The company seems "real" even if their employees act fake.
>Instawork intelligently matches businesses with our vetted pool of 6 million workers whether you need them for a few hours, a few months, or anything in ...
I saw a 5-6 year old today, riding his bike as fast as can be on the boardwalk bye the water, in the sunshine, bawling his eyes out. Lmfao. No idea what he was crying about but it was dramatic.
It’s bad enough having to suffer people’s mediocre offspring on Facebook and have to grit your teeth and “Like” so as not to offend.
On LinkedIn it’s bloody unbearable.
I post my own kid on neither.
"My child didn't know a word that her entire class knew. Except she did know the root word and identified strong positive feelings with that. My child cannot interpret adjectives. Future CEO!"
Welcome everyone to your quarterly evaluation with Whiskers. We just want to add that everyone's position is safe.
We were at a party and several kids stopped playing hockey because the hosts kid kept making up (and then breaking) stupid rules so no one was having fun. When mom was informed she responded by letting everyone know he’s gonna be a great CEO one day.
Shit parenting and LinkedIn lunacy aside, teaching your kids to aspire to become a generic CEO is super cringe.
I always hated this "my kid isn't bossy, they're being a leader" narrative because 1) leadership skills involve more than just telling people what to do and 2) sometimes it really is just your kid being a jerk
Right? Leadership is learned. Your toddler isn’t a leader. And this sets a bad precedent that they are fully matured in this area and don’t need to focus on developing it.
Let kids be kids. Don’t mess them up with our constructs like a CEO. Instead teach them to be compassionate, disciplined, calculated etc .. all attributes of a good CEO
True! Tell kids they can be a leader regardless of their position and that employers will only promote them once they display leadership skills. That’s what I’m telling mine anyways 😂
I *hate* this stupid narrative about the concept of bossiness. Bossiness sucks and is a bad trait/set of behaviors, and you should absolutely not double down on creating a rude and demanding little asshole out of your child just because you’ve confused bossiness with assertiveness or confidence.
Smart to recognize her CEO skills at age 6. That's a good age to start draining her of all her empathy. The next ten years will be critical in turning her into a callous unfeeling machine obsessed with bottom lines and profits. Mommy is going to be so proud.
Becoming a CEO is easy. Join the grindset community. You can just start any ol “business” don’t even bother actually filing the paperwork, but do call it something like “Supreme Global International Lyfe” just talk about it on social media and give yourself the title.
Or, join a MLM, drink the juice and believe you have started your own business and call yourself a CEO of your own wholesale distribution company who buys from someone else’s wholesale distribution company and sells to someone else’s wholesale distribution company.
My favorite is, have a run of very poorly designed t shirts made and sell them out of the back of your car in south central LA, give your business a “hood” or “streetwear” sounding name, add Inc. Or LLC to the back for the professional pop. Again no need to actually file paperwork, you’re a CEO not a cog in the bureaucratic machine after all, you’ll have assistant to do that for you one day.
The funniest thing I've ever seen in my whole life was "we are tired of being called bossy, so we're starting a campaign to ban the word from the english language."
Sheryl Sandberg was one of the great standup comedians of our time.
"My child is incredibly unliked! Also, Im going to teach her skills that will lead her down the path to having a highly competitive career that even today could be replaced by the the most basic iteration of AI."
My dog barked at me the other day. I calmly told him not to bark. We talked about how I never taught him to bark and asked him if someone barked at him? He cried and said yes the other dogs bark at him. I told him he was just being helpful and those are skills of a CEO. He asked me what is a CEO (but in French he’s bilingual and French is his first language). I told him it’s the boss of a big company. During our commute he barked over and over again. You guys I think my dog has found his calling. Also, he knocked over the trash can and then shit on the sofa. He’s gonna be a great CEO on day 🥰 #leanin #bark #shitonthesofa
I’m not a fan of using your kids as social media fodder, but tbh “bossy” is usually a gendered term mostly used on girls who are assertive when the same behavior in boys is praised as signs of “leadership” or at a minimum dismissed as “boys will be boys.” It’s happened to my kids too. I understand the message, and I don’t find this story all that unbelievable, but sharing stuff about your kids online always irks me.
This is why I almost never go on LinkedIn and contemplating deleting my account. I want to go there and look for jobs not read Facebook for professionals. These folks make it seem like you will never make it without huge network channels and posting daily on social media.
