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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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
The upper right one has made the rounds on BP before. Amazing that all three of these actors are holding the iron by the sheath around the heating element (which gets hot enough to burn in it's own right), all three are working on the top side of the board (solder is usually applied to the back) but most importantly, all three are working with PC motherboards - something you'll never apply solder to. Computer components snap together without using solder. Granted, there are components on such boards that can fail and solder can be used to replace them, but usually it isn't worth exposing the components that will be plugged into the motherboard to further damage - just replace the motherboard.
I've literally soldered components on (and off) motherboards, but as a repair technician, not an EE. (And I would never touch the barrel, ouch!)
Load More Replies...First rule of soldering: don't caress your crotch with the soldering iron!
Load More Replies...I laughed until I cried. It's obvious that none of these people has ever held a soldering iron.
Oh my god! There's more then just one of these! Theses "solderer" are hilariously...burnt.
Ive burnt myself enough times with a soldering iron and thats not while holding it like an idiot. Cant imagine how this would feel! Lol
Just switch them on. Problem will sort itself immediately. You might need a different model though. But experienced ones will be in high demand!
Same here, Philippe. I hate the smell of burning flesh - especially when it's mine...
All these soldering irons, and you know what I don't see any of? Solder!
I love how the only one not holding the hot part is the person seemingly burning their crotch on purpose.
I love soldering the CMOS battery for the BIOS! And I mean, who doesn't be edgy by soldering the heatsink with a soldering iron? Like come on :3
why the heck that person feel the need to pose with that solder thing near her crotch
the last picture is a mystery to me, but i wouldn't mind sticking my hot poker there too.
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.