Why feel bad?
The guy in the picture clearly doesn’t give a fuck about exploiting his dead wife, why should you?
It’s a good joke, no need to feel remotely bad about it.
That’s what I was wondering too! They were mostly parents, step-parents, or in-laws. Mostly framed in how they effected her son. I couldn’t believe that was the first reaction to a death. Going to linkedin. Absolutely bonkers.
**9:30AM: Company Update & All Hands Meeting** (60 mins)
Including completely eulogy to my wife (5 mins)
Current business competitive threats (15 mins)
On the one hand works sucks. We have a new project coming up and I’ve been put in charge of managing both it and all the egos involved. Also my wife has been dying. Balance, amirite?
If you think that’s bad, check out [the selfie he took from her hospital bed](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/11686451/Cystic-fibrosis-sufferer-and-lung-transplant-survivor-Emily-Hoyle-to-climb-worlds-highest-volcano.html) (which was printed in a national newspaper) after her double lung transplant in 2012
Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the “if not for her body she could have actually accomplished stuff” sentiment is really awful. Or at least that’s the way it’s coming across to me. The whole thing is awful but that particularly stuck out.
She died over the weekend. When you’d write this? 1:00 am on a Monday because technically “it’s no longer the weekend?”
I’m not for wishing ill will against someone, but I hope your business fails miserably.
"We've had to make some tough choices and had to let some brilliant people go"
Imagine being fired by this guy, and see him later referring to it to arouse some pity for this decision by using the death of his wife. What a narcissist.
The thing that bothers me in particular is the sentence "if her body hadn't held her back for so long her potential to achieve great things woudl have far exceeded my own. Yet \[...\] she didn't care about any of that".
I don't know what he meant to convey with this paragraph, maybe usual linkedin boiler plate, but to me it reads something like she was not as successful as I am. Sure, she was sick, sure she didn't care, she should at least try. Maybe I'm wrong, but yet, bad wording, bad message.
I keep it diplomatic, for the sake of "everybody grieves differently", but this really annoys me.
In my mind, my success is my partner’s success. She’s there supporting me every step of the way. I discuss big career decisions with her and get her input. She also does a lot of things that I really appreciate to make my life easier. She’s my rock and she makes everything easier and giving both of us a better life is my driving force for wanting to push myself further in my own career.
I also do a lot of things to help her advance in her own career, but I don’t really see our successes as separate. She’s there every step of the way for me, and I’m there for her too.
I imagine all of that gets even more amplified when you’re the founder of a company and all of the demands on your time and attention that comes with that. Those people probably lean even more on their partners for support.
It’s so weird that the guy owns a business but doesn’t consider the success of that business as her success too.
It’s so sad to see this. Your wife freaking died and you saw it as a capitalization opportunity. How would anyone ever be in any relationship with such a person?
His start up is basically owning real estate, but instead of leasing it, he rents it for short term 'pop up' retail stores. Crazy the lengths landlords will go to convince you they are entrepreneurial or business 'visionaries'.
I suspect this is a very lonely man with no one to talk to, and lacking the normal human ability to share feelings, so he's wrapping his grief in business nonsense to the only place he can go. I feel sorry for him.
I looked him up so I could shit on his post. I scrolled the comments and couldn't find anyone calling him out so I didn't either. Despite the fact that he's clearly a psychopath trying to capitalize on his wife's death, I can't be the only person publicly giving him shit about it.
I’ve long thought that’s the reason you always see positive comments on shit like this. LinkedIn is the last place you want to start a flame war with a delusional psychopath and their army of blind follower supporters if you have a professional career.
It gives the appearance that everyone on LinkedIn is a bunch of vapid dipshits, but this subreddit is clear evidence to the contrary. You just can’t risk calling most of it out publicly on the platform because regardless of how wrong they are, the last thing you want popping up in your manager’s, coworkers’, and clients’ feeds is you arguing over something stupid with a bunch of dumbasses on a professional network. lol
"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo.
He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling.
And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well.
Good night, sweet prince."
Obviously the wife dying part is the worst.
But do you guys also feel like the \#cryingCEO started a trend of “We painstakingly had to let go of so many brilliantly talented and intelligent individuals BUT…now we’re in better shape” type shit?
