LinkedIn Advice is a Joke

A sad pathetic joke that shows off the delusions of society.

LinkedIn… Where brains go to shrivel away from the banalities of posts created by truly idiotic people. And remember… these people think of themselves as “Thought Leaders”.

Let’s dig deeper into some LinkedIn buffoonery.

This one comes up all of the time in the posts offering advice. Posts that tend to start out by telling you, dear reader, that this “Thought Leader” has decades doing something so it makes them an “expert” (and we all know how we feel and think about “experts” these days…):

“NEVER bad-mouth your previous employer.”

To that I say… Then stop asking the insipid question of why I left said previous employer. If you don’t want the truth, why are you asking? Why should I have to sugarcoat it to an adult?

You want me to say something like this:

“I was laid off because management restructured their R&D and product teams within the company.”

But you don’t want to hear the truth:

“I was laid off because a new hostile management took over the company, removed the prior management, and then proceeded to tank the company in such a spectacular way that my entire department was laid off. I sit before you now, a casualty of an upper management that lacked focus, mismanaged the whole shebang, and utterly screwed the pooch.”

So let’s jut stick to me putting myself in a corner and not explaining why the previous employer is to blame so they can keep doing it again and again to other people. Genius. The worker shoulder’s the burden for the employer’s inability to navigate business, people are fired, and the clueless pricks that tanked it all have a happy holidays.

Yes, this is the hiring dynamic we are defending. Truth dies so the virtue of the villain remains untarnished.

“Always give 2 weeks notice.”

This one cracks me up because I’d like to know how many companies give their employees 2 weeks notice? Generally, you get a video meeting where your manager shows up with an HR person and it’s curtains for you. You get the “sorry to have to do this,” crap, that they are not sorry about and the procedure to send back your laptop. 30 seconds after the video call ends you are cut off and lose access. You don’t even get to talk to your co-workers and say goodbye.

If companies can do that to employees, why do employees need to give 2 weeks to companies. So they don’t burn a bridge? Yet the employee should be fine with it because hey… maybe they will call you back. Not as likely in this day and age, as it was in the days before the internet.

If you enjoyed working at the company, by all means, give notice. If it was hell on Earth and you never intend to go back, get the hell out of there and don’t look back. You only have so many hours in your life and being cordial to people making your life miserable shouldn’t be a rule when you are jumping ship.

“We see ourselves as a family.”

The company culture crap needs to end. The techies create this nonsense and somehow it has seeped into every sector and industry out there. I am not family to my job or coworkers. I have a family, and let me tell you, coworkers and the job are not the same thing. So why do we play these game and pretend? Does your real family normally cut you off as the holidays are approaching so they can make their quarterly? Not likely. Does your real family kick you out of the house before you can even tell your cousin Bubba, “It was good to see you, thanks for the ham, see you next time,” of course not. So why do people continue to push this corporate culture family nonsense?

I trade my skill and time for money. That is the work contract I go into. All of the platitudes about being a family and such are illusions that weak minds fall for. Interviews being based off of “company culture” are another red flag that one should look out for and steer clear of, if one can. Sadly… this company culture virus has become more important to some people than making money. Priorities my friends. Does the company culture put a house over your head or food on your table? No. It is one of the most unimportant aspects of the job. Tolerate everyone, accept no one who hasn’t earned it. We work, we can get along, we may even celebrate victories together but we are NOT a family.

There’s a wealth of insipid advice on LinkedIn. It’s sad that we, as adults, have created these illusions, as a structure for living in society. We then act out these illusions daily, going through the motions, playing the part, keeping the illusions alive and the truth hidden from sight. It’s a strange existence when one has to ignore reality and live in a lie just because that’s how society has chosen to go about it. We are not enlightened people by any stretch of the imagination. An enlightened people does not need illusions to delude themselves into some false sense of security that does not exist.

Truth should not fall victim to decorum.

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