Anybody following Dilbert now?

Yikes, it exposes a super power.

Tim does. He thinks the cartoonist works where he works.

Sandi

While I was still working, I Was asked by one of the better bosses to help write a Performance Management System (which for obvious reasons we were never allowed to call it that) and THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE was just released. I took the book into work one day and read it to the boss. We laughed so hard that we were in tears.

http://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Principle ... 887308589/

Words that we wrote in the Performance Management System were already in THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE and then extended to their absolute absurdity.

We were not allowed to refer to cubicles as work farms.

We were not allowed to call it the Pittsburgh Information System.

We were not allowed to refer to the battleship gray furniture or the institutional beige ceramic walls (our old and un-remodeled offices were reminiscent of rest rooms).

The "name" of our system was not allowed to provoke giggles or even hint at obscenity.

Also, one of our Division Directors forbid his workers from posting Dilbert Cartoons on the walls. He lost that battle.

This is the long way of saying I have been a fan of Dilbert since I first read it.

I have always enjoyed Dilbert but never read it daily, I was more of a Fare Side kind of person or Calvin and Hobbes which made me start to think about snowmen, you know there still funny.

River

OK ladies and gentlemen. Here is the current thread. One of the macho management blow hards tells Alice that he is a boss because he has male genitals and nothing can change that. Then you see Alice whistling as she walks with a pair of scissors. Then she announces she is the highest paid engineer in the company. Dilbert asks if it is because of the mallet, scissors, and her reputation for violence. She whips out the scissors and snarls if he would ask that question of a man. Shocked Dilbert shouts out something like, "Yikes, super power."

Tim just showed me today's strip. I'm rooting for Alice.

Sandi

Honestly have to say that Dilbert is one of my least favorite comics to read.

Go back and read the strip form earlier in the week.

Scott Adams sets up the entire story piece by piece, so to speak.

Ahh, ahem..... what shall I say here? The Dilbert comic strip was SUPPOSED to be a FUNNY thing, something to laugh at, NOT a serious instruction manual for management, yet where I work, I am shocked to say, it seems that the bosses take their instruction from "Dogbert" and the "Pointy Haired Boss."

Case in point: Each week, we get an email telling all of us which projects have been de-activated, and which ones have been activated, just a bunch of project code numbers, so that when we report our working hours at the end of shift we credit them to the correct project code. The lady that sent these emails always included a Dilbert comic strip with the email, so we all did make a point to actually READ the email, clearly we read it because of the Dilbert strip, and incidentally we read the project codes. Last week, the big boss corporate office sent an email telling us that the Dilbert comic was unprofessional and did not reflect the work ethic that they wanted..... NO MORE DILBERT comics in any emails, no Dilbert comics posted on any workplace walls or boards.... Oh MY GAWD! How can the big boss higher ups NOT see the irony in it? By banning Dilbert and other such workplace humor, they are becoming exactly like the incredibly stupid "Pointy Haired Boss" of Dilbert fame.

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DeaconBlues (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:06 am the big boss corporate office sent an email telling us that the Dilbert comic was unprofessional and did not reflect the work ethic that they wanted...

I've heard that before. And I agree with you. Dilbert is one of the funniest comics in the newspaper.

Consider this to be a management principle: "If you sound like the Boss in Dilbert, you're wrong!"

or this:

"If you have to BAN the Dilbert cartoon, you've already lost all respect as a manager and are diving headfirst into the grand corporate toilet of life."