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** Caption competition - #1 **

Steve Bridger

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Community Manager

11 Dec, 2018 10:50

Drumroll... 

Many of you have missed it; many have asked for its return... so after a 4-year suspension of hostilities festivities, the caption competition is back!

The winning caption will win £50-worth of M & S vouchers. Thanks to Simon Heath for the illustration!

FORMAT

You are invited to post your witty caption suggestions below. Extra points if you can somehow wangle in an “HR” slant to your caption! Funny is good, too - although be warned, the judges (CIPD staff) are tough nuts to crack. Frankly, after a difficult week after our community platform upgrade... I need my chuckle muscle exercised, too.

The obvious guidelines on rude words and gratuitous product placement apply. Thank you.

This thread will remain open to entries until midnight on 31st December - and the winner will be announced when we all return after the New Year break.

Here goes...

* Tip: we’re looking for *captions* - which tend to be better when short-ish in length.

The legal bit: Competition Terms & Conditions 

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  • In reply to Sue Eakin:

    (Robot speaking) “ .....And another thing, Sally: please stop calling me ‘The
    Tin Man’ - you’re clearly a few million semiconductors or synapses short of any form of intelligence....”
  • A recent survey found that employees believed one third of HR Professionals were heartless...
  • Tin Man speaking "...and that's another thing, nobody told Bob and I the fancy dress party wasn't starting until this evening".
  • "You'd think that with your superior intelligence and my CIPD qualification we could come up with at least ONE funny caption!"
  • HR: We have no chance of winning hearts and minds having these robots reporting to us!
  • "No! Just because I am now the Human and Artificial Intelligence Resource specialist and I have follicles does not permit you to refer to me as H.A.I.R.y!"

  • The robot on the left saying to the office "Does anyone fancy a brew?"
  • Robot saying to the woman opposite "Don't believe it, my computer is playing up again. Going to have to the IT department again to get it fixed"
  • "Are you going out for lunch. Yes I think I will go out for a byte"
  • Robot to the woman "I hope your feeling better today, I think there has been a virus going around"
  • I am getting really angry with you Sue because you keep pushing my buttons
  • "Is it me, or is the new bloke at the end a bit wooden?"
  • 1110111001110101001010010110011011101011110111001101
  • In reply to Stuart:

    You know what they say Stuart, there are 10 types of people in this world.

    Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
  • I see it as the robot working out their email responses to employee queries:

    <if day = Friday then add "have a great weekend">
    <if text contains "flu" then add "oh there's something going round isn't there">
    <if text contains "HR says ..." then add "angry emoji">
    <if sender category "recruiter" then add "I hope you're well">
    <if ee absence date = annual leave then add "I hope you've had a lovely holiday!">
    <if email date > 1 week ago then add "sorry to chase, but...">