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LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:31 pm
by Anonymous User
A young job seeker asked to connect on LinkedIn to a local senior exec. Here's the response s/he got.

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Re: LinkedIn backfired

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:35 pm
by gdane
1) why are you anonymous.

2) this seems fake. The response sounds more like the ranting of a young person than of an older executive.

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:36 pm
by arklaw13
That is a really ugly necklace.

Re: LinkedIn backfired

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:17 pm
by legalese_retard
gdane wrote:1) why are you anonymous.

2) this seems fake. The response sounds more like the ranting of a young person than of an older executive.
Unfortunately the response was real:

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index ... ks_sc.html

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:19 pm
by sublime
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Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:22 pm
by Citizen Genet
Real, old, and in the end, the woman who sent it ended up getting lambasted by national media for being a total douchebag.

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:59 pm
by charcop
arklaw13 wrote:That is a really ugly necklace.

+1

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:11 pm
by iliketurtles123
im thinking about adding her on linkedin

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:58 pm
by encore1101
arklaw13 wrote:That is a really ugly necklace woman.

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 2:06 pm
by minnbills
This is an old story. The imbecile who wrote the response was humiliated for it too.

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:49 am
by bulinus
arklaw13 wrote:That is a really ugly necklace.
Yeah, but it matches her earrings. And teeth.

Re: LinkedIn backfired?

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:03 pm
by zugzwanger
How is it especially useful to connect to a stranger, only to then have access to look at the profiles of hundreds of other strangers?