Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to this much-esteemed award, contenders for which include any publication whose lazy and ham-handed use of irrelevant, terrible or inappropriate stock photos for illustration purposes deserves both recognition, and a good kick up the arse.
Check this guy out. Hmmm. He’s a manager? Sure. And I’m a shy and retiring swimwear model.
Picture the scene.
Late evening. Irish Times Pictures Desk.
Photo Intern: Hey, look at this. Does this guy look professional to you?
His Mate: Yeah, I suppose so. If I’d just been diagnosed with something.
Photo Intern: Diagnosed?
Mate: Yeah. I mean he looks like a serious MD. A consultant, like. Who only gives people bad news.
Picture Intern: But he’s supposed to be a manager. In an office.
Mate: No. He looks like a doctor. Why don’t you use this here picture of a woman in a boring grey suit?
Picture Intern: Because we already licensed this one last week for an article in the Health section on haemorrhoids, but it got pulled at the last minute.
Mate: Well, use the doctor then. But you’re looking at piles of trouble if you keep abusing stock photos like that.
Congratulations again, Irish Times. You’re on a real winning streak.
Tara Sparling writes 
Piles of trouble. I love it.
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Further possibilities are endless… oh dear
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Haha this is hysterical. I need to check out more of these inappropriate stock photo posts.
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Oh, it’s a feast of badly chosen photos out there… I’m only getting started!
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Well, if I were the woman in front of him, I wouldn’t feel very safe… less so if that’s my boss.
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It’s his eyes, I think. They’re dead inside, but strangely excited about it.
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Someone should tell him snuff is breathed in through the nose not the mouth. (Is that snuff on his index finger?) And also, never trust a man whose beard is a different colour to his bald head.
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Interesting. Are there degrees of colour mismatch abuse? What about ginger beards – is that off the scale? I’m totally with you on that finger.
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It’s usually black hair with grey beard, but something tells me if this man had a full head of hair the colour would have an exotic name like Atlantic Spruce or something.
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Love it. There’s a side career waiting for you in Just For Men.
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Holy crap. I think I look exactly like this when listening to employees, except for the bald head, and gray beard… and tie. That said, it’s remarkably like being a doctor. Usually I’m diagnosing a serious case of the ass. Nothing to be done, just let it pass, usually.
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Oh, excellent. And tell us – in the unusual scenario – what do you prescribe for a serious case of the ass? I know of a couple of chronic cases which I fear may be terminal.
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In my experience, it’s an untreatable ailment. Sometimes it passes, sometimes you write a reference and hope it becomes someone’s headache.
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Ah. I think I’ll go the reference route. I could spend my whole life waiting for cases of asses to pass.
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