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I'm not entirely surprised. The LinkedIn site and customer service is just awful. Then again I'm not their customer, I'm their product so why should they give a
by BinaryIdiot 10y ago
I'm not entirely surprised. The LinkedIn site and customer service is just awful. Then again I'm not their customer, I'm their product so why should they give a shit about my issues or the issues of the author? Granted mine were more minor but I reported all sorts of issues with their messages system all of which have gone unresolved but one (took them months to finally make my notification indicator go away; an issue one of their engineers confirmed to me was an issue).
Honestly I would just close my LinkedIn account but being in the technology industry it seems almost impossible to escape it if you want to have a career. Yes you don't need it but not having it makes applying for jobs, having people find you, and even you finding jobs all more difficult.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Then again I'm not their customer, I'm their product so why should they give a shit about my issues or the issues of the author? You aren't their "product", you are one of very many suppliers, each of which provides a very small quantity of the product they are reselling. Which is not to say your general point is wrong, but LinkedIn and similar firms aren't in the slave trade.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago> LinkedIn and similar firms aren't in the slave trade. It's just a generalization that people use to describe a technology company that essentially requires users to bring value to a company's paying customers.
- dragonwriter 10y agoI'm familiar with the pattern: I'm saying that its a bad description, and that there is a much better one available.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoI don't know seems pedantic to me. I see a very minimal difference between the two. Doesn't even seem like a worthwhile conversation to be honest.