I have exactly one LinkedIn post I made recently after 12.5 years in my career as a software engineer. It was about supporting your local food banks during the government shutdown.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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This is the third "Jesus Christ" I've said out loud and I've only been on Lemmy for three minutes.
First time?
What a weird way to say your company is probably garbage
director of demand generation
You just gotta love those LinkedIn idiots... I am a protein rotation specialist, also known as a burger flipper at McDonald's
The only difference between that example and this woman is that the guy at McDonald's is doing actual work with actual results where this director of demand generation is a job that is entirely made up and doesn't do shit.
Any company having a demand generation director is a huge red flag that should be avoided like the plague
I work/worked with a few executives I look up to, none of them use linkedin. They all have an account as they must, but that’s it. Talking about e.g., SVP, CEO, CTO leading hundreds or thousands of people.
I also know one that owns their own consulting firm, taking out a few millions of profit every year, they still have a picture from their previous job and never post, except job openings.
I absolutely despise current linkedin, it used to be a platform to connect with colleagues and apply to jobs. Now it’s just one of the N+1 social medias where the algorithm can show you content by narcisstic people you don’t care about. It Freak me out^TM^ that somebody could look at this dumpster fire and not understand what is people’s problem with it.
I knew a C-level who had a social media presence but the company just paid some media manager person to handle it. He had a linkedin, facebook, and a blog. It was all ghost written. He didn't even read it.
it did let me find out who in my workplace is a nazi sympathizer, by allowing me to view who reposted pro-charlie-kirkk stuff
Well, at least I have a spine and refuse to go with the flow. No Facebook, LinkedIn, Xitter or whatever that sewer is called these days and I'm just fine with that. Just a bit of Lemmy for some discussions and memes, but fuck having to share everything you do.
If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts
Half these posts are just AI bots shouting nonsense at each other.
Gonna post my fucking furry yiff porn on LinkedIn
When the CEOs were talking about inflation, I don't think that's what they had in mind LMAO
Less shameful than the CEOs who go on there and spam AI-generated "Thought Leadership" slop.
Oh, they should post furry yiff porn with the hashtags ThoughtLeadership. Add some human generated text about being a thought leader by posting outside the box and wonder why no one seems to be posting their favorite yiff porn.
You've got manager material in you, son.
How does sharing my thoughts and strategies with people I am competing for jobs with give me an edge over them?
(I actually do advise my peers all the time but I want to know why these idiots think that)
Highly paid bullshit jobs are all about social perception in networks.
The point is to post something that makes it appear as if you're already ahead of the game, and to use as many buzz words as possible so that you will appear in searches, or someone remembers you knowing something about those words.
It does not matter if the "strategy" makes any sense at all. It's not like anyone reads it, or that anyone tries it out, or even if you know anything about it. All these posts with motivational and strategic wisdom are just "tags" for people trying to sell themselves.
The people involved in those games rely on each other to support this self-induced value. It's like "fake it till you make it", with the twist that they never actually do anything. When they fail, they'll hopefully have enough other people involved, so that they can only fail upwards.
Are these satire?
Top one is, bottom one not sure
Can't really ignore advice from a "director of demand generation".
That's a mouthful but I guess "director of convincing people to buy our shit products" is too on the nose.
yeah it's just b2b marketing. Source: I help trucking companies talk to manufacturers about the trucks and trucking services they can use to ship their goods, it's "demand generation."
My crew are the most sought after talent in our little niche of the tech world. To my knowledge, not a single one of us posts on LinkedIn. The people that actually do the work don't have time for bullshit and probably have multiple open offers to join other orgs at all times.
They should check LinkedIn before asking persons to come in for interviews if that's their requirement. Save everyone some time
That sounds entirely too efficient for middle management.
But then they wouldn't get a story to post about on LinkedIn.
In defense of the lady, it was a marketing position, the guy parody example is an engineer, they're not the same.
Yeah her post is entirely reasonable, at least depending on the industry, e.g. in my industry LinkedIn is unfortunately where most leads get generated aside from conferences, so of you're a senior marketing person in my industry then it's genuinely a red flag if you don't have an active LinkedIn profile. The post on engineering is satire that kinda misses the point.
Social media that doesn't provide me with a modicum of anonymity and privacy just isn't for me. You'd think that would count for something when you're in a tech position.
You're going to pay that person's salary... Why would you want them giving their 'work' away for free on a platform you don't own?
Only fucking sycophants and frauds give a rats ass about linked it. It's the business equivalent of myspace
FYI, it takes time to delete yourself from LinkedIn. I think it took a month? Not sure anyone needs to know about this.
Unfortunately for me it's the best place to try and get a job nowadays.
It was the worst for me, I don't why I kept it so long. It was just people trying to sell me stuff or get me to hire them.
The thing is, it does seem to work. A friend of mine who is VP at a bit company told me that the easiest way to climb the corporate ladder is to keep posting on LinkedIn. I just can't bring myself to post drivel just to get noticed by the execs that are constantly scrolling there.
That sounds like a living hell.
Its all marketing language, the way people post there. Its nauseating.
Ah, 'marketing language', i.e. lies.
Once upon a time I had a LinkedIn account and they were constantly lighting up my email inbox. I sent an email that just said stop fucking emailing me.
Received the message approximately 5 minutes later that my account had been deleted. Mission accomplished I guess?
I'm gonna create a business posting insane takes on LinkedIn for people who don't want to do it themselves. I'll even throw in bots for engagement in the comments. But all the content is just gonna be shit from this comm.
then I'm gonna make a competing business that automates it using AI, and then sell it to some startup CEO.
I'm gonna be fucking rich off these dickheads.
She's right in that posting gives candidates an edge. LinkedIn ups your visibility if you post once or twice a week. Fucking hate making up some stupid shit just to keep my resume more available.
If a company is hiring engineers based off LinkedIn posts, that's not a company I'd be willing to work for.
I'm not into all that but I'd imagine it's less about the posts and more about being visible, seen more often.
My point stands. If you are hiring an engineer, social media has nothing to do with the job. If the company is worried about the social media presence of their engineers, you can guarantee that there's going to be all kinds of other corporate mismanagement going on from people who have no clue how to do any of the actual value-added work. Not an environment I'm willing to work in.
No no, again it's not so much about the social media itself it's being seen by recruiters. They don't have to give a shit about what or how often you're posting. It's about having your name pop up to a recruiter that could land you a job.
AI wrangler six days a week, hard pass!
Make the AI post to linkedin, two birds one stone.
I got tired of the spam and deleted my LinkedIn account last month
Candix fit in both of your hands while you type this corpogratuity post?
Depends: side by side, or tip-to-tip?