Texas recruiter Shawn Barnes referenced Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation case in a viral job posting he shared to LinkedIn on Tuesday.
A Texas recruiter has come beneath fireplace for utilizing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial to stimulate curiosity in his LinkedIn job posting.
Shawn Barnes, who works as a recruiter at GTN Technical Staffing and Consulting, crafted a faux post-trial “transcript” between the 2 actors that he posted to the location Tuesday to promote an information analyst position.
“BOMBSHELL,” Barnes wrote. “The dialog between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had on the finish of the trial has been leaked!”
The recruiter then imagined Heard repeatedly asking Depp to have a look at her, earlier than she requested: “Do you continue to love me, Johnny?”
Within the fake transcript, Depp replied: “Amber, this may be the final time we ever converse, so please hearken to me very fastidiously. If you realize of a Knowledge Analyst with expertise in Python, SQL, A/B testing and Excel, you completely must name Shawn Barnes with GTN Technical Staffing. He's the very best!”
As of lunchtime Wednesday, the job posting has clocked a whopping 223,000 likes.
Many LinkedIn customers responded to Barnes’ put up, praising him for the artistic method he attracted curiosity within the knowledge analyst place.
“One of the vital fascinating worker search posts I’ve ever seen!” one tickled reader responded.
“Genius recruitment technique,” a second LinkedIn consumer swooned, whereas others described Barnes as “sensible,” “intelligent” and “hilarious.”
Nevertheless, not everybody discovered Barnes’ put up amusing, with some saying it was distasteful to make use of the trial — through which Heard and Depp leveled abuse allegations towards one another — as fodder for consideration.
“Utilizing a trial about accomplice violence for lols. That’s fairly tasteless,” one individual chided, whereas one other stated, “That is so gross, don’t even know what to say.”
The put up was subsequently shared to Twitter, the place many others blasted Barnes, together with one who wrote: “I can’t be the one one who thinks utilizing that lame ass faux transcript put up of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard on LinkedIn is absolutely cringe. Like what are we doing right here y’all? Ugh LinkedIn is really a dumpster fireplace.”
The Submit has reached out to Barnes for remark.
Nevertheless, Barnes isn’t the one individual to make use of the Depp/Heard courtroom case to draw curiosity in a vacant job place. In response to the Impartial, a Realtor additionally uploaded the same faux transcript to promote a vacant position together with his enterprise.
One individual claimed they'd seen a number of different imitations of the put up, stating: “My LinkedIn feed is filled with #recruiters sharing a put up utilizing the Johnny Depp trial as a punch line to advertise positions. DV [domestic violence] isn’t a joke or a advertising and marketing device. Your try and be intelligent through the use of different peoples trauma for revenue is embarrassing. That is why your jobs gained’t get stuffed.”
Depp is driving excessive after profitable the authorized case towards Heard late final month. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages after a jury discovered Heard defamed him in an op-ed she penned for the Washington Submit.
In the meantime, Heard had a minor victory in her countersuit towards Depp with the jury awarding her $2 million for compensatory damages.
This week, the “Aquaman” actress — who confronted requires her elimination from an upcoming sequel for that film — spoke out concerning the trial in a sit-down with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, saying she nonetheless loves her ex-husband and has “no sick will” towards him.
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