Plumb your creativity's depth: The April cartoon contest is open!

4/7/2011 11:51 PM EDT

Hmmmm...señor! Somebody complain about the stuck pipe-line?

4/8/2011 1:05 AM EDT

Right...who was complaining about sites being blocked??

4/8/2011 9:26 AM EDT

The push towards more Fibre had several unforeseen consequences.

4/8/2011 2:24 PM EDT

I think its a hardware problem, so what do we do now?

4/8/2011 2:27 PM EDT

Memo: "Today - SYSTEM BACKUP in Lab5"
cc: Company_All

4/8/2011 2:28 PM EDT

I came right over when I heard that you had a cache flush problem.

4/8/2011 2:28 PM EDT

Management sent me down to clear up the "nightly back-ups" you keep reporting.

4/8/2011 2:32 PM EDT

OK, where's the leaky vacuum tube?

4/8/2011 2:36 PM EDT

Someone reported a core dump?

4/8/2011 2:36 PM EDT

Gentlemen, I heard that you had an overflow problem. Need someone to flush out a pipe?

4/8/2011 2:44 PM EDT

Rocket scientists have to call for real experts to get the space station toilet working again.

4/8/2011 2:49 PM EDT

I told you that new beta release for was sh**

4/8/2011 2:49 PM EDT

Gentlemen, I'm here to fix your bandwidth problem.

4/8/2011 2:58 PM EDT

I was told he is an expert on blockage..he should be here shortly....

4/8/2011 3:23 PM EDT

Relax. I got a guy coming in to figure out what's wrong with the microwave plumbing.

4/8/2011 3:27 PM EDT

Unbeknownst to the engineers, management sent in their idea of an expert to deal with their project.

4/8/2011 3:36 PM EDT

I told you we must fix a memory leak, why did you call a plumber? Get the system administrator, NOW!

4/8/2011 3:39 PM EDT

NO... we said we need more FLASH memory not FLUSH

4/8/2011 3:48 PM EDT

When the controls for the electric toilets went down, management called in their most experienced systems expert.

4/8/2011 3:56 PM EDT

In a final act of desperation, the original engineer was called back to save the project and their new engineers.

4/8/2011 4:19 PM EDT

I can fix this! The web is just a bunch of tubes, right?

4/8/2011 4:34 PM EDT

The staff had known for years that the manager was full of it. Finally a solution was conceived.

4/8/2011 4:35 PM EDT

What in God's name are you doing to stall number 2.

4/8/2011 4:38 PM EDT

Hey guys, I found a job that not only pays more, but pays overtime too.

4/8/2011 4:46 PM EDT

I heard the new test engineer has a knack for finding memory leaks.

4/8/2011 4:55 PM EDT

OK, who complained about a floating gate and an open drain?

4/8/2011 4:57 PM EDT

Which of you Limeys has problems with a valve?

4/8/2011 8:40 PM EDT

Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

4/8/2011 10:04 PM EDT

Did someone call to fix a problem with back ups?

4/9/2011 11:28 AM EDT

"Okay, I heard you talking about leakage currents and open drains. Let me have a look, will ya..."

4/10/2011 12:18 AM EDT

"I asked management to send in the System Engineer, he should be along in a minute..."

"Good morning....someone sent for a Cistern Engineer...???"

4/10/2011 12:20 AM EDT

"I told the boss the S-parameters were round the bend....he said he'd send someone to help...."

4/10/2011 5:08 PM EDT

What happens if you hit that "advanced toolkit & flow" button?

4/11/2011 3:26 AM EDT

The break is over, so stop playing mario bros and get back to work

4/11/2011 5:57 AM EDT

Looks like some basic tools are enough to fix this pipeline..Keep it Simple Silly!!!

4/11/2011 11:30 AM EDT

Bent on replacing lost spectrum, Sam goes to Hamfest '11 to demonstrate his research into wide bandwidth, low frequency wave propagation through subterranean municipal networks.

4/11/2011 12:27 PM EDT

I told you this design was going down the drain...

4/11/2011 2:20 PM EDT

Bill tries to reassure management that nothing more could *possibly* go wrong.

4/11/2011 6:13 PM EDT

Ben's here to inject another shameless plug onto the website. It sure is getting gritty...

4/11/2011 6:14 PM EDT

Gives a new meaning to phishing.

4/11/2011 6:19 PM EDT

I'm from Corporate and I'm here to help.

4/11/2011 8:18 PM EDT

HR hired the networking contractor who had the largest number keyword matches on his resume: backup, overflow, flush, pipeline, ring, fiber and "scuzzy."

4/12/2011 1:10 AM EDT

A complete solution to your plumbing issues !!!

4/12/2011 10:15 AM EDT

"You missed the fan guys, the sh** is on the wall."

4/12/2011 10:30 AM EDT

"I knew we shouldn't have told Bob our transistors have drain problems"

4/12/2011 10:58 AM EDT

The boss promised to send over a specialist to help the team with their sync problem.

