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Who Is Shawn Barnes From GTN Technical Staffing? A LinkedIn user fabricated a bogus “final trial chat” between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in order to promote his technological recruitment skills.
A Texas recruiter has been chastised for using Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial to gin up interest in his LinkedIn job posting.
Barnes garnered over 150,000 likes, 13,000 comments, and 2,000 shares on his LinkedIn post on Tuesday.
Who Is Shawn Barnes From GTN Technical Staffing?
Shawn works as a recruiter at GTN Technical Staffing and Consulting.
He created a fictitious post-trial “transcript” between the two actors and posted it to the site on Tuesday to offer a data analyst position.
The job description takes advantage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s high-profile television defamation lawsuit, which was recently settled in a Virginia court.
Based on previously relatively scandalous Shawn created the LinkedIn post fabricating a conversation between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in order to catch the attention of viewers.
LinkedIn Fake Transcript About Johnny Depp And Amber Heard
Following Depp’s victory, plenty of memes about his case went viral on the internet. As a kind of advertisement, Shawn Barnes generated a false transcript between Heard and Depp on LinkedIn.
Barnes wrote, BOMBSHELL. At the end of the trial, a conversation between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was leaked!
According to the transcript, Heard repeatedly asked Depp to look at her and speak to her before telling her that he had nothing to talk to her about. She repeatedly asked him whether he still loves her as he said goodbye to her.
Depp urges Heard to listen to him before praising Barnes and encouraging data analysts to collaborate with him in his response.
User Reaction To The Shawn Barnes’ Post
Many LinkedIn users praised Barnes for his innovative approach to attracting interest in the data analyst position.
One interested reader said, One of the most captivating employment search postings I’ve ever seen!
Another LinkedIn user praised, it as a Genius recruitment tactic, while others called Barnes brilliant, smart, and hilarious.
Not a fan of people using Johnny depp and Ambers court case as a way of advertising themselves on LinkedIn 😬
Like …. Don’t do this? 🙃💁♀️ pic.twitter.com/4Xcm5FLaUv— Shauna Jones (@Shauna_c_jones) June 14, 2022
Some others thought it was disrespectful to use the trial — in which Heard and Depp filed abuse charges against one other — to make fun of Barnes’ tweet.
On Tuesday, Twitter user Ben Muschol mentioned Barnes’ post and wrote This is so gross. I’m at a loss for words. This got tens of thousands of likes on Linkedin along with a screenshot of it.
Moreover, Mimi Aboubaker find the last conversation quite awful as she tweeted, Big yikes on the post.
