r/LinkedInLunatics 3d ago

šŸšØSanity warning on - check for lice!

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u/AppUnwrapper1 3d ago

If that was my life I wouldnā€™t have time to post on LinkedIn.

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u/DrAbeSacrabin 3d ago

But what if it was your made-up life that you talk about to garner sympathy interactions? Surely then youā€™d post it - do you agree?

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u/-_Los_- 2d ago

You just described at least 75% of Reddit.

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u/Adorable-Narwhal-267 2d ago

Hi,todaythespacebarfelloffmylaptop.

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u/Entire_Talk839 2d ago

Reddit? More like the internet...like, all of it.

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u/BlackCatTelevision 3d ago

Donā€™t worry, sheā€™s taking the time out of her clearly very busy Director schedule.

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u/neilpwalker 3d ago

I just hope it isnā€™t eating into her charity work.

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u/i_am_nimue 3d ago

Not every thought you have is noteworthy.

Not every experience you have is worth sharing.

Not every damn thing should be a LinkedIn content.

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u/Crazy_Customer7239 3d ago

Iā€™m reposting this on LinkedIn

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u/wholesome_hobbies 3d ago

Here's what scrolling reddit taught me about b2b sales

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u/AJ-64 2d ago

You forgot ā€œAgree?ā€

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u/AirForce-97 2d ago

If youā€™re a narcissist then yes it is

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u/isocz_sector 2d ago

You should definitely post that on LinkedIn.

šŸ˜†

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u/i_am_nimue 2d ago

I hibernated my account a few months ago coz I just couldn't stand it but now I'm starting to actively apply for jobs I know I need to reinstate it so maybe this will be a post of my great comeback haha

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u/Fit_Knowledge2971 2d ago

And let the church say amen

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u/Kind-Pop-7205 2d ago

This sums up how every post in this sub makes it here, ignoring those principles.

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u/GoDaytonFlyers 1d ago

Iā€™d go so far as to say nothing at all should be LinkedIn content.

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u/hi_bb_guhz 3d ago

Some people mistake LinkedIn for their therapistā€™s office and it shows lol

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u/Quality_Potato 3d ago

šŸ˜šŸ‘

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u/0220_2020 2d ago

šŸ«©šŸ‘

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u/PerpetuaI_Foreigner 3d ago

Your* šŸ¤“

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u/bohemian_bastard 3d ago

from a person that has some kind of "Communication" role in her profile too... I get it when it happens in a random reddit post, but she can't even be bothered to check her spelling for something formal like this?

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u/mutant6399 2d ago

if you have time to post, you have time to check for spelling and grammar- but very few do

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u/BusterStarfish 3d ago

ā€œFormalā€? Itā€™s social media.

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u/bohemian_bastard 3d ago

I agree. Still, it's what should be a corporate-focused/formal social media for business settings

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u/YeedYourLastHaw82 1d ago

Hasn't been that for years. Most of the crap people like this post is extemely unprofessional. It's just another cesspool social media site at this point

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u/BusterStarfish 3d ago

Says who?

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u/saltyoursalad 2d ago

Found our LL.

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u/Johnny_Grubbonic 2d ago

LinkedIn, ironically. šŸ˜‚

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u/bohemian_bastard 3d ago

The LinkedIn about page? Wikipedia? Anything that describes it?

"LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused online professional platform"

I just assume formal because that's how most respectable places do business

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u/Scentopine 3d ago

Director of Marketing

She is too busy to dress or feed her kids.

And I guarantee, her kids are insufferable.

They will grow up to work for Doge and kill her social security.

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u/Sudden-Difference281 3d ago

Director of global marketingā€¦.

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u/futuristanon 1d ago

Yet she probably thinks the earth is flat.

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u/AdorableBlood9148 2d ago

Marketing globes, or a load of balls.

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u/Exstentlcrisswundr 3d ago

Is this the eharmony cat lady?!?!?!? Did she finally find love?

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u/Exstentlcrisswundr 3d ago

Dang it, its not.

