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‘LinkedIn comes with threats’: Founder after rival firm CEO gives her ‘first and only warning’
The founder of a US-based company took to X to share that connection requests on LinkedIn now “come with threats”.
Many people use LinkedIn to connect with individuals they don’t know, sending personalised notes in hopes of the recipients accepting their requests. However, one LinkedIn user used this feature to issue a “warning” to the founder of a rival company. Simple Strat founder Ali Schwanke, in turn, took a screenshot of the “threats” she received and shared it on X. It has since raked millions of views and numerous comments from Internet users.
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“Instead of being pitch slapped, now LinkedIn comes with threats,” wrote Schwanke on X. Alongside, she shared the screenshot of the “unwarranted threat” she received on LinkedIn.
According to the screenshot, Carlos Pantoja, CEO of Optima Solutions, sent a connection request to Schwanke with a message. The message reads, “Your first and only warning do not try to poach my employees or you will have no employees.”
He concluded his personal note with the words, “With much love.”
Take a look at the viral post here:
Schwanke also shared why she chose not to blur out the company and its CEO. “I usually blur stuff but in this case I felt that was too much work for an unwarranted threat,” she wrote.
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Since being shared two days ago on X, the post has gone viral with over two million views and the numbers are still increasing. Many even took to the comments section of the post to share their thoughts.
Check out a few comments here:
“I could understand if you personally knew each other and in which case I’d be like ‘Dude, why are you trying to poach my peopleeeee?!’ But the aggression is somethin’,” posted an individual.
Another wondered, “LMAO. How exactly would he make you ‘have no employees’?”
“I love that he wanted to connect in order to say that,” expressed a third.
A fourth joked, “They should change the button to ‘Accept Threat’.”
“He thought he was doing the Steve Jobs thing, didn’t he,” wrote a fifth.
