this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, while we’re at it… let’s all remove profile pictures from LinkedIn.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In fact, let's just remove LinkedIn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No thanks. For all it's defects, it got me my last two jobs, more than doubling my salary.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was really expecting a much more ethnic sounding name than Dwight Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've met plenty of white people named either Dwight or Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Dwight Onyurmouf?

[–] rambling_lunatic 1 points 1 month ago

Eisenhower and Andrew?

[–] ogmios 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With the insane number of applications any posting gets these days (I've heard thousands within minutes of posting) it's going to be really hard to prove they even saw his resume the first time.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something tells me that a hotel in Detroit isn't getting that many applications.

[–] ogmios 1 points 1 month ago

You would be wrong most likely. People set up bots to just spam their applications to every posting it finds.