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u/saltyoursalad 2d ago

Dude, she looks just like her!! šŸ˜† I accidentally quote that woman every day.

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u/mutant6399 2d ago

link, please

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u/Exstentlcrisswundr 2d ago

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u/mutant6399 2d ago edited 2d ago

thanks! šŸ™‚

just wow! šŸ˜³ "I want to hug all the cats"

our LL really does look like the cat lady 10 years and 2 kids (and some cats) later

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u/LunaticLucio 2d ago

I scrolled to three parts in the video and I kid you not I heard her say "cat" twice and the one I stopped right before she said "I'm a cat lover" or something lol

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u/Upper_Mirror4043 2d ago

Why do they always have to do the vanity picture? Hers with no makeup to show her vulnerability.

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u/proscriptus 2d ago

licelyfe

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u/KiriONE 2d ago

That selfie has the lighting of a mugshot

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u/mylinder 2d ago

Itā€™s not doing her thumb any favors

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u/Important_Shower_420 2d ago

Can we go back to LinkedIn being a vaguely used job and networking board?

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u/nobadhotdog 15h ago

Sorry best we can do is shitty facebook

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/WoolshirtedWolf 2d ago

Some of this sounds like her checking out really. Forty eight degrees out in the am and the kids are in shorts? C'mon.. Old ass pizza? Kids like this don't do well in school. Everybody has an off day but this just sounds like it's more than that.

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u/Major_Lawfulness6122 1d ago

Yeah itā€™s kind of insane. Poor kids.

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u/Hermononucleosis 2d ago

3 days is completely fine

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 3d ago

I thought this was a mugshot

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u/Toronto-1975 3d ago

.....and here's my dumbass selfie!

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u/AnnaLucasta 2d ago

Itā€™s rare to see the ā€˜youā€™reā€™ v. ā€˜yourā€™ incorrect usage the other way. HA!

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u/QuietWyatt0610 2d ago

Goddam I hate how LinkedIn is evolving

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u/naanofyourbusinesss 2d ago

Oh god, the worst is still to come?

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u/slightlysadpeach 21h ago

I feel like itā€™s the new IG. Millennials need somewhere to go

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u/sarcasticorn 2d ago

This is not what LinkedIn is for. Go back to Facebook.

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u/vpforvp 2d ago

How does one forget to dress their child properly and feed them pizza for breakfast? Sounds like a negligent parent.

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u/kurtcanine 3d ago

Iā€™m sort of torn because this is humanizing and relatable but itā€™s almost for that reason that it doesnā€™t belong on friggin linkedin.

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u/Alarming-Echo-2311 2d ago

Yeah in a way itā€™s kinda what we need more of on social media. Maybe not LinkedIn though? This is the type of shit I wouldnā€™t want my employer seeing

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u/Left-Thinker-5512 2d ago

Why did people get so bored with Facebook that they decided to start posting this kind of ridiculousness on LinkedIn?

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u/Imhidingfromu 3d ago

Still gotta post that narcissist selfie

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u/bugsrneat 3d ago

Really weird to share on LinkedIn, but lice are soooo annoying to deal with.

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u/JEWCEY 3d ago

Linked in is like Facebook for professional exhibitionists. I don't understand why people put themselves out there like that. I instantly judge people who post personal stuff there and would never hire someone who makes that choice. They're doing too much.

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u/Raven_Thorne0 3d ago edited 2d ago

Thatā€™s pretty sad you feel that way tbh. Corporate culture is extremely dehumanizing and LinkedIn is the worst social media (well, behind twitter) because it plays into that, just a bunch of people acting like everything is perfect and sucking themselves off constantly for everyone to see.

But some of us have hard lives. All of us have hard days. I think it shows her humanity. Sheā€™s willing to admit her flaws. But sheā€™s still trying. Post might be a little cringe but come on, yall are being way too reactionary to it.