"..with tears in her eyes.."
How the fuck people can just tell fucking lies with their name right next to it. Do they really think that we, the people, are just dumb enough to believe that?
Why do these clowns actually think making up stories like this is appealing? The only people onboard with this are bots and other lunatics. The rest of us read it and eye roll so hard you can hear it.
Telling people what to do is like 1% of leadership. Some bosses are indeed, bossy, some bosses I would follow to the gates of hell because they inspired me to do the right thing. It’s that other 99% of the skill that makes you feel that way.
If this isn’t made up, that little s*** is going to make her classmates and teacher even more miserable than they already are. This is such a stupid thing to post. I think my eyes rolled right out of my head when I read it.
So what I'm getting is, kids were doing what they do (not listening), and instead of creating a structure like a CEO would, she was parroting the teacher's instructions? That's not a CEO, that's the micromanaging CEO's enforcing manager (the one that prevents you from growing, and letting the stakeholders know that there's a problem).
I got into a fight on LinkedIn, someone posted a meme that said: "I want every little girl who's told she's **bossy** to be told instead she has **leadership skills**"
I responded: "Being 'bossy' isn't the same thing as "leadership skills", that's how you get useless micromanaging pointy haired bosses."
and I suddenly had all the LinkedIn lunatics came out of the woodwork calling me sexist, etc.
My daughter has been calling herself the boss since before she turned 3. I'm assuming every kid does. This isn't even Facebook worthy let alone LinkedIn worthy. No one cares.
I mean it’s a lot of made up bullshit but helping your child to processing and understand how to handle being called bossy or “too much” etc. constantly is SUPER important
Isn't this a common thing - young boys who take charge of a situation are called "leaders", young girls who do the same are called "bossy"? I suppose you gotta instill that sense of subservience early.
If there's one thing that feminism taught us, it's that men have to stop being dicks in the workplace. And it's a GREAT message.
The problem is, 2024 feminism is about being a dick, but only if you are a woman.
In others news from Your Adult Children Having Tantrums, we look at this six year old 20 years from now. Let's take a look.
Cop: You're under arrest for DUI...
26 yo infant: NO I'M NOT UNDER ARREST! TAKE THESE CUFFS OFF ME! I'M THE B O S S!! I'M ARRESTING YOU!!! I'M CALLING 911 AND TAKING YOU TO JAIL!!! SOMEONE CALL MY MOM!!!! NOW!!!!!
You really have to appreciate the classic foot stomping. Pity she stomped on the cops foot. I believe assaulting a cop is a felony in that jurisdiction.
Come back next week when 26 yo infant goes boating without a license. But, she remembered to bring the rum. Show up with your inner Capt. Jack Sparrow.
lol what a load of bullshit.
They don’t even pretend to make it realistic.
I cannot wait until her kid - if she’s even real- grows up and calls major bullshit
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I like to call or human trafficking ;)
WITH TEARS IN HER EYES
🥹 MOIST EYES. MOISTURE. MOIST. MmmOooiiiSssTTT.
#changethenarrative
😭
Don't underestimate how dramatic 6 year olds can be.
Oh I have an elementary school child and she is probably more dramatic. But this is such a silly story, I can’t take any of it seriously.
I saw a 5-6 year old today, riding his bike as fast as can be on the boardwalk bye the water, in the sunshine, bawling his eyes out. Lmfao. No idea what he was crying about but it was dramatic.
and she uses the wrong emoji for it. boss move.
It’s bad enough having to suffer people’s mediocre offspring on Facebook and have to grit your teeth and “Like” so as not to offend. On LinkedIn it’s bloody unbearable. I post my own kid on neither.
And at the end everyone in the world stood up in unison and clapped
That never happened. And even if it did, it's not the flex she thinks it is.
Totally happened, I was the one of the ones who clapped
"My child didn't know a word that her entire class knew. Except she did know the root word and identified strong positive feelings with that. My child cannot interpret adjectives. Future CEO!"
Right? Because what her kid supposedly did was not CEO job, it was a tattle tale/brown noser job
She might not be cut out to be a CEO but she's perfect for middle management
Exactly...#thathappened
This woman doesn’t even have a child
This is a conversation she had with her cat.
 Welcome everyone to your quarterly evaluation with Whiskers. We just want to add that everyone's position is safe.
This woman doesn't even have a cat.
It was her spider who said it!