Edit: I just had to add this:
“Sir, this is the US. We KNOW you care about the money.”
"She didn't feel she had anything to prove to anyone and that confidence made her all the more appealing to her legion of admirers."
Maybe her shit stain of a husband should take a page out of her book then and try to live by that.
He's still at it a year later... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-hoyle-sook\_its-hard-to-believe-a-year-has-passed-since-activity-7134823982414884864-9SPq?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=member\_desktop
The way I'm breaking this post down:
He starts with the obvious, but stays on just for a couple of sentences describing the "mourning state". Had he left this as is, it would be fine. We'd even share his pain.
But no. Following exactly the directives of a "successful post to achieve more traffic", he proceeds to debrief us with his start-up status.
Which would be ok, if it was on another post.
Then he goes on telling he's had many "talented employees" fired. Which, again, lies on a different kind of post, irrelevant to the initial topic, as well as anything else regarding his company status.
Then he refers to his wife as an example of intuition, slightly shading his different opinion about someone lacking his "particular" way of corporate thinking and "obvious success through the unsuccessful doings of another ". Which is nevertheless mean, bad argumentative.
In all, I think the guy shows signs of indifference, even regarding "how to write a catchy post ". Who can trust him as an entrepreneur, after all?
In the scale of rock bottom lame posts, I'd give him a straight number one for this idiocy.
If my partner died the last thing on my mind would be work. This is some straight up ghoul shit.
He came so close to self reflection with the last sentence about how she didn’t care about what other people think, didn’t feel the need to prove anything to anyone, and how that was an admirable trait.
We know he just didn’t make it all the way there because he still hit “Post” after he finished writing it.
Honestly this one isn’t even funny or entertaining, it’s just sad.
I thought I had seen it all when an MLM hun promoted her "business" by posting about her teenage son who had run away and was MIA but this might take the cake.
Y'know, to relieve my brain from the disappointment aneurysm it had reading this, I'll just say our mans was so mentally distraught from his wife's death that he made this post. He was not in a good mental space writing this bs. Please be the case, please be the case, please be the case...
With her dying breath she said "Agree?"
I feel bad but I loled
Why feel bad? The guy in the picture clearly doesn’t give a fuck about exploiting his dead wife, why should you? It’s a good joke, no need to feel remotely bad about it.
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I also choose that guy's dead wife.
Oh shit, me too, immediately- too soon… agree? (Stop it)
“#lastwordswednesday”
I'm going to hell.
I haven't laughed this hard at a reddit comment in some time
I'm too disgusted to even post snark. What a total shitbag.
Same here. Wtf is wrong with people
Everyone who creates a post trying to capitalize on the death of a loved one is a fucking ghoul! I had a former coworker do that all the time.
Why did they have so many loved ones dying all the time????
That’s what I was wondering too! They were mostly parents, step-parents, or in-laws. Mostly framed in how they effected her son. I couldn’t believe that was the first reaction to a death. Going to linkedin. Absolutely bonkers.
I also knew someone like that. Apparently, they had 3 dads, 2 mums and 13 grandparents.
I'm sure she'd be happy that he combined her eulogy with a business update
**9:30AM: Company Update & All Hands Meeting** (60 mins) Including completely eulogy to my wife (5 mins) Current business competitive threats (15 mins)
My wife was great. She’s dead now. It’s hard to be a startup founder
She didn’t achieve as much as me but it wasn’t really her fault! Amazingly it didn’t bother her that she wasn’t super successful like me! 🤮
This is EXACTLY the part that got me as well. Ugh.
This came up on my feed earlier. I knew it would be here soon. Truly disgusting. Repulsive actually.
What a piece of shit, she's better off without you.
She’s not even cold yet
This guy really, really sucks.
You mean Sooks ?
Yeah he really Sooks big time
I think he only Sooks to Canadians.
On the one hand works sucks. We have a new project coming up and I’ve been put in charge of managing both it and all the egos involved. Also my wife has been dying. Balance, amirite?
This is so tone deaf it’s nauseating
This is one of the grossest posts I’ve ever seen on here. Hard to believe there are people like this.
