People Are Sharing Bad Stock Photos Of Their Jobs That Are So Far From Reality, It’s Hilarious (35 New Pics)
Whether we're talking about the dark side of stock photography or images you won’t be able to unsee, the Internet seems obsessed with these tasteless crimes against photography. Such lousy pictures really stand out from the crowd—over-exaggerated emotions, questionable settings, poor editing—the list goes on. Bad stock photos have that rare quality of capturing our attention, and examples of workers failing at their jobs are a source of pure comedy gold.
People all across the internet are laughing at images of librarians poking at computer screens, astronomers in lab coats looking at the sky, or marketing managers taking meetings fully dressed at the beach. Via a viral Twitter hashtag, #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob, users share absurd interpretations of their professions.
Since you can never get enough of such posts, Bored Panda has collected a variety of strange and funny pictures from this hashtag. Scroll down, upvote your favorites and make sure to check out Part 1 of this post!
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I actually got 14 upvotes for writing " lol " ?? Lol
Load More Replies...What the f*ck is happening there, lol? I'm wondering what the patient has on screen. Is he rock-climbing? Washing the bathroom tiles? Having fun with his partner?
Probably the latter, and the nurse is so embarrassed she's faking an interest in the wheelchair
Load More Replies...Well, it is a psychiatric ward, so that's imaginary Billy right there (in the wheelchair), and he's not well today.
Winston finally sent him over the edge and info the asylum.
Load More Replies...Talking to the wheelchair that it might be time for euthanasia while the patient is distracted
When it comes to photographers' perception of what people actually do at their jobs, it seems that scientists, teachers, programmers and doctors are the most wronged professionals. Just take a look at how they are depicted in this list: coding in a dark room or using a stethoscope on a tree while wearing a lab coat. And the captions people add for the photos make it even more hilarious.
To tell you a little bit more about it, a stock photo is a generic image that is often used for creative purposes and is usually taken without a specific purpose in mind. And it shows. Looking at some of the stock photos, you can't help but wonder, why are those people so happy pointing at a computer screen or why is that man with an eye-patch playing the abacus like a musical instrument. Pretty specific, right? Well, there is no product without demand.
I admit some days are a blur, but.... not from speeding with a gurney.
"GET ME 50CCs OF PENTATHOL STAT!" - every american medical movie / tv show
"GET ME 50000000000CCS OF IVERMECTIN STAT!" - antivaxxers wth covid
Load More Replies...Stock images are a great way to get high-quality photos for a variety of purposes. You can buy a license for a specific image and use it across many different channels. Most people and brands do this in order to save some money on hiring professionals to create original content. In short, stock bank users get the photos they need and photographers earn some easy money in return.
Usually, a person who is browsing through a stock photography site already has an idea of what they are looking for. The thing is, people uploading the images need to anticipate the demand before the search actually happens. It seems that this year, the most popular trends are vintage lifestyle photos, cultural diversity, authentic living, and even modern aging.
looks like a mechanic, "is good for another 500km. but keep an eye on the oil"
Stock photo for "what all male teenagers think life as a gyno is like"
A lady friend of my mom's, who often lamented over her lack of a sex life, once draped fake cobwebs with a little plastic spider over her crotch before the doc came in. She said the guy just about fell off his exam stool laughing.
Yeah, you need 'em so you don't get spaced out! /j
Load More Replies...It reminds me of big bang theory's Raj presenting that PowerPoint including the photo of him as a kid discovering the moon
However, not all photographers follow what's in right now. As we have discussed, some stock pictures have a pretty bad reputation for being corny and fake. Know Your Meme even has a page for stock photo clichés. The first curation of awkward stock images started with the blog called Awkward Stock Photos in 2010. You probably remember the widely known images of women laughing alone with a salad or business people doing yoga. Pictures like these were just so absurd, they quickly went viral.
Stock photo for when "You've left the graduation ceremony, after spending 5 years on a PhD, to go look for a reason to live"
Also watch out for the creepy guy with a camera on the next aisle. He is stalking you.
