go away, it would be right up at the top of the list (only because I don’t use TikTok and was tweeter banned after years ago 😅)
The LinkedIn job postings are also a joke! The search tool is broken and a complete waste of time. Too many 3rd party recruiters and no way to filter these jokers out of search results.
Our Chihuahua accidentally jumped in our neighbors wood chipper. This got me thinking about agile planning and always being one step ahead of the competition.
I'm convinced the father is a sociopath.
Old guy from work told me: "Don't fuck with the paycheck". Take it literally
This was a reminder to purge a former supervisor, manager, and director from my LinkedIn connections.
Deleted my linkedin after the trucker convoy. Nothing of value was lost.
I quit that toxic-positive cesspool. Don't miss it.
All the posts about work-life balance you used to see...then this!
If you're the kind of person who'd hand out business cards after a worldwide apocalypse, LinkedIn wants YOU!
It just dawned on me that i could comment subjects of EVERY Joshua's video with "peak cringe" and it'd be on point lol
The best advice I got from this channel is deleting my last LinkedIn.
It was like people actually had to read my resume 😅
Linked in was always a train wreck. It's now a flaming trainwreck.
I've turned down jobs after seeing the BS they post on LinkedIn. I don't have time for that shiz and don't need them.
@5:40 Instead of turning his daughter’s accident into a teachable moment about not living to work, dealing with the panic and anxiety many feel when having to show up at work (on time), and how to slow down, I made it into an MLM-like pitch.
0:38 Every issue being prioritized makes them parallel is funny af. You are HILARIOUS. 😆😂😂😂
This is the life of everyone in software
Went on the Stacey Champagne LinkedIn post and the comments did not disappoint.
Joshua, still fighting the good fight! Respect! LOL Thanks bro...
LinkedIn is a bloody joke right now. Literally 3 out of 4 posts are trash/noise
Thank you for your work
Recursive Tebow is horrifying.
Glad I don't have a LinkedIn account.
I don't think you appreciate
What you can do
With a LinkedIn account.
...
Balls.
Glad? I feel terrible for not having an account sooner.
Good for you. I prefer to connect with people face to face about job oppourtunities.
LinkedIn is a meme... Fight me.
"Every issue is our top priority."
I wouldn't be the customer of a fool who doesn't know how language works. I prefer to talk to people who value accuracy in communication.
Sounds like no issue is a priority. Why not just say so.
And people wonder why I’m working on being a freelancer -_-
Yeah man self employed is the way
I am impressed by the sheer number of South Asian PhDs who use LinkedIn to spam clickbait posts pushing cliches on leadership and teamwork. It's almost like it's all just a click farm operation.
If a post is actually a real person, 90% of that is from some HR team pushing the same drivel but in a slightly less artificial manner.
The weekend test guy will be arrested if he ever steps foot in Europe
I guess my complete lack of a response on the Weekend Test means I have absolutely *no* obsession with work, which is exactly how it should be. 🙂
getting the experience, that time was once called apprenticeship
Your videos never disappoint me! Keep on keeping up, my friend!
Right, in addition to Like or Love buttons, there should be a HumbleBrag button, which 90% of posts would get.
The guy with the daughter who was in a car crash reminds me of MLM huns who swoop in when someone is going through a difficult situation, spewing fake condolences just so they can try to sell them snake oil.
Request from me would be life update. If that feels alright with you. Obv I know sharing with the internet is dangerous. Rooting for you. Been watching you for 4 years now. With a bit of a break here and there. It seems like you're happy and content 🎉