Do people believe this is real?
No? I think the other question is what the community is for? I think it’s appropriate based off the community description, although I don’t remember the last time I have seen a post that wasn’t obviously satire.
Good point.
Ken Cheng is a British comedian. He likes to take the piss out of business people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng
I was about to say, this guy is glazing MBA’s way too hard for this not to be a joke.
that really is how those subhuman scum talk; my first tell was seeing women as at least hypothetically equals, and the fact the profile pic just looks like a normal guy who hasn’t been dipped in grease or made very shiny.
Is glazing throwing ropes
Yes
Dick jokes are the shit. Shakespeare Chaucer style
The only one I follow on LinkedIn.
Is that the same Ken Cheng that’s playing board games with No Rolls Barred?
ITT: Commenters so eager to shit on people they miss the most obvious satire.
Commenters so eager to shit on people
To be fair, that’s the only purpose of this community. But the post is brilliant 😄
As someone who grew up in Ireland, we are sarcastic cunts. Hence, I always read everything as satire.
No you don’t.
Clever bait
I want to assume it’s sarcasm, but honestly I’m not sure.
They’re a parody account
Reminds of a twitter account called the goldman scachs elevator gossip.
For people who don’t know Ken Cheng is satire and making fun of LinkedIn people.
He is hilarious, and the comments he incites are even better.
I did not know, so I appreciate this heads up.
As if an MBA was an achievement. My wifes brother made a Harvard MBA in his free time (paid for by his employer), and considered it laughably easy. I’ve read the course books he gave me, and I agree. For someone coming from the natural sciences side of things, MBA is kindergarten level. It is amazing with how little actual knowledge people get into high business positions nowadays.
A lot of the elite business communities are entirely extended social groups. Lots of nephews. Lots of professional self-promotionists. Lots of gurus, promising to deliver quasi-spiritualist business secrets. The system they’re attached to is swimming in surplus revenue, so doing relatively simple arbitrage with a big enough line of credit can enrich these well-connected individuals quickly. And putting someone with connections to easy credit onto your board is a great way to grow your company.
MBAs get to operate at the kindergarten level because they’re playing with billions of dollars in a game that is designed to guarantee they (mostly) walk away winners.
Trump is a classic example. Lose a billion dollars, go out and find another line of credit, gamble on double or nothing, market goes up so you win it all back again. Nobody asks where this credit is coming from or why The Donald is uniquely positioned to draw on it. Elon has a similar story. He just keeps spinning the wheel and doubling down, confident that the game has a positive ROI, so he’ll always come out ahead in the end.
Just to be sure: This is a meme, right?
As in, not serious?
He’s a professional comedian. He realized that linked in is actually social media that people hate and have to actively use.
This is a guy on LinkedIn who has made minor internet celebrity out of posting cringe. He makes regular appearances on LinkedInLunatics. Not entirely sure if he’s a deranged business geek or a Dril still hoax account. But he baits enough people for it to be a moot point. Dude is definitely channeling a vibe.
Thank you, I’m actually happy to hear this :) the alternative would have shaken my trust in humanity even more.
Honestly the pacing to me, the final punchline, etc. all scream that it’s intentional satire. That and the “I want to connect with you emotionally :)” cemented it for me
I’m convinced its an elaborate joke, yea.
Kinda gives Ken M vibes.
It’s a picture with words on it. Of course it’s a meme!
Hey, a fellow smartypants, hi, welcome. :)
I love this guys posts.
Peak lunatic satire
Truly the Ken M of LinkedIn
Oh fuck how could i forget the legend Ken M? Thanks haha imma go look him up again
He is both the hero we need and the hero we deserve.
Thank goodness, I was hoping this was satire.
Oh yeah, Ken fools a lot of people. He’s maybe even inspired the actual lunatics, wouldn’t be shocked.
It hit me when he said 5 of my friends with MBAs, and there’s only 3 of them.
So good.
That said, who is he trying to impress?
Can comedy not exist on its own? The meta-irony of a dude making fun of the “our existence is only for generating shareholder value” is pretty funny in the context of “yeah but who’s he generating value for?” question
Obviously not the people with PhDs.
Lemmy users be like “Is the guy with the “I want to connect with you, emotionally :)” being serious?”
Trolling LinkedIn is really next-level.
Yeah, these fucking idiots without an MBA. Einstein, Hawking, DaVinci, etc
I went to business school and was in classes with people from a bunch of different business majors.
Most people are book smart and can pass a test, but are otherwise stupid.
I also regularly meet different C-suite executives for work. Again, most are only good at one or two things. Efficiency isn’t one of them.
At the end of the day efficiency is math. And I once decided to be lazy and for a technical elective take the business version of a class I’d already taken the engineering version of. I didn’t expect the math to be at the same level, business bachelor’s don’t need stats 2 and calc 2, both of which came up in the engineering version. But when there were groans at finding a basic slope and arithmetic I knew I didn’t belong there. I should’ve taken circuits 2 instead, it would’ve at least not bored the hell out of me
Efficiency is math, but often it’s more than that depending on how it’s used. For example, I work in health care. We can apply lean principles and create a ton of efficiency on one aspect, but we will lose on others, like patient care, re-admissions, and quality. Math is correct, but it’s not everything. This is literally my job and I’m lean 6 sigma certified.
