10 Top Trending Ridiculous LinkedIn Posts This Week

Have you ever read a LinkedIn post and NOT wanted to roll your eyes?

 

These posts can range from being utterly tone-deaf to faux motivational to wildly performative. Gone are the days when LinkedIn was a social media platform used to democratize pure networking and job opportunities. Now, it's just like every other social media app except everyone is playing at the idea of working hard. But they're not because they're focused on writing a post that will get them lots of likes and comments. That's not professional networking. That might as well be Instagram or TikTok.

 

These posts were shared on Reddit's r/LinkedInLunatics subreddit. For more content like this, check out this story, where an employee learned his Glassdoor review became a problem for his former company's hiring process.

Daughter Pays for Her Brothers To Go To Med School, Only for Her Mother To Ask Her To Give Them Her Inheritance Too

This daughter literally put her life and education on hold for her family, and now she's expected to give up her inheritance too? This can't be real, and yet it is.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit by u/Icy_Office2441, who attempted to explain her reasoning for asking her daughter to give her inheritance up to her brothers after she paid for their medical school degrees and ran the family business for six years.

 

Talk about an ungrateful mother. Jennine, the daughter, finally achieved a level of freedom after those six years: her brothers were done with schooling and were beginning their respective residencies, she was getting married, and her father had started to recover health-wise (which was the initial reason why she took over the family business in the first place). Her Dad, who deserves points for being Father of the Year in this story, wants to put it in his will that Jennine will receive 70% of the family business sales, with the rest split among the two brothers. Given that Jennine (and the business) paid for the brothers' schooling and that Jennine transformed the business by tripling its annual profits since taking over, this all makes sense to us. 

 

Somehow, even when she laid out all these facts, 70% didn't make sense to the mother. Among her most baffling reasons are that Jennine is marrying a wealthy man of her own and doesn't need the money, whereas her brothers don't want to marry working women, so they do need it. I'm sorry…WHAT?! Does this woman live in the Pleistocene era, or does she hold some kind of vendetta against her daughter? Jennine, do NOT give up your hard-earned money. You deserve that 70%.

 

For more content like this, check out this story, where a woman's stepdaughter threw her phone out the window to make a point. 

10 Top Entitled Choosing Beggars Who Wanted Everything For Nothing

Some people think that they should have the world handed to them on a silver platter, they want to work for nothing and take everything.

This collection of entitled "Choosing Beggars" comprises some of the top posts shared to the Reddit community of the same name. On Reddit's r/choosingbeggars subreddit, users post screenshots of entitled beggars that they have encountered online. People who have demanded a whole lot for nothing or very little in return. Sometimes users will share stories of experiences they have had away from the keyboard (can you imagine?). These are shared in the form of text posts, an example of which is item #2.

Scroll on for this week's collection and, when you're through, check out last week's too.  

Gas Thieves Get Comeuppance at the Hands of Bait Gas Canisters, Total Three Engines

These jokers thought it would be a laugh to repeatedly lift a couple of cans of gasoline off of their neighbor. What they couldn't fathom in their idiotic brains was how quickly their target wised up to their games. Right after the first time, from there on out, they were lifting bait cans consisting of a diabolical mix of all kinds of fuels. The mix basically boiled down to being the engine equivalent of what eating bacon grease mixed with Red Bull would do to your heart. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit by Reddit user u/Affectionate_Gold_84, who told the story of their experience with their thieving neighbors, who also happened to be their wife's relatives. How does that figure? Well, it must be a small town. For his sake, I hope his wife isn't cut from the same cloth.

Keep scrolling to see screenshots of the story and the reader's reactions below. 

 

Woman Lets Divorced Sister and Nightmare Niece Stay With Her. Surprise! It Does Not Go Well.

This aunt let her recently divorced sister and 7-year-old niece live with her. The takeaway here is to never do that.

 

There are many ways to be compassionate and sympathetic to a sibling after a tough divorce, but letting her stay in bed all day every day to grieve while her young daughter has a seemingly endless temper tantrum in your 2-bedroom apartment is not it. This post was shared via this thread on Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit by u/aunttired67. She recounted the story of how her niece's constant shouting resulted in the Redditor getting reprimanded by her managers at work (the original poster works remotely). Later, the niece spilled milk all over the Redditor's work laptop, effectively breaking it. 

