I was talking to this girl who was in one of my online (at that point) classes. She didn’t want to “connect” via Facebook or Insta, but she really, really wanted my number…
From the way she spoke, and acted, and the sheer enthusiasm for everything, I assumed she must have been young, or, at least, younger than me…
I thought this a bit “mysterious”, so I tried to find her. The only place I could? LinkedIn. And fuck, what a LinkedIn…
I had never seen anything like it. It’s full of wokeness (pronouns, flags, “sovereignty never ceded”, “women in STEM”, Indigenous place names, and the most… Self-aggrandizing stuff I have seen on there for years)…
But not only that, she even has her own website… Where she posts her “work”, and also photos of herself, always wearing a suitably woke facemask, or facing away from the camera…
Even on her LinkedIn, it’s absolutely packed with photos and videos, but none of them directly show her face. That, combined with a list of achievements stretching back a decade that are really… Unusual for someone apparently without a degree (Executive Assistant to the Dean, CEO of an environmental org, etc.), just… Really weirded me out.
And yet, despite all this bullshit, she has less “Connections” on there than me (noting that I put zero effort into that place), barely has a “network”, and apparently spends all her time doing volunteer, unpaid work, for which she gets awards (and apparently “tops her class”), but apparently doesn’t actually have any evidence of a paid job, at the same time…
Anyway, I’ve seen this kind of thing before, generally from women. The kind of girl who only has paid, professional headshots on her Facebook. I always found that odd. That and all the “professional” bragging…
I just find it really weird. I suppose it is an extension of Instagram “hustle” culture, but professionalized… Though fuck, at least they attempt to look pretty, on Insta…
But yeah, I just don’t get it. I’ve truly never really understood this. Maybe it’s the depression. Maybe it’s the low self-esteem. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve achieved fuck all, in years. But I’ve never been the type of person who would hype myself up like that, on LinkedIn or whatever. If, by some miracle, I topped a class/assignment again, I really don’t think I would tell anyone much, let alone post about it!
Anyway, I just think this is a little sad, frankly. It makes me feel (much) worse, but it also makes this girl look like a complete narc, if nothing else…
Thoughts?
I realise that this is merely a symptom of current culture, but I hate it. I really do.
Hahaha nah. Just a rambling rant. Written on my phone. Which kept crashing out.
So sure, it's rambly. I fully admit that, lol. But there's some substance in there, I promise, ha.
You stumbled upon someone with little to no working experience, which is why she fluffed up her linkedin profile with anything she could just so she wouldn't have nothing if she did end up getting a leg in somewhere. The aversion of facebook or any direct pictures says a lot, in the sense that "she" doesn't want people to know what she looks like even if it is just a family photo or an inopportune tag. I'd say the hyper-vigilance and the facemask is telling of either a troon or a tragically ugly woman.
But even a butterface will plaster her mug all over the place so it's more than likely the prior.
Looking at the LinkedIn again, could just be ugly, insecure and a bit weird...
Someone in their 30s or 40s having a midlife crisis? A very weird attempt at reinvention?
But I don't really know. It's just a really, really odd profile.
I suppose the fact that the person is unwilling to show their face, tries to hide their name, doesn’t have social media apart from LinkedIn (apparently), and is obviously trying to project a particular image of themselves, which may not match reality…
It’s all very “red flaggy”. Not that I was ever looking to date her. But even just as a classmate, I’m not sure I want anything to do with her, if indeed we cross paths in person, lol…
Pretty sure she exists, though. Just not sure exactly, umm, who “she” is, or what the fuck her “deal” is, lol…
God I hate people on the internet, ahaha.
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Yeah, could be...
I dunno. It's all a bit weird. Here's some redacted fluff:
"After more than a decade being a high-level administrator, and years spent as an Executive Assistant in higher education, I have moved from the boardroom to the lecture halls, tutorials and laboratories of [X], undertaking a Bachelor of Science, Majoring in [X] and [X]. And then an Honours degree. And then the PhD.
Chemistry is all around us; it is the Universe and I want to learn more about the intricate details that are the building blocks to everything we know and are yet to discover."
Seems a bit weird to do shit in this order.
She also doesn't have her full name anywhere, except obviously it's in URLs and stuff. Which is, again, odd, for LinkedIn...
But who knows? Maybe it's all true.
Maybe she is a troon, as you say. Or just ugly, like fucking Sia, lol.