As the man said, Dilbert isn’t a cartoon, it’s a documentary.
I dunno. I think Dilbert plateaued years ago, personally.
I keep a Dilbert book at my desk, and I have a number of them at home. If something bizarre or crappy happens at work, I can almost always find a Dilbert cartoon that directly relates to that experience.
As you said, it is a documentary.
Agreed. I usually keep an eye on the cartoons via here.
Well sure. He started on a high plateau and has maintained it.
My father works as a comptroller for a large, financial-oriented company. He swears up and down that Scott Adams is following him around and taking notes. He’s pointed out strips where the wording has been almost exactly the same as something said by others in his company.
It’s the only comic I read every day. Get to work, turn on computer, start Netscape, open e-mail, read Dilbert, then go to SDMB. Oh, then do work.
I’ve never met an engineer who would disagree with that statement.
I’ve been told that Mr. Adams used to work in the very same building that I work in. So yes, his work is definitely considered as documentation rather than fiction.
“Now let me get this straight. The time I spend in the shower actually thinking about solving problems is NOT ‘work’. The time I spend at the office attending meaningless meetings IS ‘work’. Huh?”
I vote for documentary.
Its erie sometimes how predictably people in certain positions of large corporate structures behave in such a similar way. It doesen’t matter what the company is or does, the same types of people seem to fall into the same niches. I on several occasions just knew my manager was saying something the PHB would just to be funny, then invariably it would dawn on me, yes, he is that stupid.
A couple times a year I would sit in my office and be bordering on tears because I just knew that the problem situation I just warned my boss about was going to be ignored,
till it was too big to ignore,
then we would have a meeting in which a half ass solution would be approved,
half ass solution would impact orther operational areas
Eventually it would get dropped on me to solve since I was sooo freakin smart i saw this coming a long time ago so it should be easy to fix now that the problem has been truly identified and is not just some hypotheical scenario that might happen if everything goes wrong, which it always does because I worked with a bunch of mindless cretins with all the foresight and creative problem solving power of a mushroom*. Of course I was seen as obnoxious and condescending for assuming the lowest common denominators would be the true situation.
Dilbert isn’t a documentary, its more like a DSM for corporate psych disorders.
- Apologies to any mushrooms who may have been offended by the comparison.
That pointy-head fellow belongs in Cafe Society. I’ll send him over there.
I used to be a contract phone drone for General Electric Information Services. I was freshly retired from the Army and it was not working out well. They were idiots and I couldn’t keep my opinions to myself. I had like three weeks to go on my one-year contract, which we all knew would not be renewed. Fine.
So I come into work and get call aside. “Paul, we are laying off all the drones on one-year contracts.”
I reply, “But if you let my contract run out you don’t get billed for my unemployment compensation. If you terminate the contract early, I get benefits that you have to pay for.”
“Paul, listen carefully, we are laying off all the drones on one-year contracts.”
I realize I am not talking to a normal person, “But, I still have more stuff on my office-supply list to steal!”
GE, America’s best-run company. :smack:
We have adopted this Dilbert at work. Anyone complaining gets the last panel quoted at them.
Ice Wolf this site has the last 3 months worth of most major strips.
The big one in San Ramon? I remember when my dad used to work with him. When the big jobs cuts started, he was one of the first to go, having another job and all.