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[–] superkret@feddit.org 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
  1. How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?
  2. How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?
  3. Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?
[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  1. The point of the joke is the rich man is racist and/or misogynistic.

  2. It’s just a picture of a woman?

  3. Probably something horny and vaguely racist.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 51 points 1 year ago
  1. It's pretty obviously a casting-couch-type picture.
[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. Last time I heard this joke, it was about a Jewish owner and an antisemite buying the drinks. And I think you're spot on with #3.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Race is relevant because it's the point of the joke (he's racist, but his racism is foiled). Gender isn't relevant. The picture is what makes this dude a lunatic. If I saw this shit and I worked with him I'd forward it to HR with the note "hey just file this one away, you don't need to act on it right now but you're definitely gonna want this receipt sooner or later".

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What in the joke makes him racist but not misogynistic?

There’s nothing in the joke saying she’s either the only black person or the only woman in the bar. In fact you could say that there’s more pointing to him being misogynistic in that he says “this woman” and not “this black person”.

To me it reads as both

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That just depends on the order of attributes you prefer to use to refer to a person.

For me gender or age would usually come first rather than race

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, that’s a fair point as to that comment not making it more sexist than racist, but not for it only being racist. I don’t see anything in the story pointing to race over sex.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I refuse to believe that you don't already know the answers to 1 and 2 and that you don't have an inkling about 3

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 1 year ago

this is supposed to be one of those "take that, racist prick" stories. these are pretty common

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Restaurant/bar owner black ladies called Albert Einstein. Its the first result on google image search.
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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?

The story itself isn't a joke. The linkedin salesman guy wrote a stupid story about an unrealistically obnoxious rich guy who trips over his own racism.

How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?

Maybe he's targeting people who look like that. The [guy who is rude to my target demographic] is quietly pwned by [my target demographic] (Now they will buy my product).

Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?

Ask him? His name is on the image.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The story is a joke. Literally. The version I herd decades ago was a guy keeps buying for everybody but the Jew at a table who ends up owning the bar.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

This is a variation on an old joke. The way I heard it originally, it was a Jew that owned the bar and the bigoted customer was an antisemite.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Who gives a shit about any of that since this was literally stolen from the opening scene of crazy rich Asians.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
  1. Gotchas are better if the guy who got got is bad.
  2. It's not.
  3. "All the way black girl"
[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't it supposed to be like those riddles where the answer is that the doctor's a woman?

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 1 year ago

When you want to write an interracial, humiliation-kink erotica but you only know how to post on LinkedIn.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i like how the bar turned into a restaurant

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 23 points 1 year ago

He was in the bar for a looong time.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

If you're that rich, they will just let you turn a bar into a restaurant

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the UK you can buy food there

[–] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can buy food in the UK now? They've came along way

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 8 points 1 year ago

just because they call it food ; doesn't mean that it is food.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Aye but we consider it a luxury

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bar is technically a restaurant I think. At least I feel the terminology can be vaguely applied.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where I live any establishment that serves alcohol to be consumed on premises must also serve some sort of food option to go with it. So by that token, all bars are restaurants here.

Yeah up until a couple years ago my state had a requirement that any business that made more than 70% of its income from sales of alcohol were required to be private clubs with memberships. Which is why so many bars and pool halls had a dusty clipboard with "guest sign-in sheets" near the door that everyone ignored. Like many things, this didn't survive the pandemic.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago
[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That model is beautiful. Who is she?

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Hey guys, I found the restaurant owner

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 1 year ago

She's the owner of the restaurant, duh.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago
[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

From reddit: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3aERIZg2Fp/ (ririshanpriel is tagged)

People claimed that she didn’t have much of an internet presence beyond her instagram and an unused TikTok account.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

anok yai, maybe

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I should design a userscript that completely removes the "social" feed of LinkedIn. Then I might actually use it, without being bombarded by the weirdest narcissistic attention seeking behavior I've ever seen.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Good on ya. I think I would rather literally be hunted by dogs than engage with LinkedIn as a serious platform.

[–] drd@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For now anyway you can use ublock to blow away:

  • the promoted inane shit
  • this fucker liked this inane thing
  • et al

Use the picker to select the element for the promoted and step up until you find ="promoted" in the selector. This works for the other bullshit they try and shove down your throat and your feed will be 98% less shitty.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

Wow, I did NOT expect that story after seeing the picture. Doesn’t seem related.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Was the man's name JD Vance?

Also, are we supposed to believe that someone is not buying the lady pictured here a drink??

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well shes just kinda crouching in the corner quietly judgeing everyone with an un happy look. Then says thank you whenever someone buys something. I wouldve stayed clear of her too.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

"the rich man boobied the black boobies"

There needs to be an !upvotedbecauseboobs

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Suddenly I got this urge for chocolate. Weird.

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