Stock Images (aka corporate media nonsense)

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Would have put this in Nick's new Pet Hates topic but only allowed one at a time.

You can spot them a mile off in brochures and increasingly on youtube, etc. Always make me feel uncomfortable because I have nothing whatsoever in common with any of the people represented, let alone en-mass. Wonderful description puts in words the creepyness of it all.

"Do an image search for the word “business” or “manager”, and what comes back? Nothing that remotely resembles business or managers. It isn’t just that the people are attractive. It is what they are doing. Many stock photos feature well-dressed types sitting around a table. One of them is holding forth and everyone else is laughing madly, like cult members hearing that the Rapture has been brought forward a week.

In other pictures, a speaker is pointing at a pie chart. Her colleagues look astonished at what they are seeing.

Some amount of business life involves sitting around a table. Occasionally there is laughter. But if you wanted to represent the reality of a meeting, one person would be talking, two people would be listening and everyone else would be wearing the glazed expression of clerics who have just lost their faith. If there was an accurate stock photo of someone working at a desk, its surface would be covered in crumbs and the laptop screen would be showing its owner’s social-media account."

Nailed it there mate

 

[Nick Jones]

55 minutes ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:

laptop screen would be showing its owner’s social-media account

Nah... that's on your phone...... "they" are watching your work laptop (they actually are!)

Bunch of people on site dressed in brand-new, squeaky clean PPE. Hard hats unsullied, hi-vis, glowing, safety glasses  No. Wrong.  Every site I've been on you PPE gets old within minutes, even if you touch nothing!  I have seen it happen - bunch of people, very nearly as per stock photo, turned instantly brown when a Bauer fitting let go.....  Just as well they were wearing their safety glasses though, their startled eyes in the middle of little white, inverse panda patches of clean when they took their glasses off to see again......  Shouldn't laugh, but really it was a comedy moment for the onlookers....

[Escadrille Ecosse]

26 minutes ago, Nick Jones said:

Shouldn't laugh, but really it was a comedy moment for the onlookers....

Those super reliable bauer fittings ...

[Nick Jones]

24 minutes ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:

Those super reliable bauer fittings ...

Uh huh.... though to be fair, this was was in the middle of a daisy chain of flexihoses linking a mobile sludge thickener (whose feed pump I'd just mended) with a big tank.  The thickened sludge pump feeding it was an ancient (but effective) ram pump, so BIG pulsation and hoses were hopping about a bit.  Only idiots would have stood anywhere near them.  Fairly harsh education, but no actual injuries resulted.  Apart perhaps the odd sprung rib amongst the spectators....

[yorkshire_spam]

How many things can they get wrong in a single stock image?

[Escadrille Ecosse]

17 minutes ago, yorkshire_spam said:

How many things can they get wrong in a single stock image?

An laughing or facepalm emoji just doesn't do that justice!

[Hamish]

Yeah - like SHE would be engaged !!!!! Who would marry her ………

 

 

 

 

 

 

she can’t even hold a soldering iron !!!

[Nick Jones]

There’s no smoke from her fingers….

[Escadrille Ecosse]

5 minutes ago, Nick Jones said:

There’s no smoke from her fingers….

It's OK. Realising the general quality of that image they're probably not her real fingers...

[yorkshire_spam]

1. Holding the iron by the hot part
2. Using an iron suitable for through hole parts on a board area that's SMT (should be using tweezers/hot air pencil)
3. Utterly improbable that anyone repairs a consumer grade motherboard at a component level
4. No fume extraction
5. No anti-static work mat/protection