LinkedIn Has Become A Social Justice Hellhole

Over the last years, LinkedIn has seen a surge in its number of users, becoming the go-to site for job searching and networking and reaching an astounding membership of 106 million users worldwide. While this tool can be really useful if you keep a professional attitude, this professional network has in many ways become a light version of Facebook with suits and ties, shoving virtue-signalling articles down its users’ throats on a daily basis.

Here is some annoying stuff you are likely to find on LinkedIn…

1. Human Resources You-Go-Grrls

Once a girl has landed a good cubicle job in Human Resources, she cannot help herself: she has to talk about how great her life is. Instagram and Facebook are not enough; LinkedIn gives the typical you-go-girl a platform to share her virtue to the world. It sounds just like this: “I just hired a 50-year old black female and the result is beyond expectations!” This kind of statement is followed by a sugary story on how it is important to fight against prejudice and how good it is be inclusive.

These stories, unsurprisingly, are shared and commented on by beta male orbiters who are stunned by the power of the message, but they are not aware that the typical HR girl is able to fire a random coworker for supposedly sexist remarks if it helps her develop her career.

2. Questionable Start-Ups Raising Money

You will often find this kind of press release: “Our company, Globocuck Inc. has just raised $3,000,000 to Uberize the frozen foods market and develop synergies with real estate, thanks to Buttplug Ventures.” People will comment on the founder’s awesome strategy and the jobs he will create. The future is bright.

After a bit of analysis, you can be sure that the start-up in question will go bankrupt in the following year. The founder has probably used the annoying gibberish and vocal tone of Apple keynotes to sell this idea to Buttplug Ventures. Dozens of developers and salesmen will be hired and pressured like hell to make a profit out of a hypothetical business plan. When the company does not reach the quarterly objectives, it will hire some pricey consultants to save the day, but the day will not be saved at all.

It is estimated that nine out of ten start-ups don’t scale up, a fact that most people don’t fully grasp.

3. Articles On How Start-Up Culture Is So Awesome

Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg and company have created a new corporate culture where happiness is at the center of performance. Any start-up now has ping-pong tables, unlimited free snacks, video games, and other kind of feel-good activities. Countless articles are shared on LinkedIn praising this new standard. Even brick-and-mortar companies succumb to this paradigm and invest big amounts of money to have their own incubator, aping the aforementioned start-up culture.

While this is important to give employees a proper working environment, companies often go way overboard. For example, many companies are now hiring “Chief Happiness Officers” to implement a fun culture, making the open-space look like a daycare. The reality is that employees are pushed to do unpaid extra hours and if they are not happy with that, the Xmen Breeder will show them the door. Yes, someone has the job title of “Xmen Breeder” in a company somewhere.

4. Boring Content On How Big Corporations Are The Best At Everything

Pseudo-economic articles are often shared on LinkedIn to present and analyze the achievements of big companies and entrepreneurs. They include such bilge as “Look at How Good Walmart is at Advertising,” “Millennials Don’t Buy Diamonds, But Swarovski Has the Solution,” “Bill and Melinda Gates Have Such a Visionary Foundation,” and so on.

I will take the example of Netflix, which is often cited and praised for its strong algorithm and how it uses your data to “enhance the user experience.” There are never critical insights on how Netflix has a negative impact on its users, like binge-watching, or how the California-based company has a massive amount of debt to sustain its development.

Readers of Return of Kings will also agree with me on this point: the never-ending promotion of liberal values and white male shaming are not a sign of a responsible and healthy company.

5. Leftists Everywhere

You would think that all of the articles you find on LinkedIn are dedicated to business. Sure, you can find factual content on business performance. You can even find unbiased content like “Trump’s Leadership Lessons.” As far as I am concerned, the algorithm always displays boring articles like “Brexit is a Danger” and “The European Union Has a Great Strategy.” A contact of mine also liked a you-go-grrl post quoting Oprah Winfrey, and it appeared on my feed.

The #MeToo movement is also something big in the professional network. You have the typical you-go-grrl article on why #MeToo has a place on LinkedIn, but fair enough: we are used to these kinds of pseudo-analytical pieces from a woman. Worse, beta male orbiters voice their discontent: according to an engineer, #MeToo stories should be shared more on LinkedIn, because his experience of being a shoulder to cry on shows that some of his female coworkers have experienced gross behavior by evil men.

6. “This Is So Inspirational” Content

Richard Branson: “let me inspire you.”