It was thoughtful of the university to provide a guide to jobs in the fast food industry
On a pirate ship. You may recognize them from such films as "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "Goonies"
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch of pirates on the Accountancy
The first and last time I saw an abacus in use was in a Soviet era Russian department store. Poor Yuri - once the fastest cashier at GUM, now reduced to performance art
Today in live action Sesame Street The Count's lesser known cousin of the Black Pearl
People actually don't dislike stock photos so much as they don't take them seriously. The common appreciation of these pictures is usually based on irony, especially among millennials. It may seem like common sense, but you should not use them for your website or any other channels since "bad stock images aren't friendly and inviting."
I used to work in customer service and finger poking the exact location was often necessary
Agree. In this age of technology, computer-screen poking can be an integral part to any number of jobs. We just need to zhuzh it up a bit, like with little poking stick perhaps?
Load More Replies...My mom once signed her name for an online document on the actual computer screen with an actual ink pen. 5 years later, my parents still use the same PC and the signature is still visible. This has nothing really to do with the post, but it's a funny story that someone should know about
I have worked reception booking appointments and cannot tell you how many times customers were trying to poke my screen and say " i can see an available appointment here put me!!" Do not touch that m**********r it's a touch screen!!!!!
Did this to a colleague once. Unbeknownst to me he was using his own computer , with touch. Oops.
Load More Replies...I am a librarian and this is very accurate. Many that use library computers don’t have a ton of experience so we are always walking them through. The pandemic made this really hard with social distancing. We tried laser pointers and long antenna like pointers.
I wish my High School Librarians knew that 40 years ago. Life would have been different for me.
Mine is a touch screen and I know a librarian who is free to poke all she wants.
This is some sort of advert for a kinky medical fetish...or something. Lol
Well....I know a LOT of people I#d like to hammer-smash right in the flap. Maybe Doc is living the dream?
This reminds me of the group Improv Everywhere which organizes "Black Tie Beach" events (check them out on You Tube)
Portraying professionals completely inaccurately and sometimes even inappropriately can seem absolutely pointless. Yet, some people make a living out of it. The Independent spoke to two people who have been involved in stock image photography, Jim Murtagh from New York and Andi Dean from North Carolina.
... I'm fine with that...! I'm NOT fine with mindlessly handing it out to everyone and their Grandma, neither fine with restricting people who feel better with it due to pain being among the worst demotivators of them all - like a depression, but easier to get rid of - but, it seems, it either is "ThE bAd OpIoIdEs, No!" or "ThRoW'eM iN lIkE sMaRtIeS111" ... and the useful inbetween often are the ones paying the price, while the stupid abuse and bribery-prescribery ruin the name of the chemical as well as therapeutical options for those in need - politicians don't know how to make access different, they only know "hard" or "easy" and therefore, make silly and dumb law regarding narcotics, and not these alone, but pretty much everything.
Yet our government keeps this from being given to people in pain. They'd rather you took over the counter drugs that wreck your liver and kidneys
Hooray for oxycodone! It's helped me immensely the last week, after getting a chunk cut out of the bottom of one of my toes.
Who played the serial killer Ted Bundy, interestingly enough
Load More Replies...If they have been accepted to law school they develop *attitude*.
This guy is obviously a bit of a "player", though he also seems to have some square piece substrings. :D
So you can write the code and have the code review in realtime if others are in the room.
No programer will ever love to project their code while coding. Very vulnerable!!
Jim did stock photos a few years back when he was involved in the comedy scene and thought this would be good for publicity. "I’m not sure exactly how many photos were taken but the whole shoot lasted about an hour and I was paid absolutely no money to do it," he said. "At first, I just had to stand near a window and smile to get some generic ‘nice boy’ shots but then they had me sit at a computer and make several different expressions to go with different headlines they would use me for."
Πολλοί θα το διαβάσουν λίγοι θα το καταλάβουν! Έπρεπε να πεις rabbit goes to drink water 😅😅😅😅
Load More Replies...Yeah, this one particularly tickled me. I literally guffawed.
Load More Replies...If not they'll be missing both eyes. Either way the parents will know something important.
Tweezers are called Forceps int he professional world.
Load More Replies...Wait! Doas DNA look different?? (Sarcastic tone)
Load More Replies...Bottom right's not even tweezers. They're the cheap nail scissors that came with the tweezers/nail clipper combo from the Dollar Store. And they thought they could just slip this in without notice ...
well that's because they are splicing the gene sequence so they first cut out a section duh.
