Cringe Posting, Forklift Sales, and Starting Beef: Your LinkedIn Guide to Chaos

Demoted

Demoted Productions

Comedy, Business, Careers

4.8 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Go to https://zbiotics.com/DEMOTED and use DEMOTED at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Is your LinkedIn feed a daily dose of cringe? Ours too. In this episode, Natalie and Ross take a deep dive into the digital circus that is LinkedIn. They trace the evolution of LinkedIn from a simple resume database to a battleground for personal brand supremacy, dissecting the most absurd posting tactics along the way. From celebrating your first forklift sale to strategically sparking online feuds with business rivals, we leave no stone unturned. We’ll also explore the attention-seeking antics of “thought leaders,” the rise of AI headshots, and how NOT to stand out on LinkedIn. Go to https://Goodr.com/demoted and use promo code DEMOTED for Free Shipping! We want to hear from you! Send in your Corporate Confessions, Dear Demoted questions, and Shout-outs right here: https://forms.gle/nJc667dUL65Xh63C6

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0:00.0	LinkedIn is a wild place. If you're sitting on that LinkedIn draft wondering if you should post,
0:05.3	we'll tell you how to do it. If I see one more person treat LinkedIn like Facebook, I'm going to
0:08.9	lose my mind. You don't want a personal update on someone's newborn baby. Can I say no? Not allowed.
0:12.9	Demoted. On this episode, we're going into crazy LinkedIn posts. From people starting beef with our
0:17.5	competitors to a proud guy who sold his first forklift.
0:23.4	We get into all of it.
0:24.0	Oh, man.
0:24.7	Buckle up, everyone.
0:25.9	This is going to be a wild ride.
0:35.5	Greetings, Motorheads.
0:36.2	Welcome back to another edition of Demoted. We are in person. We're in
0:39.5	person. We were supposed to be remote. And then we were like, you know what? We can't do that to
0:43.1	them. Yeah. We hyped all this like, we're going to be remoted for a quarter. And then Natalie's in the
0:47.7	city and I'm the city. I sent him like a late night booty call. What are you doing tomorrow? I was like, I'm there. You tell me,
0:54.8	queen. I'm there, queen. I got to move some things around, but you know I will. You know I'll be there.
0:59.6	And then we got here and there are no less than 100 people in the office. This is the busiest this
1:03.4	office has ever been. I've never seen this many bodies here. There's like an offsite. There's two different teams here. Okay. Do you know the teams? I don't know which teams.
1:11.6	I could make some generalizations.
1:13.3	You could, which we won't do.
1:14.5	We won't do that.
1:15.6	So we're doing a live show.
1:16.9	They're not sales.
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