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u/JEWCEY 19h ago

That's not the forum for seeking pity. It's a platform for job seekers and employers. It's just not appropriate and the inability to tell the difference is enough for me to know someone may not be prepared for a professional setting. Now if someone is posting something personal that's in line with their career, that's different. I'm talking about people making Facebook type posts that are irrelevant to work and professional development and are centered entirely on their personal life in a way that is not representing a responsible person who can read the room.

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u/ThrustersOnFull 3d ago

"and sheer willpower", every Facebook post's convenient Third Thing for when you're humble bragging in a pinch.

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u/agentmindy 2d ago

If your the director of global marketing and donā€™t know how to properly use youā€™re/your, I would hope no one use youā€™re company. Further, if your marketing youā€™re personal life on a ā€œprofessionalā€ social media platform, Iā€™m going to question youā€™re qualifications.

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u/anonomoniusmaximus 3d ago

is she gaslighting herself?

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u/Medical_Slide9245 3d ago

Is it gas lighting when it's yourself or is it just telling the world you are a sketchy parent.

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u/Zealousideal-Deer866 3d ago

Nope everyone's had a day like that, but that's the stuff you keep with your best friend or at least with your local mom's group.

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u/man_gomer_lot 3d ago

How could anyone tell? She remembered to keep her crippling hangover out of the story.

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u/mutant6399 2d ago

I would have included the hangover along with the cold pizza- makes for a better story

though personally, I'll have cold pizza without the hangover- and won't save any for the kids šŸ˜‰

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u/Raven_Thorne0 3d ago

Wonder how much parenting you do? Or if you just like to sit there and judge a woman working two jobs, one of which she gets absolutely no compensation or acknowledgement for.

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u/Medical_Slide9245 2d ago

I guess you deleted your untouchable loser comment because... it proved you're a great parent? . And kids are tax deductions, which is.... drum role, compensation. Not saying it's great, but it's not nothing.

Also as far as i know every adult was a kid at some point and is capable of understanding what good parenting is from years of experience. And i can tell by the way you lash out to total strangers who disagree with you that your anger management issues don't end on Reddit.

What is so odd is you deciding this is the post to dig in my heels in. Like crazy lady on a professional forum talking about delicing her kids and feeding them old pizza for breakfast. Guess she hot a little too close to home.

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u/Raven_Thorne0 2d ago edited 2d ago

I definitely didnā€™t delete it, youā€™re just stupid and donā€™t know how use reddit I guess.

Also itā€™s drum *roll

Tax deductions are not compensation for the work of being a caretaker. Itā€™s a reduction in what you pay in taxes because of the money spent on raising children. And it doesnā€™t come anywhere close to the cost of having children. Even getting a tax refund is just getting your own money back, itā€™s not compensation. And she earned that money working another job, not being a caretaker. The one time we did ā€œcompensateā€ parents lately in the US was the checks sent to parents during Covid, which cut child poverty in half in a matter of months. Even then they didnā€™t come close to the cost of having kids.

Children donā€™t understand the struggles their parents are going through, theyā€™re often too young and ignorant to understand until they live through it themselves. However, most normal adults would understand her position but the chronically online losers on Reddit forums wouldnā€™t know anything about that. My single parent was absolutely wonderful and had so many struggles, we had some really difficult times where we werenā€™t sure if things were going to be okay. But she dealt with it all to take care of me and I will forever be grateful for how hard she fought to give me as good of a life as she could. Sheā€™s still my best friend to this day.

Anger issues? Iā€™m literally just typing lol. I think the person having empathy and going against the reactionary reddit losers seems like the more well-adjusted one. Iā€™m actually pretty fine. I have a regular therapist I can talk things out with if need to and despite some of the difficulties in my life, I still smile at everyone irl and try to be a light in their day. People go through a lot in their lives and I feel bad for this woman that a bunch of Reddit incels are tearing her a new one just for being a human being.

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u/Medical_Slide9245 2d ago

Oh boy. No compensation, simply not true. No acknowledgement, seems really unlikely. And delicing your kids is not normal. But hey if your calling that good parenting maybe look inward rather than lash out.