Load More Replies...Beacuse this is not a tree of course. It is Groot geting checked! Duh
"Good news, you'll live for maybe another two hundred years. Bad news, you've got some bugs on you....."
Here, we see Steve has been inhaling pesticides again. Steve…that’s not how we check the sap, Steve….
Even though the photographers were nice, they did not provide any of the clothes or props. "I agreed that the images could be used for any article – I do not have any veto power on what they use it for," he continued. Over the years, his face has been featured on pieces about any man or alt-right troll screaming at women but it’s so over the top that it makes him laugh.
I mean, you won't sound good, but breaking your hand?
Load More Replies...I had an old Russian piano teacher who would hit me whenever I hit the wrong note. One day she was in a nasty mood and hit me hard. (I told my neglectful mother who said I was lying.) I told her to never to hit me again or she would regret it. When she inevitably did, I punched her as hard as I could and left. I was 10 years old.
Top right looks like it belongs in an Anti-Sexual Harrassment presentation.
I think they mean facing outwards. It would usually have the screen facing his body.
Load More Replies...ahhh buildings are sculptures meant to be touched like the person who thought up this pose
Sometimes it helps to put the other ends into your ears.... this is not one of those times tho.
Well it’s working it’s way from the cow nose, to the ferret head, to the dog shoulder, so they’ll get to a chest eventually.......!
Look at the dogs eyes 👀 Even he's thinking "WTF Dave, get your s**t together and get this thing off my shoulder!"
"If you detect plastic or metal you're almost certainly dealing with a toy"
The stethoscope isn't even in the vet's ears so like what exactly is he even checking...lmao
The most annoying part is that people who recognize him, constantly send him links to these articles: "I just wanna say: ‘Yeah, it was four years ago, leave me alone. We don’t talk anymore’. And my family is confused; I explained to my aunts and uncles that it is satire so the articles are fake but they still barely get it. They always tell me I should get a lawyer. They don’t understand why I’d do it willingly."
"... and then I go clackety-clack on the manual typewriter with no paper. Librarians love me."
Egad! I can feel that book hurting from here. I guess she's crossing out all the truths and rewriting history for her Party.
Not gonna lie, her back will hurt like hell after sitting for more than 10 minutes like that.
By the end of para 1 she's going to have a nice bruise on the inside of her right knee.
Although she was a best-selling erotic novelist, Audrey's first love would always be the cello
I could not stop laughing now because I am a writer and if I looked like that while writing, my daughter would have me locked up as certifiably insane! Priceless!
Yet another dodgy Wacom Bamboo Tablet conks out a month after purchase. That’s what he’s sad about
If hair can be put up on a bun, then it can be put up on a bun. Or will you ask all women why they have woman buns?
Load More Replies...It was quite different for Andi. She was quite an active stock model and was able to earn some money from the shoots. "Each shoot lasted about four to five hours and around 2000-3000 photos were taken. About 400-500 of those made the final cut. But since I’ve done a few, there are still probably over 2500 pictures of me out there for people to download," she said.
If you actually held a soldering iron like that, you'd be screaming whilst the skin burned and fell from your fingers.
I see these and wonder if there are so many people have never seen a soldering iron in use. You don't have to use one yourself, but simply not live your entire life with your head in a hole! I've never removed an appendix, or replaced a heart valve, but I think I could hold a scalpel properly!!
Bottom right looks more like an insulated screwdriver than a soldering iron.
And that hard drive... once opened outside of a clean room, it would be toast!
One of these things, just doesn’t belong here. One of these things isn’t quite the same….🤣🤣🤣
"At the beginning of each shoot, I’d sign a waiver stating I’d give up all rights to the photos," she explained. "I can see how this would bother some people, but for whatever reason, it doesn’t bother me. The photos I take are completely wholesome, with many bright colors and cute props. I don’t see how they could be used in an inappropriate way."
What? It's simple! You just tap the hoof three times and a forest elf will bring you a gallon of milk!
Load More Replies...Of course, the cows heart is in its head. Why would anyone ever think it could be in the chest? Ridiculous!
"Breathe!" "Mooo" *takes off stethoscope very concerned* "According to my veterinary scientific expertise, this animal is a cow. "
"If only we add a little blood, that little critter will come back to life for sure!"
