LinkedIn is so incredibly depressing today

[Anonymous]

Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the MAGA ideal world.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

https://imgur.com/kOf3Dzb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

I've never used it, but my college-age kids swear by it! (I'm serious!)

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it’s depressing that the federal government isn’t interested in knowing things anymore. I don’t know how long it will take to come back from this.

And if you’re a private sector white-collar employee, don’t kid yourself that this won’t affect you, unless you’re somehow certain you won’t need or want to be job searching in the next 1-2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize LinkedIn was still a thing…

I've never used it, but my college-age kids swear by it! (I'm serious!)

Mine too! He got his internship via LinkedIn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Fed looking for a new job on LinkedIn. I've found some good leads by putting Canada in the location criteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

I think they are very useful. It would also be nice to no longer deal with nitwits as realtors, mortgage brokers, financial advisors, general managers etc. What a wonderful world where we get some intelligent people in these relatively well paid private sector jobs.

[Anonymous]

Employers know and are taking advantage of it - this week, my husband applied for a job with a stated rang, and the employer emailed back saying "we are going to pay max $X [which was at the very bottom of the range] for this position, please let us know if you would like to withdraw your application".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

That’s what the mission should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Employers know and are taking advantage of it - this week, my husband applied for a job with a stated rang, and the employer emailed back saying "we are going to pay max $X [which was at the very bottom of the range] for this position, please let us know if you would like to withdraw your application".

+1 Feds have really started flooding the market this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just post after post with the “open to work” logo from people who are highly qualified for jobs that don’t exist anymore. All these people with fancy PhDs and highly specialized experience that I can’t imagine would be useful outside the federal government. I really hope that the private sector cuts them some slack.

That you can't see the irony in what you wrote here is astounding.

NP and I don't see the irony. The beauty of government jobs is that the mission can be helping people. It doesn't have to be profit. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals who have built specialized careers around helping people, and now their entire field is gone. I see no irony in that.

Dp. Your response makes me slide towards agreeing with the orange’s goal (still not the process).

A government’s job should be to support our society so it can become a better functioning society, eventually resulting in a better economic position. Not just ‘helping people.’ Helping people to what end that will benefit society as a whole?

Yikes, do you keep tabs on everything you do for your family or relatives or friends?
Whole point of the society is to support each other, might as well in tribes or something if that's not the case.

That’s what the mission should be.