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Work want to use my photo

26 replies

changedjustnowforamin · 26/03/2018 20:37

My work want to use my photo at the end of a sales email.

I have said I feel really uncomfortable about it and it's a sales email, it just feels a bit cringe to me.

I have said they can't use it. I feel like they are annoyed with me.

I have no form of social media whatsoever as I don't like it. It feels like an invasion of privacy for me.

I've said no in the past to this type of thing too.

There is nothing in my contract ref this type of thing.

Aibu?

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 26/03/2018 20:39

You don't have to agree if you don't want to.

Avasarala · 26/03/2018 20:41

My sister was asked by her company if they could use her photo on some promo material (pamphlets etc) to use at graduate fairs as there are few women in her profession. She said yes, then when she arrived at the airport after being away for a week - there was a massive poster/billboard thing with her picture and a slogan for women in the industry (the city was very oriented towards that industry so they thought the airport made sense for a massive ad).

She was embarrassed and pissed off. Don't say yes - they end up taking the piss.

ilovesooty · 26/03/2018 20:45

I actually did have my photo on our website last week. When I saw it I got on to marketing and asked them to take another one. The picture was taken outside in the snow and my cardigan fringes stuck out and made me look about seven feet wide! Shock

Mydoghatesthebath · 26/03/2018 20:46

For me it would totally snd utterly depend on the photo.Grin

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 26/03/2018 20:49

There’s no way I would agree to it.

FancyRibbon · 26/03/2018 20:52

It’s totally fine to say no to those kind of requests. I have done it. I don’t want a big social media/online footprint in my personal life and having my name and pics all over a load of work bumf would not work with that.

DramaAlpaca · 26/03/2018 20:53

I wouldn't agree to this. I said no when the company I work for wanted to put staff photos on their website. It's never been mentioned since.

Original poster
changedjustnowforamin · 26/03/2018 21:00

Thanks for the replies.

I feel a bit better now. I am a bit of a worrier behind closed doors and I wasn't sure if I was being unreasonable about it all.

But and the big but, it made me feel uncomfortable and when I said so they were a bit huffy. Prob has I have created work for them to re do it but I've been really firm on this in the past so it's not like they were not expecting it.

So they can't make me as it has nothing either way in my contract.

I'd be off the scale pissed off if they have sent it already without me knowing.
I said no verbally.

Might just send it in an email now

OP posts:
C8H10N4O2 · 26/03/2018 21:01

Its your personal data, its up to you. Do you know why they wanted your photo in particular? eg was it a business headshot because you lead the sales team or similar or was it all a bit random?

Fintress · 26/03/2018 21:04

For me it would totally snd utterly depend on the photo.

Grin

OP, if it makes you feel uncomfortable then tell them no. I've done it, albeit years ago before social media, they put me on the telly instead which was nerve wracking!

Ihaveonlyjoinedtodothis · 26/03/2018 21:06

My work also want to use my photo - on the company website. I'm extremely uncomfortable about it too, I'm a naturally private person and have only just avoided having my face in the newsletter. Feel bad about saying no as there's a 'customer service' argument about such things. Feel emboldened to politely decline now though. Thanks.

SmurfOrTerf · 26/03/2018 21:08

Similar to Avasarala, I worked with a woman and they put up a giant photo of her in the corridor, over 10 years later its still there I don't know if she is still there
She wasn't happy when she saw it.

topcat2014 · 26/03/2018 21:11

We all die pss ourselves laughing when we get emails with photo's at the end.

Seriously, who thought up this trend Americans>>

MoonlightandMusic · 26/03/2018 21:17

YANBU and, once the new data protection regulations (the GDPR) comes into force on the 25th of May, they wouldn't be able to enforce it even if that obligation was in your contract.

changedjustnowforabit · 26/03/2018 21:25

Thanks for the info about May.

On the plus side, they did it with one of my team and we had no leads or sales from it.

I'm just not into it. People will buy it or they won't. Me being on it will make no difference.

Lweji · 26/03/2018 21:27

Hmm

I've always had my photo on my work website, but then we all do.

We don't use any photos on emails, though.

Is the photo supposed to go with your name?

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 26/03/2018 21:31

What are you selling that warrants a photo of someone at the end of every E mail?

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changedjustnowforamin · 26/03/2018 21:34

The photo is to go in a sales email for an upsell.

Many of these recipients will have met me. Many will not.

But it's not that that bothers me.

I just shy away from this type of thing. I like my privacy.

Nothing will happen if I am on it I am not under witness protection or anything like that but I just don't want to be "on" things.

I don't like drawing attention to myself. I'm happy doing my job over the phone and over email.

I sound weird don't I. Lol.

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ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 26/03/2018 21:40

No you don't sound weird. The E mail with someone grinning at the end sounds weird to me though!

You stood up for yourself, handled it in an adult way with minimum fuss and your work colleagues/bosses should respect that. It's a credit to you that you can be assertive when you need to be at work.

Don't worry anymore about it. Smile

cablewable · 26/03/2018 21:40

I had my face used for a supermarket promo thing a few years ago after they came round and photographed a lot of people. I was on maternity leave when I got a phone call from my friend telling me I'm all over everything and then it was used on the back of the London metro paper. It was the ugliest pic of me ever! But it was my 5 mins and it was a talking point for a bit!

llangennith · 26/03/2018 21:43

30 years ago now but an attractive young friend who worked for London Transport was asked if they could use her photo for a campaign. She agreed (naively, hindsight’s a great thing isn’t it?) and a while later was confronted by a billboard with several images of her nice face surrounding words along the lines of “beware pickpockets. You can’t always spot them”.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 26/03/2018 21:48

Your poor friend IIangennith. Beware Pickpockets? sorry but Grin

Original poster
changedjustnowforamin · 26/03/2018 21:55

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Maybe one of you will be the ones not getting my photo SmileGrin

But still getting the crap sales email 😂

OP posts:
Catsandkids78 · 26/03/2018 22:00

You would have to sign a media release if it isn’t in your contract . I work in HR ( and this is what we do)

topcat2014 · 26/03/2018 22:09

There used to be a maxim in advertising that finished

"only in the most serious of cases should you use the client's faces".

Why not put stock shots instead.

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