LinkedIn: "Voluntary departure due to motherhood"

[Anonymous]

I have an aquaintance who decided to quit working after having her first baby.

On LinkedIn, her profile is still active but she listed under her most recent job "Voluntary departure due to motherhood."

Guess she isn't planning on going back (which jives with what I know of her, very "being a wife and mother is everything"). Why not just deactivate your profile?

[Anonymous]

Why do you care? Jealous?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care? Jealous?

Not op but - seriously? What a joke. It's like the people who say their job is "CEO at Liam and Addison Inc." Just embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

She's probably using it as a networking thing, still. Some people use it like a "Facebook Lite".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care? Jealous?

Not every negative thought (and I'd list this as more of a vaguely negative thought due to curiosity) anyone has about anyone else is jealousy.

[Anonymous]

It's just another way to let people in her network know she is no longer working, and assure them it is not because she was fired, laid off, ill, and is not looking for work.

I find it obnoxious as hell myself, but that was probably her reasoning

[Anonymous]

Because it allows people to still contact her. She's not working; she hasn't vanished from the grid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it allows people to still contact her. She's not working; she hasn't vanished from the grid.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it allows people to still contact her. She's not working; she hasn't vanished from the grid.

+1

Agree. I don't get what is obnoxious about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care? Jealous?

Not op but - seriously? What a joke. It's like the people who say their job is "CEO at Liam and Addison Inc." Just embarrassing.

Or Domestic Engineer at Smith House.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it allows people to still contact her. She's not working; she hasn't vanished from the grid.

+1

Agree. I don't get what is obnoxious about this.

+3
I think it's worded in an adult manner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care? Jealous?

Not op but - seriously? What a joke. It's like the people who say their job is "CEO at Liam and Addison Inc." Just embarrassing.

Or Domestic Engineer at Smith House.

Nothing against SAHPs, but only lame dorks do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's just another way to let people in her network know she is no longer working, and assure them it is not because she was fired, laid off, ill, and is not looking for work.

I find it obnoxious as hell myself, but that was probably her reasoning

One might otherwise assume that she was quietly let go for lack of a strong personal commitment to the firm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's just another way to let people in her network know she is no longer working, and assure them it is not because she was fired, laid off, ill, and is not looking for work.

I find it obnoxious as hell myself, but that was probably her reasoning

One might otherwise assume that she was quietly let go for lack of a strong personal commitment to the firm.

the firm? is this the 80s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it allows people to still contact her. She's not working; she hasn't vanished from the grid.

+1

Agree. I don't get what is obnoxious about this.

+3
I think it's worded in an adult manner.

It sounds like she is planning to go back at some point and is explaining why she is not currently employed.