Also, for my business degree I took stats 2 and operational supply processing which was just stats 2 with application. So I’d say it depends on the school and degree. Didn’t need Calc 2, but I also took both a Calc with applied geometry and a business Calc. Business Calc was a joke.
We can apply lean principles and create a ton of efficiency on one aspect, but we will lose on others
The math can still handle your problems.
You have to consider all dimensions simultaneously when optimising. The problem then becomes one of judgement. How important is patient care vs quality vs re-admissions. Which should have the larger relative weight?
That’s not how it works in healthcare FYI. Bad patient care means people die, Bad quality means there are complications or infections, Re-admissions means the hospital doesn’t get paid on the follow up visit.
I’m not trying to argue, I’m letting you know something that I’m an expert in. Math can literally create better healthcare, but there is always the human and clinical element and that can’t always be quantified.
Yeah. What the math ends up doing is putting a $ value on lives. Which execs always do but never admit to doing.
I’ve never met anyone with an MBA who wasn’t a moron.
Maybe the non-morons don’t make a point of telling you they have an MBA.
Yep. I know a few people who got their workplace to pay for it. It was an incredibly easy way for them to pad their resume and ensure higher pay ranges at stupid workplaces that gated stuff like that.
Only came up when we were talking about schooling (I was still finishing mine).
Everyone that made a big deal of it though, complete morons.
stupid workplaces that gated stuff like that
May not be working at Lowe’s much longer, but they make a point that a piece of paper isn’t a big deal. I think it’s the CFO that doesn’t have a degree?
Anyway, CEO is proud to say that a diploma on the wall isn’t a free ride. Busted my ass there for 3-months, got a promotion in the bag tomorrow. OTOH, just got a surprise interview for a tech job that pays 3x more. 🤷🏻♂️ Win either way!
Congrats!
Kind of like how the worst people in tech brag about their certifications
Yeah, usually, what’s perceived as intelligent by most is some of the theoretical reasoning, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and analytic-logical thinking that you learn and practice in higher education. But somehow, those with business degrees never have any of those qualities. I do wonder what they’re being taught instead.
I do wonder what they’re being taught instead.
Line go up.
You should meet my brother then. He has an MBA and CPA and runs an accounting firm. He’s pretty chill and treats his workers extremely well, while taking most of the lame work for himself.
“He must not have gone to a good school for his MBA then” - people with MBAs, probably
Lol. It’s one of the better ones.
This guy spent the whole date creticing the restaurant we were in. Not once did he mention that satern was visible, or that the JWSt is scanning the Orion cluster looking for new young planets. Brought up the moon and he mentioned mineing rights and opertinitys to Frack the moon. Only thing he was exited about space was Elon and his polluting starlink WiFi adapters that have destroyed the night sky.
Dude, you gotta fix your autocorrect, or at least set it up.
It’s kind of adorably misspelled in a way you don’t see too often anymore. I hope they don’t edit the post
lol i specifically turn off my auto correct
Autocorrupt
at least you can tell it’s not ai slop
New Voight Kampff strategy, feigned illiteracy
You’re giving them a new tool to trick us!
Why? In my experience, it corrects more often than it fucks up, so if you stopped using it because you don’t like the one mistake it makes every 100 words or so, you should probably reevaluate your decision.
And if your keyboard app is making more mistakes than it corrects, you might want to consider trying a different keyboard app.
It’s a much bigger problem when you speak multiple languages and leave them all enabled in the keyboard. When writing a simple comment like this, I fuck up the typing of one out of every 5-10 words on average and auto correct fixes them for me. In some other contexts like replying to a work message, it is auto correct who fucks up that often.
Personally I avoid using autocorrect for the same reason I avoid using a calculator for mundane calculations. I ascribe to the belief that your brain works in the same way a muscle does; that is, if you don’t use it… you lose it.
In many instances, autocorrect can be a god send (someone with dyslexia no doubt finds it invaluable for example), but for the layperson, my opinion is that it’s just another tool that promotes laziness, and a lack of thought around grammar/spelling etc.
I’m not suggesting my way is the correct approach, but rather offering an alternative viewpoint as to why some people disable assistance tools such as autocorrect.
I get where you’re coming from, but for autocorrect to work properly, you still need to know how to spell.
Autocorrect is more for fixing typos, especially useful if you’re like me and don’t look at the keyboard while tapping away. It doesn’t work as effectively if you can’t spell.
This gotta be bait lmao
Lemmy is not beating the spectrum rumors with satire detection skills like this.
Would you … stand … fucking still … so I can … please, can I … can I read … can I please read the fucking TEXT?!
Reddit was real bad at this. Lemmy is so much worse.
You’d be surprised at how many allistic people can’t detect satire
Yeah I was just taking the piss, the joke was clear as day to me and I’ve got one of these diagnoses myself. The “unspecified” kind, whatever the fuck that means.
They’re less funny to me when they’re intentional/satire.
Indeed, for me, it was the astrophysics PhD. Reading it hurt me physically, besides killing his joke at the spot.
Twice when I’ve been out drinking have an older female sat alone all night, close to and staring at our group, then the first thing they say is “I’ll let you know I actually have 3 PhDs and 2 doctorates, and I gotta say (some random bullshit)”. Like “I don’t think that joke you told two hours ago was funny”. We just knew they would say some weird shit as soon as we saw them, the whole “I’m super smart” thing was just so much worse than expected.
