I have one more Dilbert from the past that I don’t get. But unlike my last post, where there might not have really been a joke that makes sense, I’m sure that this one does but I’m just not getting it.
Clicking on the OP’s link got me a really scary popup. It seems the Meebo was unhappy that I only allowed it to store 5Mb on my computer and that it needed permission to up the limit to 10Mb.
Hold flurking moly. No. You don’t get to store squat on my computer. 10 megs? What do they even want with 5 megs? Killed the tab.
Checked around and Meebo is one of those “legitimate but evil” social things. Do not want.
I thought the point was that this “consultant” had solicited inputs from the worker-bees, and now was going to merely present the raw data to the boss as [mostly] his own.
How hard is it to print and collect employee feedback forms?
“I’ll put in a good word for you.” What analysis did the consultant say he was going to do? Put them in a binder?
(I’m not impressed with the level of professionalism this implies. )
I think Dilbert was negotiating, albeit poorly. Instead of ratbert putting in “a good word” Dilbert was pushing for TWO good words. Cause two was a bigger number than one.
No, he said the data was going to be put in a binder and then stored in the same building the president works in - in other words, their ideas were going to disappear into storage and never be seen again.
It also points out that the president of the company works in a completely separate building from the engineers. They have all these ideas but they can’t get them to the president who has the power to make them happen. And Ratbert is cluelessly telling the engineers that he sees the president in person - but won’t be presenting any of their ideas to him. The engineers are resentful because they don’t have the opportunity that Ratbert is wasting.
So the overall theme is poor communication in the corporate environment.