Many social media users love to criticize and complain, and last week a lof of that negative attention was focused on “Crying CEO” Braden Wallake of HyperSocial. Wallake made headlines with an anguished post, accompanied by a crying selfie after his company had to lay off three employees.The post went viral, along with a slew of angry comments most of which faulted Wallake for making it all about himself and his raw emotions, rather than his newly jobless employees and the emotions they must be feeling. “Completely narcissistic and tone deaf,” wrote one typical comment. “I don’t think anyone minds him posting a crying selfie. I think the issue is that he laid off 3 people who now have zero income.”Let’s be real about this. Other executives have posted in the past how sorry they felt about laying people off. This one only went viral because of that selfie. It just isn’t the sort of thing people usually post to LinkedIn, which is usually used as a platform for people to tout their own expertise or professionalism. Real emotions are a rarity, and I think maybe they shouldn’t be.Here’s more of what I think is wrong with most of the criticisms that have been lobbed in…
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