The Rise of Jobfishing, Keyboard Warriors, & Kanye vs Peppa with Felina Tan, Jen Campbell & Ben Wiggins - Episode 15
We live in a bizarre world where Kanye West can be embroiled in a feud with Peppa Pig.
Social media has changed the way we communicate, engage, and in some unfortunate cases spit vitriol towards others - cartoon pig or otherwise.
On this week’s episode of Disconnected, our panel of co-hosts consider the societal impact of our tech-driven lives, from blurred boundaries of work-life balance and regaining focus, to how New Zealand are fighting back against the keyboard warriors.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
The rise of ‘Jobfishing’ and the current state of LinkedIn
What we need in order to focus in the modern world
Learnings from Kanye West’s beef with Peppa Pig
Who’s responsible for work-life balance, and how tech blurs those boundaries
Combatting the keyboard warrior
Episode Highlights:
“They've coined the term jobfishing after a story about an agency called Mad Bird. This guy set an agency up in 2020, employing designers and sales execs from all around the globe, although based in the UK, based in London. They had a startup mentality, so you didn't get paid in the first six months. They worked with huge clients. This guy's background was with Nike, and had great recommendations. What isn't to love about it? Until we find out the company doesn't exist...” - 9:00 - Jen Campbell
“LinkedIn is becoming like Facebook with statuses. I'm not saying I hate LinkedIn, but I'm just saying that people are going off and talking about personal stuff that shouldn't be shared.” - 13:00 - Felina Tan
“If you look back to when you had to complete a task with a super short deadline, you would all of a sudden be able to completely focus on that task. So the point is that this societal tendency to blame technology to blame these wonderful devices, that we are so lucky to carry around with us that have enriched our lives, we're actually passing the buck.” - 28:50 - Jag Sharma
“As bad as it is that I recognise how accountable I am for the 4 hours a day I'm spending on Instagram, I don't think I can stop it because I'm just getting too much out of it - good things that benefit various aspects of my life.” - 38:25 - Felina Tan
“Lots of companies have handbooks that say all these weird and wonderful things about how flexible we are, and you can do X, Y, and Z. But if you've got a senior management team who come into the office every day in a suit and sit at work and talk about the fact they work for 16 hours at their desk, you're setting up a culture that's not going to allow for it. It's got to come from the top down. ” - 43:50 - Jen Campbell
“With all the technology we now have, people have to get better at communicating. This is another thing that comes down to management; if you don't know what your team is working on, and you don't think they can be promoted because you haven't seen what they're doing, you've done a really bad job at managing them.” - 53:15 - Jen Campbell
“To have people with an opinion on social media is completely fine with me either way, and I think it's much better than just being like, ‘Oh, here's my next album. Hope you enjoy it’. That’s super vanilla, super curated, so I think that's a good thing and a natural opportunity for the Peppa Pig social media teams who have some beef with Kanye.” - 1:00:00 - Ben Wiggins
“We’ve spoken about individual accountability, with Jag trying to reduce his TikTok use, and we've talked about platform accountability in the past as well. What if this could be introduced as a step before publishing anything?” - 1:05:30 - Ben Wiggins
Links & references:
Ben Wiggins:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bewiggins/
Felina Tan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felinagabrielletan/
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/
Kanye vs Peppa Pig
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/kanye-west-peppa-pig/
Who is responsible for protecting work life balance?
Fake design agency
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324
Human ability to focus & be distracted
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81098586?s=i&trkid=13747225&vlang=en&clip=81505204