My supervisor is obsessed with LinkedIn

[Anonymous]

He is one of these guys who is obsessed with being seen. You know the type, he interjects in every cross-team meeting with leadership, gets promoted but doesn’t actually do anything, is generous with generic superlatives and the like but doesn’t really ever project anything of real substance. Nice guy on the surface. Very good at the corporate game.

Anyway, he is absolutely obsessed with LinkedIn. He is on it constantly, sending me (and other members of the team) links and posts from other people at all hours of the day. Sometimes he sends links to our own deliverables as an FYI, seemingly unaware that we actually produced that report or whatever. The only thing that ever seems to get him engaged substantively is when the social media team is discussing promoting things, in which case he will practically micromanage what should be posted in LI.

These FYI emails come to my LinkedIn inbox, not my corporate one. Am I obligated to acknowledge/reply to them? I only find out because LI sends me an email that says … well … that I received an email.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a horrible boss. You will get further being invested in whatever he is invested in while also not causing problems for him in areas he's not good at. Also doing things that would easily be able to be posted on LinkedIn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a horrible boss. You will get further being invested in whatever he is invested in while also not causing problems for him in areas he's not good at. Also doing things that would easily be able to be posted on LinkedIn.

Maybe. I am going with annoying but ultimately harmless for now. We shall see.

[Anonymous]

I mean if he keeps being promoted, clearly this is what your org values (for better or worse). So do what he does and get your own payday. 🤷‍♀️

Don’t hate the player, if you can’t beat them join them, etc.

[Anonymous]

I find LinkedIn weird. It's aggresively used by most of my coworkers (VPs, SVPs, director level). But what does it actually accomplish? I do plenty of networking, but it's all in person. And that's more valuable, methinks.

I do notice that the very important/senior people have absolutely minimal LinkedIn profiles and are never active on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find LinkedIn weird. It's aggresively used by most of my coworkers (VPs, SVPs, director level). But what does it actually accomplish? I do plenty of networking, but it's all in person. And that's more valuable, methinks.

I do notice that the very important/senior people have absolutely minimal LinkedIn profiles and are never active on it.

It doesn't sound like you're actually asking for information here.

[Anonymous]

LinkedIn is awful. Only the most insufferable people post on there. And they post the most bs corporate speak crap that means nothing and helps them feel like their office job is meaningful. Normal people squat on their names so when they interview they look legit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find LinkedIn weird. It's aggresively used by most of my coworkers (VPs, SVPs, director level). But what does it actually accomplish? I do plenty of networking, but it's all in person. And that's more valuable, methinks.

I do notice that the very important/senior people have absolutely minimal LinkedIn profiles and are never active on it.

It doesn't sound like you're actually asking for information here.

OP here. That was a different poster.

[Anonymous]

You should visit the LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit.

[Anonymous]

Keep your resume ready for takeoff. Micromanagers like this are nosy and are checking into way more than just LinkedIn…when they cross boundaries like this, they don’t miraculously just stop one day. The power trip gets worse, he sounds mentally ill and unfit to be a manager. How do people land in these positions is beyond me? Are you in a good old boy shop?

[Anonymous]

My boss is the same. And our comms person is always suggesting corporate schlock posts for us to use. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss is the same. And our comms person is always suggesting corporate schlock posts for us to use. No thanks.

This made me laugh. My place is the same. Lots of sophomoric posts. My least favorite posts are the people who are " humbled" about this or that. If they were truly " humbled", they wouldn't post.

[Anonymous]

I have 8,000 LI followers. I post a lot, but I never post about my current job, current company and only people at work connected to me asked to connect with me.

Being a “thought leader” and getting asked to present at conferences or join paid boards LI presence is importantly. I got asked to present an all expense conference twice all LI. I think partially if 8,000 people follow you they know you can promote conferences. I also appear in more recruiter searches.

[Anonymous]

One of my old coworkers just posted on linkedin how she's excited to finish up a project and how rewarding the project has been. Meanwhile the company is being sued for her negligence on the same project and the extra expense it took to make the revisions. The people who post this stuff simply do not care. They just like to be seen and feel good about themselves no matter the actuality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my old coworkers just posted on linkedin how she's excited to finish up a project and how rewarding the project has been. Meanwhile the company is being sued for her negligence on the same project and the extra expense it took to make the revisions. The people who post this stuff simply do not care. They just like to be seen and feel good about themselves no matter the actuality.

what is your point?