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Facepalm: If there's one thing you can say about Microsoft, it's that the company's executives can show a stunning lack of self-awareness. The latest comedically inappropriate LinkedIn post from one of these employees was for positions at Xbox graphics -- featuring a very bad AI-generated image.

Principal Development Lead for Xbox Graphics, Mike Matsel, shared the "Xbox Graphics Is Hiring" post on the professional social networking platform. It appears to be a generic cartoon-style image complete with the Xbox logo, but the woman seems to be using one of those fancy monitors that have their display on the rear instead of (or as well as?) the front. She also appears to be paying more attention to the floating logo than anything else.

The image is, of course, AI-generated. There are plenty of other tell-tale signs, like the unnatural shading on her top, weird keyboard, and the headphones she's using look an awful lot like they're from Apple (and very few people still use wired ones).

The majority of the posts are criticisms of the ad itself. "They didn't even review the AI image, while Microsoft says AI is the future it creates slop like this," wrote one person. "You're the lead of the Xbox GRAPHICS team and didn't notice you posted an image where almost everything is wrong (including, ethically speaking, the use of AI) ? Why would anyone apply to be on your team?" wrote another.