July caption contest: engineering building blocks

7/5/2012 1:58 PM EDT

Fed up with the engineering groups atrocious spelling and grammar, upper management makes drastic decor changes...

7/5/2012 2:01 PM EDT

The daycare drone program was going well until they realized that 5 year olds are terrors, not terrorists.

Rod

7/5/2012 2:15 PM EDT

With the block upgrade contract in house, the engineers went to work on the detailed design.

7/5/2012 5:27 PM EDT

Management grew tired of hearing about how all the dot com startups had toys available in the engineers' workspace and decided to do something about it. This isn't what the engineers had in mind.

7/5/2012 8:03 PM EDT

"You've heard of DC Blocking? We're working on AC Blocking!"

7/6/2012 8:03 AM EDT

"Welcome to the "Sweatshop Lab". Those little cubes are where we live at night. Mine's 'B'."

7/6/2012 12:16 PM EDT

Laboratory techs try out their new test equipment received from a large alpha block grant anonymous donor.

7/6/2012 3:04 PM EDT

"I'd guess this time the boss wants correct use of blocking and non-blocking code."

7/6/2012 3:17 PM EDT

Upper management likes to constantly look over your shoulder and "breathe down your neck"....they are unaware that it makes them look like a bunch of BLOCK-HEADS!!!

7/6/2012 3:28 PM EDT

Uh, guys? I think we were to miniaturize the blocks instead of us.

7/6/2012 3:30 PM EDT

Leave it to those management blockheads to get the concept of downsizing wrong.

7/6/2012 3:48 PM EDT

Bring your kids to work day is bigger than ever ...

7/6/2012 3:49 PM EDT

What happens when they order your block-oriented programming language from the lowest bidder.

7/6/2012 3:50 PM EDT

I told management we need a test for Alpha particles not ...

7/6/2012 3:51 PM EDT

Sharing space with Gymboree will sure save us a lot of money. We can afford free coffee again. Weeeee...

7/6/2012 3:52 PM EDT

Never let a hardware guy order new fonts.

7/6/2012 4:43 PM EDT

"Looks like it is back to basics."

7/6/2012 5:12 PM EDT

Having assembled the necessary building blocks, the team starts testing their design.

7/6/2012 5:14 PM EDT

Alright team, you have the building blocks, now finish the design.

7/6/2012 5:21 PM EDT

This isn't what I had in mind when management said we were having a block party for the fourth.

7/6/2012 5:27 PM EDT

Has anybody gotten a radar hit on the e to z blocks?

7/6/2012 10:15 PM EDT

With the continuing integration of functions into monolithic blocks, product differentiation became increasingly bland.

7/7/2012 1:49 AM EDT

Let's put in another request for more large text block analyzers, maybe we'll get the rest of the alphabet.

7/7/2012 1:54 AM EDT

Our new stackable work cubicles are here

7/7/2012 1:57 AM EDT

I signed up for the new management training program.

7/7/2012 1:59 AM EDT

I am not a pack rat! These could come in handy in the lab someday.

7/7/2012 2:02 AM EDT

Aren't these trade show freebies great?

7/7/2012 2:04 AM EDT

They were free.

7/7/2012 2:07 AM EDT

This is the company's new PR program to support STEM education in high schools.

7/7/2012 2:10 AM EDT

I don't know about you folks, but I like them.

7/7/2012 2:11 AM EDT

Guess what I found?

7/7/2012 2:14 AM EDT

As a new hire, George was given the simple engineering tasks.

7/7/2012 2:16 AM EDT

The boss's son was given the task to organize the engineering lab.

7/7/2012 8:34 AM EDT

Sharing office space with the sales guys just doesn’t work!

7/7/2012 12:40 PM EDT

"The boss is again doing this efficiency metrics and focus thing. Could this be the boss' latest trick to block conversational interruptions?"

7/9/2012 1:07 AM EDT

I love these new modular test units. You just snap them together. Even a child could do it.

7/9/2012 2:34 AM EDT

Our engineers have world class technical skills but when it comes to literacy, they need some basic tools to help them.

7/9/2012 2:43 AM EDT

Tech writers' practical joke

7/9/2012 2:54 AM EDT

At a Lilliputian keyboard factory: "4 keys done, 98 to go!"

7/9/2012 6:13 AM EDT

The decor of the CPE (child prodigy engineering) lab left senior engineers complaining about cube space allocation.

7/9/2012 6:16 AM EDT

Welcome to the "Lil Dilbert" Lab. Make yourself at home.

7/9/2012 6:51 AM EDT

Installing the new font was more problematic than expected.

7/9/2012 11:15 AM EDT

This we call Thinking out of "blocks"...

