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{{a|shitmaxim|''[[LinkedIn]]'': home of the [[shit maxim|Shit Maxim]]{{tm}}''<br>}}A guilty pleasure.  
{{a|glossary|{{image|Bullshit|jpeg|}}}}{{quote|“''One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.''
:—Bertrand Russell}}
 
A guilty pleasure. A window seat on the unfolding collective nervous breakdown of our times.  


Being the sort of person<ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which it confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise and the men and women who inhabit it<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.
Being the sort of person<ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which it confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise and the men and women who inhabit it<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.


Whether modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, ejaculating words of insincere delight at disclosure of those awards from those in your [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, articulating pat advice on job interview techniques, posting recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates — ''any'' candidates — to fill a paralegal role in one of the Emirates (fluency in Arabic preferable!), none of the terabytes put out by denizens of [[LinkedIn]] has a tenth of the merit, interest or distraction value of other social networks — yet, yet, yet — somehow the sum of [[LinkedIn]]’s mealy-mouthed parts is strangely compelling.
Whether modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, ejaculating words of insincere delight at disclosure of those awards from those in your [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, brazenly brown-nosing LinkedIn “influencers” for their feeblest posts — those lionising Mohammad El-Erian's [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohamedelerian_singapore-singaporeair-activity-6592909269580996608-_Bg5 photos from his plane window of the sea], we’re looking at you — wondrously sharing moronic “[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ollybuxton_engineering-activity-6692708421109600256-8dYr inventions]” dreamed up by CGI programmers — stop press: we are going to have to have a page for [[Moronic CGI inventions]] — or merely articulating your own pat advice on job interview technique, posting recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates — ''any'' candidates — to fill a paralegal role in one of the Emirates (fluency in Arabic preferable!), none of the terabytes put out by denizens of [[LinkedIn]] has a tenth of the merit, interest or distraction value of other social networks — yet, yet, yet — somehow the sum of [[LinkedIn]]’s mealy-mouthed parts is strangely compelling.
 
After all, however idiotic LinkedIn is, the [[Jolly Contrarian]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings there. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.
===A guide to LinkedIn’s best personal bio descriptions===
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*[[Moronic CGI inventions]]
*[[Rubbish maxims]] — the wit and wisdom of the IT crowd


After all, however idiotic LinkedIn is, the [[Jolly Contrarian]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings ([[:category:Published|these ones]]), [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollybuxton/recent-activity/posts/ there]. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.


A guide to LinkedIn profile descriptions
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|'''What it means'''
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|''Thought leader''
|Twat
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|''Digital prophet''
|Total twat
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|''Web developer ''
|Invented the Internet
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|''Angel investor ''
|Recently made redundant from an executive role.
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|''Founder ''
|Recently made redundant from an operations role. Now contracting.
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|''Executive coach ''
|Recently made redundant from an operations role. Unable to find any contracting work.
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|''Intrapreneur''
|Shortly to be embarking on a new career as an executive coach but hasn't realised it yet.
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|''Seeking new opportunities in ...''
|Possessed of admirable candour but no common sense at all. A weak gazelle.
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|''Experienced financial services professional''
|Recently made redundant from an operations role. In process of resigning themselves to a life of contracting, but not quite cool with it yet.
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|''Board-level legal advisor''
|Recently laid off from a law firm. Still in denial about employment prospects but coming round to signing up for Axiom.
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|''Social media advisor''
|(1) obsessed with twitter / instagram to the point of believing it a bona-fide commercial utility. <br>(2) (Ergo) Twat.
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|'' Best-selling author of... ''
|Greetings dear kind sir/madam I self publish my book i sincerely pray it will change your<ref>I mean '' my'' life.</ref> life<ref>It won't (either of them). </ref> please review it on Amazon. I salute you thanks you!!! (''[[sic]] '')
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