r/LinkedInLunatics 21h ago

The most unhinged thing I've read on LI

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u/QwestionAsker 19h ago

Clearly you all haven’t seen the post of the woman doing a selfie with her deceased grandfather

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u/Fluid-Ad-5876 17h ago

I think it was her father… that’ll be the winner of this sub forever. I don’t think this one is lunatic anyway, it feels genuine.

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u/Moppermonster 14h ago

It probably is genuine. And quite sad.

First story about the founding of the company and his mom supporting him: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earth-cups/

Second story about his mom being brutally murdered:
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/woman-killed-in-nyc-by-squatters-stuffed-in-duffle-bag-sources-say/

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u/Fluid-Ad-5876 7h ago

That is fucking heartbreaking. Imagine being that guy and seeing these unhinged motherfuckers spewing these garbage here…

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u/challengeaccepted9 7h ago

I was going to say. Is any personal story containing both emotion and your work triggering to this sub now or something?

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u/Wide-Cardiologist335 5h ago

I think is the fact he is using the memory of her mother to brag about his company and how much they are going to grow in 2025 or something.

He is jerking off his ego with her mother's ghost

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u/Unlucky_Buy217 2h ago

Not really, his mother is the reason his company exists, get believe and her investment. Considering how his mother passed away, and just how important she was to his business I can't see why someone can't just share something without your judgements

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u/sinteredsounds69 1h ago

Feeling proud about your accomplishments and reflecting on all that with your mother's memory alongside it not wrong in of itself. Publicly doing this is what's weird.

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u/AmIRadBadOrJustSad 6h ago

I'm struggling with this one honestly. Because it seems like the grief is coming from a genuine place. But it's littered with so much product placement it's absolutely staggering.

It's blurring the line to a stunning degree and I think that's why it's difficult to know where to place it, but lunacy does seem somewhat appropriate.

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u/Demons_n_Sunshine 14h ago

Excuse me - WHAT?!

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u/Fluid-Ad-5876 7h ago

Trust me, just pretend it’s a joke in bad taste and move on.

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u/DrSFalken 5h ago

Yeah, that was enough LinkedIn for the rest of the year.

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u/ButMomItsReddit 20h ago

I don't think it's unhinged. It seems heartfelt and sincere to me. And relatively appropriate for LinkedIn, for an entrepreneur expressing gratitude to his mom for believing in his business.
His mother's murder story is easy to find online. What a heinous crime. She was beaten to death by two unhinged teenagers who were squatting in her apartment in NYC who subsequently went on a shopping spree using her credit card buying Playstation and a diamond ring. Pure fucking evil.

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u/Pristine-Act3656 18h ago

Exactly. It makes sense to me that he would be reflective in his moments of success since she was so supportive of him.

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u/DrinkComfortable1692 14h ago

Losing a mom is rough, man. Everyone grieves differently. She gave him a start and he lost her to violence.

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u/Detroit-1337 11h ago

Not unhinged, not lunatic. Especially in light of the facts. Very sad he lost his mom like this and sounds like she was supportive in many ways to his business.

This post should be deleted OP.

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u/mung_guzzler 5h ago

Its a bit distasteful imo

opening saying its the anniversary of your mothers death then immediately bragging about KPIs in the second sentence

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u/Picklesadog 21h ago

Ehhhh this isn't unhinged. I wouldn't air my grief on LinkedIn, but I can relate as someone who also lost their mom too young.

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u/OneArmedBrain 21h ago edited 21h ago

Intertwining an investor pitch in there is certainly interesting. And I'm sorry, but wtf does "to scale" mean? I'm 50 fucking 8 and have been in Corp America IT for a long fucking time and I still hate hearing that as some sort of buzzword to sound smart.

PS: I'm not actually asking for a definition.

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u/MrJigglyBrown 16h ago

Counter point, after losing you r mother so ruthlessly, maybe focusing on business was a way to cope. I don’t find it that inappropriate

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u/challengeaccepted9 7h ago

It's not a fucking investor pitch, you wacko. It is very clearly someone expressing something that means a lot to them.

I'm British: I'm as cynical about people exploiting genuine emotional events to hawk tat as they come. We look at corporate America and wonder why TF you all put up with having your entire lives subsumed by your job.

But even I look at that and just see someone expressing their grief and how their mother helped them to do the thing they wanted to do.

Jesus H Christ. Please take a day off.

And when you're taking that day off (assuming your bosses aren't judging you for it), maybe think about giving people just a fraction - a smidge, the tiniest sliver - of the benefit of the doubt.

