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I just systematically unfollow everyone I connect with. My news feed is "blah blah blah was mentioned in the news" or a few posts in various game development gr
by justinlloyd 5y ago
I just systematically unfollow everyone I connect with. My news feed is "blah blah blah was mentioned in the news" or a few posts in various game development groups I am a member of. Got so tired of the "Amens" and the "but the interviewer was the dog" and the "only 5% of the population can solve this" memes.
Oh, and I say "fuck" an awful lot. And I posted bad artwork of a bear fucking a gallon of orange juice, and a recruiter saying the word "no whore" with a duck swearing. And some blood spatter. And a programmer telling an entrepreneur that nobody gives a damn he got six column inches in the San Francisco Bee. But I didn't say damn, I said fuck. And a programmer fighting a mechanical octopus by stabbing it in the eye. I also posted a poem about entrepreneurial exploitation which I am currently illustrating.
Apparently this is unprofessional and would make me unhirable, but I like to think that really, I'm just a guy wearing a duck suit disrupting synergies in the meta or something.
Also, my standard reply to recruiters is "Thanks for making me aware of this opportunity. Sounds boring and exploitative. Good luck in your continuing candidate search."
Definitely am guilty of the "broetry" style of separating everything on a to a single line though, don't know what it is about the cluttered LinkedIn UI that makes a paragraph of text hard to read.
Guilty of a few "respect" posts though. Mostly around the "and then flipped the bird and hung up on the toxic interviewer" type of post. Was interviewing last year and just "got up and walked out" (or the Zoom/Meet/WebX/Skype equivalent) of the meeting. "Well would you look at the time, it's already I-don't-give-a-shit-anymore o'clock, thanks for your time today. Bye!"
Footnote: My colleagues tell me I am joy to work with and brighten up any team I am a part of.