LinkedOut
by Sydney Avery & Brit Kittredge
For every time you wish you’d said that thing to your boss or felt the urge to talk shit but didn’t want to ruin your career, Syd and Brit are here to say what everyone’s thinking about the broken system and the apps that are supposed to land you a job—but mostly just land you automated rejection emails. They dive into job pivots and side hustles, sprinkling in a healthy dose of cynicism and wit as they tackle the peaks and valleys of unemployment. Whether you’ve worked a weird job, been unemployed, or just want to vent about the hellscape that is the current job market, this podcast won’t help you land a job—but it will make you feel better about blowing that interview or getting ghosted by yet another recruiter.
Episodes
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Syd and Brit Bet on Themselves
Send us Fan Mail The girlies are feeling… optimistic? Carefully. Cautiously. Against our better judgment. This week, we’ve got good news to share — but first, Syd recounts her near-miss with immigrating to the Netherlands (spoiler: she’s not going Dutch after all). What changed everything? The…
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Syd and Brit Are Bothered (and Hot)
Send us Fan Mail We’re back, baby. First episode of the new year and we’re fresh off the holidays, multiple time zones, and one truly heroic amount of schlepping (hi New York, hi Holland). Syd returns with the ending to the interview saga you’ve been emotionally invested in — from 700 applicants…
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Syd and Brit Don't Want Space
Send us Fan Mail Syd somehow survives the corporate gauntlet yet again—making it to Round 2 of a job with 700+ applicants (we’re calling it a miracle). Brit gets ghosted by a company that asked for “more examples”… of the exact examples she already sent, so she pivots to the noble profession of…
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Syd and Brit Sell Out (to Nobody)
Send us Fan Mail Syd humbles herself by DMing a childhood friend turned CEO for a job. We spiral about what long-term unemployment does to a person—social norms? gone. dignity? optional. We compare LinkedIn to Hotel California because you can log out any time you like, but you can never actually...
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Syd and Brit Stay Woke, Fall Asleep
Send us Fan Mail This week on LinkedOut: we’re writing back to our rejection emails (because if the bots can be unhinged, so can we). Billionaires are officially old news—make way for the trillionaires. 🙄 Also, LinkedIn’s been reading your DMs to train their AI (toggle your settings, babes). We...
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Syd and Brit Get Worked (But Not Hired)
Send us Fan Mail This week, Syd gets worked by a recruiter but never actually gets work. Brit gets rejected from Trader Joe’s (rude!) and somehow still becomes the embroidery queen. We spiral about why we’re all building our own AI prison, psychoanalyze billionaires for sport, and lightly roast...
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Syd and Brit Hammer It Out
Send us Fan Mail With AI coming for every white-collar job we’ve ever had, Syd and Brit consider new career paths in welding, construction, and other trades that can’t (yet) be automated. It’s women in the opposite of STEM, men on thin ice (except the ones who listen to this podcast, obviously),...
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Syd and Brit Toggle Between Depression & Acceptance
Send us Fan Mail Another pop-up, another lesson, another lint-filled pocket. Syd gets ghosted by her own kin, we’re still swinging between depression and acceptance (fun!), and maybe it’s time to cut the cord and crawl back to the cozy days of VHS and DVDs. The only streaming we're doing is our...
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Syd and Brit Catch a Sexy Vibe
Send us Fan Mail This week, Syd and Brit get communal—talking about the highs and lows of community living, new projects keeping the vibes optimistic, and why hoarding wealth is out (but being too sexy to work is very much in). Plus: fake ads for our fake sponsors, and plenty of unhinged side...
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Syd and Brit Relapse
Send us Fan Mail Syd relapsed—and yes, it’s exactly what you think. Between cringey LinkedIn spam, questionable vendor run-ins, and our latest side quest into embroidery, we’re learning the highs, lows, and LOLs of building a small business while still getting pulled back into the platform we…
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Syd and Brit are So Back
Send us Fan Mail From LinkedIn to link in bio. Syd and Brit dive into their sustainable small biz journey—running baby + kids vintage pop-ups, accidentally making a nemesis (hi, neighborhood mom 👀), learning the hard way about business partners, and scouting NYC’s best secondhand spots. It’s...