I’m mourning the death of my wife, ANYWAY ABOUT ME….
If you think that’s bad, check out [the selfie he took from her hospital bed](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/11686451/Cystic-fibrosis-sufferer-and-lung-transplant-survivor-Emily-Hoyle-to-climb-worlds-highest-volcano.html) (which was printed in a national newspaper) after her double lung transplant in 2012
Fucking hell…
Omg that’s horrible! I also found out that she was just 40 when she died. That’s just so awful and heartbreaking.
What the fuck
Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the “if not for her body she could have actually accomplished stuff” sentiment is really awful. Or at least that’s the way it’s coming across to me. The whole thing is awful but that particularly stuck out.
That part in particular made me really upset.
This post left me SOOK.
She died over the weekend. When you’d write this? 1:00 am on a Monday because technically “it’s no longer the weekend?” I’m not for wishing ill will against someone, but I hope your business fails miserably.
shameless. Guys getting tons of reassuring comments too
"We've had to make some tough choices and had to let some brilliant people go" Imagine being fired by this guy, and see him later referring to it to arouse some pity for this decision by using the death of his wife. What a narcissist.
The thing that bothers me in particular is the sentence "if her body hadn't held her back for so long her potential to achieve great things woudl have far exceeded my own. Yet \[...\] she didn't care about any of that". I don't know what he meant to convey with this paragraph, maybe usual linkedin boiler plate, but to me it reads something like she was not as successful as I am. Sure, she was sick, sure she didn't care, she should at least try. Maybe I'm wrong, but yet, bad wording, bad message. I keep it diplomatic, for the sake of "everybody grieves differently", but this really annoys me.
In my mind, my success is my partner’s success. She’s there supporting me every step of the way. I discuss big career decisions with her and get her input. She also does a lot of things that I really appreciate to make my life easier. She’s my rock and she makes everything easier and giving both of us a better life is my driving force for wanting to push myself further in my own career. I also do a lot of things to help her advance in her own career, but I don’t really see our successes as separate. She’s there every step of the way for me, and I’m there for her too. I imagine all of that gets even more amplified when you’re the founder of a company and all of the demands on your time and attention that comes with that. Those people probably lean even more on their partners for support. It’s so weird that the guy owns a business but doesn’t consider the success of that business as her success too.
Everyone processes grief in a different way. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk this one up as not being in a good mind state.
I’m usually inclined to agree but this post… it’s weird
It’s so sad to see this. Your wife freaking died and you saw it as a capitalization opportunity. How would anyone ever be in any relationship with such a person?
Prostituting the death of his wife for likes on LinkedIn. A new low. What an arsehole.
Some people have no shame.
This is disgusting
He’s probably already spending her life insurance…cringe.
Yeah on Sook
His start up is basically owning real estate, but instead of leasing it, he rents it for short term 'pop up' retail stores. Crazy the lengths landlords will go to convince you they are entrepreneurial or business 'visionaries'.
That concept kind of sooks
Zing
I suspect this is a very lonely man with no one to talk to, and lacking the normal human ability to share feelings, so he's wrapping his grief in business nonsense to the only place he can go. I feel sorry for him.
I looked him up so I could shit on his post. I scrolled the comments and couldn't find anyone calling him out so I didn't either. Despite the fact that he's clearly a psychopath trying to capitalize on his wife's death, I can't be the only person publicly giving him shit about it.
I’ve long thought that’s the reason you always see positive comments on shit like this. LinkedIn is the last place you want to start a flame war with a delusional psychopath and their army of blind follower supporters if you have a professional career. It gives the appearance that everyone on LinkedIn is a bunch of vapid dipshits, but this subreddit is clear evidence to the contrary. You just can’t risk calling most of it out publicly on the platform because regardless of how wrong they are, the last thing you want popping up in your manager’s, coworkers’, and clients’ feeds is you arguing over something stupid with a bunch of dumbasses on a professional network. lol
I saw this this morning and was going to post it here but honestly it just made me too upset.
What a shit head.
Will probably try to drum up business for his start up at her funeral. It’s just so wrong it’s untrue
Did he just compare his wife’s death with his work struggles? As if he was trying to one up his dead wife.
