This is so wrong.
Source: http://www.demilked.com/soldering-iron-fail-stock-image/
Well its happen to me before when i was not paying attention and went to pick the soldering iron back up lol!
Maybe they are waiting for the iron to get hot before they start? I must admit to doing that also with a solder and an actual iron 
At least they are wearing goggles while being burned.
Unless it is the prequel for the new sit-com “look ma, no hands”
They are actually plugged in and on. But it’s pod people. Can’t feel it.
I have done that once, many years ago, by accident. Lesson learned: Look at the solder iron when gripping it.
Kind of funny the first photo was posted to a metrology group on facebook and now it was posted here.
Soldering Iron lesson I learned the hard way 
If the tip falls out of the iron and lands on the carpet - DO NOT kick it around like you intuitively think to do. It’s best to leave it where it is while looking for the pliers to pick it up
If you kick it around, you end up with lots of burn holes in the carpet! 
It is a stock photo, that means everybody can use it (if they pay) and lot of people do not know how to use a solder iron.
That’s not a fail, it’s simply showing how an Electrical Engineer uses a soldering iron when the Electrical Engineering Technology grad isn’t around!
Back when I was in school, the EE students were quite sure they were smarter than us lowly Electrical Engineering Technology students. We, on the other hand, were equally certain that while EE’s might very well be able to do Fourier transforms in thier heads, thier practical skills were useless.
Perhaps we both had an axe to grind…
That is probably a problem with many educations: People starting on the education do not really know much about it.
When I started on a EE, there where very few in the class that had used a solder iron. I remember one fun episode: Go to the lab and build this 10kHz oscillator with this 741 (I was told to shut up, before I even said anything).
For people not knowing about old electronic stuff: 741 was a slow OpAmp, even if theoretical OpAmp calculation showed that a circuit would oscillate at 10kHz the 741 was way to slow to do that, if you had used these parts you would know that, but people only reading theory did not know it.
I like the picture where she’s trying to reflow the aluminium heatsink
Did you have to attempt the circuit anyway?
In the group mentioned they made a game of finding all of the things wrong with the photo like the way the soldering iron is held, no grounding strap, no vac for fumes, unprotected cpu slot, etc.
Yes, it was group work. I was a rather passive member in my group and let the other have the fun figuring out what was wrong.