In the era of likes, comments, and reposts, showcasing your values and skills to potential employers, clients, and collaborators seems to have become a mind-boggling linguistic tour de force on LinkedIn.

Rather than using clear, authentic language, many people are promoting themselves using a highly curated, hyperbolic, and achievement-oriented narrative.

Okay, if that’s your thing… but what if our pets could speak and would start using that same corpspeak to oversell and sugarcoat themselves and their daily work…

Well, this is probably how their LinkedIn posts would look like! 😄

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