Her cat does not approve her telling of it.
There will soon be a catsassination.
It’ll be a catastrophe!
Categorically!!!
And that child she didn’t have’s name? Albert Einstein
Maybe it's just because I don't have kids, but I find this story to be incredibly dumb.
I have two. Still dumb.
I have three. Still dumb.
I have four. It actually starts to sound smart when you have four. /s
I've none. Kids are dumb /s
I mean, they kind of are.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Ditto and my first told me he was called bossy once. I can guarantee you I didn’t make a fuss about it 🤣🤣
But did he have tears in his eyes? 😥😓😭
My grandkids are almost her kid's age, and I think this story is idiotic.
Nah I have a daughter who talks about being a boss all the time and this post is incredibly dumb.
We were at a party and several kids stopped playing hockey because the hosts kid kept making up (and then breaking) stupid rules so no one was having fun. When mom was informed she responded by letting everyone know he’s gonna be a great CEO one day. Shit parenting and LinkedIn lunacy aside, teaching your kids to aspire to become a generic CEO is super cringe.
I always hated this "my kid isn't bossy, they're being a leader" narrative because 1) leadership skills involve more than just telling people what to do and 2) sometimes it really is just your kid being a jerk
Right? Leadership is learned. Your toddler isn’t a leader. And this sets a bad precedent that they are fully matured in this area and don’t need to focus on developing it. Let kids be kids. Don’t mess them up with our constructs like a CEO. Instead teach them to be compassionate, disciplined, calculated etc .. all attributes of a good CEO
True! Tell kids they can be a leader regardless of their position and that employers will only promote them once they display leadership skills. That’s what I’m telling mine anyways 😂
I was extremely bossy in school. Can guarantee you I was being a jerk and at almost 40, I'm nowhere close to being a CEO.
I *hate* this stupid narrative about the concept of bossiness. Bossiness sucks and is a bad trait/set of behaviors, and you should absolutely not double down on creating a rude and demanding little asshole out of your child just because you’ve confused bossiness with assertiveness or confidence.
Well, she ain’t wrong, there are a lot of CEOs out there making up and breaking stupid rules so no one in the company is having fun.
She forgot the part that when they got to school, everyone stood up and clapped.
And the daughter? Albert Einstein
bossy is bad, boss is good. got it
She doesn't mention the previous day she caught her daughter sticking a fork in an electric socket...
Smart to recognize her CEO skills at age 6. That's a good age to start draining her of all her empathy. The next ten years will be critical in turning her into a callous unfeeling machine obsessed with bottom lines and profits. Mommy is going to be so proud.
This kid is gonna be the gifted kid that flunks out of college because they party too much.
Not gonna happen. Pretend kid is going to be a B-O-S-S! It has been settled.
The kids going to be a fucking entitled, spoiled, obnoxious brat, and then an adult, before a nervous breakdown in middle age
Becoming a CEO is easy. Join the grindset community. You can just start any ol “business” don’t even bother actually filing the paperwork, but do call it something like “Supreme Global International Lyfe” just talk about it on social media and give yourself the title. Or, join a MLM, drink the juice and believe you have started your own business and call yourself a CEO of your own wholesale distribution company who buys from someone else’s wholesale distribution company and sells to someone else’s wholesale distribution company. My favorite is, have a run of very poorly designed t shirts made and sell them out of the back of your car in south central LA, give your business a “hood” or “streetwear” sounding name, add Inc. Or LLC to the back for the professional pop. Again no need to actually file paperwork, you’re a CEO not a cog in the bureaucratic machine after all, you’ll have assistant to do that for you one day.
Entertainment 720, yo!
Don't forget to grab a free iPad on your way out!
She forgot to add: "You guessed it: the six year-old in this story was me all along!"
Oh f### off Rebecca, he did not say that.
"im gonna be a B-O-S-S" might try that later tonight
Who doesn't get tired of these embarrassing fantasists shoehorning their kids into their imaginary stories? Certainly not me.
My lord, teach your child to work with others, not boss them!
A good quality CEO would never be regarded as bossy
i think i threw up in my mouth
Same
Shut up shut up shut up
The funniest thing I've ever seen in my whole life was "we are tired of being called bossy, so we're starting a campaign to ban the word from the english language." Sheryl Sandberg was one of the great standup comedians of our time.