Muahahaha!! Next we only need it been hit by a thunder! Bwahahaha
Load More Replies...Just keep her indoors for a few days, make sure she has plenty of liquids and she'll be fine
is technic of medical divination...the pills have much hidden knowledge...the doctor thus understand the will of the spirits of medicin...modern science is awesome
They're like runes. Each pill has the stamped letters/numbers. You just have to know how to interpret them, and it's not always just by reading! For example, an Adderall breaking when dropped on the floor means that the patient is selling their medication to friends
Load More Replies...I think they are spread over a glass surface and we are- for some reason- under the glass looking at him from below.
Also used by techs when installing white/clean panels without getting them dirty. I prefer non disposable for environmental reasons.
Load More Replies...It takes a diamond scientist to tell a real diamond from a $5 piece of glass!
And if s/he really is an expert, s/he can do it wearing scratched foggy lab goggles!
Load More Replies...Yeah well given that it is the largest diamond known to humanity, at about 3x the size of the cullinan, which is merely valued at about 500mn GBP, this diamond, worth probably 1,5 bn gbp, definitely was photographed by a random stock photo photographer who totally got permission and did not get surrounded by a platoon of SAS guys.
YOU MUST BE SO CATEFUL!! That diamond will jump out of your hand and attack your eyeballs, thank Gawd she has on her safety glasses!!!
Photo to be used to showcase stones found in cafeteria while serving !!
Let alone the fact that it looks like she has at least one super long arm.
"Female clergy with perms" is a pretty niche market, when one thinks about it.
Does this photo display how the clergy refill themselves with hot air?
"Banish the demons of frizziness with the Pifco 666, as used by 7 out of 10 ladies of the cloth"
Ah yes. The priestess from the Church of the Drying Follicle. I heard her sermon on conditioning was so good she had to rinse and repeat.
My computer has Paint3D, but it came without the paintbrush. Should that have been included, can I sue Microsoft for it?
Load More Replies...Cintiq’s are dead now, just use an old paintbrush and acrylics and there you go. You definitely won’t ruin your pc
This reminds me of that zillow commercial where the woman is having a conference with all the different versions of herself. She tries to ask 'Stressed Me' what she thinks, and Stressed Me just smiles and slowly breaks a lap top in half. I know I'm getting old because I laughed.
This is clearly a microbiologist. We frequently look at our slides by squinting at a tiny toy microscope.
I read "space-time" for a second and wondered how that's supposed to work out :D
Load More Replies...At some factories they're using AR with Google Glass or something like that to check data. An AGCO (Massey Ferguson) factory here in Brazil uses all the time
We all feel attacked. If I’m jumping it’s an artistic meltdown hopefully followed by creative genius and not depression
She's in the air because she just sprinted back to the canvas after breaking up some three year olds biting each other again. Seems right to me.
Load More Replies...It’s because she doesn’t have a third hand to remove the cap with😀
Load More Replies...Wow. If you midx Blue Gatorade with Yellow Gatorade.... You get Gatorade.
I also like that she's using an 80" long paper sheet in that old typewriter while there are A4 paper sheets flying through the air
I was surprised to learn that cats actually have bone in their ears...
"Good thing I have some funny symbols on a chalkboard to distract them!"
'A book that appears to be an entirely different subject than what you're supposedly teaching.
Yeah... Math teachers looooove reading Gérald Tenenbaum's "l'affinité des traces"... We all know that..
I had to laugh when my cousin told me about a client that was shocked he flew the charter in a hoodie and board shorts. Where’s your outfit. lol
The bottom right photo has such a perfect line going through it that it took (*me) a solid 10-15 seconds to process that it was a single picture
The solution to all cases: give one side a good * s m a c k * and tada, no more opposing side = no more dispute :D [disclaimer: This message is not legal advice. Do not solve legal disputes by causing skull fractures. :P]
I think in mind set, they use certain items associated with that field to give you an idea
The day before the final exam and students want extra credit and they don't understand what they did wrong on their last test and they found their old homework from ten days ago and...and...and...
Holly cow! I thougt it was a teacher-parents meeting. Sorry. My bad
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who is a little bit scared by the way this man is looking at me?
Eh, if he is as clueless as both he and his surroundings look/s, you'll be fine.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who thinks the bunny is freaked out and knows how many animals die from animal testing.