LinkedIn has also a goal: inspiring you. For this, it has a bunch of “influencers,” the biggest ones being successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Richard Branson.

Content from them would appear from time to time, with theses like “when I founded Globocuck Inc., I thought of my grandfather, who taught me how to fish trout, and it was good.” People will share this deep vision of life, commenting on how inspirational these words are. I don’t deny that you need inspiration to succeed—as well as positive thinking—but the truth is that these businessmen are pretty far away from this Care Bears image.

Most of the companies want to make us believe that they are responsible and respectable. Starbucks calls their employees “partners,” and its longtime CEO and Chairman Howard Schultz is involved in every awareness movement.

Executives will not be as inspiring when the shit hits the fan: take the example of Yellowpages.ca in Quebec, which recently laid off 500 people. They were located in a vibrant area of Montreal, and had an inspiring CEO. All that pure goodness was shared urbi et orbi, but it was not enough to meet the quarterly objectives.

Conclusion

LinkedIn is dominated by big, left-wing corporations, and it is not healthy. It’s not because I don’t want companies to succeed, but they often stride pretty far away from their core missions. Local companies which offer true value to their clients have the possibility to advertise on this professional network, but it takes a big budget to stand out, with little or no results at the end.

While I recommend you have a minimum of activity on LinkedIn, you will find more value in going to professional networking events, where you will be able to find more diversity of thought.

Read More: What Is Virtue Signalling?

48 thoughts on “LinkedIn Has Become A Social Justice Hellhole”

  1. TBH, I have never once read an article or any of the user submitted stories on linked in.
    I have had my profile there for a few years. My current consulting assignment fell into my lap because of it. And I constantly get recruiters pinging me to see if I am ready to make a move.
    Not saying the SJW crap won’t eventually ruin it, but for now it is still a good tool. Especially for Tech workers.

  2. Right now, I just use LinkedIn as a job searching tool. That’s about it. Most people don’t use it as a social media site.
    Of course, there are other job hunting sites out there and I use those as well. Not everyone posts on LinkedIn.

  3. Linkedin is horrendous. I signed up for one a few years back and all i got where spam messages. Yeah fuck that.

  4. Whenever I think about how few human resources you-go-grrls I’m “LinkedIn” with, my spirit soars!

  5. A few weeks ago, a Just So story was making the rounds on LinkedIn about a corporate exec who loudly chewed out a young attorney in the elevator. The latter hadn’t bothered to learn the name of the receptionist, while the former ostentatiously greeted her every morning by name. The lesson was that one shouldn’t be stuck up over job status, and should treat all employees as human beings. Okay. Sounds good. But the “things that never happened” vibe was strong with that story, and the lesson seemed lost in the fireworks of contrived drama and virtue signaling on the part of the author (the aforementioned exec).
    I’ve spent the past year unfollowing people over infantile outbursts of NeverTrumpism, but it’s getting harder and harder to avoid as NeverTrumpers become ever more shrill in response to their dwindling numbers and relevance. Not only do you have the solipsistic sob-sister articles about #metoo and uncomfortable workplaces and how diversity must be made the sole focus of every business, and bad-advice pieces on (say) women needing to be insufferably aggressive banshees in demanding their way on everything from salary negotiations to company-provided menstrual products, and the latest corporate press release minimizing their dire finances to focus on their inclusion initiatives and allying opportunities their employees are coercively volunteering for in droves, but the comments to every one of them immediately turn into a Trump-bashing fest over his supposed hatred of women, minorities and LGBTBBQWTFIDK.
    There needs to be a parallel concept to “convergence” and “gleichschaltung”, one that describes the obsessive-compulsive drive to inject an idea or worldview or interpretation or the like into every conversation and every forum to which one has access, regardless of relevance or appropriateness. “Monomania” is probably the right term, but it’s not really catchy.

    1. if business is in business to make money, they will not hire females or will let them go at first opportunity.
      #meetoo has made AWALT huge financial liabilities and likely harrasment lawsuits and thefore corporate losses. if in business to make money, the coporate model is to limits and reduce negative profits. Lean sigma six, bitches. reduce and eliminate waste fraud abuse to maximize profit margins

    2. Uncomfortable work places is the easiest in the world to cure.
      Segregate the sexes, one company men only, one company female only. I guess the female only companies would fail rater quickly, but at least we would all feel comfortable and safe at work.

