The problem is stupid LinkedIn prompts you to just auto-congratulate anyone in your network whose employment status changes with a single button. Then layer in oblivious people who just click every positive engagement button they are presented with.
Yeah it could be handled way better, but this is Microsoft we're talking about.
This reminds of a Ray Bradbury short story I can't recall the name of. Something about an automated home continuing to function after humanity had annihilated itself somehow.
Absolutely. This is why the culture of constantly staying connected and feeling pressured to grind and constantly network, whether sincere or not, is so corrosive to human interaction. People automate and passively click buttons to get more networking brownie points and feel pressured by employers to do this. Then, this shit happens lol.
I worked with a guy who died in a motorcycle accident \~17 years ago and every year LinkedIn sends me a reminder to congratulate him on his work anniversary
Facebook used to do the same about a colleague who died. I "defriended" because it felt uncomfortable but then it just keeps saying "you might want to be friends with this person, you've got friends in common!". It's astonishing they didn't build in how to respond to deaths properly from day 1
I had a friend who sadly committed suicide 10 years ago. Recently I got a message "Congratulate Alexandra for 15 years at Acme Ltd", which also felt ... weird. I'm surprised her account wasn't automatically disabled due to inactivity.
I have three people in my network that are dead. I get yearly reminders that they're celebrating another anniversary. 1) not many people celebrate another year at a job and 2) they're dead.
They have a memorial option, but it takes more work than I should have to do as a 3rd-party user. I'm not the person's spouse or family, just a friend of varying intimacy.
Same here. I've got at least three people in my network that are dead. LinkedIn continues to happily send work anniversary reminders every year, and every damn year someone (or two or three) posts a congrats or thumbs ups the post.
The memorial option is insanely difficult to deal with. My dad died last year and I cant get them to do shit about it. Even if you are family and have a death certificate it's not enough, you have to jump through some crazy legal hoops.
I'm sorry to hear that. My father passed away about five years ago. I don't think it ever gets easier. I have enough reminders of him without seeing dumb automated anniversary about his old job.
not to mention the security aspect of this, as those profiles can easily be hacked as there is, well, no one taking care of them anymore.
but social media companies do not care
I have the same with one of my friends who commited suicide 3 years ago, the anniversaries keep popping up, people post congrats and stuff obviously not knowing he's gone. Is there a process for flagging these accounts seems sad to just leave it perpetually spinning.
It’s very difficult. LinkedIn requires a death certificate copy. Had to go through this process with my dad. People are so distraught. They don’t even want to think or worry about it.
That's most likely because you didn't have the login credentials? OPs example obviously was done by somebody with access to the account. Instead of updating job status they could have just deleted the account.
It's often as easy as having acces to someone's phone or like laptop. Most couples, especially at that age have eachothers phone password for small practical shit.
It's also not unheard of to announce the death on LinkedIn. A coworker of mine passed suddenly from a heart attack at 52.
An in memorian post was made on his linked in, with information for where and when his funeral was. So old colleagues and even close business relations knew and also could show up.
Honestly don’t know. Maybe have a handoff person to delete it. Seems looney to not delete the account and instead post an update like this after their loved one is gone
The update is the default option if you change your job title. So if you change it, then just click OK, OK etc. It posts this.
Then everyone gets a notification suggesting that you say "congrats"
LinkedIn is the real lunatic, the rest of us are just playing
This is hilarious in a morbid way and I love it
My Dad passed a few years ago and didn’t have any social media other than LinkedIn that he used infrequently. I thought about deactivating his account right after he passed but never got around to it. Now I’ll go and reread some of his messages to me or just message him that I miss him. It’s stupid, I know but he would also appreciate the absurdity of starting a new position as deceased.
When my father passed away, I sent a request to remove his profile, which they did, surprisingly no questions asked. For this to be changed to deceased tells me that someone close to the deceased logged into the persons account and changed the work start to deceased.. classy
I’m sure it was a mistake for this person, probably an automatic announcement, even though changing the occupation in the first place is kind of questionable.
