Someone actually wrote, and got paid, to write a piece called ‘How not to hate your job’ for Linkedin. What a depressingly low threshold. How to not hate, not love, or enjoy, but just ‘not hate’. How to basically suck it up and survive?

This must of course mean that hating a job is prevalent enough to warrant commissioning an article. God, just thinking about it is so depressing. I stay away from Linkedin, as I do from most social media, time sucks that they are. I do have a Linkedin account, to be honest. Ages ago, I  thought it would be good for my business, perhaps finding buyers or writers, but it never leads to much. Besides I refuse to pay for a premium account so I never use it for anything, my account is just there, ticking away. That is it. I am sure others see benefits from Linkedin, or at least I hope so. If one is into networking and such ‘stuff’ I am sure it is good for something, but regardless, damn it is depressing. All these work centered profiles, ugly lay out, boring emails, it is quite anachronistic, if one can say so about an internet site, when the site is not much older than the internet era itself. Besides Linkedin itself is so, well silly. Does anyone read what they print? I mean really read it? Does anyone question it? Anyone? Anyone?

Here is a choicy selection from the latest Linkedin posts:

“You go girl, managing your career”

(What about, ‘You go boy, managing your career’)

“10 signs you are working to hard, and how to stop”

How I ask, do people not know if they are working too much? How about anything beyond the contract? This is my reasoning, if a company wants my time, they pay for it. if my contract says 8 hours, then that’s what I will work. If they want more, then show me the mulah.

“Are you a dud in meetings?”

Who isn’t? Meetings are a time suck. Meetings are duds.

“Have you ever lied to get a job?”

Of course, how else would one get that first job waitressing or bartending or any job? We all lie to look good. If we were all completely honest and said ‘ I really don’t give a shit about quarterly reports and marginal profit, I just want a paycheck’, how would that work out? So we lie.

“Leader spotting: the four essential talents”

So there are exactly four leader traits, and they can be spotted? That is quite revolutionary. If we do not possess these traits, should we just step aside and realize we are not the future leaders of tomorrow or any day?

“10 practical ways to turn ideas into action”

One. Don’t read self evident stuff like this, stop wasting time, and just do it. Act. Now. Practical I’d say.

“How a year of unemployment boosted my Career Trajectory¨

Wtf is a career  trajectory and who wants one?

“Super secrets of Harvard negotiators”

Oh, so Harvard negotiators are in one tricks no one else knows, but now they are spilling? Oh, tell me, tell me.

“Do you have this critical success trait?”

I wonder so if I do. If not I am doomed. Dare I look?

“Leadership is a contact sport”

So touching your employees is no longer off bounds? Inappropriate touching is appropriate?