To think you don’t block new colleagues on LinkedIn?

This! He was probably having a look at other colleagues in the team and didn't want you to know he'd been looking!

It's not weird at all, people use Linkedin like Facebook but for work now. It's not just about looking for work but about building your own personal brand and networking, and it's perfectly usual to have all your colleagues added as contacts. It's weird that he's deliberately prevented this from happening. It's his work life, not his private life.

I've blocked prople I didn't know as my online info is private. Maybe he us doing the same.

Finding profiles is exactly what LinkedIn is for though. I get that a lot of people on this thread don’t seem to be utilising LI like this but it’s completely normal especially for American companies. When you’re using LI like this for networking within your role, it’s not your personal social media. Your company logo will be emblazoned everywhere, your posts and reactions will be a reflection of your company, and sometimes you’ll even have to leave the email & password with your manager when you leave the role.

It's not intrusive, it's exactly the point of Linked In.

The whole point of LI is for work networking and for other people to be able to see your professional information.

doesn't make sense why he would block colleagues.

I find it far weirder, tbh, for potential colleagues to go and find his profile. He's already been employed, just talk to.him when he starts, and find out about him that way.

I doubt he’s blocked you.

Maybe it’s to do with connections… you can’t see him because he’s a 3rd degree connection or something like that idk.

Or maybe it’s just a problem with LinkedIn search. Have you tried actually going to his specific profile URL while logged in to your account?

If he has blocked you then yeah that’s pretty weird. But it’s also one of those “oh well” things that you just shrug your shoulders over and move on from. Please don’t question him about it!! That’s even weirder than him blocking you in the first place.

Let it go 😂 obsessing over why someone has blocked you in work or not is strange behavior

he may unblock when he starts work or he may not which is his choice

Say what now?

Did you ask him in the end?

Weird, could be as pp said that maybe he looked you up and realised you had premium so then blocked you as we was embarrassed that you would have seen you looking him up

It is not odd behaviour to search for a new incoming colleague and then comment to a colleague when you couldn’t find them on LI.

OP you’re doing the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going “lalala I can’t hear you”!

It is odd and strangely obsessive.

@Everyoneisunreasonable doesn’t LI itself restrict/block accounts if it perceives a lot of traffic? If you use it a lot then maybe it’s that.

That’s what I don’t understand, how does he know these people’s names?

Are you competing for the same market and does he think you may be browsing him in an attempt to see his contacts so that you "take" work away from him?

My husband does not connect directly with colleagues nor with people doing the same work as him precisely because he uses LI to interact with intermediaries and with clients. If it is more generic then his company will like the post and his colleagues will see them and be able to react to them.

He may simply be using LI in a different manner to you.

Regardless of what some people say on here (and can only assume they don't fully understand LinkedIn as an open network tool - most good networkers on there will have 100s, if not 1000s of contacts they have reached out to but don't necessarily know - i.e. not for introverts ;) ), it IS weird to block someone and especially a work colleague.

Given what OP has done to check, we can perhaps now safely assume - for whatever strange reason - that she has been blocked. right?

Personally, I wouldn't mention or query this with to the new hire or the hiring manager but would keep a close eye as it's just very, very odd.

https://viralspy.io/blog/how-to-know-if-someone-blocked-you-on-linkedin/

I’m going to ask him at some point, but I’ll wait until I’ve interacted with him a bit first.

You’re going to ask him why he blocked you on LinkedIn? Jesus Christ. Don’t do that, and instead get a life!!!!

If the person who HIRED him could see his LinkedIn then I hardly think he's hiding anything is he?

I think she's wrong.

Sorry, why would a man in San Diego block her in the UK.

It's so far fetched.

Why would he possibly do that.

He's just joined the company. How would he even know who she is

OP has already said it's not a connections issue, and I pointed out before to you that her husband could see him and wasn't connected either.

I can’t deal with the first 2 pages of replies on this thread so I haven’t read further 🤣 of course this is weird!! If you work in a job that requires LinkedIn (and ESPECIALLY if you are based in USA), then you eat sleep and breathe the bloody website. It’s taken so seriously. Just be grateful if you’ve never had to hardcore utilitise it 🤣 I still have nightmares about Sales Navigator.

OP - maybe it’s been mentioned, but do you think HE was snooping during his interview process and maybe he panicked when he realised he wasn’t on private viewing mode? Maybe he thought by blocking you it would avoid the ‘X viewed you’ notification?

Once you’ve worked with him a little more, I’d just send an email saying hey can’t locate you on LinkedIn, here’s a link to mine. But I wouldn’t ask why I was blocked.

Sounds like he might be hiding an incident that happened in his previous job. Definitely keep an eye on him once he starts!

But op you're not making any sense.

Why on earth would he block you, you're not even in the same country as him.

It would be like me joining a company in the UK. And then me blocking the sales director of our company who works in the New York branch.

Why on earth would I do that. I'm sure he's not even thinking about you. You're not making any sense.

You said you are a second connection of his on linkedin.

What If he has his privacy settings set to first connections only.