  6. When I see a woman at work, I say to a fellow co-worker, “what is this? Take your daughter to work day?” Or “Did you hear that?….. sounds like an empty kitchen.”

  7. I deleted my account the day that LinkedIn went public and have never looked back. There was no way that it could avoid becoming a left-leaning, SJW cess pool at that point. A couple of years later, I began receiving e-mails claiming that someone wanted to add me to their connections. WTF?! Scumbags!
    As a technical professional, I’m disgusted with what the entire industry has become. It has shifted from an information sharing model to a surveillance model.

    1. @Digger
      Amen!! How the fuk did you get my information seems to be a frequent statement jumping from my mouth. Recently, I was looking into clearing a couple of minor debts away and the big three credit agencies are like dealing with Big Brother. I asked my local bankster why there are three or more companies credit agencies with my info and he had absolutely no answer. If I pay off the debt why am I punished for seven years after? He had no answer. I wish I had the time to devote to finding out why.

  8. I laugh hard at how many CEOs, CFO’s, and other C-level cucks on the platform. Too many chiefs not enough indians if you ask me. And don’t get me started on all the titles they attach to their names. People on there have serious ego demeasurement issues. I worked with said CEO and VPs and I know the drastic difference between what they make themselves to be on linkedin and how pathetic they really are IRL. And the lies and the fictional personnas some of these people will build for themselves is omnipotent amongst these losers.

    1. I thought that CEOs were only guys implementing the directives of a board… no, today, anyone can be a CEO. Even the guy who works as an independent can be a CEO on LinkedIn.

    2. Not enough Indians…
      Guess its better. You guys are already butt-hurted with Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai !!
      Any more Hindustanis, then you guys (not all but few) will be in unnecessary Grudge against Hindustanis !!
      Already there are guys who are seriously suffering with JEG&IIC Syndrome ! To be precise; Jealousy, Enviousness, GRUDGE & Inherent Inferiority Complex !!
      Maybe out of context but; Blaming others for your own inability, faults, failures and problems is Bad.

  9. Funny. I worked in a corporate office of a developer in Denver years back that “encouraged” after work discussions about selected Dr. Suess stories of how they applied to our business model. Publicly reciting silly ass poems about chickens who dig deep and fast for opportunities. (And look, you can get a special pin!) And going so far has to have some asshat doodling cartoons of the associates to given the main office a “fun feel”. I had enough, told them I was an adult and the culture they were perpetuating made me feel I was working in a dentist office, replete with clown pictures. I left- since I was the anti-christ, and they eventually went out business. First rule of running an enterprise, focus on staying in business, and leave the cute shit for your kids at home.

  10. I really hate the self congratulatory posts that start out “Today I quit my job…..” and then go on and on and on about how brave it was to quit their job and go out on their own blah blah. The thing I hate the most is that these gets 10,000’s of likes so they just won’t get out of my new feed.
    I used to have moderate luck on Linkedin to find professional connections and some work in the past. But, these days nothing. Just last month I needed a sub-contractor to do so IT work. It was a 20 hour gig and most of the work could be done remotely. Offered $75/hr/negotiable and all I got were responses of people ripping on me for paying a “slave’s wage”. WTF. If you don’t want the work just don’t answer the ad. Why provide your commentary about it? (To be fair this was easy work and probably worth about $50/hr but I needed it to be done and in a particular geographical region due to a physical install necessity).
    So, finally, just pulled the ad and instead of some millennial pocketing almost a grand for doing some easy level 2 server work I got a guy from Mexico to do it for $15/hr over a secure VPN (which to the guy’s credit from the activity logs it looks like he only took 2 breaks during the 20 hour project to eat and maybe sleep a few hours….some stupid millennial probably would have wanted nights and weekends off plus a Starbucks allowance, etc.) and took the 1.5 travel days to do the install myself. Client got billed the going rate though and I pocketed the extra cash. I’ll use that guy from Mexico again too. He did solid work and even called out an error in the client build instructions that resulted from a recent version upgrade.

    1. Regarding the “$75/hr” L2 server gig: I’m surprised you weren’t flooded with Indians offering to do the work and being craven and servile. That’s what many IT managers love nowadays in that they don’t mind if the work is terrible but they want their a** kissed and to think they’re saving money.
      If I was a student, I’d have been happy to take the gig. Something about your story appears incomplete or fishy from what I know of the industry.