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u/BambooPanda26 3d ago

Goodness lol šŸ˜† šŸ¤£ šŸ˜…

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u/ThisIsSteeev 3d ago

Is that a mugshot?

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u/pepperneedsnewshorts 3d ago

Thereā€™s a certain writing style to these posts. Itā€™s like a style book for humble bragging weirdos.

The cadence? Predictable

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u/Historical_Estate995 2d ago

haha yes exactly, holy smokes its annoying reading texts like this

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u/Great-Gas-6631 2d ago

Got some deadeyes doesnt she.

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u/sully545 2d ago

This chick looks like the next white house press secretary

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u/nuclearsamuraiNFT 2d ago

Like this seems counter to what LinkedIn is forā€¦

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u/Detroit-1337 2d ago

Tell me you need attention without telling me you need attention.

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u/Jump4lyfe 2d ago

I hope things get better for this woman but.....whyyyyyyyy would you post this on LinkedIn, this is not Facebook šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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u/scrambledeggs2020 2d ago

Some people get so little love, affection and validation from their own family, that they need it from complete strangers

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u/conqueringlionkappa 2d ago

48 degrees of what? I'd be wearing shorts too r/USdefaultism

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u/Klinky1984 2d ago

"What child neglect taught me about Global Marketing for B2B Metaverse sales"

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u/Separate_Potato_8472 2d ago

Get off LI and take care of your children.

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u/Megafayce 2d ago

By the way, hereā€™s a picture of my face, enjoy!

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u/Captain_Softrock 2d ago

How much time does it take to have your kids wear pants instead of shorts in 40 degree weather? Thatā€™s just lazy parenting and kind of cruel to the kids if they have to outside for recess.

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u/ms_kenobi 1d ago

As an Australian i just read this as 48 degrees is really hot so she got that right

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u/LadderFast8826 2d ago

Maybe use the time you post pics of yourself on LinkedIn to pour your kid a bowl of cornflakes.

Just a thought.

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u/growabrain-- 2d ago

How is this lunacy? Seriously the women who get posted here are always just stressed or vaguely funny (or not funny) but never lunatics. She's not glorifying anything. She's stressed, as many people are. Ler her life.

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u/FocalorLucifuge 1d ago

So a Director of Global Marketing or whatever lives in a trailer park? WTF is this?

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u/FallAlternative8615 1d ago

Sometimes the CPS references come naturally.

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u/ProfessionalBread176 3d ago

It's downright scary to think how many idiots there are out there.

Linkedin is giving them oxygen they don't deserve

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u/WhiskyMC 3d ago

why do people feel they have to post this stuff? who cares? I mean, what does she get by wasting her time on this and wasting the unfortunate people that happen to read it?

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u/Odd_Willingness7961 2d ago

For the same reason you wasted your time commenting this.

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u/sh4dowfaxsays 3d ago

No way a global director of marketing canā€™t spell your* correctly fml

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u/ixoxeles 2d ago

Why does LI NEED to be Facebook and/or Instagram? Why?

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u/bb9116 2d ago

Director of Communications can't spell "your."

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u/Missue-35 2d ago

It sounds like a more realistic life than most on LinkedIn do.

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u/MedChemist464 2d ago

Okay, let me just say - I 100% get it. That shit is painfully relatable to me.

Let me also say - I won't be posting about what a messy bitch I am on LinkedIn.

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u/TarquinusSuperbus000 3d ago

I disagree with her. This is a typical Linkedin post.

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u/malarkial 3d ago

There should be some sort of moderator to call people out on their lies

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u/No_Influence_8169 3d ago

I mean thereā€™s literally nothing unbelievable about this. Itā€™s just a series of shitty shit happening. Everyone has days like that unless youā€™re hella lucky

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u/Raven_Thorne0 3d ago

Maybe there should be a moderator to call people out on their reactionary bullshit. This is a totally believable story and sure itā€™s a bit of a cringe post but holy fuck this sub is ready to burn her at the stake for it.

