Caption Contest for June 2012: Crumb trail

5/31/2012 3:01 PM EDT

After several hi-tech capture attempts failed, Bob resorted to the traditional lab rat call-out method.

5/31/2012 4:38 PM EDT

Bob, a seasoned executive aide, agreed to help the recent executive new-hires find the way out to lunch.

6/1/2012 1:42 PM EDT

Bob hoped that, by spreading a trail of breadcrumbs, he could get all of the bugs out of the lab equipment and convince people that he wasn't loafing.

6/1/2012 3:47 PM EDT

Meanwhile, at Roomba Headquarters, Bob is preparing for lunch...

6/2/2012 12:46 AM EDT

The last time Elbert had been invited to a Marketing meeting, he left the meeting so disoriented that he couldn't find his way back to his cubicle. This time he was leaving nothing to chance.

6/2/2012 10:22 AM EDT

A job recruiter tries to hire engineers away from a rival company, by luring them to a free lunch.

6/2/2012 9:08 PM EDT

How to train homing pigeons #37.
If you're on the 45th floor and you don't have a balcony, teach them to use the lift...

6/2/2012 11:12 PM EDT

Bob has a unique way of training our new interns.

6/3/2012 2:58 AM EDT

"OK, bring out the sniffer dogs and we'll see if we can identify those 11 secret herbs and spices!"

6/3/2012 9:10 AM EDT

"I'm trying to hire engineers away from this rival company, by using bread crumbs to lure them to a free lunch."

6/3/2012 10:05 PM EDT

Somehow I don't think that DARPA will buy into Jake's new "Trailing-wire" weapons proposal.

6/4/2012 9:31 AM EDT

Unfortunately, Ralph relied on state-of-the-artifact nano technology to mark his retreat path!

6/4/2012 9:32 AM EDT

Obsolete nano technology.

6/4/2012 12:49 PM EDT

After the company "retired" the receptionist position, Stan had to develop creative ways of showing visitors the way to the meeting room.

6/4/2012 1:25 PM EDT

Hansel found this to be the easiest method to find his way through the cubicle maze. Until someone brought in the Roomba...

6/4/2012 2:48 PM EDT

Bob stimulates the CEO's favorite during 'Bring your pet to work day'.

6/4/2012 4:16 PM EDT

Literal breadcrumb navigation.

6/4/2012 5:58 PM EDT

The Internet's insatiable demand for even larger data centers requires thinking outside the box to resolve unexpected problems of scale.

6/4/2012 6:24 PM EDT

With IP V6, we can even give every breadcrumb an IP address!!

6/5/2012 9:18 AM EDT

At tweeter's headquarters, desperate measures are used to find a new corporate logo.

6/5/2012 9:20 AM EDT

"Come to the after-work Happy Hour, at Hansel and Gretel's Pub."

6/5/2012 9:37 AM EDT

Just like in our design documentation, this trail of breadcrumbs will lead to nowhere.

6/5/2012 10:15 AM EDT

"Follow the trail to the after-work Happy Hour, at Hansel and Gretel's Pub."

6/6/2012 4:06 PM EDT

This is why we have so many bugs in our products. We leave too many breadcrumbs lying around.

6/7/2012 10:32 AM EDT

Amazingly, the 'bread crumb only' translucent material worked; since Bob could only see the bread crumb trail and nothing else through the doorway and partition.

6/8/2012 4:18 PM EDT

Bob had a peculiar way of "getting his ducks in a row" before starting his workday.

6/8/2012 4:26 PM EDT

Bob ceremoniously demonstrates his disapproval of today’s crumby marketing presentation.

6/9/2012 6:19 PM EDT

Now that he's a big shot technical manager, Hansel doesn't have to break up bread to find his way back from lunch.

6/11/2012 12:05 PM EDT

When someone suggested the boss throw a few crumbs to the poor engineers, he wasn't supposed to take it literally.

6/11/2012 1:58 PM EDT

Please just get a GPS navigator, Hansel!

6/13/2012 9:30 AM EDT

We cannot find any fairy dust. I hope these breadcrumbs will do the same thing.

6/15/2012 12:40 PM EDT

Gary was instructed by management to add "breadcrumbs" to his web site, so he started in the server room...

6/15/2012 1:45 PM EDT

In this tough job market, Engineers will work for very little....as evidenced by the Engineering Manager preparing to refuel his staff.

6/15/2012 2:57 PM EDT

The CEO handed out the bonuses after taking his cut first...

6/16/2012 12:52 PM EDT

As an engineer, Bob knew the curiosity of his rival engineers would lead them right into his trap.

6/18/2012 10:39 AM EDT

After hearing that Upper Management was "just a bunch of big chickens", Ernie figured this was the only way to get their input on his project.

6/18/2012 10:40 AM EDT

Nobody ever told Bob that, despite it being Italian, it still wouldn't do anything about his icing problem.

6/18/2012 10:41 AM EDT

After the big financial quarter, the CEO decided to do something for the 'little people'.

6/18/2012 10:42 AM EDT

Bob was bound and determined to find out who was changing his 'scope settings overnight.

6/18/2012 10:44 AM EDT

Despite having 3 Ph.D's, Larry knew that he 'had' to do something so that he could exclaim 'Rats!' in perfect honesty.

6/18/2012 10:45 AM EDT

It was the closest Mort could come to garlic.

6/18/2012 10:57 AM EDT

"Here's a raise for you, and here's a raise for you, and you..."

6/19/2012 3:46 PM EDT

Bob tries his hand with a new type of daily grind.

6/19/2012 6:20 PM EDT

Here's Gene trying a new approach with Gretel, the cute new intern.

6/22/2012 2:40 PM EDT

Allen knew the drill to get engineers out of their cubes and into the supplier meeting.

6/23/2012 12:34 AM EDT

Management following through on the employee feedback that they make the workplace crummy.

6/23/2012 12:39 AM EDT

After the layoffs, cutbacks, consolidations, and wage freezes, management figured out a cost effective way to attract new programmers in to their small cubical traps.

6/23/2012 8:25 PM EDT

Bert's first day at work was noted by his attempt to negotiate the corporate maze only to find that the pigeon cloning experiment next door was wildly successful...we haven't seen him since.

6/25/2012 8:35 AM EDT

Elroy releases his nanobot security force camouflaged as breadcrumbs to protect against cyber attacks in the lab.

6/26/2012 3:07 AM EDT

Union member protesting against crumby salaries

6/26/2012 3:08 AM EDT

Quality engineer protesting against crumby products

6/29/2012 3:55 PM EDT

Although the boss told him he wanted to use cookies to track visitors, Jim thought he had a better idea.

6/29/2012 4:49 PM EDT

"I used to be an engineer. Now the only thing IT will let me do is carry around this bag of breadcrumbs."

7/2/2012 8:32 AM EDT

Ad hoc breadwork.

7/2/2012 10:23 AM EDT

You can follow his trail of state-of-the-artifact nano technology throughout the entire building.

7/6/2012 4:29 PM EDT

Still stuck in the sixties, Bob prepared for his upcoming management seminar Follow The Bread (Man)

7/6/2012 4:32 PM EDT

An early attempt at breadboarding

7/6/2012 4:33 PM EDT

Laying his trail from the CEO's office to the parking lot, Bob was hoping his message would get through that this was a crummy company.

8/3/2012 2:02 PM EDT

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