      1. This wasn’t an amateur IT job and I desired someone in a particular geographical region who had verifiable references. I also needed the work on a quicker turnaround for a client that was somewhat particular. I’m not going to go into all the details, but the rate was at what I would say was top-market for the kind of work it was and what I needed and I was really surprised to get the “you are underpaying” response that I did on Linkedin. I’m also not trying to say I found a “magical Mexican” that you can find just by turning over a few rocks. Situation was the guy needed money, fast, and was a referral through a trusted source. Sometimes it just happens.
        The physical install sucked and was two nights of long driving for me. But when I got to pocket the rate difference it was worth it.
        Believe it or not. Doesn’t matter to me. It was just a story about how Linkedin used to be for professionals and actual job hunting, now it is basically another Facebook.

        1. Hehe. I actually used linkedin like facebook (for professionals). I never job searched with it but rather just used indeed and some other job search sites. Has linkedin always been about job searches?
          When I get messages from recruiters, I do comment to them about why I’m not taking the position (but I’m polite about it) so they can work with the feedback. Often, I’ll even respond that the region doesn’t work for me but thanks anyway. I’m more chatty than I would be with a regular job posting board such as indeed. It just has that kind of “feel” to it.
          If you don’t mind me asking, when you posted the rate and that it’s remote work, it seems like a pretty easy to fill position but if it was Manhattan or Silly Valley and required some physical visits to the site, I’d also probably have remarked that the $75 an hour rate for temp work is comparable for non-third world workers with actual references especially if you wanted a quick turnaround.

    2. Hi,
      What would you recommend as a job/career in your field for someone just starting off?
      Since your field is IT, suggestions from that would be great but even generally, if you have any idea.
      Thanks

  11. I used to work for Netflix, and at one point somebody thought it would be cute to hire a SJW feminist THOT in the IT department. She wore the trashiest clothes (including cutoff bootie shorts) with the typical “I can do whatever I want and no one can say anything or fire me becuz sexism” attitude. She would wander the halls doing selfies, and take videos of herself fucking around in the kitchen then post them on Instagram. I don’t think I ever saw her working, she seemed like more of a novelty act. Fired after about 3 months… people eventually got sick of having her around I guess.

    1. People should hire female entertainment where they don’t have to provide company benefits and overhead to them. Hire them for entertainment in strip clubs and brothels, then leave.

  12. ” The reality is that employees are pushed to do unpaid extra hours and if they are not happy with that, the Xmen Breeder will show them the door.”
    Not just that, but the startups nowadays want to create a pretty looking sweatshop: rows and rows of people working within inches of each other, boiler-room noise levels, and 20 minute “agile” task micromanagement to push the employees to grind out as much as they can (ironically, all the agile meetings suck up more time than they hoped to save).
    Originally in the 90’s, the “start up culture” was usually a small office of about 20 people or so who all knew the CEO and had massive stock options and worked long hours and had catered food and beer. It doesn’t “scale” up to a warehouse.
    There are two types of millennials: The white males who keep their heads down and try to get ahead and bust their butt and the rest who are race entitled or feminist snowflakes. Since there’s been massive immigration and career women comprise 1/2 of the startup population, then they appear to be “millennials” but this is like generalizing that in the 1960’s everyone was like The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Most people back then were about the same as the 1950’s but the media portrayed and generalized the young as being spoiled marxist brats on college campuses that comprised a minority even then. But they took over the institutions so in the end, they determined what “reality” was.

  13. You forgot about all the sob stories from THOTS about being fired or laid off and no one will hire them every interview is a dead end etc. They get thousands of likes and comments and even job offers in fields that the hoe has zero experience in. Something about those stories always sounds off to me I believe many of the credentials and titles people claim on there are fake or exaggerated. Also, status updates that have nothing to do with professional networking like “this new Starbucks drink is amazing” or “I feel so sick today should I call out” I mean wow.

  14. A few years ago, some super-aware feminist posted on LinkedIn to the effect that the No. 1 obstacle to innovation in America today is the lack of diversity in corporate culture. To state the obvious, I almost gagged. This could not be allowed to pass unchallenged, so for the one and only time on LinkedIn ever, I responded for all the world (hopefully) to see that, while the historical record may be fuzzy, it would appear that given antibiotics, antiseptic surgery, automobiles, jet airplanes, electricity in the home, radio, television, the internet, cell phones, representative democracy, etc., etc., the white male would appear to have a fairly solid record of innovation. Maybe, just maybe, it stuck in **somebody’s** craw.