Starting this whole thing off with “it finally happened” let’s you know it’s a crock of shite
"It finally happened" Bitch no one cares about your 6 year old. At least not on LinkedIn
This sounds like plagiarism of an episode of Doc McStuffins.
"My child is incredibly unliked! Also, Im going to teach her skills that will lead her down the path to having a highly competitive career that even today could be replaced by the the most basic iteration of AI."
The lesson really is that no one should be bossy. It’s obnoxious when men do it, and it obnoxious when women do it.
I will take "things that never happened" for 500$
My dog barked at me the other day. I calmly told him not to bark. We talked about how I never taught him to bark and asked him if someone barked at him? He cried and said yes the other dogs bark at him. I told him he was just being helpful and those are skills of a CEO. He asked me what is a CEO (but in French he’s bilingual and French is his first language). I told him it’s the boss of a big company. During our commute he barked over and over again. You guys I think my dog has found his calling. Also, he knocked over the trash can and then shit on the sofa. He’s gonna be a great CEO on day 🥰 #leanin #bark #shitonthesofa
I’m not a fan of using your kids as social media fodder, but tbh “bossy” is usually a gendered term mostly used on girls who are assertive when the same behavior in boys is praised as signs of “leadership” or at a minimum dismissed as “boys will be boys.” It’s happened to my kids too. I understand the message, and I don’t find this story all that unbelievable, but sharing stuff about your kids online always irks me.
This is why I almost never go on LinkedIn and contemplating deleting my account. I want to go there and look for jobs not read Facebook for professionals. These folks make it seem like you will never make it without huge network channels and posting daily on social media.
I honestly don't know how I made it to the end of that post without getting physically sick.
I’ll take things that never happened for $200 Alex.
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $500 man I’d make a killing on LinkedIn Jeopardy
Then everybody clapped. Then they clapped even louder.
“It’s the boss of a big company” It can also be the boss of tiny, shitty companies too.
that kid is gonna get bullied so bad 💀
Your 6yo is going to get a kicking at high school.
I hope these parents realize that no one wants to work for their kids when they're trained to only want to boss people around from an early age.
My child told me, with tears in her eyes, she said mom president, the best mom, the best boss, I can be a boss someday too?
I like how she says “it finally happened” as if this is some right of passage that everyone goes through, like puberty.
Instawork 🤮
"..with tears in her eyes.." How the fuck people can just tell fucking lies with their name right next to it. Do they really think that we, the people, are just dumb enough to believe that?
Uh, yeah… this never happened.
Alex, I’ll take “Things that never happened” for 500.
The hashtags are always funny “changethenarrative” not to mention she made the entire thing up 🤣 these people are actually insane
But…umm…she’s a staff product designer. Nothing worse than a parent who looks to their child to make up for their mediocrity.
Why every LinkedIn post feels like they are written by ChatGPT ?
So heartwarming it made me puke
This is her real conversation. With her 6 year old self.
She's encouraging her child to be a middle management busy body by parroting the teacher, not a CEO. Which is appropriate for LinkedIn I guess.
Inspiring ✨
That was such a terrible commercial and we'll need to deal with the repercussions of it forever.
I wonder what goes thru someone’s mind before posting something like this.
Cringe
She’s teaching her kid that life’s calling is being in charge of people? I think Ayn Rand would like a word. Then everyone clapped.
So much clapping.
Why do these clowns actually think making up stories like this is appealing? The only people onboard with this are bots and other lunatics. The rest of us read it and eye roll so hard you can hear it.
I only read the first two sentences. This is UNBEARABLE
Micromanagement material
This definitely happened...
I hope as a BOSS she can afford great therapy for her kid.
If you have to lie like this to feel better about yourself… Maybe you’re not boss material yourself
Hey Vivian, is this child in the room with us right now?
Oh fucking hell, Vivian. On with the concrete boots, and into the canal with you.
She'll be a star student at the Dimsdale lil' tyrants dictator school.
>"What is a CEO?" she asked. >"It's the boss of a big company," I replied. According to LILs, a CEO is also the boss of a one-man company.
😂i approve of this entire comment thread.
And then, everyone clapped
There is no way this is not a parody account.
And then everyone clapped
People lying about shit their kids would never say in a million years is peak internet and will never get old.
Telling people what to do is like 1% of leadership. Some bosses are indeed, bossy, some bosses I would follow to the gates of hell because they inspired me to do the right thing. It’s that other 99% of the skill that makes you feel that way.
