When LinkedIn creates its own cringe

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What does this even mean? Is that person trying to terminate someone who’s on medical leave? Pretty sure you can’t do that.

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Manager 1, yes, but not coming from an actual person. It’s an AI-generated prompt that LinkedIn invites users who are “experts” in the topic to answer (in this case, answered by HR professionals I’m connected with, luckily calling it out as a bad question).

So the good news is this wasn’t created by an actual someone trying to fire an employee, but the bad news is LinkedIn’s own AI thought it was an appropriate question to generate and ask.

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Notice the “Powered by AI”

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@Manager1 - Yes. That is exactly what the article is about. How to help the company avoid a possible lawsuit when the employee they want to lay off, happens to be on a medical leave during the layoff period.

This should be replied under my actual comment by the way lol. But yes, they can easily “let you go” if you exceeded the amount of medical leave. There is nothing to “navigate.” At my last company, they extended my coworker’s medical leave once. And then the second time she asked, they said they can’t extend any longer and it’s up to her what she wants to do. So she quit. They didn’t actually “terminate” her. They didn’t have to. All they did was deny her extension and she chose to leave. Any company can use this same strategy.

You can be let go on all types of leave if it's part of a mass layoff. Job protection only applies to begin let go specifically. So if it's not a targeted layoff, it doesn't protect you. A lot people were let go on mat/pat leave over the last few years.

The audacity just makes me l o l

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LinkedIn is going full boomer-Facebook complete with pictures of a computer screen rather than a screenshot or “share” 😐 comments were fun too.

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Biggest cringe for me has got to be when people include “ex-<company name>” in their title… see it for loads of the big 4 firms and I’m thinking wow you must love slave drivers that underappreciate you 🤣

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Does anyone else feel that the more content someone puts in their LinkedIn headline, the more full of it they are? I say this as someone with a bunch of stuff lol but at least it’s all at one company and accurate.

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2. The brand collector, who writes “ex-“ for every former company they worked at and school they went to. Maybe less full of it but still insufferable.

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on the way to an interview this morning eating a sandwich. I walked past a homeless man who had a stray cat perched on his lap. He asked for a bite of sandwich to feed them both as they hadn’t eaten in days. I gave the whole sandwich over and headed off to the interview. As I got to the interview room there was a large executive chair facing away from me. The chair turned and on top was a mirror. When looking in the mirror I could see the cat. I am the cat. Truly inspirational when you work hard

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Uhhhh 🤔🤔🤔🤔 this guy's tone is just off putting
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$1000 says this didn’t happen. 🤣 😂

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Incoming multi-tier cringe

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Because empathy makes you the ✨️ star✨️ amongst your team!

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It's the "loves this" for me

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There really is such a direct correlation between cringey title and cringey posts.

Before LinkedIn...to me, the king of professional cringey was Shingy. Do you guys remember him? He was aol's overpaid "digital prophet" and got paid to visit companies at lunchtime and babble the same kind of nonsense we now call "LinkedIn cringe".

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Cam Newton’s LinkedIn…. Why???

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// I'm actually very happy whenever someone beats any terrible disease, even then the amount of cancer beaters is quite overwhelming lately.

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And now.. let me take a selfie!

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I forced my employees to make a fake commercial and take pictures of me proposing - I’m so amazing.

This whole thing is cringe - how proposed after forcing employees to make a fake commercial and attend, calling himself rainmaker, the formatting. Image of the text in comments.

If only he just made a post being excited about being engaged (still not for LinkedIn, but whatever).

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They started off fine but then turned LinkedIn real quick

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