• Vladkar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      9 months ago

      LinkedIn reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where they discover a weird little society living inside a locker. But instead of a locker, it’s a job board.

      • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, I’d agree with that. For a few years it worked well for me, just had to block tons of accounts to be left with just news and posts of my field of work.

        Then like half a year ago or so that stopped working. Now its just trash like everything else.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Already seeing many using it as a Tumblr/Twitter replacement where they share shower thoughts unprompted. It’s really odd.

    • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      9 months ago

      EITHER:

      • they are incompetent, & not understanding Branding, at all ( read the books of Al Ries on Branding, Marketing, Focus, etc, and that book on Focus is the core of why LinkedIn is now hosed )

      XOR:

      • somebody in upper-management there is a trojan, the same as Steve Ballmer got a trojan into Nokia, as a means of harvesting all sorts of patent-rights while destroying Nokia ( what Citadel & Boston Consulting Group did to Sears is the same, except that Citadel was shorting it, instead of getting a sea of patent-licenses )

      ( well, OK, the combination of both is actually-possible, but less-likely? )

      In either case, what they’re doing, besides Microsofting the joint, ( the verb “to Microsoft” means to highjack/trojan/enshittify/rot-all-value-from a company through partial/total ownership ), is they are making-certain that whatever competitor should appear on the horizon, Microsoft is stacking-odds FOR that competitor, against LinkedIn.

      Same as how MySpace made certain that people disliked it enough to suddenly-jump-ship when Facebook came around…

      Anti-strategy.

      CORE Anti-strategy.

      We evidently haven’t figured-out how to test for strategic intelligence, yet, as it obviously has nothing, whatsoever, to do with SAT++.

      • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        Crap, I forgot to visit my boss’s farm, and I need to come up with a good scrabble word so that recruiter takes me seriously! And I didn’t post a motivational quote yesterday!?

    • VonCesaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      372·
      9 months ago

      Employers, as a general body, fundamentally disagree with what the fediverse stands for

      • Patches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        What do you mean?

        My boss loves free shit. Ain’t never met one who didn’t.

        I always check whether each piece of deployed FOSS Software is Free for Commercial Use only to find out the answer is **“It should be”. ** Lord knows my employer can afford it.

  • RandomStickman@kbin.run
    30·
    9 months ago

    Remote trust fall and other work appropriate virtual ice breaker games you can play with Tim from accounting.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    29·
    9 months ago

    So with LinkedIn losing its shit, where is the next place to go to for doing what LinkedIn was supposed to be good at?

    • krash@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      You have xing, but it’s big in DACH countries only and its still owned/ruled by a company. Roll up our own website and socialize / network with like minded people on the fediverse instead.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      Was it supposed to be good at something? I was only ever told to to get it in case an employer Googles me, never to actually try to find jobs. That’s what indeed is for (or in my case just going directly to the employer’s website).

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    25·
    9 months ago

    i cant imagine anything i’d like to do less than play video games with people specifically on linkedin

  • OrangeCorvus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    So Farmville? People can harvest while they browse for the daily motivational quote about how great of leader everybody is.