    1. REDNECK
      Let us pretend that every single white middle-class guy left the US tomorrow. Just sold their shit and moved to another country.
      What would happen is Detroit. Or Flint. Or St. Louis.

      1. We should all move to Mexico, and take it over. Warm weather, sexy women, lots of resources.
        I once read an article about humans ability to get along and work together is a primary survival trait. The author illustrated this by positing we remove all the humans from New York, and replace them with 10 million monkey’s.
        All of the country would end up like that if all the whites just up and left. 200 million monkey’s fighting over the last banana.

    2. The articles I hate the most on LinkedIn are about ‘duh-versity’. Screw that crap already!

  15. Once M$ purchased Linkedin we all knew it was dead. They wanted a facebook style platform. I remember when the messaging platform was converted to an IM style one and thinking “well this is telling…”

  16. LINKED IN IS FACEBOOK + MICROSOFT
    DO NOT USE IT EVER
    FOR ANY REASON
    BOYCOTT AND BLACKOUT

  17. Linkedin is creepy af. My missus and I are both registered, but we are not linked in any way (and we don’t share a surname). Yet somehow, Linkedin _knows_ we’re connected in some fashion, since she gets job offers in her inbox suited to my career, and in some cases, she gets job offers from *MY previous employer*. Even though her career is completely different and these job offers are totally irrelevant to her.
    I should add that she isn’t on Facebook or any other social media. Furthermore, I stopped using Linkedin years ago.. I’m still registered and still get notifications, but I haven’t even logged in for 4 years.
    So how exactly does Linkedin know two people are connected so intimately that it will advertise jobs for one person in the other’s inbox? That’s some pretty deep data mining right there. Creepy. As. FUCK. If you haven’t registered on Linkedin, then DON’T touch it with a bargepole.

  18. “Any start-up now has ping-pong tables, unlimited free snacks, video games, and other kind of feel-good activities”
    This shit drives me nuts. Even the best job is still only a job, and I want to get the work done, not get sucked into bullshit “team building” hoohaw. If there are people at work whom I like, then we can meet up to do things OUTSIDE OF WORK. To the rest of my fellow employees, I offer up a cordial “Leave me the fuck alone”.
    It’s like someone said about life on the starship Enterprise being their version of hell: “Imagine being trapped in a metal box with all the people you work with, all the time, for years on end”.

  19. It says a lot that in arguably the most convenient, safe and prosperous time in written history, we have the current generation constantly searching for and crying oppression.

  20. I work in a position that many people would assume to be tech related. One time I took a picture of a McDonald’s birthday playroom and told people it was my new office. The picture was taken in a way that didn’t show any McDonald’s signature, just the colorful walls, chairs and tables without any specific birthday decorations like balloons. Almost all who recieved it commented on what a cool tech office I had. It’s amazing how infanatized we have become.

    1. Why are churches into black lives matter? That’s suspicious. Where are all the actual churches?

  21. LinkedIn is disgusting. I had an account to experiment with it when I was between jobs, but all it’s really done is give people who I don’t want to contact (ex-girlfriends, shitty contract recruiters) a means to contact me even with my privacy settings set to maximum. The final straw was when my company contracted some third-party to create a database of its employees. You wouldn’t believe what they could grab even with your privacy settings set to maximum. I’m convinced that they will sell the data to anyone who will pay for it, and it’s certainly obvious that paid recruiters have unlimited access to all of it.
    I deleted the shit that they pulled down to the company database and subsequently deleted my LinkedIn account and will never open it again. At this point in my life, I have zero interest in working for someone else anyway. Even if a catastrophic job loss occurred, I’m getting off of the plantation and on track to “retire” early (work for myself).

  22. It’s not just LinkedIn!
    I’ve learned to tune out the inane SJW bullshit on social media sites, but it has now infected supposedly serious financial sites that my workplace uses regularly for analysis and financial insights.
    Articles about market trends and investment bank hiring practices are now polluted with stories about “the brave woman who stamped out harrassment in Wall Street”, or the “Amazing female investor who sued against Brexit or threatened the FCA for not enforcing equality regulations” or “Trump is financial Hitler durrrr…”.
    Shit is everywhere now and I can only wonder how any of these investment firms and publications for supposed professionals are making any money when they focus on SJW activism.

  23. When corporatism does the bidding of the state (secret govt)….
    Welcome to true fascism

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