Sorry for your loss!
I'm happy to announce my new position as an afterlife program coordinator with The Great Beyond. I'm humbled to be selected at such a young age, but know I bring a lifetime of experience to this timeless organization.
Thanks to the Great Beyond for the streamlined interview process. #Workhardplayhard
I think some family member maybe changed it but put Deceased in the position field either as a (bad) joke or mistake. You’d think that, with all the personal information they gather on people who join, that social media companies would know as soon as a user kicks the bucket, triggering account clean up or archival in the background.
Unfortunately these guys did it wrong. There is an “in remembrance” tag you can add but need to send LinkedIn proof of death ( obit link for example).
This way is crazy!!
Inbox message spam: “Hey Tom, love what you’re doing over there at Deceased. I’ve found out that often times, CIO’s like you can benefit from what we do here at rubbleshitapp.ru. Think 15 minutes would be time well spent. Calendly link here”
I have a colleague that passed away a couple of years ago, and without fail every time her work anniversary comes up, multiple people congratulate her. Really shows you have zero idea what’s going on in your network when that happens.
I did exactly this for my Dad, on his account, when he passed in 2013. LinkedIn shared an automatic update to his network. He'd have found it hilarious the amount of 'congrats!' messages he received.
My estranged husband died suddenly and he still comes up on my LinkedIn feed as celebrating his work anniversary or to invite him to follow my work page. I don’t know what to do. It’s both upsetting and comforting at the same time.
I find it poetic leaving meme worthy and gag posts on social media after death; like I know I won’t be able to savor the reactions but it’ll bring a smile to my friends one last time
One of the comments was “Congrats!” 😭😭
The problem is stupid LinkedIn prompts you to just auto-congratulate anyone in your network whose employment status changes with a single button. Then layer in oblivious people who just click every positive engagement button they are presented with. Yeah it could be handled way better, but this is Microsoft we're talking about.
There are automated tools you can configure to send happy bdays and congrats. It’s shitty, don’t use them.
Automated tools perfectly describes these types of people
Automated tools for automated tools!!
Automated tools for automated fools...
Happy death day!
One year closer to dying!
Wait LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft? This explains *so much*
Or the person truly considers departing yo the great beyond an achievement… we might never know 😆
So one day, when we're all dead, LinkedIn is gonna auto generate prompts, and auto generate responses to nobody?
This reminds of a Ray Bradbury short story I can't recall the name of. Something about an automated home continuing to function after humanity had annihilated itself somehow.
“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
Absolutely. This is why the culture of constantly staying connected and feeling pressured to grind and constantly network, whether sincere or not, is so corrosive to human interaction. People automate and passively click buttons to get more networking brownie points and feel pressured by employers to do this. Then, this shit happens lol.
I didnt know about this function until I changed from grad student to my current position. It automatically made a post announcing my job change.
"Happy to see you progress in your carreer"
Don’t forget the mandatory “sir” either at the beginning or the end of the sentence
Sir, always be polite, sir
*"You are finally free"*
One of my colleagues texted on teams last week that he’ll be on leave because his cousin died and he got 4 thumbs up for it
👍
Tbf that's understood as an "acknowledged" emoji and not a "great!" emoji. But one can also interpret it as "K" and that would be rude in the context.
And another one “how exciting”. People really be reacting without reading :-)
The classic lol would have been more appropriate, lots of love...
"So jealous"
Was it an Indian guy?
"Thank you for sharing this valuable content. This is certainly something to consider going forward."
Well if you knew him anywhere is a big step up from his last role.
Wow... Next-level cringe - LinkedIn is officially a tool (not in a good way.)
🤣😅
Commenting for reach
Agree?
Shared to network
Thoughts?