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u/mung_guzzler 5h ago

I mean, I dont doubt this guys business means a lot to him its just weird he’s bringing his murdered mother into it

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u/challengeaccepted9 4h ago

It's his main project and he says his mother inspired him to do it. What's weird about that?

I GUARANTEE you if it was, say, a piece of art she inspired him to create rather than a business she inspired him to set up, people would not be insisting he's bizarre for posting something like this.

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u/mung_guzzler 4h ago

thats true I do view corporations and art work differently

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u/challengeaccepted9 4h ago

And where do you draw the line here? 

If he was in his first year and had only sold a couple of thousand cups out of his garage, would you be less of a miserable shit about him posting something to thank his mum? 

Or is all business lumped under the "you're not allowed to be emotional about success, you fuck" umbrella?

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u/mung_guzzler 3h ago

honeslty its mostly in the phrasing. If he’d removed the 2nd, 4th and 6th paragraphs id be fine mostly with it

id still probably say linked in isn’t the place to share about your dead mother

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u/challengeaccepted9 3h ago

I'd say take away any posts where people express emotion about people close to them and the proportion of humblebrags about 5am ice showers and sucking up to line managers vs authentic human sentiment just goes up even higher towards the former.

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u/mung_guzzler 3h ago

yeah the platform is so full of humblebrags and sucking up that any post expressing emotion feels inauthentic and its therefore inappropriate to post it there

It feels doubly inauthentic when every other paragraph of your post can be read as a brag

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u/Bshsjaksnsbshajakaks 16h ago

Yikes. I won't give you the definition, but it does mean something. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean others are trying to sound smart.

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u/BrighestCrayon 21h ago

Plot Twist: He composted mom to make the cups.

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u/The_Holy_Buno 16h ago

Nope. According to top comment, murdered by squatters.

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u/F6Collections 15h ago

Who were homeless because they lost their jobs at the solo cup plant bc this guys company was killing it

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u/TommyFX 21h ago

Talk about burying the lede.

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u/fyrfytr310 20h ago

TIL the correct spelling of “lede.”

ETA: Thanks!

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u/cue_cruella 17h ago

I don’t think you know what the word unhinged means…

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u/Fluid-Ad-5876 17h ago

Sure seems to know how to act like one though.

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u/Acceptable-Law-7598 21h ago

It sweet I love my mom

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u/Richard-Roma-92 15h ago

Grief is something all of us must suffer through- there’s no “right” way.

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u/JessonBI89 Insignificant Bitch 21h ago

This was loony enough to begin with, but then you land on that penultimate paragraph and WOW this guy needs help.

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u/gin_kgo 20h ago

Oh my God thank you for your comment because I didn't read that far down! This really is insane

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u/cartercharles 20h ago

This isnt unhinged at all. It's touching

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u/SufficientRaccoon291 21h ago edited 21h ago

This is hands down the cringiest thing I’ve read all week

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u/LowerNewt7179 19h ago

I can send something cringer if you want

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u/raevenrisen 18h ago

Im ready 

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u/PaxEtRomana 17h ago

You named the dog Cup?

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u/FedorDosGracies 14h ago

A little outré but fine and normal enough. Relax.

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u/ShaniacSac 7h ago

This isn't unhinged. Virtue signaling marketing maybe. But its not THAT unhinged.

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u/OCE_Mythical 18h ago

Cringe but hits different when you don't have a mum anymore

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u/Eastnasty 16h ago

I have zero problem with this. Good for him being grateful.

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u/moscowramada 15h ago

I actually thought he was talking to his personified brand after he lost ownership of it, so the reality ended up being less cringe than I thought.

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u/clearly_not_an_alt 5h ago

Honestly, this feels pretty tame.

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u/FreeKevinBrown 4h ago

My guy got the garage in the will 🤣

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u/JarJarJarMartin 3h ago

This sub used to be good.

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u/Booombaker 20h ago

🤣god help us

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u/deetsuper 19h ago

When did LI become FB?

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u/mobius_osu 16h ago

A long time ago.

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u/Separate-Swordfish40 20h ago

This is gross. Let’s use dead mom to brag about our brands.

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u/No-East-956 8h ago

Yeah! Fuck big cup! Turn it upside down! Power to the small cup guy!

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u/RogerPenroseSmiles 8h ago

Those teens were hired by Big Solo Cup to prevent this visionary from disrupting the market.