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Honestly now: does anybody actually like that style of emojis/avatars? They create a strong negative reaction in me but I am not sure why.
- They are a fake as the people who use them?
- They perfectly illustrate the Corporate Mindset. I like to imagine they were designed by a conclave of neurotypical and painfully unfunny and uncreative MBAs who got together in a coworking space and brainstormed the most consensual and least offensive avatar tech they could fathom. Likely none of them ever had a passing thought about what makes for compelling character design. Certainly none of them can stomach the idea of emergent phenomenon in communication. And above all nothing must stick out; to them the idea that users would want to make a non-human, cyborg, furry, green-skinned, or whatever avatar is abhorrent. Jane's quirky facial expression is the full extent of allowable creativity (and even then you know they had a 30 minute debate about including it).
  These avatars do a better job of inspiring dread in me than half the shit in Severance.
  Tangentially, it reminds me of when we went from Geocities/MySpace/custom reddit CSS/custom youtube pages to "you can change your PP and banner". ..... okay? Was a unified design language really worth crushing all visual creativity?
  ... and now I think it's a shame that Lemmy and Mastodon's default clients don't support (AFAIK) custom CSS for communities/user pages. I think that would be very iconic for the Free Web. Is someone working on this? I feel like someone should be working on this.
  
  It's like the Corporate Memphis of emojis.
  
  Damn that was on point. Thank you for reminding me what I miss about the old web.
  
  Instance admins can add whatever css they want. I've seen since cool ones
  
  This seems significantly harder to achieve here. I believe Lemmy doesn’t have a unified frontend across instances, or does it?
- They look like they're designed for young children
  
  They’re made to be inoffensive and generic, in a way that shelters companies from being sued.
- Yes they do. You're sane. Most people aren't.
- Never thought about them, I guess it is weird that someone would take time out of their day to use the built in tool to create an avatar for work like in teams or outlook
- I feel the same.

And at the other extreme, the guy with a 10 year old photo who never logs in, listed as "software engineer".
Who has enough experience and knowledge to rebuild a social network.
- LinkedIn is a hotbed of recruiters, so any time I feel the urge to go jobs fishing I whisper "Interested in a new position" into my phone an instantly get spammed with a dozen different people posting positions.
  It's not the worst place to go job hunting, just because everyone shilling for HR departments is already there. It's just full of silly bullshit, too. Like walking through the skeezy end of a carnival every time you want to go ride the Ferris Wheel.
- But the wisdom not to do so.

It's always some random Indian guy, "CEO and founder" of at least three "companies" that when you dig into them are basically hobbies, posting inane utterings like "I woke at 4am today and called my employee. He was still in bed so I fired him!"
They've probably never even had an employee.
I dunno what the fuck is going on in India. It's like they're running a cargo cult version of capitalism, hoping that typing mean nonsense like that will somehow make them rich further down the line.
As a Brit, it was probably our fault in the not too distant past.
- A friend who is Indian told me that they reckon it's linked to colonialism — now that I'm reflecting on it, I'm inclined to call it "post-colonialism" (a separate thing from neocolonialism, which exists alongside it). My friend described it as an especially toxic form of hustle culture. There's a lot of pressure to be the best — not the best that you can be, but the best. It leads to a lot of burnout.
  Indian culture also values seniority/age quite highly, which means that compared to places like the US, it can be less socially acceptable to disagree with your boss. Apparently this has led to India having a lot more assholish middle manager type bosses. I can imagine in that world that being the CEO of something that's not real is basically just a fantasy of being out from the thumb of asshole managers. Plus if you feel very pressured to always be working and being Productive, then making your hobbies seem like businesses may serve to legitimise a hobby that you feel guilty to even have.
  I think it's less of a "cargo cult" capitalism, because that term implies people going through the motions with no understanding of the underlying mechanisms. I think that the Indian CEO types you describe probably understand capitalism pretty damn well, because it sort of feels like a 'roided up version of capitalism, so to speak. It makes sense when I consider the population density of India, and the hustle culture competitiveness. It's probably useful to consider that profiles like this aren't necessarily aimed at us, and and are likely just operating under different social conventions. There's a lot of objectively silly stuff that I have to do as part of playing by societal expectations, so perhaps this is just something like that. It sounds like a rough experience though; Burnout due to the pressures of capitalism is definitely a worldwide phenomenon, but it sounds like Indian workers are having an especially rough time with it.
  
  This is explored pretty well in the novel White Tiger, which I highly recommend
- Used to run a discord server. Does that make me an experienced CEO too?
  
  On LinkedIn that practically puts you on par with the CEO of Zoom.
- India is especially notorious for their turbo-capitalism, but quite a few post-colonial countries have similar features in their society. The rich elite owns and controls the country, the working class struggles and the poor ones suffer. Government doesnt care to actually provide services for its citizens or better their lifes.
- Eh, maybe it was our fault a while back but these places have been independent long enough for their problems to be their own fault now. They only blame us as a distraction, pretty much like the pre-Brexit British govt used to blame the EU.
  
  yeah like, india has a fucking space program that actually does things, when you have a functional space program you don't really get to claim to be the little guy anymore.
- As a Brit, it was probably our fault in the not too distant past.
  Yep. You deserve that honor for almost every frigging nation in the Commonweath, lol.