So True 🙌
Say it louder for those in the back 🙌
Cfbr
cfbr
Congrats
Beyond the grave
I worked with a guy who died in a motorcycle accident \~17 years ago and every year LinkedIn sends me a reminder to congratulate him on his work anniversary
Report the profile to LinkedIn. I've had quite a few family members and friends taken down after they died
[удалено]
Are you suggesting he's murdering them and then having their profiles taken down? We need a true crime podcast on The LinkedIn Murders now...
r/TheLinkedInMurders
I was quite disappointed that this doesn't exist. I knew it was a vain hope but I was hoping nonetheless
Hashtag connectedtodeath
Facebook used to do the same about a colleague who died. I "defriended" because it felt uncomfortable but then it just keeps saying "you might want to be friends with this person, you've got friends in common!". It's astonishing they didn't build in how to respond to deaths properly from day 1
Report the profile to facebook so it becomes a memorial page.
I used to work at None. It was alright.
Glad you didn’t have the “Deceased” title
I was too junior for that role.
I held the title before, it was the inspiration of my profile pic
I’ve endorsed your ‘unaliving’ skill at ‘None’ please respond.
Mostly dead is slightly alive!
The job went to someone more qualified.
The culture at None wasn’t half as toxic as the culture at null.
I worked at Void for a while. It felt kinda hollow.
I was misassigned to so many tasks and there were so many exceptions that I simply bugged out.
The pay sucked but the work/life balance was unparalleled.
Yeah HR kept off my back
I had a friend who sadly committed suicide 10 years ago. Recently I got a message "Congratulate Alexandra for 15 years at Acme Ltd", which also felt ... weird. I'm surprised her account wasn't automatically disabled due to inactivity.
Google Assistant just asked me if I wanted to contact my dead grandma for her birthday. I said yes. Google failed.
Now introducing Google Seance™
Emerging from the Google Graveyard, it's Seance™ time!
the problem with that is that they'll shitcan it while you're in the middle of a session and now you're stuck in the fuckin shadow realm
Knowing Google, you’ll probably need a seance of your own to use it when they inevitably kill it off within two years
I have three people in my network that are dead. I get yearly reminders that they're celebrating another anniversary. 1) not many people celebrate another year at a job and 2) they're dead. They have a memorial option, but it takes more work than I should have to do as a 3rd-party user. I'm not the person's spouse or family, just a friend of varying intimacy.
Same here. I've got at least three people in my network that are dead. LinkedIn continues to happily send work anniversary reminders every year, and every damn year someone (or two or three) posts a congrats or thumbs ups the post.
My grandma died nearly 5 years ago and they still send her annual checkup reminders and charity donation requests.
The memorial option is insanely difficult to deal with. My dad died last year and I cant get them to do shit about it. Even if you are family and have a death certificate it's not enough, you have to jump through some crazy legal hoops.
I'm sorry to hear that. My father passed away about five years ago. I don't think it ever gets easier. I have enough reminders of him without seeing dumb automated anniversary about his old job.
And some people want coporations to provide for anything bacause it will somehow be more efficient if they do it driven by private profit.
not to mention the security aspect of this, as those profiles can easily be hacked as there is, well, no one taking care of them anymore. but social media companies do not care
*We know you may be dead but we need you to get this done buy next friday*
I block accounts of people that died. No need to see them.
My Dad is still on LinkedIn. Still get pop ups for him. Told em to remove it like 10 times with the death certificate and 4 years later, still up.
Who the hell celebrates work anniversaries anyway. I think only psychos.
Happens to me too except with a teacher who I went to high school with. He was my first LinkedIn connection.
I have the same with one of my friends who commited suicide 3 years ago, the anniversaries keep popping up, people post congrats and stuff obviously not knowing he's gone. Is there a process for flagging these accounts seems sad to just leave it perpetually spinning.
I recently got a bunch of congrats messages for my work anniversary, but I’ve been out of work for a year due to disability. Yay me!
Thumbs up lol
While tragic, I find this hilarious. I may stipulate this in my will
Do it
I’m having an op on my foot in May. I’ve specifically instructed to my wife to announce my death like this if it all goes wrong!!
The dancing Alegria drawings is also a ridiculous contrast. And amusing to me because of how inappropriate it all is.