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u/Ana-Hata 3d ago

Her day was so bad that the big zit on her chin didnā€™t even make the cut.

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u/NuclearHam1 2d ago

So the life you wanted is shitty? Kind of sounds like that is on you.

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u/UnluckyFriedChicken 3d ago

This is child neglect. Maybe stop with the director bullshit and be a better parent.

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u/Raven_Thorne0 3d ago edited 2d ago

Lotta men here who probably canā€™t even get a woman to wanna be around them (let alone have kids with them) making judgements about a woman working full time and working as a caregiver.

Kids get lice. Kids get broken arms. Kids go to school in shorts when itā€™s cold, shit half the boys in my school willingly showed up in gym shorts, a hoodie, and slides w mid-calf socks when it was 40 degrees out. Itā€™s not fucking child abuse. Yeah the post is a little cringe but god damn can we be normal empathetic humans for one fucking second or is that just not allowed on reddit

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u/DoubleXFemale 2d ago

Yeah, kids that have just been treated for nits arenā€™t neglected, itā€™s the ones who get nits and donā€™t get treated when itā€™s so bad everyone can see the crust of eggs on their parting and live lice crawling round and falling off their scalp that are neglected.

Broken arms can happen if you fall badly while playing. Ā A kid in my class broke his arm falling off a climbing frame at school.

Some kids are weird and will want to wear their favourite clothing or skip wearing their coat no matter what.

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u/Odd_Willingness7961 2d ago

Seriously mate I agree with you. Itā€™s not easy being a mum and these ppl are horrid.

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u/icsnapper 3d ago

So sheā€™s openly admitting to child abuse? Put some pants on your kids for God sake women. Itā€™s cold. You donā€™t want them dying of hypothermia.

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u/OneRuffledOne 3d ago

Ok Karen. It's 48 degrees out. Not negative 48. Kids wearing shorts when its 48 degrees out isn't abuse.

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u/hisGirlinNY 2d ago edited 2d ago

I agree... its not child abuse, but c'mon, 48 degrees outside and dressing your kids for a warm summer day is shoddy parenting.

Sending them to school with a broken arm? Preparing them for the real world.

Three day old pizza? I get it.... sometimes your in a hurry, plus some kids still love it.

but shorts on a really cold day? Step it up mom, I know its tough, but step it up!

again.... not child abuse!!

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u/DoubleXFemale 2d ago

Who knows, maybe the kids put the shorts on themselves and wouldnā€™t change? Ā 

Iā€™d have put trousers in their bags and told them to change in the toilets when they got too cold to be stubborn anymore. Ā 

My eldest randomly decides he doesnā€™t need a jumper/coat, so I just put it in his bag, where it stays all day.

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u/CrisCathPod 2d ago

Dude, what?

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u/god-ducks-are-cute 2d ago

"Not you're..."

Oh boy here we go

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u/firsttoblast 2d ago

Warming up Pizza would have taken less time than that post

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u/Omfoofoo 2d ago

Did she have diarrhea on deck too?

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u/aea403yyc 2d ago

LinkedIn is the new Facebook

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u/Beginning_Wind9312 2d ago

Direct Global Marketing, makes a typo in the first sentenceā€¦Ā 

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u/Marzipan_civil 2d ago

This post would be fine if it was in a parenting group on a different platform. It doesn't need to be on linkedin.

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u/fartwisely 2d ago

Makes me wonder if the chaos bleeds into their work flow, any client work, deliverables etc. Wild that they'd broadcast in this way.

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u/dwaynetheaakjohnson 1d ago

Is cereal impossible to get instead of pizza?

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u/pistafox 1d ago

I canā€™t be the only person here who covers the ā€œcheck sanityā€ warning with electrical tape. Team electrical tape homies in the joint?

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u/ms_kenobi 1d ago

This is relatable. But not something i would share nor in this much detail. If i was her boss i would be saying ā€œ how can i support you better?ā€ You seem to be struggling and need a community or some strategies.

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u/heyguy38 1d ago

The ol LinkedIn mug shot and complete bullshit story.

