LinkedIn Post About New Fatherhood Goes Viral For Being ‘Horrific’

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June 22, 2021, 6:57 am

While some of us spend our daily social media time sharing memes on Facebook or engaging in political discourse on Twitter, others are doing something decidedly more serious—and perhaps a little more chilling—blogging on LinkedIn.

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It’s easy to forget that even counts as a social media platform—who would want to actively engage on a website that’s literally designed to be read by all future, present, and past employers and coworkers? 

Capitalist suck-ups, apparently.

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A set of screenshots going around Twitter as an example of “peak horrific LinkedIn” is showing just how bleak the labor-focused platform can get.

“On April 2, my wife gave birth to our first child- a beautiful daughter, and I really had to do this – Work From Hospital,” the original blog poster wrote.

And while it is, in fact, utterly unconscionable that work is so demanding that someone should have to spend his first kid’s birth banging away at a laptop in the corner, what’s even darker is that he says he has “no complaints” about that being the case — “none at all!”

“In fact, I can’t help but see the positive side of the post-pandemic work norms,” he wrote. “I mean…I can still be committed to my work while happily taking a peek at my baby girl.”

He later added that “thanks to the present working conditions, I am able to give my best to my clients and to my family.”

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While the whole thing is obviously meant to be in praise of how the pandemic gave so many people a little more freedom to work remotely, and in some cases that is even carrying on post-pandemic, many people feel that this is hardly the work/life “balance” this guy seems to think it is.

Yeah I love some of those European countries where they hand-write a notice and stick it on the business door: Gone on holiday for xx weeks. Family Wedding – Closed for the month of August! Fair play.

— Sheila (@Sheila38426081) June 21, 2021

I was thinking that. What kind of parent is he going to be if he thinks taking a peek is the extent of it?! How many nappies has he changed? How many times has mum been able to put the baby down and sleep?

— Nicola Syms (@NicolaSyms) June 21, 2021

“Jeez man, turn your fucking microphone off, we can hear everything!”

— Tom AkA Fetzie (@Fetzie_) June 22, 2021

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I always thought work life balance was just defined boundaries and actual life time.

— Sloth (@SlothRedux) June 22, 2021

It’s not hard to imagine this guy turning out to be the kind of parent that praises their 14-year-old for spending all their free time working at Burger King, but there’s always the possibility that his post is actually just a desperate plea to continue working remotely rather than going into the office. But no matter how you swing it, it’s a pretty severe damnation of what society has become.

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*First Published: June 22, 2021, 6:57 am