People Are Sharing Hilariously Bad Stock Photos Of Their Jobs, And You’ll Laugh Out Loud When You Find Yours
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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Could you imagine going to see your doctor and she begins your examination by looking you straight in the eyes and boinking you in the middle of your forehead with a little hammer?
AFAIK, it is a test for Parkinson's. If you blink, you are OK.
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*hits someone with a reflex hammer* you have bad reflexes... also I hate you.
Exactly Mr. Burrows - believe we know the Dr. best as Little Bunny Foo Foo, boopin all these field mice on the heads!
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Defenetly a plastic surgeon on a nose job. And she's done an amazing job..
@Mike: This ist called "glabellar reflex" - in the middle of the face! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glabellar_reflex) Greetings from a Neurologist in Germany ;)
Rather a very obscure & extremely specific for a stock photo though now it's use & purpose has been rendered much more understandable. Thank you for your very insightful & valuable knowledge on a quest to always learn.
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True Mr. Gallant it's used to test for Parkinson's disease.
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This is what you have to resort to when people don't understand sarcasm: Beat them with a hammer.
Humm, just need to test if you have any normal reflexes as to sarcastic humors
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I'm actually a graphic designer, but I too would like to hit people in the face with a hammer sometimes...
She's checking for a groin shot sign. If their neurologically, they'll punch you in the groin.
Actually there are many reflexes that involve face muscles and could be tested with gentle hammering.
I am your evil twin with the stock photo wig....this is just hypnosis with a new reflexology flair
It's normal. The hammer is also used for eye movement tests. Left to right, follow thw hammer etc.
Not in eye movement tests I've had done - usually asked to follow their finger.
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This cracked me up and I spilled my cofev. Too many passive-aggressive glares from colleagues though.
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.
JImmy forgot the damn gloves! Oh well, just take the pic and let's move on.
I typically point all of my lights at my a*s, I can't have the model looking better than me.
He's obviously poked his eye out too many times with the microscope.
Hope that isn't a Mandrake. "The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it." —Hermione Granger
And the trackpad is MUCH easier than a mouse or pen tablet, clearly! Also, coloured tape and 4 scissors because.
Just unleash hell on the innocent non suspecting families. Muahahaha!😈
*David Attenborough voice* Much like the hermit crab, that baby will soon outgrow its tube and begin looking for a new place to stay.
I am reading this is class. During this whole period, my teacher has crossed her arms three times.
And that's not even a random model - that's British physicist Brian C*x...
Surely this didn't come up for marine biologist...it might be the most ridiculous one! Lol, underwater clubbing, with fish microphone!
"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."
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.
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)
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.
Especially since the VR goggles s are so obviously photoshopped on afterwards...
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.
All professors I know recommend that their student study, sit their quals, and defend their dissertations while wearing regalia.
"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."
I don't think he's that concerned about giving his colleague some of his honey.
With our marker caps,because using the ink to write is for chumps....
I definitely wear Daisy Dukes, full makeup, and sit my a*s on the counter I'm scrubbing, while sporting a very happy face. housewife-...97ce47.jpg 
I'm not so sure about the value of these stock photos. Here's my job, which has nothing to do with dance, stretching, or binoculars. depositpho...nalyst.jpg 
I think this stock photos can not be taken too serious. The just want to tell as much as possible in one picture. For instance, how could you tell, that the guy is an alcoholic if he doesn't hold a bottle in his hand? But I like this post. It's funny with all the comments....
While some of those are quite funnily silly indeed, a lot are just fine imo. Obviously they're not entirely accurate but "accurate" for most jobs would just feature sitting at a computer with a boring expression on their face. Those like student wearing regalia/coder getting code lines all over him/writer's typewriter exploding with letters etc are more along the lines of colourfully portraying the idea and are actually kinda cool. Oh and I love the coloured pencils graphical designer one.
This one of the most hilarious and funniest article here on boredpanda. I was laughing from beginning to the last page!!
As an #IT-professional, we have meetings where we map out the future of the company's strategic direction and just laugh & laugh & laugh & gaze in wonder at what management thinks will actually work IT-Profees...a2303f.jpg 
The ultimate coaster for a graphic designer. SO COMFY! Screen-Sho...2b-png.jpg 
As an entomologist, you learn the arcane art of summoning insects. entomologi...9c0a2f.jpg 
Pff, could have done with some editing down. Loads of repeats at the end too.
I'm wondering what the "Blue Wonder Drug" is in all the lab shots! Does everyone who works in a lab deal with a blue liquid??
Omg! I have never laughed more at anything. Never has a comedian or a reality show has done so awesome a job. I love it.
I definitely wear Daisy Dukes, full makeup, and sit my a*s on the counter I'm scrubbing, while sporting a very happy face. housewife-...97ce47.jpg
I'm not so sure about the value of these stock photos. Here's my job, which has nothing to do with dance, stretching, or binoculars. depositpho...nalyst.jpg
I think this stock photos can not be taken too serious. The just want to tell as much as possible in one picture. For instance, how could you tell, that the guy is an alcoholic if he doesn't hold a bottle in his hand? But I like this post. It's funny with all the comments....
While some of those are quite funnily silly indeed, a lot are just fine imo. Obviously they're not entirely accurate but "accurate" for most jobs would just feature sitting at a computer with a boring expression on their face. Those like student wearing regalia/coder getting code lines all over him/writer's typewriter exploding with letters etc are more along the lines of colourfully portraying the idea and are actually kinda cool. Oh and I love the coloured pencils graphical designer one.
This one of the most hilarious and funniest article here on boredpanda. I was laughing from beginning to the last page!!
As an #IT-professional, we have meetings where we map out the future of the company's strategic direction and just laugh & laugh & laugh & gaze in wonder at what management thinks will actually work IT-Profees...a2303f.jpg
The ultimate coaster for a graphic designer. SO COMFY! Screen-Sho...2b-png.jpg
As an entomologist, you learn the arcane art of summoning insects. entomologi...9c0a2f.jpg
Pff, could have done with some editing down. Loads of repeats at the end too.
I'm wondering what the "Blue Wonder Drug" is in all the lab shots! Does everyone who works in a lab deal with a blue liquid??
Omg! I have never laughed more at anything. Never has a comedian or a reality show has done so awesome a job. I love it.
