
Once those gained traction, I decided to create a dedicated Twitter account for it, and thus, was born,” he told us during an earlier interview. The United States has carried out airstrikes on an Iran-backed group in Syria, after a US contractor was killed when a suspected Iranian-made drone attacked a coalition. I began seeing the first inklings of these so-called 'LinkedInfluencers' and started screenshotting their posts and sharing them on my personal Twitter account. "I was already dissatisfied with my role, my career, and the company, so spending a few hours a day on LinkedIn just about pushed me over the edge.

The phrase, 'Stop by Kinko's' was uttered a few times in my short tenure there (Kinko's was dropped by FedEx in 2008, ten years prior)." At the time, a pretty significant chunk of JR’s job involved cold-calling on LinkedIn. I had a boss who was a dinosaur-his idea of a good follow-up to a meeting was mailing laminated copies of the deck we presented to the prospect after the fact.

The last time that Bored Panda featured his account, he told us about the origins of in 2018, I was an Account Executive for a SaaS company in San Francisco. California-based JR, the founder of ‘The Best of LinkedIn’ calls out the very worst of the bunch on his Twitter page.
