This practice has led to hundreds of fake friendly and poorly written notes in my Linked In box referencing my work in the solar industry (that was back in 1988) and would I please comment on how such and such conference went when I had no idea such a conference was going on, nor did I give a flying shit.

I am beseiged by thoughtless, careless, bot-driven emails promising all kinds of results for work I don’t do, clients I am not interested in, in fields I know nothing about.

Those foul habits have led me to 1) cancel any and all future invitations that don’t have any kind of message that shows that the idiot actually read my profile and 2) every so often I leave a rather juicily worded comment that makes it clear that not only did they trespass where they weren’t welcome but they shot themselves in the big toe in the process.

Those of us who were initially drawn to the platform for business reasons are sometimes senior in our fields. At 67, I am no goddamned rookie. My profile clearly states that I am a prize winning author of two books and have been training sales in the F100 for years.

Yet I get pummeled regularly by nitwits promising me that that there’s a book in me waiting to come out and boy can they write it for me.

Or that they can teach me how to sell. Oh yeah? Sweetheart, you show me how YOU can score a $15b client as a one-woman microbusiness, and maybe we’ll talk. You can’t. That’s why you’re on Linked In, using bots to do the real work.

But we can teach you how to write…..yah, and you should see the grammar in those emails.

You can only imagine my response. Suffice it to say that I wouldn’t utter this publicly during Easter Mass.