lils ([info]gleemie) wrote,
@ 2008-07-21 23:57:00
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Current mood: weird

Former coworker bullshitting on linked in
What would you do if you saw a former coworker misrepresent her title on Linked In? This person is representing him/herself as, I'm pretty sure, several levels above the actual level they had. They have listed themselves at a level so high that nobody on the team actually had that level, and if they did, it would be public. And this person had a bad reputation for quality of work at the time.

I will almost certainly stay out of it, but this irritates me.


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[info]hetchjay
2008-07-22 09:35 am UTC (link)
does anybody use linked in?

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[info]gleemie
2008-07-22 05:34 pm UTC (link)
I use it to find contacts for things like magazine articles i'm editing (for ambidextrousmag.org)

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[info]twicemostly
2008-07-22 05:41 pm UTC (link)
I think its popular in certain industries. I have friends making video games that will actively look at it when hiring.

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[info]jofish22
2008-07-22 12:29 pm UTC (link)
Is it visible without being in her network? There's always the anonymous-cowardly-but-reasonable-here thing of creating a new person, friending the lying person (or whatever you call it on LinkedIn) and going that route.

Then again, this is sorta what they invented things like nicecritic.com for.

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[info]jofish22
2008-07-22 12:32 pm UTC (link)
No, I was thinking of http://www.helloyouthere.com/

Much more useful.

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[info]gleemie
2008-07-22 05:29 pm UTC (link)
that's a nifty site. :)

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[info]graydon
2008-07-22 03:05 pm UTC (link)
I'd stay out of it unless they appear to be misrepresenting themselves in something that I imagine to be safety critical. I figure I'll let someone gamble with lies that may cost them their career until such time as the lies are going to start hurting others.

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[info]gleemie
2008-07-22 05:29 pm UTC (link)
yeah, it's definitely not safety critical. good point.

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[info]sarahirani
2008-07-23 05:24 am UTC (link)
Yeah, let her own incompetence kick her in the ass.

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