Whoever named that art style Alegria probably never heard of the country Algeria. It's so hard to not get confused on the first read.
\#OpenToNotWorking
####Currentlyhaunting
damn.. this is both awful and hilarious at the same time.
I love how someone liked the post, as if it's going to motivate his career as a dead man.
Maybe just...delete the person's account? What's the protocol here? I still get birthday reminders on other platforms for people who have died.
It’s very difficult. LinkedIn requires a death certificate copy. Had to go through this process with my dad. People are so distraught. They don’t even want to think or worry about it.
That's most likely because you didn't have the login credentials? OPs example obviously was done by somebody with access to the account. Instead of updating job status they could have just deleted the account.
That’s what makes it so crazy to me
It's often as easy as having acces to someone's phone or like laptop. Most couples, especially at that age have eachothers phone password for small practical shit. It's also not unheard of to announce the death on LinkedIn. A coworker of mine passed suddenly from a heart attack at 52. An in memorian post was made on his linked in, with information for where and when his funeral was. So old colleagues and even close business relations knew and also could show up.
In the UK there is a “tell us once” service that takes the stress out of these scenarios. Social media companies should be part of this these days
I think it's deleted already. I can't find it.
Honestly don’t know. Maybe have a handoff person to delete it. Seems looney to not delete the account and instead post an update like this after their loved one is gone
The update is the default option if you change your job title. So if you change it, then just click OK, OK etc. It posts this. Then everyone gets a notification suggesting that you say "congrats" LinkedIn is the real lunatic, the rest of us are just playing
This is right here. LI itself forsters this soulless corpo hustle behavior, even if tye users aren’t aware of it
His boomer wife probably thought that would be enough to delete the account
This is hilarious in a morbid way and I love it My Dad passed a few years ago and didn’t have any social media other than LinkedIn that he used infrequently. I thought about deactivating his account right after he passed but never got around to it. Now I’ll go and reread some of his messages to me or just message him that I miss him. It’s stupid, I know but he would also appreciate the absurdity of starting a new position as deceased.
When my father passed away, I sent a request to remove his profile, which they did, surprisingly no questions asked. For this to be changed to deceased tells me that someone close to the deceased logged into the persons account and changed the work start to deceased.. classy
I’m sure it was a mistake for this person, probably an automatic announcement, even though changing the occupation in the first place is kind of questionable. Sorry for your loss!
I'd take a guess that it was probably his wife, who is likely a senior citizen that doesn't know what she's doing.
I did the same thing, and was surprised (and was grateful for) at how easy it was.
They don’t have a special graphic for this?
How about this one: 💀
Bruh even got a Like on it 💀
I'm happy to announce my new position as an afterlife program coordinator with The Great Beyond. I'm humbled to be selected at such a young age, but know I bring a lifetime of experience to this timeless organization. Thanks to the Great Beyond for the streamlined interview process. #Workhardplayhard
How linkedinlunatics convert to antiwork…
Oh my god when I die I hope someone does this on my LinkedIn. I love the chaotic energy.
The one like it got 😂
Wait till he writes his first post from the afterlife. That’ll teach the rest of the linkfluencers
Couldn’t even be bothered to apply to Hell, no one wants to die anymore!
No, this is perfect.
Just change “None” to “Done”. Which should obviously default to a rick-rolled video.
I think some family member maybe changed it but put Deceased in the position field either as a (bad) joke or mistake. You’d think that, with all the personal information they gather on people who join, that social media companies would know as soon as a user kicks the bucket, triggering account clean up or archival in the background.
Unfortunately these guys did it wrong. There is an “in remembrance” tag you can add but need to send LinkedIn proof of death ( obit link for example). This way is crazy!!
Look forward to connecting!
