December 2003 Comic Strips
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Monday December 01,
2003
Tags evil director, merger, extra work, must be reason, tax thing
Transcript
Catbert, evil director human resources. The Boss: "We need to tell our employees about the merger." CatBert: "They'll read it in the news. Why should we do extra work?" The Boss: "Other companies do it. There must be a reason." Catbert: "Maybe it's a tax thing."
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marketing, project, cloud, catbert, leadership, budget, birthday, engineer, time sheet, sales, wally, strategy, dogbert, powerpoint, project management, topper, leader, boss, change, meeting, data, management, mordac
Tuesday December 02,
2003
Tags merging with evil compnay, downsize, how valuable
Transcript
"What?!! According to the paper, we're merging with an evil company that plans to downsize us." "Did they run my quote about how valuable you are?"
Wednesday December 03,
2003
Tags break into subgroups, net meeting, usual time, loose canon, label, hackneyed phrases, cut now type
Transcript
wally: "I recommend that we break into subgroups to create a process for choosing our next meeting time." alice: "Or we could just meet next week at our usual time." wally: "You're a loose canon." Alice: "Stop labeling me with hackneyed phrases!" Wally: "You're a 'cut now, measure later' type."
Thursday December 04,
2003
Tags accidentally eat, apple core, care values, customer service, respect, stem is loyalty, teamwork, apple product
Transcript
The Boss: "This apple will remind us of our CORE values: respect, customer service, and teamwork." Dilbert: "The apple's core is the part you throw away." The Boss: "Not always. Sometimes I accidentally eat it." Dilbert: "Maybe the stem can represent our loyalty to the company."
Friday December 05,
2003
Tags fist of death, foot of death, doctor, exam room, dont use, Advice, health, carpal syndrome, medical
Transcript
Doctor: You've got a bad case of carpal punchel syndrome. Doctor: Don't use your "fist of death" for a few weeks. Alice: GAAA!!! Wally: the "Foot of death" is not the same. Asok: It is only slightly menacing.
Saturday December 06,
2003
Tags dating, party, phone number, information, email, voicemail, home phone, offcie, work email, personal website, too much info, skeleton, relationships
Transcript
"I've never done this before, but may I have your phone number?" "Home phone.. cell phone.. work phone.. home e-mail.... personal web site." "...And if that fax machine is out of paper, try the one down the hall, but leave me a voice mail if you do."
Monday December 08,
2003
Tags trudge, work, earn money, lights on, shower is ready
Transcript
Dogbert: Wake up and trudge to work! Earn money so I can leave on the lights in every room. Dogbert: Your shower is ready, I turned it on last night.
Tuesday December 09,
2003
Tags retired, do anything, all day long, banging head, earn money, social infrastructure, warm, tingly, sensation, guilty
Transcript
Dogbert: "It's nice to be retired. I'll do a-a-anything I want to do all day long." "I guess you'll be banging your head against a wall today, trying to earn money for the social infrastructure." Dilbert: "Do you ever feel guilty?" Dogbert: "Is it a warm, tingly sensation that makes you wag?"
Wednesday December 10,
2003
Tags global economy, vibrant, fly bait, reformatted, disguise true objective
Transcript
Dilbert: "It's workers like me that make the global economy so vibrant." Carol: "The pointy-haired fly-bait wants this reformatted to disguise his true objective." Carol: "When you're done, don't show it anyone. No one cares." Dilbert: "Zesty!"
Thursday December 11,
2003
Tags insincere optimism, artificial sense of urgency, delusion, work for challenge, not money, good ideas, sound bad
Transcript
Dilbert: I'm developing an insincere optimism to complement my artificial sense of urgency. Dilbert: I hope to top it off with a delusion that I work for the challenge and not the money. The Boss: How can you make good ideas sound so bad? Dilbert: Im an engineer.


