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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To make youre doing this, the back of your torso will also have a reflection of the code even when the monitor is at your front. Thats how you know you are now the code.
Load More Replies...Also, displaying my code mirrored on screen so it projects legibly on me really stimulates both hemispheres of my brain.
Well they have the coffee part right but the mug is not big enough. I always find movie representations of programmers hilarious. We code pages at a time and graphics of evil characters are displayed on our screen when our we have been hit by a hacker.
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Load More Replies...SO MANY movies/programs depict screens projecting in this fashion that I have to sit on my hands when I see it. I'm holding them up now to see if Bored Panda is projected onto my palms... Nope!
"You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
being FAIR my work sort of looks like this. We have a large screen that occupies the entire front wall, showing key network statistics and health monitor dials, a weather map, and a connectivity map with pins for each location in the network color-coded for connectivity status (we lost a probe once and suddenly the entire eastern seaboard went red... that was a real brown trouser moment until we figured out it was the tool, not that we'd lost 14 states of connectivity...) The problem is the brightness setting of said LCD screens are... overzealous, and at our old ops center they used back-projection screens because it was built in the early 90s. So yes, our network monitors get projected onto your face if you're in the front few rows of the center and the lights are low (as they often are on night shift).
Looks lime he works for a network tv crime show, solving the case with codes
anyone that work in fornt of the computer knows thats using a monitor in a dark room damages your eyes.
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.