Coworker obscured my face in every photo on work trip

[Anonymous]

Is she, the photographer, in any photos?

[Anonymous]

It’s entirely possible your colleague is passive aggressive or a bad photographer. My sibling included only bad photos of me in a slideshow at my dad’s funeral. Just what I needed that day. They do rude stuff like that all the time, so I spend very little time with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry we don't see the pictures. It's always best to assume positive or neutral intentions but 30 pictures does seem striking to me. Just keep note of it as a possible weird event.

+1. 30 photos does seem to be too many to be a coincidence. I wouldn't say anything. Just make a mental note and act accordingly.

Not quite the same but reminds me of the time a friend of a friend took a photo of three of us at an adult birthday party. Not a big group, not the guest of honor, just three of us. I was mid-blink so she said she'd delete it and retake it. All three of us looked good in the retake. After the party she sent around her photos with the mid-blink one not just included but as the cover photo. Ha! It didn't even include the guest of honor or the cake or anything like that, just me looking particularly bad. Some people are petty about photos.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you didn’t hang out with her much at the four day retreat so aren’t ready for any of her photos.

Who else took photos? How are the photos you too?

Other than that, who cares about photos someone dumped in the shared drive.

[Anonymous]

Most people learn at an early age how to get into line of sight of a camera lens.

So are you saying you were well positioned and then she took some steps or angles to somehow block your face?!

Lol. Sure go to HR and subpoena her camera shots and see what she took versus selected.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s the way you stand or interact with a group, that unless someone is trying to photograph you on purpose, if they’re taking photos to capture “most” of the group, you end up being somewhere out. You’re not in the center of the group (or at least the person she was trying to make sure appears in photos).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you. For context, she took 30 photos that I appear in and my face is entirely or partially obscured in each photo. No one else’s face is obscured at all in any photos she took.

I’m not going to say anything, but it seems like too many to be a coincidence and if she she was just a bad photographer, why isn’t anyone else’s face obscured?

Do you not stay still?

Bump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you’d benefit from reading The Four Agreements. The second one is “don’t take anything personally”

“Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.”

This is the 2nd Four Agreements quote I’ve seen on this site this week!

I posted this one but not the other. I’m a big fan! The book is a little woo-woo but the message is still good