 

As if that weren't enough, when the niece played games on the original poster's Nintendo Switch without her permission - and when the young girl's mother refused to get out of bed to do anything - the Redditor took the device back. The niece promptly took a literal SHARPIE and drew on the living room walls like a MONSTER. That's when her aunt exploded and called the niece "a spoiled f***ing brat" and the niece started to cry. Now, the sister and her daughter have been staying entirely in their bedroom and have yet to leave.

 

Evidently, her niece has always been this way (long before the divorce), but she's obviously going through a difficult, confusing time right now. However, some Redditors pointed out in the comments that 7 should be old enough to realize that day-long temper tantrums don't work (those of us who are learning this for the first time at 27 are having a hard time stomaching this revelation). Regardless, it is not the aunt's responsibility to parent her niece. Even if her sister doesn't feel like getting out of bed and taking care of her daughter during this transition period, she kind of has to whether she likes it or not. Especially while she's staying in someone else's home.

 

For more content like this, check out this story about a woman who called out her sister-in-law for always "forgetting her wallet" at expensive meals.

 

'I don’t understand why it has taken her two years to tell me': Guy's viral romance failure sparks online trend

Yes, this thread. If you've been online over the last three days, chances are that you have seen references to this post somewhere. This viral this has spread like wildfire across the internet this past weekend, jumping across from Reddit to TikTok, where the song from the original thread is now trending. It has since been getting picked up and farmed for content by influencers and streamers alike who are looking to capitalize on the growing trend. 

The entire thing started when Reddit user u/TylerLife shared a thread to Reddit's TIFU subreddit titled "TIFU / My (20F) girlfriend of two years told me the music that I (25M) play during sex is weird and a major turn-off." The thread went viral, gathering 120k views.

In the thread "TylerLife" describes the scenario he has landed himself in. Whilst in the early days of intimacy with his new girlfriend, this lad had turned to the internet for a helping hand in how to get things "going." He had come across a tip that he should play music to set the rhythm and the mood. 

"TylerLife" made a critical judgment in error at this point, deciding that his favorite music must be qualified for this task. At no point did he think of stopping to have a conversation with the girlfriend about this. (That's going to be an ongoing theme here.)

There was one particular song, the one that's trending on TikTok now, that TylerLife referenced in his post… Cbat, a track by producer Hudson Mohawke, that has sent the internet sprawling in laughter. 

The track is best described as being inspired by serial killer clown shoes or tortured dying dolphins, and neither of those descriptions really do it justice. Check item #3 for the YouTube embed of this. 

He made his girlfriend listen to this same track every time they shared a moment together for two years before she finally snapped. How she survived this long and how she literally just didn't say ANYTHING at all to him about it is beyond comprehension. Seriously, have a tough conversation here, people. 

The thread jumped across to TikTok with the help of a "Reddit Reads" account, where Cbat has since hit trending. Posts there have centered around just how in the heck he was managing to get his game on to such an absurdly awful song.

The original poster, TylerLife, has since posted an update describing his further logical failings and detailing that his girlfriend has called it quits on their relationship. This update thread makes up item #10 onwards.

Scroll on to give this whole fiasco a read-through and pass your judgment on the most abysmal "thrust game" in all the land. 

FailBlog's 30 Most Memes of the Week

Ayyy gals and fellas. Here's this week's most meme list, coming at ya hard and fast. Better late than never, eh? 

Here are a couple of responses from last week's post, which you can see here. 

#20 was indeed Monty Python as pointed out by "My Username" in the comments. 

""First light... at dawn" has been brought to you by the department of redundancies department." user "I'm Guest" remarked in response to the tragically overused LOTR meme I included in last week's post.
 

That's all I have time for this week soo… read on and enjoy. 

 

‘Except you didn’t get fired’: Woman Calls Out TikToker for Pretending to Get Fired From Her Job for Views

It's hard to trust anything you see on the internet days. Every media website seems to have a different way of reporting on the same event, celebrities edit their photos to make them appear barely recognizable, and people put out fake content just to keep their viewers engaged, even if it means making up some elaborate sob story. It's not always a big deal to bend the truth a little bit to make a story more engaging, but to make up a story altogether is not the route we would recommend for somebody trying to build a loyal fan base. That's just our two cents though. Plus, it's just extremely embarrassing to get caught in the act. And that's exactly what happened to this Tiktoker who posted a video that appeared to be her getting called out by her boss for showing up to a meeting in costume makeup.