LinkedOut

We need a website that’s a cross between Topix and LinkedIn.

I’m thirsty for some workplace gossip about people I don’t know IRL. (This is probably why many of us read Ask A Manager, TBH.)

I can’t believe it, but I actually want to read about what it’s really like to work for the people who write those just-keep-hustling essays. I would read any/all of the anti-hustle exposés.

Now, for those who don’t remember Topix, it was this great terrible controversial website where people gathered to talk smack about their hometowns.

In my hometown — which is in Kentucky — we would often get hate messages from as far away as New York and California, which shows that our sphere of influence is … wide. Wide-ish? It extends beyond the seemingly endless fields of burley tobacco, to places where people actually care about things like propriety and having a decent reputation.

LinkedOut would be a site for calling out the folks in the C-suite. And it wouldn’t be organized around locations — it would be organized around the corporations themselves. I want to know which CEOs (allegedly) have secret second (and third) families.

Does Glassdoor have a section for gossip and blind items? If not, that’s a missed opportunity.