Men on LinkedIn

[wishywashy6]

Is it just me or are more and more men using LinkedIn as a hook up site these days?!
I use it to network for work but increasingly getting creeps messaging me on there like it's fucking tinder!

Not really an AIBU just more of a rant!
And to the blokes of LinkedIn - piss off back to your wives! I'm not interested 😤

I would be reporting it tbh. Maybe not to their employers, but to linkedin. It's supposed to professional environment. If someone harassed me on job fair or conference, I would be reporting them too, so why not on Linkedin

@Igotthemheavyboobs

Just send it on to their employers. It's probably the best place for men to do this because the woman can make proper complaints that actually have impact on that man's life.

This. You have it wrapped up in a bow OP!

Honestly, why are so many men such utter creeps? I can't even understand why anyone would think this is a professional way to behave. Wasn't there a famous case where a woman spoke out about harassment on LinkedIn?

Found it She was a barrister specialising in violence against woman and girls who was approached by a senior partner about how great her picture was.

OP, I would contact the companies they work for and send the messages. LinkedIn is a networking site for business. Within my company it’s seen as an extension of us working for the company we do and therefore it’s seen a a representation of the company as well as us as individuals.

Many businesses will be upset to know their employees are abusing a business networking site. I know of 1 instance where someone was dismissed for bringing the company into disrepute as they bragged about going to a festival and taking drugs. They were reported by a client so it is taken seriously.

It sounds like the messages were very sexual in nature so I would definitely contact their companies and forward the messages.

@OneForMeToo ahahaha! You must have some very sexy spuds! 😂

I run a business that supplies gas and electricity not fucking vaginas you moron

Made me chuckle

Absolutely report it

I think so many men do it because they never see any down side so it seems like worth a try.

@AriettyHomily

I think it depends on your profile / what you do.

I can see why you would think that. It validates your choice of what to include in your profile and reinforces your assumption that it would take a 'bikini shot' to invite the kind of inappropriate advance that the OP had experienced. That is a very comfortable place to be.

How would you feel if you discovered that it's absolutely nothing to do with the profile, as the OP has explained.

Just part of the everyday for so many of us.

Victim blaming is never going to help

I'm feeling left out now

Screenshot it, post it and mention him so he sees it. Send it to his employer, brought it on himself. We need to stand up to this treatment, show that it is unacceptable.

We've let someone go over inappropriate LinkedIn messages. Most companies have clauses regarding representing the company on social media. I would say absolutely report it.

I had an inappropriate message from "allegedly" a CEO of a construction company. Their website confirmed his name so not sure if it was a fake profile. I reported it to LinkedIn and his profile disappeared.

And my profile is totally professional. There's nothing on it to even remotely suggest I want to use it as a hook up site.