Grumpy Old Man

No Quarter

@Dan54 you have an amazing attitude towards life mate. Sorry to hear that, take care.

Dodge

so sorry Dan, that's horrible.

antipodean

LinkedIn

The most self-serving, circle jerk version of themselves that people post. Tongues firmly wedged up each others arseholes posting the most inane, insufferable nonsense, and that's before we get to see the outrageous lies these self-absorbed piston wristed gibbons invent for their career. The rest is inspirational garbage for the drooling. 2007 era Facebook without the cat videos.

MN5

I hate the way Women’s magazines refer to Prince WIlliam as “Wills”.

I was at the Supermarket tonight, saw it in a headline and it made me furious.

Call him William, Will, Bill, Willy, Billy, Wiremu…..

Wills just makes him sound like a fluffybunny.

Bones

@antipodean
https://x.com/StateOfLinkedIn

MN5

@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:

LinkedIn

The most self-serving, circle jerk version of themselves that people post. Tongues firmly wedged up each others arseholes posting the most inane, insufferable nonsense, and that's before we get to see the outrageous lies these self-absorbed piston wristed gibbons invent for their career. The rest is inspirational garbage for the drooling. 2007 era Facebook without the cat videos.

I’ve never used LinkedIn but as I’m a real team player with a can do attitude and a keen problem solver I reckon I probably should.

Victor Meldrew

@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:

LinkedIn

The most self-serving, circle jerk version of themselves that people post. Tongues firmly wedged up each others arseholes posting the most inane, insufferable nonsense, and that's before we get to see the outrageous lies these self-absorbed piston wristed gibbons invent for their career. The rest is inspirational garbage for the drooling. 2007 era Facebook without the cat videos.

Actually logged in after about 6 years away after reading this. Used to be a good way to keep in contact with old work colleagues, but fuck me, what a cess-pit it is now.

Bones

Hah I was just thinking last week I should probably get back on and be a bit more active. Maybe not.

Donsteppa

After a passive aggressive phase about ten years ago where LinkedIn seemed mostly thinly veiled posts about bad bosses, it fast became FIGJAM central.

Still a few good people to read on there amongst the wider noise though.

MajorRage

It’s basically a snapshot CV, so it should be FIGJAM.

If you say your bang average, then it kind of goes against the point …

But I do agree with most of the above!

MajorRage

“Inspirational garbage for the drooling”

Saving this quote for future use.

Probably for my upcoming book.

Donsteppa

@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:

It’s basically a snapshot CV, so it should be FIGJAM.

If you say your bang average, then it kind of goes against the point …

But I do agree with most of the above!

Arguing semantics, but I reckon there's a happy niche that's somewhere well above bang average, but also below the FIGJAM of some of the newsfeed.

I'm likely in full Grumpy Old Man mode at the moment, given the state of recent LinkedIn notifications...

Donsteppa

@Bones some goodies in there.

Bones

@Donsteppa oh right because only males could be superior enough to be acting in a hiring capacity.

booboo

@Bones @antipodean

@bestoflinkedin is another

nzzp

Saw someone posting about how they had a half hour meeting with the team to start the week off and check in on how people were doing. Got lots of gushing approvals.

FFS.