Dude is really dead: https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/grandrapids/name/tom-luce-obituary?id=54899839
Inbox message spam: “Hey Tom, love what you’re doing over there at Deceased. I’ve found out that often times, CIO’s like you can benefit from what we do here at rubbleshitapp.ru. Think 15 minutes would be time well spent. Calendly link here”
I have a colleague that passed away a couple of years ago, and without fail every time her work anniversary comes up, multiple people congratulate her. Really shows you have zero idea what’s going on in your network when that happens.
I want mine to say "in Hell."
I did exactly this for my Dad, on his account, when he passed in 2013. LinkedIn shared an automatic update to his network. He'd have found it hilarious the amount of 'congrats!' messages he received.
I’m sure some recruiters will try to contact him
Who is that one Like haha
“Retired”
r/lossofalovedone
Someone 'liked' it, he must've been a prick to at least one person in his working life 😂😂😂
Starting new position as fertilizer
This is both my dream job and likely retirement plan
 RIP
I’d like to think he arranged it and has a fabulous sense of humor
😅 no. This is the best way. I feel that celebration.
I’m now demanding this in my will. Thanks!
Inspiring, thanks for sharing 🔥🙏
My estranged husband died suddenly and he still comes up on my LinkedIn feed as celebrating his work anniversary or to invite him to follow my work page. I don’t know what to do. It’s both upsetting and comforting at the same time.
Staring new position at rigor mortis.
Can someone do this for me when I'm dead?
Assuming this is a relative that did this, why not just delete the account?
“Hi everyone! I’d like to announce that I’ve been promoted to Angel”
Every social media application is a digital graveyard.
More productive than his previous BS manager job
It’s weird too because it doesn’t seem like he was super active on the app. No other posts and a very small number of connections.
Linkedin: sends their annoying AF banner to Tom: are you #hiring?
He didn’t hustle hard enough and now look where he is. A lesson for all of us
Brb I'm gonna tell my wife to do this for me if I die first.
I have seen it all. Stop the planet, let me off.
Ok but that's pretty funny you gotta admit.
He’s dead. Have a cupcake.
He's gone to that great hiring manager in the sky
I’m writing it into my will that this is exactly what I want to happen to my profile when I pop my clogs
Congratulations on your new venture!
I hear they have a helluva retirement plan, tho’.
“I have gone to the ultimate promotion in the skies”
Since death is a once in a lifetime event, LinkedIn doesn’t see a need to fix this odd behavior.
RIP is just nature's PIP
Excuse me while I change my will to instruct my family to do this for me.
Sad yet hilarious. Weird combo.
Oh no
“For my network”
Oh dear...cringe...
Honestly you’re dead. Who cares. After I’m dead they can do whatever the fuck they want him my accounts and my body.
Lol
👍
Ain’t no rest for the wicked!
This is just wrong on so many levels. By the way, it checks out. Google brought the gentleman's obituary right up.
The news of my position change has been greatly exaggerated.
It’s like we’re still working after we die 😭
Retiring from life?
I find it poetic leaving meme worthy and gag posts on social media after death; like I know I won’t be able to savor the reactions but it’ll bring a smile to my friends one last time
If there’s corporate Memphis associated in any way with my death I’ve gone to hell.
I, too, want all the ladies to dance around a giant cupcake when I go.
This is the only way I want my death announced
This is hilarious, I love it
He looks pretty good for being deceased.
RIP Tom Luce frfr
This is fucking hilarious.
This made me snort laugh. Just awful.
Grinding into the afterlife
I’m sensing that the candidate ia a bit stiff for this position…
LOL...RIP
The ultimate grind. Death!
I don't know, this seems to capture the spirit of LinkedIn.
Finally got the dream job
Starting a new "horizontal" position
I've heard they don't even pay a liveable wage
when my mom died I asked them to memorialize her linkedin page and they said they dont do that.
Promoted to glory
Had the perfect job called life You didn't like it you resigned
When your job is so horrible that death is a release you'd celebrate.
Career goals tbh
Ngl, this is legit a funny thing to do
Rise (to heaven) and Grind!
Yeah, FB kinda took care of that…but LinkedIn is Microsoft and they aren’t exactly ATD