'Junior hiring isn't cooked' crowd mocked as WSJ advises job seekers to update LinkedIn
felpix_ · x · 2026-10-18
After WSJ advised a job seeker named Jack to update his two-years-stale LinkedIn profile, felpix mocked the "junior hiring isn't cooked" crowd as undergoing "an overdose of copium," adding that anyone whose advice is that a person isn't obsessively active on social media is "a fundamentally unserious person" — a jab at treating social-media activity as a job-market signal amid AI's hit to entry-level hiring.
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