4/12/2011 2:23 PM EDT

Ralph was surprised to see the interns working in the bathroom, and even more when one of them said "Number one or number two?"

4/14/2011 6:07 AM EDT

"Till today I thought I knew everything about pipelining :(......"

4/14/2011 6:12 AM EDT

'The Yellow pages recommended a professional who can handle the pipeline hazards, he'd be here anytime'

4/14/2011 11:33 AM EDT

"Management asked me to install that bigger heat sink you said you needed."

4/15/2011 2:10 PM EDT

Now we'll get those creative juices flowing.

4/15/2011 2:36 PM EDT

I'm here to fix your system back-up problem? Now I understand why you guys work on a raised floor.

4/15/2011 3:15 PM EDT

Someone here report a bit-bucket overflow?

4/15/2011 3:40 PM EDT

All the engineers are jealous of the plumbers ham equipment.

4/15/2011 5:33 PM EDT

Well I'll be. The internet really IS a series of tubes.

4/15/2011 6:56 PM EDT

Looking at the instructions it says to "grasp the handle firmly, and place the cup in the bowl".

What do you think they mean by grasp the "handle"?

Man, where is that facilities engineer?????

4/15/2011 9:45 PM EDT

Señors! Somebody complained the printout is not flush right?

4/15/2011 9:47 PM EDT

Is this where the RSS readers are clogging the web?

4/16/2011 12:46 PM EDT

The IT department is sending someone to perform preventive maintenance on my aquarium screensaver.

4/16/2011 12:54 PM EDT

I've heard that sanitary engineers don't always follow the engineering dress code.

4/17/2011 5:05 AM EDT

Corrected caption:

I've heard that maintenance engineers don't always follow the engineering dress code.

4/17/2011 10:05 AM EDT

... and I bet you their support sucks!

4/18/2011 4:23 AM EDT

That's not bad. Last time John lost a bet, he had to wear a adult onesie.

4/18/2011 4:31 AM EDT

... so that's how marketing can call themselves "technical."

4/18/2011 6:29 AM EDT

Oh this? I got it off this pepperpot in the hallway.

4/18/2011 6:30 AM EDT

Is this marketing? Engineering said you had a problem. Something about full of....

4/18/2011 6:31 AM EDT

Is this Engineering? The marketing guys said you needed to get something 'together'?

4/18/2011 6:32 AM EDT

Sigh. At least God doesn't think he's a plumber.

4/18/2011 6:33 AM EDT

Sometimes I can't tell whether he just fixed the pipes or came out of them.

4/18/2011 6:34 AM EDT

Still too many errors in the cache. Our pipeline expert should be here any minute.

4/18/2011 6:35 AM EDT

Sheesh! Why do the three of us just have to stare into space just to make a cartoon?

4/18/2011 11:22 AM EDT

I said, Bummer!

4/19/2011 5:33 PM EDT

Still stuck? Sure I'll come back, at my current rate.

4/21/2011 10:29 AM EDT

Pierre under estimates again, bringing a plunger to a roto-router job...

4/21/2011 5:49 PM EDT

That's the way it works in a small company - first you clean out the men's washroom then you help the junior engineers figure out their measurements.

4/25/2011 11:38 AM EDT

Thank goodness Mario is here. He'll totally be able to get past this gorilla!

4/27/2011 3:41 PM EDT

Throughput, it's all about throughput.

4/27/2011 3:43 PM EDT

what do you get when you cross a computer scientist, an electrical engineer, an Information specialist and a plumber?

3 communicationally challenged people and the man!

4/27/2011 4:10 PM EDT

The gate and source seem to be working correctly, but there's something wrong with the drain current. The new boss said he just called someone to fix it...

4/27/2011 4:12 PM EDT

The gate and source seem to be working correctly, but there's something wrong with the drain current. The new boss said he called a specialist, and he ougt to be here any minute...

4/27/2011 4:42 PM EDT

First law of plumbing: ***t flows down hill
First law of primadonna programming: get someone else to fix tough problems

4/27/2011 10:50 PM EDT

If the boss would pay US what he pays HIM, I'd feel like an engineer....

4/28/2011 6:10 PM EDT

How many engineers does it take to unblock a pipeline? Three - one to document the problem, one to put in the change request and one to call the plumber!

4/29/2011 3:52 PM EDT

I'm beginning to wonder if we've been looking at this problem all wrong.

4/29/2011 6:24 PM EDT

"Don't worry boys, I'm here now."

4/29/2011 6:34 PM EDT

"I said we need a new router, not a rotor rooter!"

4/29/2011 6:45 PM EDT

"Did someone call in a leaky drain problem?"

5/1/2011 10:13 PM EDT

We need some way to flush all the cache!

2/5/2012 11:33 AM EST

Who do you call when your "kitchen sink" devices failed?