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Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media! Good luck to anyone willing to step in the legal & PR minefield o

Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media! Good luck to anyone willing to step in the legal & PR minefield of employing this girl.

icedchai 13y ago
Oh no, not social media!!! Please, don't post on twitter!!!
Noted 13y ago
Typical non-millennial response to not know how to tactfully deal with declining connection requests? I fail to see how this "Senior Professional"'s response doesn't warrant the reaction she's received when she runs a job board.
JakeStone 13y ago
Yeah... I'm not a Millenial, and I might have been tempted to forward the response with a "WTF?" preceding it to a few select friends. Seriously, I've received a few LinkedIn requests from obvious scam accounts or some kids I that I never met, but we have a connection or two in common. The scammers I ignore. The earnest strangers, I tend to tell, "Hi! Thanks for the connection request, but I think LinkedIn works best for me when the connections are people I've actually worked with in one form or another." This job bank woman stepped way over the line as far as I can see.
MrZongle2 13y ago
Gen X-er here. The downvoting your post is receiving makes me think that there might be some truth to it. But in fairness to the Millennials, my generation also has more than its fair share of thin-skined entitlement children. As is the case with the Baby Boomers. You could make the case that the offensive response in question might reflect her sense of entitlement.
darkarmani 13y ago
> Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media! I'm not sure you understand how shame or social mediaworks. You can't shame someone unless they've actually done something shameful. Things don't go viral unless there is something there.
- ingsoc79 13y ago
  Not sure how a rude LinkedIn message qualifies as "shameful," but a deluge of nasty anonymous messages is surely a proportionate response!
  - darkarmani 13y ago
    You are the one that brought up shame. I'm not sure how you know that the anonymous messages are from the millennial. If anyone is sending the anon messages, it's probably not the young girl.

Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media! Good luck to anyone willing to step in the legal & PR minefield of employing this girl.

icedchai 13y ago

Oh no, not social media!!! Please, don't post on twitter!!!

Noted 13y ago

Typical non-millennial response to not know how to tactfully deal with declining connection requests? I fail to see how this "Senior Professional"'s response doesn't warrant the reaction she's received when she runs a job board.

JakeStone 13y ago

Yeah... I'm not a Millenial, and I might have been tempted to forward the response with a "WTF?" preceding it to a few select friends. Seriously, I've received a few LinkedIn requests from obvious scam accounts or some kids I that I never met, but we have a connection or two in common. The scammers I ignore. The earnest strangers, I tend to tell, "Hi! Thanks for the connection request, but I think LinkedIn works best for me when the connections are people I've actually worked with in one form or another." This job bank woman stepped way over the line as far as I can see.

MrZongle2 13y ago

Gen X-er here. The downvoting your post is receiving makes me think that there might be some truth to it. But in fairness to the Millennials, my generation also has more than its fair share of thin-skined entitlement children. As is the case with the Baby Boomers. You could make the case that the offensive response in question might reflect her sense of entitlement.

darkarmani 13y ago

> Typical Millennial response. You hurt my feelings so I'm going to shame you on social media! I'm not sure you understand how shame or social mediaworks. You can't shame someone unless they've actually done something shameful. Things don't go viral unless there is something there.

ingsoc79 13y ago
Not sure how a rude LinkedIn message qualifies as "shameful," but a deluge of nasty anonymous messages is surely a proportionate response!
- darkarmani 13y ago
  You are the one that brought up shame. I'm not sure how you know that the anonymous messages are from the millennial. If anyone is sending the anon messages, it's probably not the young girl.