Just wanted to say Dilbert tonight was excellent. Even Cecil would approve. Dilbert took on urban legends, alternative (complementary) medicine, and pseudoscience. It was funny, creative, and very pointed.
I loved it.
Dilbert? Bah, humbug! I kinda liked it when it first came out, but now the cartoonist just keeps on throwing in those “see how incredibly funny and insightful I am, skewering corporate life!” bits, so I’m kind of turned off. I can almost hear him saying to himself, “Whoa, could I possibly be any MORE wickedly caustic than that???” But to be fair, I don’t work in a big corporation, so maybe I just don’t identify with it.
Ditto (if I may say so myself).
Dilbert (The Cartoon Strip) = Loser. Uninteresting, deserves every bit of crap that comes his way Loser.
Was underwhelmed by the one episode I saw of the cartoon.
I don’t watch the show, but I love the strip. I DO work in a corporate environment (doing tech support) and I see SO many of the things he makes fun of…makes me clip out cartoons and post them all over the place as little anonymous commentaries… 
Dogbert, OTOH, I identify with. I’ve been accused of channeling him.
Never watched the cartoon. Who has time for TV?
Well, when you’re on the phone for 3 hours, no one! grinning
And the show is still on? I thought it was gone, so I quit watching…personally, I channel Alice.
Dogbert is my hero. Having spent the last 7 years being slowly digested by the Corporate Beast, it’s nice to see someone telling it like it is. Once you’ve actually have had to sit through a meeting where some dipstick is blathering about “team building” - “synergy” & “leveraging our core competencies,” you will understand.
If you don’t work in a large (bureaucratic) corporation (or other large organization) you could easily think that the cartoon strip Dilbert is off-the-wall b.s.
Those of us who’ve been there know better. Scott Adams - who worked for Pacific Bell - a large telephone utility, is right on target.
Quick example. To build “teamwork” a corporation where I once worked took us out bowling. Afterwards, they distributed pocket knives embossed with the company logo.
(I am not making this up!)
To build loyalty for IT workers and to reward them after a months long project with mandatory Saturdays, the corporation ordered a mandatory picnic on the first free Saturday after completing the project.
Final example. Rather than pay IT workers the going market rate (would violate company policy) this corporation formed a “career counseling” unit within its IT section (not in HR) filled with “counselors” that made 15-20K more than normal HR employees.
(This win-win innovation impacted IT turnover as you would expect.)
LOL, I don’t have anything to add other than I think Dilbert is pretty funny and that image of Falcon channeling Alice is way too accurate. I laughed, I cried, I kissed my ISP goodbye.
HUGS!
Sqrl
bows Thanks Sqrl! I don’t have the hairstyle, but I sure as hell have the attitude!!!
Falcon, I think that was the real point. You could easily get that hairstyle now since you go through hairstyles like I do. It would be funny to see Drain Bead with that hairstyle since she said that she was going to get a new one recently. Well, it would be funny to see anyone with a hairstyle like those pictured in that cartoon.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Speaking as another cog in the giant corporate machine, I find Dilbert nails the inner workings of corporate life.
I mean sure there are some of the strips that are stupid or lame or nonsensical, but he has quite a number of ones that make me believe he works here.
One April (which we were told was National Humor month) we actually had a group of people that made up the Humor Patrol. I never found out what they did, but the fact that they constructed it scares me.
We have an appearance committee that goes around (off hours and off the clock) and inspects people’s work areas and gives them warning letters if they do not meet code (no more than 12 perssonal items on your desk and staplers and tape dispensers are not personal items)
We have a policy stating that we seek to retain the best people and then we state that we will only pay the industry average (same as a Dibert strip)
I think you get the idea.
Jeffery
When I first read Dilbert I was 100% positive that Scott Adams worked where I did and was taking notes at the same meetings I was attending. Later I suspected that upper management was using the strip as a management tool and guide line.
Here’s a link for fans & doubters alike.
http://www.sjmercury.com/archives/dilbert/
I damn near peed myself.