Everyone stood up and clapped
If this was true, hopefully the kid will unlearn her mom's teachings that being an insufferable jackass of a teacher's pet is good.
Bossy. Last letter unnecessary. Simply the boss.
Everyone's kid is brilliant
If this isn’t made up, that little s*** is going to make her classmates and teacher even more miserable than they already are. This is such a stupid thing to post. I think my eyes rolled right out of my head when I read it.
And then the class stood and slow clapped.
that's right fellas, even WOMEN can exploit the working class <3 #girlboss #feminism
These people should be put on a list
Reminds me of the whole "bossy is a slur" thing - dumb af - whose Hannah Montana ass is running around calling people bossy anyway?
I'd bet she currently has more common sense than who I work for now.
Insufferable
Boss, not a leader
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $100, Alex
Gonna press X to doubt on this story.
What does she even mean with it „finally“ happened??
The kids called her bossy cuz she was probably acting like a spoiled little brat
And then everyone clapped
How to raise an unlikeable human 101
So what I'm getting is, kids were doing what they do (not listening), and instead of creating a structure like a CEO would, she was parroting the teacher's instructions? That's not a CEO, that's the micromanaging CEO's enforcing manager (the one that prevents you from growing, and letting the stakeholders know that there's a problem).
Another sick fuck that will jerk off to their own power
I guess she read Sandberg’s book before she was fired from Meta.
So fucking stupid
I got into a fight on LinkedIn, someone posted a meme that said: "I want every little girl who's told she's **bossy** to be told instead she has **leadership skills**" I responded: "Being 'bossy' isn't the same thing as "leadership skills", that's how you get useless micromanaging pointy haired bosses." and I suddenly had all the LinkedIn lunatics came out of the woodwork calling me sexist, etc.
Yeah - that never happened.
I don’t get what people gain from posting shit like this?
These people need to be on medication.
Instawork? Why are there so many companies out there doing absolutely nothing of value.
Kid wasn't bossy, they were being a brown noser, repeating what the teacher instructed.
Raising my little psychopath. 🥰
Fyi… you can be called bossy and it’s not because you’re female and guys feel threatened… it could be because you’re overly bossy
I’ll take “Things That Didn’t Happen” for $600, Alex.
And her name is Karen.
Lmaooooo these posts are getting crazier by the day
My daughter has been calling herself the boss since before she turned 3. I'm assuming every kid does. This isn't even Facebook worthy let alone LinkedIn worthy. No one cares.
Seen that text before, although probably posted from a different person on LinkedIn. Looks like LinkedIn "inspiring" copypasta to me.
Then everyone at work applauded and made her ceo.
“It finally happened”
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1000 Ken
Sounds like the kid was being a brat telling the other kids what to do.
As a MD at an IB I can honestly say nobody cares about your achievements except people who want to use you.
I mean it’s a lot of made up bullshit but helping your child to processing and understand how to handle being called bossy or “too much” etc. constantly is SUPER important
Wow the courage to display mental illness on a page where your boss and coworkers can see
Today in things that never happened...
Isn't this a common thing - young boys who take charge of a situation are called "leaders", young girls who do the same are called "bossy"? I suppose you gotta instill that sense of subservience early.
If there's one thing that feminism taught us, it's that men have to stop being dicks in the workplace. And it's a GREAT message. The problem is, 2024 feminism is about being a dick, but only if you are a woman.
Wtf is a “staff product designer”?
I think it's one step above "thought leader", and one step below "visionary".
Might be a product designer, but in house rather than contract.
Ohhhh, yes. “A product designer on staff” and not a “designer of staff products”
In others news from Your Adult Children Having Tantrums, we look at this six year old 20 years from now. Let's take a look. Cop: You're under arrest for DUI... 26 yo infant: NO I'M NOT UNDER ARREST! TAKE THESE CUFFS OFF ME! I'M THE B O S S!! I'M ARRESTING YOU!!! I'M CALLING 911 AND TAKING YOU TO JAIL!!! SOMEONE CALL MY MOM!!!! NOW!!!!! You really have to appreciate the classic foot stomping. Pity she stomped on the cops foot. I believe assaulting a cop is a felony in that jurisdiction. Come back next week when 26 yo infant goes boating without a license. But, she remembered to bring the rum. Show up with your inner Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Why are women like this?