‘This one is 2 days old’: Woman called in to minimum wage job on Mother’s Day 48 hours after giving birth

Mother’s Day was this Sunday, and it allowed all of us to take some time to thank the mamas in our lives. And for good reason. Moms do so much unrecognized labor it would count as a more than full-time job if you were measuring it that way. And all for free. So the least …
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‘LinkedIn will be a dating app by 2027’: Student posts about presenting thesis, wakes up to nearly 600 connection requests

In the twenty-plus years of its lifespan, professional network LinkedIn has been many things to many people. Some use it to make wild boasts and tell ridiculous stories of their achievements that may or may not be an inflation of the truth. An elite minority use it to s***post. Others still use it to make …
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‘The absolute state of the LinkedIn community’: Hypocritical CEO attempts to champion Gen Z by decrying rent prices and £21k salaries, offers similar salaries at his company

LinkedIn is a wild, wild place, full of high school classmates becoming junior analysts, CEOs performatively crying about having to fire their employees, and most of all, people doing the best they can to sound… good. We all know social media is fake, and everyone tries to put their best foot forward, but if Instagram is a fib then LinkedIn is a flat-out …
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‘He’s living the dream’: Corporate tech bro gets kudos for quitting 22-year career, becoming goose farmer

I challenge you to find a person who is part of the so-called rat race who doesn’t dream of giving it all up and then chilling in splendid isolation for the rest of their lives. Sure, there are a few true workaholics who would never entertain the thought, but they aren’t as common as you …
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‘I proposed [and] here’s what I learned about B2B sales’: Linkedin lunatic uses a marriage proposal as a business lesson online, cringe ensues

Marriage proposals are usually deeply personal, cute, thoughtful, and ultimately a declaration of your love for your partner. Wouldn’t any girl would be elated if their LinkedIn Lunatic boyfriend decided to turn this intimate, loving moment into a lesson on B2B sales profitability online? Although it sounds like a total troll, this actually happened to …
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20+ Smug Claims and Insufferable Humblebrags From Venture Capitalists

It pains me to say it, but self-promotion is a necessary thing sometimes. We would never get where we wanted to be if we weren’t our own biggest cheerleader every so often. At the same time, it is a skill to do it in a way that is not a. nakedly self-serving and b. cringe.  …
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25 Hilarious LinkedIn Posts From Career Hustlers

LinkedIn is my nightmare social media. It’s full of all the people I knew from high school and college who work for investment banks and want me to congratulate them on their promotion. It feels so phony– like everyone is putting on their work face and pretending they aren’t fun. I get you have to …
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20+ Ridiculous LinkedIn Moments That Stretch Professionalism to its Limits

In some ways, the creation of LinkedIn was inevitable. So much of social media is all about self-promotion, and it is an important part of most careers. Most of it also sucks, so from the very start, the social network for professionals was going to be a race as to who could be the cringiest …
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‘Multiple managers viewed my LinkedIn profile’: Worker sets LinkedIn status to ‘open to work’ after HR puts them on a performance improvement plan

LinkedIn is one social media site you must be careful while using. Casually applying to different jobs is all fun and games until you go from barely using it to being on it every night from 7-10. If you start doing that and you’re connected with all of your current employers, good luck, Charlie. The …
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20+ LinkedIn Memes That Make You Rethink Your Entire Life In Corporate America

Unfortunately, if you live in corporate America, then you also live on LinkedIn–the most cringey social media website known to man. A community of both influencers and job-seekers simply should not exist. Looking for a job has never been so humiliating. Having to see your bully’s professional achievements shouldn’t even be a possibility. But here …
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