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Syd and Brit Start a Small Business!!! (Season 1 Finale)
Send us Fan Mail It’s the Season One LinkedOut finale, babe! And yes—we’re pivoting harder than a tech founder post-downturn. In this episode, Syd and Brit spill the tea on their next big move: launching a modern baby + kids boutique featuring secondhand gems and sustainably made goodies. Brit’s...
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Syd and Brit Take a Sabbatical to Nowhere
Send us Fan Mail This week, Syd has officially retired from LinkedIn and is now living her best soft-life fantasy—rebranding as a neighborhood photographer and making art, making friends, and making the golden years even golder. Meanwhile, Brit reenters the job market and hits rock bottom: she...
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Syd and Brit Can’t Afford That Bag Anyway
Send us Fan Mail This week on LinkedOut, we’re talking cause → effect → chaos. Syd and Brit dive into the butterfly effect of accepting lower salaries as experienced professionals—because when one of us takes a pay cut, it ripples across the whole damn industry. We also break down the internet’s...
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Syd and Brit Leave the Group Chat
Send us Fan Mail This week, Syd and Brit pack their tote bags and head to Tucson, Arizona for a real-life business trip—yes, we left our houses. We met internet friends IRL, got inspired by Actual People™, and remembered the unmatched magic of face-to-face connections. From awkward hugs to…
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Syd and Brit Get Professionally Trolled by Ben Palmer, Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Part 2 of our interview with Ben Palmer! If you haven't already, check out Part 1 and read more about this episode there. Ben Palmer joins us to discuss his career as a "social justice troll" who uses comedy to expose corporate greed, MLM scams, and online…
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Syd and Brit Get Professionally Trolled by Ben Palmer, Part 1
Send us Fan Mail This week, we’re talking to Ben Palmer, the internet’s favorite social justice troll and a comedian who’s mastered the fine art of getting corporations (and boomers) in their feelings. From fake customer service accounts to cease and desist letters, Ben shares how he uses satire,...
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Syd and Brit Get an Offer Yanked
Send us Fan Mail We’re back, and this week? Job hunting has us in a chokehold. We’re talking about that soul-crushing moment when you get a job offer… and then they snatch it back. We’ve been there, besties. It’s giving emotional whiplash. We’re unpacking our own job search chaos, listener horror...
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Syd and Brit Roast the Job Market with Joe Fenti
Send us Fan Mail This week we’re talking to Joe Fenti—comedian, content creator, and the guy who applied to 200 jobs on LinkedIn and got zero responses (relatable, right?). Joe ditched the corporate grind to pursue comedy full-time, and now he’s cracking jokes about insufferable bosses and the...
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Syd and Brit Present: A Corporate Horror Story
Send us Fan Mail Workplace horror story incoming! Syd and Brit are joined by special guest Pete Langway to break down the wild saga of Ashley, a marketing employee just trying to survive corporate chaos. Between her toxic boss (hi, Eric), office crush, and viral fanfiction, Ashley’s journey takes…
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Syd and Brit Shoot Their Shot
Send us Fan Mail We found a real one, and we’re gatekeeping—just a little. We talk about finally finding a good recruiter and what that actually looks like compared to all the duds sliding into your LinkedIn comments and DMs. Okay, so this episode isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but sometimes the...
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Syd and Brit Light the Match
Send us Fan Mail We’re burning it all down… still! But today, we’re reading our first ever on air interview horror story emailed directly from new outtie Jessica. We regale you with our most recent Linkedin drama, talk about all the government layoffs and share some exciting news for LinkedOut!...
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Syd and Brit Take the L
Send us Fan Mail The letter of the week is, apparently, L. L for losing our shit. L for taking an L on LinkedIn. L for laughing maniacally. L for lots of thoughts and feelings. Ok, you get the picture! We’re talking our shit per usual and burning it down. Buckle up, besties. Discover: New…
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Syd and Brit Interrogate a Recruiter
Send us Fan Mail Can you believe it? We actually got a recruiter on the line! And tbh this episode might actually help you get a job (which we know is somewhat off brand). We’re asking Gabe the Recruiter all of our burning questions and he’s not shying away from any of them. We stan! Discover:...