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u/Bouncing6 1d ago

Big ā€œIf you canā€™t handle me at my worst, you donā€™t deserve me at my bestā€ vibes here.

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u/anoble562 18h ago

This sounds like any random entry from my journal

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u/Scorpion2k4u 5h ago

Thought that was a mugshot for not knowing the difference between you're and your...

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u/InterneticMdA 3d ago

Come on, there's no need to mock this person.

If people don't have the space to post negative stories all social media turns into a highlight reel which makes everyone feel inadequate.

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u/Raven_Thorne0 3d ago edited 2d ago

I completely agree. I fucking hate LinkedIn because itā€™s normally just people self-fellatiating over all their accomplishments. But sheā€™s right, some days your best is just being there and having just enough energy to make it through the day without losing it. Sure she misspelled some words and the photo is kinda cringe but the message is wholesome, imo.

I canā€™t help but feel like misogyny has something to do with this being on here too. A lot of judgements being made about a womanā€™s parenting and work life when sheā€™s having to work two jobs. Being a caregiver is absolutely a job, and an extremely stressful one. Thereā€™s no compensation for that, just people judging your parenting constantly and mocking you for not being enough. And donā€™t you dare complain or share your struggles or youā€™re a bad parent, apparently

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u/ms_kenobi 1d ago

10000%

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u/icsnapper 3d ago

I donā€™t know why, but for some reason, I canā€™t take herā€™re seriously

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u/VoidVulture 3d ago

The Instagram MLM Huns have leaked onto LinkedIn

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u/Odd_Willingness7961 2d ago

Some posts on this Reddit forum are well deserving of the hate it gets but then you find some others like this one right here where it doesnā€™t make sense that every comment underneath is hate. It just goes to show that this group is full of trolls, this must be an outlet where you pour incessant hate regardless of what the post is about because otherwise, thereā€™d be some balance.

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u/virtualpiglet 2d ago

Three days old left over pizza for your child? What a horrible mother.

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u/ThanksForNothingSpez 3d ago

Nothing she said is psychotic. Itā€™s a nice message about showing yourself some grace published on a platform thatā€™s about putting on airs.

Itā€™s crazy how little empathy is shown in this sub. Honestly a lot of you are probably sociopaths. Lots of very normal shit gets posted here that yall canā€™t wait to be straight up POISONOUS about. Lots of people VERY eager to be as nasty as possible which was not the point of the sub.

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u/ShinyJangles 2d ago

The vanity of posting a selfie alongside all that

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u/Ops31337 3d ago

OK Karen

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u/Zealousideal-Deer866 3d ago

This is the stuff you talk to the other moms in the in your kid's class about. They can relate.

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u/Ok-Development1494 2d ago

You're taking time out of your day to scroll LinkedIn, screen shot it, then post here whining about the other persons post.....seems to me like she occupies a lot more of your own headspace than you actually do.

Not every post on every person's page has to be an ESPN Sports Center highlight reel, some days are absolute hot garbage and ...occasionally there's people out there that need to know theyre not alone. Imagine how bored you must actually be to get upset over something this irrelevant to your life that you've given her that much of your own headspace.

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u/electricmehicle 2d ago

Not a lunatic. Parenting is hard af.

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u/cosegemyhr 2d ago

Itā€™s also voluntary šŸ‘

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u/electricmehicle 2d ago

The entire internet is built on people bitching about the things they chose to do. What's your point?

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u/cosegemyhr 1d ago

That complaining about a private choice one made is not great to post on a professional platform.

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u/ButMomItsReddit 3d ago

I just like that this post does not aspire for "what it taught me about B2B sales."

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u/Paladin3475 Titan of Industry 1d ago

Director for job title.

Either they lied, suck, or need to learn or negotiate a better salary (maybe a combo of all 3). Reality is I question if itā€™s real or someone copy pasta-ing.

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u/scrambledeggs2020 2d ago

Some people get so little love, affection and validation from their own family, that they need it from complete strangers