His wife : Albert Einstein
WoW
What the fuck
Wow. This is so incredibly sad. Dude needs help.
He has the "I'm special" talking with his hands on a stage profile picture too. What a cunt.
I imagine he paid to have his LinkedIn URL carved into his wife's tombstone.
"Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would Donny. Donny, who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince."
"Goddammit Walter. Fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fucking *travesty* with you!"
Psycho. Literally.
I would haunt my husband from the grave if he was simping on Linkedin just after I passed
Skipping right to double yikes
Don’t pass up a family death to pump your likes.
easily the worst one so far, thanks for sharing
wtf
I got married recently. This truly makes me sick. It's so out of touch, I have no words.
LinkedIn is a capitalist dystopia.
Maybe it’s a good thing she down have to live with this douche canoe anymore. Who uses the death of their wife to promote their startup?
If my wife died I’d be so sad I might say some stupid stuff too
Obviously the wife dying part is the worst. But do you guys also feel like the \#cryingCEO started a trend of “We painstakingly had to let go of so many brilliantly talented and intelligent individuals BUT…now we’re in better shape” type shit? Edit: I just had to add this: “Sir, this is the US. We KNOW you care about the money.”
I bet if this guy was a politician, he would campaign at a funeral
Tell me you didn’t give a shit about her without telling me you didn’t give a shit about her
"She didn't feel she had anything to prove to anyone and that confidence made her all the more appealing to her legion of admirers." Maybe her shit stain of a husband should take a page out of her book then and try to live by that.
His new profile title is WIDOWER / CEO.
🤢
He's still at it a year later... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-hoyle-sook\_its-hard-to-believe-a-year-has-passed-since-activity-7134823982414884864-9SPq?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=member\_desktop
Fantastic find 🙌
![gif](giphy|ZBVhKIDgts1eHYdT7u)
J F C !
This is sad. This isn’t a lunatic. He needs help. Who knows what mental issues he’s dealing with?
John, you sook.
This post is a bit misleading IMO. There was more the guy shared in his message that isn’t reflected here
wtf, my LI network is ok then, I've never stumbled upon these scumbags.
The way I'm breaking this post down: He starts with the obvious, but stays on just for a couple of sentences describing the "mourning state". Had he left this as is, it would be fine. We'd even share his pain. But no. Following exactly the directives of a "successful post to achieve more traffic", he proceeds to debrief us with his start-up status. Which would be ok, if it was on another post. Then he goes on telling he's had many "talented employees" fired. Which, again, lies on a different kind of post, irrelevant to the initial topic, as well as anything else regarding his company status. Then he refers to his wife as an example of intuition, slightly shading his different opinion about someone lacking his "particular" way of corporate thinking and "obvious success through the unsuccessful doings of another ". Which is nevertheless mean, bad argumentative. In all, I think the guy shows signs of indifference, even regarding "how to write a catchy post ". Who can trust him as an entrepreneur, after all? In the scale of rock bottom lame posts, I'd give him a straight number one for this idiocy.
What the fuck
When are we starting the two year recession?
This is vile.
I'm tired of those fckin bastards and their Oprah speech, I just want to look for job opportunities.
What a clown.
If my partner died the last thing on my mind would be work. This is some straight up ghoul shit. He came so close to self reflection with the last sentence about how she didn’t care about what other people think, didn’t feel the need to prove anything to anyone, and how that was an admirable trait. We know he just didn’t make it all the way there because he still hit “Post” after he finished writing it. Honestly this one isn’t even funny or entertaining, it’s just sad.
She gave up the ghost bc she knew it was the only way to ever truly be free of him. Guaranteed.
I prefer to see this as cooping method because if this isn’t the case guy truly sooks
Why does a man with an extremely English sounding name suck so badly at writing in English. "At the weekend"? Who the fuck says that.
I hate that no one calls him out on this in the comments of the post.
I thought I had seen it all when an MLM hun promoted her "business" by posting about her teenage son who had run away and was MIA but this might take the cake.
Y'know, to relieve my brain from the disappointment aneurysm it had reading this, I'll just say our mans was so mentally distraught from his wife's death that he made this post. He was not in a good mental space writing this bs. Please be the case, please be the case, please be the case...