The Absolute Lunatics of LinkedIn

this video is sponsored by sheets res.com AI Resume Builder more about that later so listen I don't think that working hard is a bad thing but I do think that hustle culture online has gotten a little bit bit out of hand I used to kind of have that mindset where I would wear my lack of sleep as a badge of honor I'd proudly tell people yeah I worked till 3:00 a.m. yesterday and they'd be like I all right guess how productive I was at 3:00 a.m. about this level this is what my face and whole vibe was all work and no gave me a caffeine addiction and these dark purplish circles under my eyes that I can't get rid of to this day I still do work very hard because I love what I do and I want to support my family and such but I've definitely put a lot more emphasis on striking that work life balance in fact I'm up at 3:00 a.m. trying to find ways to optimize my work life balance especially now that as I've mentioned before I am a father that balance is super important to me I really don't want to miss any of the stuff that matters like when my daughter finally says her first catchphrase that's the kind of stuff that I take to heart so since work life balance has been on my mind a lot lately I thought I'd take a look at some people that they don't know what that means these are the people of LinkedIn lunatics on Reddit and if they've heard of the term work life balance they've gawked at it I can almost guarantee they've gawed at it with everything they've got let's dive in with our eyes I'm traveling for work and instead of eating a fancy dinner out I've decided to cook a cheaper meal in the hotel room even though the hotel room didn't have a kitchen I managed to use the coffee machine to cook chicken with butter and garlic although my company allows me to expense dinner while traveling I wanted to save money because I know that every dollar counts on the profit and loss statement it's the little things that get you promoted yeah but it's also the little things that give you sell manella go buy a Big Mac and clearly the strategy here is he wants his boss to see this post that he made and give him a good old pat on the back but I don't really think that's how that interaction would go hey Johnson can we uh can we talk I uh I assume you saw my post about the chicken in the hotel room yeah yeah we did and so I assume I'm getting a promotion no actually we're going to try to start limiting our interactions with you cuz that was a weird thing you did okay would it help if I told you that I also cook some hamburger meat in the bathroom using the hair dryer no made some gaspacho in the bedet get out and listen hey I don't really do Impressions but here's one that I have been working on it's of the uh hotel maid who finds that coffee pot here we go what the F this man is very upset that the train he's on at 714 a.m. is empty nobody else is heading to work at the same time as him and I get it I know if I had a train car all to myself I'd be pissed where is everybody why do I have so much leg room oh linkedin's going to be hearing about how comfortable this is for me I suppose the snowflakes don't work Fridays the young employees now bive it is their Right to Work allegedly from home any day they wish and the employer has no say in it Society has gone soft I see you all having gingerbread lattes with your mates and out jogging just a general note if you're going to accuse people of being soft don't accuse them of doing physical activity at 7:00 a.m. that is the opposite of lazy I owned and ran a company for 14 years before I sold it I had a mentor a fellow CEO once telling me one of the truest things I was ever told I asked him why he never had children he said I never needed kids here at my company I have 3 52 of them I looked at my own company and thought he is absolutely correct hello children what most kids though need a teacher or parent to assign them tasks and check up on them to make sure the tasks are completed this guy with no kids sure knows a lot about kids I trust him to make all jobs remote is silly that's not to say they have to be in the office 40 hours a week you can have them in the office for 30 and give homework I've got some homework for you kiddos today what the to bring home and work on for Dad oh my God my little babies the top comment is co-workers are not a family and you are not their dad but honestly that just sounds like a kid rebelling against their father it's a phase he'll get through it all kids do and now we must take a brief pause to check in on ad space and hear about today's thematically relevant sponsor hi there hello it's me I'm the astronaut I'm out here in ad space to talk to you about Sheet's resume so hey if you're a fan of the main Ryan George Channel you've probably heard about sheets and Giggles now you may be asking what bed sheets have to do with resumés well uh oh yeah did you know that Colin the founder and CEO of sheets and Giggles wasn't always making a living being 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be about edges that bleed and if you're not going to make me feel like a special little boy you should be upfront about that the best part of this post is that it ends with agree and then a poll where 98.6% of people are like no we do not agree with that here's a post about a real date that a data engineer went on with a real woman that exists in real life he didn't specify who the girl was so as I recreate this conversation that really happened I have to kind of use my imagination