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Syd and Brit Tell It Like It Is
Send us Fan Mail We’re covering a lot of ground this week, both metaphorically and literally. The TikTok economy, AI ruminations, the lost art of subtlety, internet gems, and new hobbies – what won’t these b*tches talk about? Also, a word of advice: do as we say not as we do… or just do whatever...
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Syd and Brit Need a Win
Send us Fan Mail It’s out with the old year, in with the new... rejections? Coming to you live from our first “business” trip, we’re taking stock of what we’ve learned in 2024 and heading into 2025 with clear eyes and full hearts (begrudgingly). Discover: The interview feedback you’ll never get…
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Syd and Brit Confirm Their Biases with Garen
Send us Fan Mail Shaking things up with Garen Orr! Garen’s path from touring musician to music supervisor unfortunately included a pit stop on LinkedIn. Like so many of us, he started experimenting with it in college. And we’re taking our metaphors to new heights (possibly lows), laughing amidst...
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Syd and Brit Don’t Care Who’s Looking
Send us Fan Mail Circling back is so last year. We’re circling forward and chipping away at the behemoth iceberg that is corporate greed, false metrics, and the impending doom of white collar employment. Fun! Is everyone else using LinkedIn to look up their exes and other random people from their...
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Syd and Brit Follow the Money
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit unpack the strangest interview questions to date. And, as preliminary requirements get more and more demanding, companies are squeezing more and more free labor out of candidates to ensure they’re “right for the job.” Also the weekly job follow up on yet another...
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Syd and Brit Are Holi-Dazed and Confused
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit discuss how to navigate awkward job conversations with your fam, both extended and immediate. They also get into their weekly job rejection check ins, more insights on why LinkedIn is the absolute worst, and some hard truths on the realities of unemployment.…
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Syd and Brit Are Going to Hell (and Back)
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit are still wondering how people get jobs, and are getting better at making a podcast? You tell us. No, really. Tell us. Getting deeper into why you shouldn’t show all your cards aka enter your social security number into a job application, and lamenting the days of...
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Syd and Brit Are Losing Sleep Over Circling Back
Send us Fan Mail We’re still begrudgingly applying to jobs (well, Brit is at least) and putting on our fakest smiles for interviews. Call it field research! Looking for some hot negotiating tips? We have some really obvious ones. And whatever you do, just remember: recruiters are not your…
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Syd and Brit Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit go a little further down the LinkedIn rabbithole when they discover just how much money LinkedIn rakes in from corporate subscriptions. LinkedIn may benefit more from you being unemployed. If you get a job, they lose your engagement. Diabolical. Discover: A cold…
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Syd and Brit Turn Fetishes into Jobs
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit dive into the weirdest jobs they’ve ever had while delving deeper into the job search, sharing some new developments on recruiters and the tactics companies use to reel in potential suckers—I mean, applicants. They uncover some unexpected stats and wrap things up on…
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Syd and Brit Get Scammed
Send us Fan Mail Syd and Brit recount their last week of hopeless job hunting. If looking for a job wasn’t bad enough, now we have ghost jobs and job scams to worry about. This podcast still won’t help you get a job but it can help you recognize ghost jobs and scam jobs. Discover: Diving…
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About this show
For every time you wish you’d said that thing to your boss or felt the urge to talk shit but didn’t want to ruin your career, Syd and Brit are here to say what everyone’s thinking about the broken system and the apps that are supposed to land you a job—but mostly just land you automated rejection emails. They dive into job pivots and side hustles, sprinkling in a healthy dose of cynicism and wit as they tackle the peaks and valleys of unemployment. Whether you’ve worked a weird job, been unemployed, or just want to vent about the hellscape that is the current job market, this podcast won’t help you land a job—but it will make you feel better about blowing that interview or getting ghosted by yet another recruiter.
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Sydney Avery & Brit Kittredge
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