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A friend and I have a mini-hobby of sharing these with each other under the title of “Today in Thanking Myself”. The highest level are the ones where people pim

A friend and I have a mini-hobby of sharing these with each other under the title of “Today in Thanking Myself”. The highest level are the ones where people pimp out their own families for LinkedIn karma

math-dev 5y ago
That’s by far the worst. Something bad happens to their family and they make a post about it! I have seen examples too terrible to post as a comment (assume something very bad happened and the next day theres a post on jt)
runawaybottle 5y ago
I do something similar by locating everyone’s ‘origin’ story. It seems just because you are a mediocre person with income, suddenly you must have this comic book origin story that needs to be out in theaters. ‘Eg, I was retarded in school and no one believed in me, and then one day blah blah blah, and look at me now’ - Coming soon to streaming services and theaters, the story of just a normal person overcoming basic odds to get income like a normal person, but with a dramatic twist. And they are all shamelessly vain because they are more than willing to reboot their origin story at their next accomplishment. Particularly bad are women who absolutely cannot stop patting themselves on the back on LinkedIn.
mattharney 5y ago
This Twitter account does a great job curating these: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin
- ycombinete 5y ago
  Thank you! I was actually considering starting a blog to collect them, glad to see that someone has stepped up and done it already.
- throwaway24006 5y ago
  Thanks. I liked this one. https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/1391782337881329664 https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/139178233788132966... And this: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/1384913288522309635 https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/138491328852230963...
- barbs 5y ago
  This is so nauseatingly entertaining, and a distillation of similar bullshit I've encountered freelancing for various agencies and startups. It feels like this field is ripe for trolling - people making fake accounts and making similar inspirational posts that are a bit too outlandish but could almost be real. Or maybe these troll accounts exist, but the posts are indistinguishable from the real thing...
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vmception 5y ago
Like the VCs Congratulating Themselves account

math-dev 5y ago

That’s by far the worst. Something bad happens to their family and they make a post about it! I have seen examples too terrible to post as a comment (assume something very bad happened and the next day theres a post on jt)

runawaybottle 5y ago

I do something similar by locating everyone’s ‘origin’ story. It seems just because you are a mediocre person with income, suddenly you must have this comic book origin story that needs to be out in theaters. ‘Eg, I was retarded in school and no one believed in me, and then one day blah blah blah, and look at me now’ - Coming soon to streaming services and theaters, the story of just a normal person overcoming basic odds to get income like a normal person, but with a dramatic twist. And they are all shamelessly vain because they are more than willing to reboot their origin story at their next accomplishment. Particularly bad are women who absolutely cannot stop patting themselves on the back on LinkedIn.

mattharney 5y ago

This Twitter account does a great job curating these: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin

ycombinete 5y ago
Thank you! I was actually considering starting a blog to collect them, glad to see that someone has stepped up and done it already.
throwaway24006 5y ago
Thanks. I liked this one. https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/1391782337881329664 https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/139178233788132966... And this: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/1384913288522309635 https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/138491328852230963...
barbs 5y ago
This is so nauseatingly entertaining, and a distillation of similar bullshit I've encountered freelancing for various agencies and startups. It feels like this field is ripe for trolling - people making fake accounts and making similar inspirational posts that are a bit too outlandish but could almost be real. Or maybe these troll accounts exist, but the posts are indistinguishable from the real thing...

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vmception 5y ago

Like the VCs Congratulating Themselves account