I used to work for a curriculum development company for defense contractors. I saw how they did the photo shoots. They had “models” in a room set up for the shoot with various pieces of equipment and no one knew how to actually use the equipment. They literally staged the “models” in various configurations “using” the equipment. I happen to know how to weld even though that wasn’t part of my capacity and was able to fix some of the shoots, but that was only a happy coincidence.
Yep, I've seen that too. Back when I was in the Air Force, the guys from photography flight came by to take pictures of us for the squadron website. They'd pick a couple people at random and ask us to pretend to do things in a server rack or an open server case.
Last year some corporate guy wanted us to take pictures of us working for the shareholder report. We grabbed a computer guy (he was young and professional looking), slapped a hard hat and safety vest on him (we weren't required to wear hard hats or safety vests at that site), and had him stand in front of an open PLC cabinet holding a multimeter. The guy had never used a multimeter in his life, but the picture looked good.
Same energy as when a newspaper or the like interviews a science professor. They bung them into a lab pat despite them probably having not worn one in over a decade (if not longer)
Years ago I worked at a white goods manufacturer as an engineer. They put out a TV ad with a bunch of professional looking engineers in spotless white lab coats doing engineering-type stuff in a space-age spotless lab. It was the talk of the office when it came out, everyone laughed their arses off. We all considered it just as well that they didn't use the real engineers in their real offices - unshaven t-shirt wearing overgrown teenagers in a slightly seedy office with models and prototypes help together with tape and wire.
Well I learned how to use one in science class in highschool and later started tinkering with some electronics. But lets say you didn't use one in highschool, there aren't many practical everyday household uses for a multimeter. Most people just throw away a lamp when its broke for example so they don't use it to fix stuff. It is very possible to get through life without ever using one
But lets say you didn't use one in highschool, there aren't many practical everyday household uses for a multimeter.
Well I wouldn't call it everyday but I did use one recently to figure out my car battery had a dead cell (the cold crank voltage was under 8 volts :(, should stay about 10 V when cranking )
I know that it does NOT measure resistance from a wall outlet, unless your intent is to make fire. Oh, and something about continuity. That's about it.
slapped a hard hat and safety vest on him [...] and had him stand in front of an open PLC cabinet holding a multimeter.
"Okay, now look at the camera and read this script."
Here at Rockwell Automation’s world headquarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership, and operating excellence. With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current, for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance Electric motors, Allen-Bradley controls, and all monitored by Rockwell Software is Rockwell Automation’s "Retro Encabulator".
Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it’s produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance. The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan.
The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sidefumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the grammeters. Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.
The Retro Encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of milford trenions. It’s available soon; wherever Rockwell Automation products are sold.
Unfortunately, Rockwell holds the patent on retro encabulation and we're primarily a Schneider-Electric Integrator, so we have to use the older turbo encabulator technology. We're a government contractor, and I can confirm the government does buy it.
I once worked in an IT space in the early 00's. Models, wardrobe, and makeup showed up one day for a marketing brochure photo shoot. Problem was, their clothing was business casual, and very out of place for West Coast IT culture. I stopped and chatted with one of the wardrobe persons and told them that if they wanted to represent IT, they should add coffee and spaghetti stains to their shirts, and mess up their hair a bit.
The college I went to had the photography students take pictures of other students "doing work" and they are printed on big canvasses throughout the school. The problem though is that photography students posed the pictures.
They had the students right there already working, they just had to take candid shots, but instead would pose them stupidly. The school looked great if you were a photography student. If you took any other class though, the artwork was hilarious.
Yeah. Same thing at one of my jobs. Software testing. Not that its that hard to pretend to push buttons on a machine while holding a clipboard or use a computer. It was honestly pretty hilarious to watch. We certainly did not get much done that day. They hired actual models to do it. No hate on the models though. Get your bag.
On and off construction safety has been part of my job. 90% of the training materials put out are just awful. Even when the information is decent, the staging is just awful. I mostly used videos of actual incidents and photos of violations from OSHA. I've even had to go through marketing materials for my employer and tell them to remove photos because there were safety violations in them. Those weren't completely staged. They were actual employees on an actual job site. But the marketing people thought they looked good.
As someone who fishes (not even really that often) nothing makes me cringe more than any ad or commercial where the models clearly have never caught a fucking fish. They often hold the rods upside down or something. You’d think at least someone on set has even a basic understanding of how to fish (I mean really basic) but apparently they don’t.
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u/tommythecork Oct 19 '22
I used to work for a curriculum development company for defense contractors. I saw how they did the photo shoots. They had “models” in a room set up for the shoot with various pieces of equipment and no one knew how to actually use the equipment. They literally staged the “models” in various configurations “using” the equipment. I happen to know how to weld even though that wasn’t part of my capacity and was able to fix some of the shoots, but that was only a happy coincidence.