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[-] dandelion 130 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the reason this doesn't work as a LinkedinLunatic post is that there isn't any bootlicking, we needed a twist at the end where she somehow brings it back to a bootlicker's perspective

like the end needs to reveal this was an ad for her pillow company, and she was actually trying to sell us on the efficiency of the pillow as an opportunity for employers to cut labor costs and wages and a reason people should just settle for a body pillow instead of a livable wage

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 37 points 2 months ago

I know it is not really a wild take but I dunno I just thought it was funny as hell to see them relate all of this to their son's Konosuba body pillow.

Also they posted it to LinkedIn, a site for.... Business stuff? Man I don't get that site.

[-] dandelion 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if this was really posted on LinkedIn, then it belongs here for sure - but I just assumed it was fake and wasn't written well enough to be good satire

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. My lunatics I see are always a little more just... Broken rather than businessy.

Like this

[-] dandelion 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

see, at least that gives a "can-do" chipper attitude employers want to see at the end with:

I wouldn't have it any other way though

(just in case anyone thought he was complaining about the lack of good boundaries in his job)

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 points 2 months ago

Oh. God I think I just got it. Its a terrifying place of people wearing masks to pretend to be the good workers companies want only and this community is supposed to be more for pushing into the gaps in their armor. Where someone finally broke enough you can see the sadness but you aren't supposed to read it that way.

The aim is for the stuff that hurts your brain reading it more than they did writing it. So someone being honest with themselves isn't really a lunatic even if they are crazy.

[-] dandelion 8 points 2 months ago

honestly I think LinkedinLunatics as a community is mostly about satirizing LinkedIn culture (and the larger management culture, entrepreneur culture, etc.).

I don't think it's about being broken or sad, like you can absolutely have good LinkedinLunatics posts that don't have an element of sadness or brokenness, even if it's true that authentic LinkedIn lunatics are generally "broken" or dysfunctional in some way.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago

Ok.

So I am basically both reading to much into and also not enough at the same time. Not deep just make fun of how corporate speak is double toned.

Thanks, I will try to keep my eye out for a good one.

[-] dandelion 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

oh, in case I wasn't clear I think your OP actually does fit as a LinkedinLunatics post because of how unhinged it is to actually use your son for that example - it's a good post because it's real.

If it were a fictional or made-up, it might fall short of the formula, but that's fine too, really - more of a refinement than anything.

Genuinely boggles the mind that she actually wrote that 🫠

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

If megumin is wearing boots on the pillow, there might be undocumented licking. ...just saying.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

I say it is a lunatic, because who says this on fucking LinkedIn, lol. Also I really would hate to be that person's son, even if they're trying to make a valid point because they're totally throwing their kid under the bus here.

Basically it's like LinkedIn poisoned their brain's ability to form an argument and before that they were a perfectly reasonable adult with sensible values that are still there, hidden under the c-suite talk.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 15 points 2 months ago

I just love that she basically admits that her son definitely does not have culture fit.

[-] BranBucket@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is culture fit not being weird, or is not having culture fit just resistance to working yourself to death?

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 51 points 2 months ago

Apart from the fact she threw her son right under the Megumin body-pillow-shaped bus, this is actually the most real take I've ever seen on LinkedIn...

And that's what makes it Lunatic, because nobody making this kind of take should care about posting on LinkedIn - getting suits to care about the everyman is like trying to get a wolf to care about the sheep its eating.

[-] Akido37@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago
[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Most based take I've seen on LinkedIn. And I mean the original definition of based.

[-] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

This opinion is offered by a basehead?

[-] passepartout@feddit.org 25 points 2 months ago

Most sane lunatic on LinkedIn.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

That's not lunatic at all, though.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 points 2 months ago

Thats what I am hearing. I'm fine with it being removed if thats the consensus, just thought it was a wild thing to post and figured this was closest to the community for it.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Oh it's wild for her to post alright

Also cue my old lady rant about being young and unemployed fresh out of college and selling blood to go on dates and out to social events while looking for work. Kids these days smh

[-] drsilverworm@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago

Looks fake. Digital marketing INTERN? who has a 27 year old son?

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago
[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 points 2 months ago

Dang... I always forget about Yunyun.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Does the pillow have any holes?

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Megumin is about tied for most mentally stable member of the cast, along with Yunyun. Also Wiz is kinda senile and wastes money endlessly while Megumin is a couponer.

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

/m/lost lemmings/ (?)

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