a little bit so what do you do I'm a data engineer I basically organize and streamline data think of me as a digital marry condo but for databases oh so you make data spark Joy exactly except when it's a total mess then it's more like does this data make sense if not it's out sounds like a lot of work ever just want to delete everything and start over tempting but I prefer to debug it's like solving a puzzle and nothing beats the feeling when it all clicks into place do you ever dream and code more than I'd like to admit sometimes I wake up thinking I've just optimized the perfect data wow always optimizing huh what about our our date how's it ranking so far so good I'd say we're hitting all the right metrics no need for any AB testing here glad to hear it just don't go running any algorithms on me no worries I'm all about organic connections no artificial intelligence needed the post ends there but I can only assume they went on to make sweet sweet love while speaking softly about data pipelines and then three other beautiful women walked into the room and joined in and then he did run an algorithm on all of them here's another person very upset that they are in an empty space why is this co-working space empty at 6:30 p.m. it is so Preposterous that it warrants making the face that an edgy stand-up comedian would make on the cover of his album cancel this telling it like it is this is a very cool thing to have posted if you ignore some of the things that people point out in the comments section like that this is the common area of a co-working space in Berlin that closes at 6:00 p.m. he's technically not supposed to be there at 6:30 and it's normal that nobody else is also there are other people in the pictures he posted here's a person here here's another person here if you ignore all that stuff this is a very cool post from this business angel I was visited by a business Angel once and boy was he pissed to be the only angel visiting me at that time what is happening to society said this Angel to me I went to a wedding reception a few weeks ago and five people I had never met said are you Mitch from LinkedIn the first time I thought wow what are the odds to run into someone someone from LinkedIn by the fifth time I had begun to understand the power of building a personal brand I wish I could make fun of this post but that's freaking Mitch from LinkedIn I know him you know him five people at that wedding know him I like to think this originated by somebody being like who's that guy over there I don't know but he will not shut up about LinkedIn it's making everybody uncomfortable and then throughout the night when people mention LinkedIn to Mitch his ego just starts inflating his hands begin shaking at the power of the personal brand he built himself it's from LinkedIn no family and no kids means I can do deals around the clock now that is a good trade-off if I've ever heard of one you're telling me if I ditch my family I could stay in a parking lot all night making business calls sign me up you're telling me I can put a little light inside my car set up a camera on a tripod outside the car set a timer then really quickly get back in the car and take out my phone and fake a business call and smile and all I got to do is not have a family or kids or anywhere to be or friends or anything like that that is a no break or my time belongs to nobody but my clients not even to me not even to me I don't get to set up many play dates I rarely have time to volunteer at school I never make it to PTA events at school functions I keep to myself I hardly know the other moms I've missed emails about class projects and recital more times than I'd like to admit and I've made peace with that piece Emoji because while I may not be in the lunchroom or the art room my kids hear me Consulting CEOs of billion dooll firms on Zoom mom are you coming to my soccer game it's the last one of the Season mommy's on a zoom call is it with the Chief Executive Officer of a large corporation yes yes I love my childhood have we as a society forgotten the lesson of Citizen Cane did we all really collectively watch that movie and not learn a lesson from that walking stick that tried real hard to get his American citizenship and then he I didn't I haven't seen Citizen Kane but I know at the end of it you're not supposed to do this one of the comments brings up this piece of advice they got the only people who will remember you worked late are your children which really makes you think why have them at all oh yeah parking lot deals parking lot deals all night in the past 4 weeks eight out of 10 applicants answered the phone hello and it's driven me crazy as a # career coach oh that's why you are the way that you are y'all hello doesn't set a professional tone in fact it induces doubt of your professionalism from the get-go hello you amateur answering the phone with hi this is first name last name is a small change that makes a huge difference this post probably would have hit home a lot more if she had done like a single proof reading because I can only assume she meant to say hi this is first name last name but what she actually wrote was hi this is fist last name don't fist my last name you pervert that's mine anyway that's it for this video thank you for watching and thank you to the sponsor sheets resume and don't forget to hustle out there all day and all nice oh parking lot deals hi there hello please hit that subscribe button I am a 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