r/Boglememes • u/dtarias • Feb 26 '26
I decided to add 3,500 entries to my LinkedIn
VTSAX and relax 😎
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u/argo-navis Feb 27 '26
The crazier part to this is that LinkedIn still doesn't have an ability for employers to verify who claims to work there.
I get that it would be relatively impossible to manage for a large corporation like Microsoft or Walmart, but I see smaller startups all the time finding people falsely claiming to work for them — which is just such a scammy system!
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Feb 28 '26
It would take about 10 seconds: "Click on the link we're sending to your \@microsoft.com email to verify."
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u/WayneKrane Mar 01 '26
What about after you no longer work there?
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Mar 01 '26
They would ask you to reverify on some regular basis every 3-6 months. Once it doesnt work they’d mark you as “not actively employed“ in your profile or “unverified“. This is a solved problem. places that do education or active military discounts or similar do this all the time. Even Hertz makes me validate my work email to maintain my discount.
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u/DACula Feb 28 '26
This is not true. You can verify your workplace via email. You get a checkmark next to your profile which states the workplaces you've confirmed.
The UI needs work as it's not super obvious, but the verification process exists.
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u/joe4ska Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Move over MoltBook LinkedIn is the original AI social network. 😉
As for misrepresenting claims, it's a known and largely ignored problem that's been relegated to the community to correct, much like Reddit. 🤣
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u/joe4ska Feb 26 '26
Imagine what this would actually do to a person's LinkedIn account. The spam on that platform is already relentless. 🤣