Much noise has been made about how embarrassing most Facebook posts are in 2023, or the endless sea of terrible TikToks, but not enough people talk about just how bad 99 percent of LinkedIn posts are. The glorification of hustle culture and, by extension, unfettered capitalism, is rampant, and it’s obvious that most people who write lengthy LinkedIn posts do so with the hopes of getting their own TEDx talk.



One such poster recently went viral for a very Scrooge-like post complaining about how after introducing a policy of half-days on Christmas Eve, one employee took it for granted by asking what time they were allowed to sign off, so she responded by keeping everyone at work until 5 p.m. after previously promising them they could leave. Lovely!



Weirder still, the poster runs a recruitment agency, and several commenters pointed out that nobody wants to be fielding emails from recruiters at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve. What was she keeping them in the office to do? Mindless busywork?



After her previous post went viral on Twitter, the OP wrote a follow-up in which she attempted to clarify her intentions, but in reality, she didn’t improve the situation at all. She doubled down on her complaints about the employee “treating a busy working day as time off” — probably because you’d said you were giving them most of the day off? Just a hunch, IDK.


She ended the post by writing, “I don’t make people take these important moments as annual leave because family is so important. More important than any job, that’s for sure. And if my post was taken as though I don’t believe that, I apologize. Not so much to the strangers who have crucified me for posting it, but to my team. I never want you to feel as though you can’t take time off. Particularly at Christmas.”



A nice sentiment, but really, why are you telling LinkedIn this instead of your employees? Could all of this not have been an email? I’m begging all of the entrepreneurs, girlbosses and boss babies to stop trying to become LinkedIn influencers (sorry, “thought leaders”) — it’s hands down the most embarrassing kind of influencer you can be. Which, of course, is really saying something.