We had to fill out a "personal biography" at work a couple years ago. Under "Thing I'm Most Proud of" I put "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006".
- We had to fill out a “personal biography” at work
  What reasoning did mgmt give for this? I'm weirded out
  
  Oh, no reason. But I was called into my manager's office because I hadn't turned it in early. I told everyone around me that they were looking to cut employees by figuring out who could handle more jobs.
  Under "Hobbies" I put "Privateering". Under "Fluent Languages" I put "None".
- People who were born in 2007 will be adults now. As we age, it will become a more rare achievement to have been "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006". What a weird thought.
  That's a fun thing to put in your bio though. It's edgy enough to be clear that you were exasperated to have to fill out a bio, but not so much that it makes you seem like an asshole. Very wry

I mean, this is just normal resume building tactics taken to an extreme. The first thing I was taught when I was building my first resume was to focus on the most skillful tasks I handled while at work, rather than the most frequent. It doesn't matter that I only helped train a newbie once for a couple hours, my resume said that I trained and oversaw new hires. It doesn't matter that 99% of my job was sticking tags on clothes - few people care about that skill, so I didn't mention it on my resume at all.

This is what people are reduced to when forced to become a shelved product in order to justify their existence.

Bot
Bot
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15 year old account that hasn't been converted to a Bot yet.

The first one will add "Thought leader of the dark enlightement" the moment she gets a backlash for her AI art.

I block anyone that has a sentence instead of a job title, or lists a bunch of buzzwords as their job title.

I'm managing director of a crane maintenance company responsible for the continuous uptime of freight logistics at an international port with multiple clients across the Northern half of Australia.
I.e people ring me and infix their shit.
No employees and work out of a ute. But it sure sounds better when I word it the first way
Not to mention when I'm out and about i don't let on that i own the company. People ask what it's like to work for them and I say good haha

It's an arms race, it's all silly and I mostly have made the choice of not participating, even if it's definitely making my career harder, but if you are trying to participate, what else are you gonna do when everyone else is doing it I guess?
- When in LinkedIn, do as the LinkedInLunatics do? Try to out lunatic the lunatics?
- Be honest about your skills, then when you get a job (might take longer) its so easy you can spend like 90% of your day looking at memes and management still praise your output. Sure the pay isn't the best as I am not pushing higher, but work life balance is great. I had 3 lunch breaks yesterday. Still earn more than enough to live comfortably.
  I have been here for almost half a decade. While I can keep this up I am never leaving.
- It feels so fucking icky. I feel everything related to finding work and presenting oneself to find work fucking degrading.

Meanwhile I rarely tell about my skills to anyone. I would rather make them find out and be intrigued.
Also as you could tell I am unemployed.

Hey, I faked it until I made it. My first software contract was for something I’d never even attempted before and I nailed it
- Lying, the secret to success that THEY don't want you to know

I must be using Linkedin wrong, I only embellished a bit on my profile, like calling myself a Full Stack Developer, at least I found out that it's not what I was interested in working as.
- If you go to the right company, they'll adjust to whatever you enjoy and are good at. We hired a couple "full stack" engineers and now one's a frontend and the other is backend. They'll occasionally work on the other end, but we keep them where they prefer to be as much as possible.
  I'm probably the closest to a full stack we have, and I spend maybe 10% of my time on FE.
- Why did you not like full stack work, I used to work in full stack roles years ago but that was before all the front end framework boom. Recently I've mostly been working as a backend engineer and now that I got laid off I'm looking for new roles but I find most roles are either full stack or expect you to have some knowledge of front end work like react or typescript etc. I'm debating if I should try to go for these roles just to have the experience on my resume and make it more future proof or stick to backend
  
  I found that I was more into embedded C/C++/Linux and jumped on that when I could.
  And plenty of the full stack roles I saw were C# which I have worked with but happily avoid.

I've seen people with "
<product X>
Evangelist" in their official job titles. I never asked any of them what that meant, like did they go around and talk at seminars or something? I have no idea.
- That’s my understanding of it. They go around speaking on the product and extolling its virtues publicly and probably internally too.

I used scikit-learn twice so im basically a machine learning expert

Real life: Chad
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I leave udemy courses playing in the background then add them

If I owned a business I wouldn't bother with standard interviews and resumes. They're such a waste of time and really teach you nothing good about the person, except how good they are at lying to you on the spot.
- What would you do
  
  Since it's all a moot anyhow being that I'll likely never own a business, I'll say that I'd try to spend the day with them doing non work related stuff to get a feel for who they really were, then if I thought they felt like a good fit on that front, I would ask them for hands on demonstrations of the skills they will actually be using to perform their job...and not every job under the roof, their job that they were hired for.