LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
Always surprising when I find out people use LinkedIn. Fuck corporate masturbation Facebook.
… Until you need a job.
I need a job so yeah, I did angrily send my passport to persona. What can I do? No job means I’ll have to remigrate back, I’ll lose everything I have built here for the past 5 years.
So I need linkedkn as half the jobs are there now.
Not that it mattered. I sent out hundreds of job resumes by now, and I had literally a single reply.
I did get an offer from a company, pay us 10.000 dollars and we will get you a great job, no guarantees though. Thry actually do seem to work, not directly a scam, but what the fuck, why is it that this is how i need to get a job?
Either way, its fucked and its done. 2 months from now I’ll be living in a different country because I have gotten exactly a single interview in 2 months so far…
I’m in IT, so that’s fucked, but I’m also on a work permit that requires anyone who wants to hire me to jump through a few hundred hoops, and they may need to wait 2-16 months (!!!) for me to get the required permissions to start. Granted, 16 months is an extremely worst case scenario, BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY as laid out to me by multiple immigration lawyers by now. I’m highly qualified, I’m very nice in person, respectful and calm, I can build up your entire IT department myself as I’ve worked literally at every position from the lowest to the highest. I have broad knowledge about almost everything IT. I’m willing to take low level jobs if that will get me something.
Nothing
So I’m fucked and fuck this world
Fuck LinkedIn and all, but in 2026 the only way to get a job in some industries is to have someone put in a referral for you. Messaging former colleagues on linkedin and having them submit a referral is often the only way your resume will even get looked at.
It’s fucking rough out there now. Having a contact list of who you know, and who they know, can cut your job hunt in half.
Open roles often get a thousand resumes submitted, and since hiring managers can’t read them all, they use an LLM to pick out the “best” folks. Connecting to real people is the only way to break through that shit.
While I completely agree that LinkedIn is shit, people need jobs and LinkedIn is often the only way to become visible to employers or recruiters.
It’s fine if all you are doing is job searches. It’s cringe when people treat it as social media.
People treat it as social media to improve their image to the eyes of recruiters
They’d do the same through any medium they could access.
Unfortunately it’s how the business world runs. Especially when looking for jobs. The company I was at wouldn’t even consider a candidate unless they were a) a referral or b) had a fleshed out LinkedIn in with a decent number of connections to know they weren’t a bot.
Look at linkedinlunatics style content for the true sycophants that want to be there. That’s the actual target for your smug comment.
Otherwise, your shortsighted view overlooks the majority of people who are forced to interact with that slop bucket. It’s become a necessity if you are seeking any kind of office job. With the literally millions of layoffs in the last couple years, not based on actual performance, you have a lot of decent people forced into that hell.
So speak less of a nuance you obviously know nothing about. Avoiding LinkedIn is a luxury. If you’re privileged enough to not engage, then good, be grateful and stop trying to shit on the less fortunate.
I have had a long and storied career of doing many things, I am not where I want to be, and that no longer matters. I closed my LinkedIn account last year, and I am perfectly fine with that door staying closed.
We call it grindr for business people.
“I wanna proactively leverage your synergies!”