7/9/2012 11:38 AM EDT

This is NOT what I had in mind when I said "building 3D [chip] stacks would be child's play".

7/9/2012 11:47 AM EDT

They're still trying to find room for the company day-care center.

7/9/2012 11:50 AM EDT

Now I know what they meant when they said I'd be working in the Day-care Center with my EE Degree.

7/9/2012 11:53 AM EDT

New Government restrictions on future H1-B Visas force companies to make an early committment to STEM in the United States!

7/9/2012 12:00 PM EDT

From the new "ABCs of Electrical Engineering" textbook for pre-schoolers:

"A is for Amperage. B is for Battery. C is for Current. D is for D-cell. ... "

7/9/2012 2:30 PM EDT

Anyone know what is next in this series?

7/9/2012 9:25 PM EDT

At management directive, the engineers are testing out the newest concept in reusable components that will be used to reconstruct Shakespeare's finest masterpieces.

7/10/2012 5:33 AM EDT

"Oh, the Accessibility guy said the keys DO have to be 1 centimeter wide... but I may have made a mistake when I converted that into inches."

7/10/2012 1:50 PM EDT

50million$ spent on remote communication used to light alphabet lamps... applied sciences

7/10/2012 3:16 PM EDT

"We were going to test the million monkeys theory but nobody could find any typewriters"

7/10/2012 10:55 PM EDT

The blocks help me remember the Pythagorean Theorem: A-Squared plus B-Squared equals C-Squared.

7/10/2012 10:56 PM EDT

The blocks are used to develop new names for our products.

7/10/2012 10:56 PM EDT

We keep the letters ready, so we can change the name on the front of the building if the company gets sold.

7/11/2012 7:58 PM EDT

"Get the new B-CAD system and design how YOU want!" That's what the advertisement said.....

7/11/2012 8:02 PM EDT

So far, we can do DACs, ADCs and BCD. When we have a few more resources we should be able to do PCBs and LEDs...Piezo Buzzers are a long way off, though....

7/12/2012 1:12 AM EDT

Finally someone thought to call Fed-Ex to get the information transmitted.

7/12/2012 4:02 PM EDT

Yes, these are the engineers who designed the Hubble lens, why?

7/12/2012 4:03 PM EDT

Hardware engineers--what a bunch of babies!

7/12/2012 8:34 PM EDT

This company has a very large STEM program

7/12/2012 8:35 PM EDT

This is simpler to use than Labview

7/14/2012 12:41 AM EDT

The new performance appraisal system was supposed to "simply life and cut through loads of red tape", but in reality it created some real obstacles, and initiated the after-hours game of what was later referred to as "musical blocks."

7/17/2012 3:20 PM EDT

Management introduces multi-faceted props, thinking to improve corner-case product design and test coverage.

7/18/2012 3:20 AM EDT

"This alpha-level erratum workaround is actually not too bad. Agree?"

7/18/2012 11:58 AM EDT

I always thought their department was just daycare for young interns.

7/18/2012 12:06 PM EDT

“I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been feeling a bit on edge lately.”

7/18/2012 2:51 PM EDT

OK, important safety tip. When testing the new direct-thought controlled 3-D printer, shut it down immediately when you have a mental block!

7/18/2012 3:03 PM EDT

Now that NASA retired the shuttles, the specification for payload delivery by private space services clearly states a requirement to prominently display the packing sequence on any container. I will admit that I may have gone a bit overboard.

7/18/2012 4:28 PM EDT

As you can see, our test engineers have been around the block...

7/19/2012 1:56 AM EDT

Yes I have kids and the 3D printer is working fine. Why do you ask?

7/19/2012 2:02 AM EDT

FYI, the 3D printer should only be used for projects.

7/19/2012 2:04 AM EDT

I don't recall seeing anyone ever using the 3D printer for personal projects.

7/19/2012 6:40 PM EDT

We've got an expando ray; still working on the shrink ray.

7/23/2012 1:36 PM EDT

Marissa couldn't shake the feeling that the 'A' was watching her.

7/26/2012 5:19 PM EDT

Because our older engineers have vision problems we decided keep a good stock of large print keyboard parts.

7/27/2012 5:59 PM EDT

We could have put A,T,G and C blocks in our DNA lab, but it would be too obvious.

7/29/2012 12:47 AM EDT

Maybe the new furniture will inspire a complete, detailed, and accurate block diagram.

8/1/2012 3:01 PM EDT

Simple memorials for outsourced colleagues aren't allowed to bear real names.

8/1/2012 6:41 PM EDT

Ok, looks like the production folks confused "mm" with "Mm" again.

11/3/2012 9:55 PM EDT

I know what will impress our customers! A block with. . . an "F"!