I’m straight-up not comfortable uploading a government document online. Bite my shiny metal toosh, Microsoft.

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    5 months ago

    The amount of jobs I’ve gotten through LinkedIn: 0.

    The number of people I have found from highschool/college/random person on the street who I can’t find in Facebook: waaaaaay too many. If it didn’t tell you who was looking for you, linkedin would be far creepier of a stalking tool. I mean, shit I’ve found people I’ve only seen a picture of. Now I know where they work, where they used to work, and went to school. By extension I now also know where they likely used to live and at least the general area that they live now (provided they don’t work remote that is).

    The more I think about LinkedIn, the more I want to remove my profile.

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      5 months ago

      The #1 feature they won’t add: I hated this job.

      They always show industry jobs and suggested connections from all your jobs…if they were human and not interested in maximizing data suck they would have talked to 3-5 users out of their millions and realized people have bad job experiences and want to delete the memory, not be reprompted about it for eternity. Also, even when you decline a suggested person, imagine your worst coworker, they suggest them again later. Fucking stupid robot company

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      5 months ago

      Another anecdote: my life completely changed because of a random recruiter on LinkedIn offered me a job I didn’t even know existed. Doubled my salary from one day to the next. Three years later, another recruiter added another 50% bump.

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      I found my current and previous job via LinkedIn but I applied through company recruitment portals. It’s an ok job board / aggregator for us corporate types. You just have to ignore extremely deranged and deluded people posting ego stroke fests and the most inane advice.