June 2020 Comic Strips - Page 1
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Tuesday June 30,
2020
Cooties Diagnosis
Tags confirmed, cooties, diagnosis, doctor, medicine, Opinion, professional, skepticism, symptom, test
Transcript
doctor: in my professional opinion, you have a bad case of the cooties. we don't have any tests for cooties, but the main symptom is skepticism, and you have that. dilbert: cooties are not real. doctor: diagnosis confirmed.
Monday June 29,
2020
Cooties In Elbonia
Tags cooties, deny, elbonia, managers & supervisors, outbreak, science, symptom, technology, news
Transcript
boss: the news says there's a major outbreak of cooties in elbonia. dilbert: i don't think cooties is a real thing. boss: experts say one of the symptoms of cooties is "denying science."
Sunday June 28,
2020
Dating In The Age Of Coronavirus
Tags attractive, contract, covid-19, dating, eyes, goodnight, kiss, lawyers, mask, masked, negotiations, office workers, single, technology
Transcript
carol: it must be difficult to be single in the age of covid-19. dilbert: it's not too bad, actually. i'm in contract negotiations with a semi-attractive women i met online. with any luck, i will be enjoying a double-masked goodnight kiss by late next month. that assumes our lawyers don't make too many changes to the contract. carol: did you just say she is only semi-attractive? dilbert: i'm judging from the parts i can see. i don't know what's under the mask and shower cap she wears all day. carol: you must like her eyes. dilbert: i like the one i can see. the other one has a patch.
Saturday June 27,
2020
Credible Data
Tags managers & supervisors, sarcasm, technology, credible, data, problem, test, good
Transcript
alice: i finished the data throughput tests, but the results are not credible because of a problem with the test. boss: does the non-credible data make us look good? alice: yes. boss: our name for that kind of data is "credible."
Friday June 26,
2020
Input From Idiots
Tags office workers, sarcasm, technology, input, idiots, project, variety, dumb, informed, leadership
Transcript
dilbert: per your orders, i got input on my project from a variety of people who are dumber and less informed than i am. as you might imagine, the net effect was to make everything worse. boss: are you done? dilbert: i just want to thank you for all the leadership.
Thursday June 25,
2020
Getting Opinions
Tags office workers, technology, input, dumb, human, universe, Opinion, strategy, worse
Transcript
boss: get ted's input before you finalize the plan. dilbert: ted is the dumbest human being in the known universe. his opinion can only make things worse. boss: that's how we do it here. dilbert: i didn't realize it was a strategy.
Wednesday June 24,
2020
Wally The Generalist
Tags office workers, sarcasm, technology, generalist, subject, matter, expert, help
Transcript
Tina: wally, can you help me on this? wally: no, i'm more of a generalist than a subject matter expert. tina: what kind of work do generalists do? wally: you just saw it.
Tuesday June 23,
2020
How To Identify Good Ideas
Tags technology, decision making, smart, people, idiot, agree, disagree, good, bad, idea, rational
Transcript
dilbert: i can't tell the difference between good ideas and bad ones. there are smart people on both sides of every idea. what rational process do you use to determine who is right? wally: i label people who disagree with me "idiots" and call it a day.
Monday June 22,
2020
Anecdotal Testing
Sunday June 21,
2020
Two Bad Options
Tags big business, business, business ethics, business failures/bankruptcies, hide, managers & supervisors, options, analysis, corporate
Transcript
Dilbert: I analyzed our only two options. One option costs too much, and the other option is impossible. Boss: Let's do the impossible one. Dilbert: Perhaps you can explain your reasoning. Boss: According to you, we will fail either way. But if we fail in a slow and inexpensive way, no one will even notice for months. With any luck, we'll have a corporate reorganization that forever hides our gross incompetence. Dilbert: Have you done this before? Boss: Every six months.