I know how many animals die from animal testing not the bunny.
Load More Replies...Some people just don't take a no for an answer, reporters can be very annoying with things like this. Once a reporter wanted a picture of me so that my tent and the campfire were in the frame, but those things were very far away from each other, and oh, I was all alone in the woods, which was kinda the point of the whole interview. Also, a simple "no" should be enough no matter what the situation is. No means no. "that's not how this works" also means no. "I don't feel like it" = no. "I don't want to" = no. There's many more ways to decline things. We have to start taking it more seriously instead of demanding that people should say "no" more strongly.
Load More Replies...Please do not mock this person. Pictureheaditis is a very real and serious condition where a subject's head slowly turns into a framed picture. Galleries are the only real sanctuary for the afflicted where they can feel some sense of 'normality'. Before you say anything like 'You've been framed' spare a thought for the plight of the afflicted. Thank-you.
Work gloves. LOL. Work gloves. (Raised on farm. Also, I never cut hay with a chainsaw in my life, so.... Yeah. No. )
Neither I, but some acquaintance use to cut silage bales with chainsaw.
Load More Replies...Actually that was a gopro shot mounted on the front of a high speed train.
Keep doing those genetic experiments. I am sure the fourth limb will grow anytime now.
Sorry but what is wrong with picture 2 and 3? In the first one that thing is obviously a bike stand (there's another bike there) and in the third one: if you need to go down stairs with your bike why would you take your helmet off? Or am I'm not getting this??
You have to borrow the headset from the stock photo; they'll be in the scene
Load More Replies...That's not biotechnology, that's the wicked witch manufacturing 'Snow White' apples...
I used to do this in the army. Put laxatives in fresh oranges with a syringe to see my least liked colleague having to rush to the latrines every 5 minutes. We were bored (and I never ater at the officer's mess)
Sometimes I wish we would have gloves on help desk. You wouldn't believe how osome computers look when we get them back
Maybe she's far-sighted, so she doesn't need the glasses when drawing?
Load More Replies...Apparantly as a firefighter I am ripped!! And can work fires with-my-jacket-OPEN! Who knew?
You also need a baby animal I believe, in order to fight the fire more efficiently
Load More Replies...Being able to hear and speak to you can only be done holding the headset, and we all have a big, s**t-eating grin while listening to you rage and curse. 360_F_1710...21ba5d.jpg
I went looking for stock photos of my former occupation (drafting) and was surprised to find that apparently I was supposed to be drawing on blueprints. Not vellum or mylar originals, not with CAD on a computer, not diazo prints, but actual *blueprints*, which passed out of common use about 10 years before I even started work in the 70s. I've never even seen one up close.
They were still used in construction in the 90's. If you were a real drafter you would know this, and that you draft on vellum. Blueprints are copies.
Load More Replies...Apparently, as a cellist, I c afford a silk dress, and very expensive looking make up, but not a cello bigger than a 1/8 size.
Apparently as a Paralegal I am super happy to be in the file room holding a huge file. With a super tight bun. (No for many reasons, A- if I am in the physical files someone Fed up and I have to fix it. B- we do not look that put together ever.)
Apparantly as a firefighter I am ripped!! And can work fires with-my-jacket-OPEN! Who knew?
You also need a baby animal I believe, in order to fight the fire more efficiently
Load More Replies...Being able to hear and speak to you can only be done holding the headset, and we all have a big, s**t-eating grin while listening to you rage and curse. 360_F_1710...21ba5d.jpg
I went looking for stock photos of my former occupation (drafting) and was surprised to find that apparently I was supposed to be drawing on blueprints. Not vellum or mylar originals, not with CAD on a computer, not diazo prints, but actual *blueprints*, which passed out of common use about 10 years before I even started work in the 70s. I've never even seen one up close.
They were still used in construction in the 90's. If you were a real drafter you would know this, and that you draft on vellum. Blueprints are copies.
Load More Replies...Apparently, as a cellist, I c afford a silk dress, and very expensive looking make up, but not a cello bigger than a 1/8 size.
Apparently as a Paralegal I am super happy to be in the file room holding a huge file. With a super tight bun. (No for many reasons, A- if I am in the physical files someone Fed up and I have to fix it. B- we do not look that put together ever.)
