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Monday March 01,
2021
Dilbert Needs Alone Time
Tags alone time, dark, despair, emotions, hate, lonely, mental health, offend, personal, time
Transcript
dilbert at home. dilbert: it's not personal, but sometimes i just need alone time. dogbert: how could i possibly be offended by your preference for the dark despair of loneliness over spending time with me? dilbert putting on headphones: i won't be lonely. dogbert: i hate you too!
Tuesday March 02,
2021
Talking To Wally
Tags mental health, office workers, health, alone time, listen, crazy, hate, talking, fake, empathy, business, coffee
Transcript
dilbert: dogbert doesn't believe me when i tell him i need more alone time for my mental health. wally: why would he listen to you when you're obviously crazy? dilbert: i hate talking to you. wally: should i fake more empathy.
Wednesday March 03,
2021
Remote Workforce
Tags business, Lose, market share, remote, workforce, employees, micro management, shoulders, minute, coffee, company, baffle
Transcript
boss: we're losing market share to a company that has a remote workforce. dilbert: how can they be doing so well when the employees don't have someone like you looking over their shoulders every minute? boss: i know its baffling.
Thursday March 04,
2021
Not The Smartest
Tags business, engineers, smart, iterate, technology, leadership, incompetence, excellence, sarcasm
Transcript
boss: we might not have the smartest engineers, but we can iterate faster than anyone. dilbert: actually, we do have the smartest engineers, but your leadership incompetence cancels out our excellence. dilbert: and i'll bet you don't know what "iterate" means. boss: i didn't think it would matter.
Friday March 05,
2021
Think About Long Term
Tags business, technology, long term, dynamics, reasonable, random, decision, job, employment
Transcript
office worker: we need to think longer term about how all of these dynamics play out. dilbert: sounds reasonable. what exactly were we doing before? office worker: i can't speak for anyone else, but i was making random decisions and hoping i'd change jobs before anyone found out.
Saturday March 06,
2021
Focus Or Spread
Tags managers & supervisors, focus, project, expense, business, employment, low quality, work, magic, attention, technology, sarcasm
Transcript
dilbert: do you prefer that i focus on one of my projects at the expense of all the others... or should i spread my attention across all of my projects and do low-quality work on all of them? and your answer cannot involve magic. boss: can i hear the choices again.
Sunday March 07,
2021
Fired For Social Media
Tags social media, business, technology, employment, fire, offensive, bad, people, twitter, issues, context, sides, associate, monsters
Transcript
boss: dilbert: i need to fire you for your social media activities. dilbert: did i say something offensive? boss: i'm getting reports that you follow bad people on twitter. dilbert: i follow people on both sides of every issue so i can see the full context. boss: that might sound good on paper, but half of the people you follow are monsters of one sort or another. dilbert: isn't it obvious that enforcing this kind of standard can only lead in a bad direction. boss: no, i don't see that at all. all i see is that you associate with people who are monsters. ceo to boss: i'm getting reports that you follow dilbert on twitter.
Monday March 08,
2021
Traumatic Story
Tags mental health, sales, sales personnel, business, technology, salesman, traumatic, experience, child, story, relate, manipulate, emotions, short-circuit, critical, thinking
Transcript
salesman in meeting: before i tell you about our newest product, i'd like to tell you a story about a traumatic experience i had as a child. wally: is your story related to the topic, or is it just an excuse to yammer about something that happened to you? salesman: i'm trying to manipulaye your emotions to short-circuit your critical thinking. wally: okay. carry on.
Tuesday March 09,
2021
Garbled Audio
Tags technology, business, video conference, audio, garbled, gerbil, laptop, miscommunication, zoom, solve, problems, endangered, coffee
Transcript
dilbert in front of laptop on video conference: our audio is garbled. i can't hear what you are saying. dilbert yelling: no, i didn't say anything about a gerbil. i said our audio is garbled. dogbert and dilbert at home. dogbert: how'd your zoom call go? dilbert: i solved zero problems and may have endangered a gerbil.
Wednesday March 10,
2021
Pandemic For 75 Years
Tags cell phone, covid-19, health & safety, pandemic, science, scientist, numb, sarcasm
Transcript
dilbert reading cell phone: scientists now say the pandemic will last seventy-five years. dilbert and dogbert say nothing. dilbert: yup, i'm numb.


