Misanthropy Today

A few things: 

When someone gets a flurry of recommendations I always assume they are looking for another job, got canned or fired, or maybe they just asked a bunch of people to lay some recommendations on them the same way 13 year olds beg for comments on Myspace.

Except why would someone at the executive level need recommendations if it wasn’t for one of the things listed above? I see this fairly often.

#1 they should be happy in their current job (or at least pretend to be so that their underlings don’t feel sad)

#2 they have all sorts of avenues for finding a new job (recruiters, etc).

Also, anyone else noticed that LinkedIn recos are the new “sorry you got canned” letter?

Weird corporate world.

I  wonder if you can get dumped for cyber-company-cheating? My friend was asking me this recently while working for a company I used to also work for but also having a wandering eye and applying at other places. I’m not sure if a company could do that or not.

Also, the “People You Might Know” module is great. For two weeks it was displaying the name of an ex-girlfriends friend who I never liked that much. How does it make these connections?! I’ve gotta know.

Two Other Things:

There’s a certain person in my network, executive level, who leaves the same recommendation for everyone, plus or minus a few words.  CTRL+C+V is really the only way to show a coworker that you really enjoy their service to the company. Classy move.

Item #2, a friend of mine (his name isn’t Pete Pelmo) told me that he was using LI to flirt with new babes at his work (he figured email was dangerous because “they keep copies and stuff bro”) and his HR department sent him an  email asking him to cut it out.

Are only the people in my network like this?

Seriously, my LinkedIn etwork is a zoo.

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