Just great. My cow-orkers are mad at me.

[Albert_Rose]

I feel so…
dirty.

I’m going to ork something later.

Much cleaner now.

What’s this about Dilbert?

[Duke]

*Originally posted by False_God *
**Now, see , the thing to do is tell your cow-orkers that it’s your birthday, but that you don’t celebrate it.

That gets you guaranteed birthday-taken-out-to lunch and cocktails.**

Now, even better is to casually slip to a cow-orker (best if it’s someone you find annoying) that it might be your birthday next week…even though it isn’t.

Annoying cow-orker will go and tell everyone in your department, “Hey, X’s birthday is next week, we should go out to celebrate!” Then when you do go out, and someone proposes a birthday toast, you say in a very embarrassed voice, “But it’s not my birthday. Who gave you that idea?” Annoying cow-orker looks like a dumb ass, and you get a second party later in the year.

Not that I’ve ever done the above before, noooo.

[lurkernomore]

Happy Bday, Screetch. Don’t let those induhviduals get you down.

[Homebrew]

*Originally posted by Tranquilis *
**I was reading this, and the further down the thread I got, the more amazed I became that none seemed to recognize the DNRC phrase for annoying co-worker: Cow-Orker (best said with a phoney Cockney accent).
**

[begin lame explanation of how I really got it]
The quote I used above was actually from a Pit thread about the origin of the co-worker to cow-orker transformation.
[/explanation]

[RTFirefly]

I was a religious Dilbert reader, until the Washington Post moved it to the Business section about 2 years ago. There are limits to my devotion, it seems.

I’ve never seen ‘cow-orker’ in a Dilbert strip. I thought it was just an annoying typo. (It still is! :))

[lurkernomore]

*Originally posted by RTFirefly *
**I was a religious Dilbert reader, until the Washington Post moved it to the Business section about 2 years ago. There are limits to my devotion, it seems.

I’ve never seen ‘cow-orker’ in a Dilbert strip. I thought it was just an annoying typo. (It still is! :)) **

No excuse. get it emailed to you.

[RTFirefly]

*Originally posted by lurkernomore *
**
No excuse. get it emailed to you. **

Why? It ain’t what it used to be. It’s still OK, but there’s only so many variations you can do on stupid bosses, lazy cow-orkers ;), and the like. I’m not gonna clutter up my in-box.

[Winnowill]

First I heard cow-orker was in the Dilbert Newsletter - comes a couple times a year. Entertaining enough that I’m happy to get it. You can read the old ones on the Dilbert website.

[OpalCat]

I didn’t know the origins of cow-orker… actually I’m doubtful that those are the origins. It’s such a common typo and all. Probably Dilbert just made doing on purpose famous. I think most people who make the typo in a public setting probably giggle and say “heh… cow-orkers! hehe” to whoever is around them and always have.

[Winnowill]

This is where I first saw it.

[screech-owl]

Thanks for the wishes.
Would y’all believe me that it really WAS a typo?

[Tranquilis]

*Originally posted by OpalCat *
**I didn’t know the origins of cow-orker… actually I’m doubtful that those are the origins. It’s such a common typo and all. Probably Dilbert just made doing on purpose famous. I think most people who make the typo in a public setting probably giggle and say “heh… cow-orkers! hehe” to whoever is around them and always have. **

From DNRC Newsletter #17:

When some people see the word “coworker” they think it means the same as “co-worker.” But it doesn’t. Coworker is from the Olde English expression, “cow orker,” as in the following sentence that is best read with a cockney accent, “I ain’t workin’ with 'im! He’s a bloody cow orker!”

Scott Adams ran a contest to find the proper “name” for anoying coworkers, and “Cow-Orker” won. It may very well have been in isolated use before, but DNRC brought it to the masses. Likewise, “In-DUH-viduals” won for use on people who might be PHBs or Cow-Orkers, except they don’t work with you.