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There's something about stock photos that make them instantly recognizable as a genre, a weird, posey cheesiness often unified by hilariously bad photo editing. When you see a stock photo, you just know that it's a stock photo.

Trying to represent so many different topics, ideas, concepts, and scenarios into single photographs make the job difficult for photographers and actors, and how they fail is a source of absolute comedy gold. The hashtag #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob, originally started by scientists, has been going around and it is a perfect collection of the times when stock photographers clearly had no idea what they were doing with their weird photos. The fails, along with the funny photoshop, inherent cheesiness of the weird stock photos and the indignation of those whose jobs are woefully misrepresented, combine for a perfect storm of funny photos!

Scroll down below to check out a list of Bored Panda's favorite funny stock photos!

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Hans
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Moreover, you obviously use a font size of 22pt or more when coding. This must lead to solid code!

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Cactuar Jon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a story to this photo. This woman has clearly found a lipstick mark on her husbands white shirt collar. She is investigating the colour of the lipstick (in agreement by the man there, that's def plum cherry) before she goes off to investigate the companies using such colour, to find the store it was bought in, to find the women that shop there and BAM! She'd caught the woman her husband is cheating on her with. She's not really a scientist/researcher of any kind, she's just an accountant at Costa Coffee.

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Fire Bird
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Safety glasses on just in case a rogue meteorite hits him in the eye. Safety first.

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Kjorn
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

from everything i learn in Tampax commercial is that blue liquid is nothing seductive

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well having recently left academia for this very reason ... I'd say it's pretty accurate

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noitall man
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

JImmy forgot the damn gloves! Oh well, just take the pic and let's move on.

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Magpie
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it just me that has an overwhelming urge to put gloves on that mouse ? Is that caused purely by the sight of blue liquid ?

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Tiny Dynamine
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's obviously poked his eye out too many times with the microscope.

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David Lyon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope that isn't a Mandrake. "The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it." —Hermione Granger

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is too painful to watch. I almost smell burnings...

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Lou Wow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The transmogrification experiment actually worked, much to everyone’s surprise. Now they had to get their professor back as he is now clearly a chicken.

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James Butterworth
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the trackpad is MUCH easier than a mouse or pen tablet, clearly! Also, coloured tape and 4 scissors because.

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Lou Wow
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When hypnotists play a prank on you and you don’t find out until a few days later when you’re eating bowls of dirt.

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Jaded Queen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just unleash hell on the innocent non suspecting families. Muahahaha!😈

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Sally Appleton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*David Attenborough voice* Much like the hermit crab, that baby will soon outgrow its tube and begin looking for a new place to stay.

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All With Heart
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am reading this is class. During this whole period, my teacher has crossed her arms three times.

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Tiny Dynamine
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After hours of research, Beryl had identified where the crops were.

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Jessica Gunn
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surely this didn't come up for marine biologist...it might be the most ridiculous one! Lol, underwater clubbing, with fish microphone!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or you could be part machine, hence science communication. Your bilingual! Too bad that you have to connect you throat wires with other types if science, like in Avatar...

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Sally Appleton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Well team, how can we improve the safety standards of this hospital?" "Let's breathe all over each other so all our patients are exposed to the same diseases."

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BusLady
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If she has that many unpublished manuscripts, she should consider a different career

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Bonnie Blue Bird
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't surprise me if a dietitian does spend most of their day explaining to a lot of people what veggies are and that processed foods are not food.

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Neb
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Laptop for research, notebook to put ideas fast (personally I write faster in hand than on computer, and as I cannot skip if I see that I made a mistake, writing by hand is preferable, because otherwise I can loose my train of thoughts while I go back and fix the error on computer)

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Cactuar Jon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what happens when you buy a nestbox but work full time and don't have anyone to look after it for you while you're out! Still, at least he's bonding with it.

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Tiny Dynamine
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"And within 15 years, someone will have invented the plant pot."

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially since the VR goggles s are so obviously photoshopped on afterwards...

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Sally Appleton
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the aim of my research is to find out what every single fruit and vegetable does when you stick a needle into it. So far the results are surprising.

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Neb
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course, and beginners level telescopes, also binoculars.

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LOttawa
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How else are you suppose to get tomato juice... Sheshh lol

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Neb
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The strand looks wow, when quickly scrolling up and down *spends 5 minutes scrolling up and down*

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Cheryl Farmer
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All professors I know recommend that their student study, sit their quals, and defend their dissertations while wearing regalia.

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Cactuar Jon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"How you doing with your lemons, Karen?" "Number 23. I predict if i eat exactly twelve a three quarters more of these Tide injected lemons, my lab coat will be approximately 2 shades whiter. You got that bottle clean yet, Joe? "Not yet. Another week maybe."

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Tiny Dynamine
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

- "I can see you have a cavity that needs filling." - "Um, what?"

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Tiny Dynamine
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think he's that concerned about giving his colleague some of his honey.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With our marker caps,because using the ink to write is for chumps....

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