At work, we’ve just upgraded to Outlook 2010 (yes, I know it’s 2012 now) and one of the new features is that you can upload a profile picture which is displayed on your e-mail message and also at the bottom of the viewing pane, so you can see images of all the people copied into message.
It’s caused a bit of a shock, suddenly seeing images of your colleagues, although some departments (including commercial) have not been included yet. Davina called IT to find out if we were going to be ‘done’ or whether we could upload our own images. They said that we would be done, but they were now busy dealing with complaints from people whose images had been uploaded, but who didn’t like them.
IT has uploaded the images from our works passes and they’re often taken up against a wall by some chap from facilities who might be changing a lightbulb or unblocking a sink the next minute (so not a trained photographer). No time to fix your make-up, sort out your hair or to have six pictures done so you can choose the one you like.
There have been some hilarious pictures which clearly no-one has worried too much about until now because they are never seen by anyone and just sit in your pocket or purse. I quite like my pass picture, which was taken about 10 years ago, so I still have colour in my hair and look much younger, while Davina is always properly made up and is one of those people who can strike a pose and never takes a bad photo.
I’m not sure what will happen now. This is supposed to be a security issue, so that we can trust that the e-mail comes from who they say it’s from. Cue Photoshopped security passes!
Footnote: there were so many complaints that IT had to take down all the photos from London (although Howden is still in place). Apparently it was the girls in Features who threatened to walk out if their photos were not taken down!
It’s caused a bit of a shock, suddenly seeing images of your colleagues, although some departments (including commercial) have not been included yet. Davina called IT to find out if we were going to be ‘done’ or whether we could upload our own images. They said that we would be done, but they were now busy dealing with complaints from people whose images had been uploaded, but who didn’t like them.
IT has uploaded the images from our works passes and they’re often taken up against a wall by some chap from facilities who might be changing a lightbulb or unblocking a sink the next minute (so not a trained photographer). No time to fix your make-up, sort out your hair or to have six pictures done so you can choose the one you like.
There have been some hilarious pictures which clearly no-one has worried too much about until now because they are never seen by anyone and just sit in your pocket or purse. I quite like my pass picture, which was taken about 10 years ago, so I still have colour in my hair and look much younger, while Davina is always properly made up and is one of those people who can strike a pose and never takes a bad photo.
I’m not sure what will happen now. This is supposed to be a security issue, so that we can trust that the e-mail comes from who they say it’s from. Cue Photoshopped security passes!
Footnote: there were so many complaints that IT had to take down all the photos from London (although Howden is still in place). Apparently it was the girls in Features who threatened to walk out if their photos were not taken down!
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