Nairobi

AE

Valued Contributor

Making a post about a layoff, but you were not laid off...

Like most of us, my LinkedIn feed is unfortunately filled with layoff posts. However, mine for the last couple of days has been from people at a company that had a layoff but were not impacted...

They usually go like this:

"Today, Company had to let go of wonderful people. I was not impacted by the layoff, but many of my great colleagues, friends were. If you know anybody that is hiring, please reach out to me."

I think these kinds of posts are useless and lowkey narcissistic. If you are really trying to help these wonderful friends, why don't you write them personally or write them a recommendation? And if you really need to make a post, why not tag your friends and write a description of them (with their consent, obv).

Idk why but I'm getting mad at seeing these kinds of posts because they are taking the space from people that actually got laid off. Put the light on them, not you.

What do you think?

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Kosta_Konfucius

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Sales Rep

Very much reminds me of this Anthony Jeselnik bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmCxbcRXs4

RandyLahey

Politicker

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Account Executive

Classic bit lol...

Nairobi

Politicker

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AE

LMAO first thank you for sharing that, it's sadly HILARIOUS. That's exactly what I think when I see these posts

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

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Bravado's Resident Asshole

I think that is just an opportunity for those to take to show their attention seeking sides. Kind of like the people that make "kindness content"

Pachacuti

Politicker

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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

So you think those posts are just Virtue Signaling? Perhaps.
But those people who are posting often feel genuinely affected and by reaching to their own network to help those laid off is the best they feel they can do.

Slavic

Fire Starter

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Director - Enterprise Sales

its 100% virtue signaling. all the posts like that are the same. subtle way of saying "I still have my job everyone!!" while mixing in the crap they are there to "help".
having a job still doesn't make you qualified to be a career coach or job seeking coach. idiots.

punishedlad

Tycoon

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Business Development Team Lead

It's a bit vacuous if they're not also doing other actionable things like writing recommendations and reaching out to their network personally to see who's hiring.

Nairobi

Politicker

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AE

See if that were the case, I would be all on board. But most of them seem to post just to post. The only ones that I saw that were really trying to help tagged their colleagues with a short description of each of their skills or wrote their colleagues a recommendation, or liked their colleagues' layoff posts.

Pachacuti

Politicker

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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

There are many cases where politically it’s not wise to directly support a former coworker. It sucks. And perhaps you can say “that’s no reason to not support them”. Maybe so. But it is what it is.

SaaSguy

Tycoon

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Account Executive

Linkedin is a cess pool

htxjoe

Good Citizen

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Sales consultant

Unfortunately sections are cess pools now, some of them, but LinkedIn has more positive resources than any social network I’m aware of.

Gyro25

Notorious Answer

4

Account Executive

LinkedIn is a swamp that unfortunately many people have to traverse to get roles and referrals. I'm trying to be more active on LI not because I want to or think being an "influencer" is cool, but because I have bills to pay and need a job, simple as that. I'll swallow my pride and partake in it if I can find a decent role via networking.

htxjoe

Good Citizen

0

Sales consultant

What are you looking for?

Maximas

Tycoon

2

Senior Sales Executive

100% agree with you.

Diablo

Politicker

2

Sr. AE

Hell yeah, if there is a real intention to help someone vs getting more followers/likes, most would tag, share jobs with these fellas.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

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Rolling 20's all day

Linkedin caters to this, and everyone jumps on the post with 'thoughts and prayers' for those laid off

Sunbunny31

Politicker

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Sr Sales Executive 🐰

When I see a comment like "if you're hiring" without context, it's not very helpful.
Maybe a bunch of SCs got laid off, but you're hiring in marketing. Maybe your HR department has been reduced, but you are hiring developers. It's just not the best matchmaking.
The layoff posts are good IF they provide context: many great recruiters got let go, so if you're hiring recruiters, hit me up! I have some contacts.
I just don't see people doing that.

Nairobi

Politicker

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AE

Exactly my point! If they really want to help they would make an effort to provide more information, but that's not the case for most of them. They are posting just to post...

Sunbunny31

Politicker

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Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I get it, it's useless. But I also agree with Pachacuti that most people really are trying to help and do something to process a bad situation.
Unfortunately, most of it ends up like the FB trend of putting frames around your profile picture of "stand with Paris" or "Boston Strong". After a while, it's meaningless.

RandyLahey

Politicker

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Account Executive

Attention seeking content farming is particularly vile. LinkedIn has devolved into a cesspool recently.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

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Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I stopped looking at the feed leading up to the 2016 election, when every small business owner apparently decided that their personal political opinion was appropriate and pretty much mandatory to post on a business forum. Yuck.

sunnysideup92

Fire Starter

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Sales executive

It makes me (the laid off person) feel like shit. Cool, cool you kept your job 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽

Nairobi

Politicker

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AE

I would feel the same

justatopproducer

Politicker

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VP OF SALES -US

Great point, when ever I’ve let go of anyone I’ve always told them add me as a reference. Good or bad I’ll agree that you were employed and nothing else as you technically can’t add anything else. They great co-workers I’d offer to write a letter of recommendation for them.

nomdeguerre

Executive

1

Account executive

🤮

GDO

Politicker

1

BDM

They just want attention. And yes the people being laid of deserve all the attention they can get.

ZVRK

Politicker

1

Enterprise Account Executive

LinkedIn... is such a cringe-fest...

TennisandSales

Politicker

1

Head Of Sales

yehh this shit is super annoying. just like "oh look me i have soooo much sympathy im SUCH a good person" 🤮

Nairobi

Politicker

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AE

Exactly and you know damn well that they didn’t reach out to help their wonderful friends

Justatitle

Big Shot

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Account Executive

They should STFU and not try to chase Klout when peoples lives are in shambles...

htxjoe

Good Citizen

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Sales consultant

I think you sound absolutely right. If this is a friend you truly have love for reach out to a firm you think they would be a good fit for and send them a recommendation. Talk to your friend that you love so much and find out what they would like to do, then check your LinkedIn network and see if you have connections you can introduce them to. The internet was made for humans to interact more with more different peoples in more different regions - not to interact less by not leaving your home and bulk sending generic emails while entirely skipping the relationship building process - the process anyone successful will tell you is key in determining your level of success in any field - your ability to build relationships with diverse and talented groups of people.

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Account Manager

Intentions may be good, but I think there are more helpful ways to help. Share the impacted employees posts to your network or post a recommendation to their LinkedIn page, for example.

Arv

Executive

1

Account Executive

Definitely agree here. It's just something to pad their post count.

sugardaddy

Politicker

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🍬

Indeed.

SherlockReq

1

Founder & Ceo

I agree. It's better to give some employees you know a shout-out and that can give them exposure. Those kind of posts always do well with the Algo.

cleverkumquats

1

Writer Partnerships

Agree, performative cringe. The thing to do to actually be helpful, is to privately reach out to the individual(s) affected with support and, if you have them, intros & ideas. Do this for folks who got laid off, and they'll never forget you.

CadenceCombat

Tycoon

1

Account Executive

I agree but it’s not the worst offence in the grand scheme of Linkedin cringe douchery.

goose

Politicker

0

Sales Executive

When you find yourself getting mad at posts on LinkedIn or other social media that's a sign you don't have enough to do. Go for a run or something.

0

Regional Sales Manager

Oh wow

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