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View 1 - 10 results for could be worse comic strips. Discover the best "Could Be Worse" comics from Dilbert.com.
Friday June 11,
2021
Makeup For Zoom Call
Tags business, smartphone, remote working, zoom, schedule, scheduled, voice call, zoom call, makeup, reschedule
Transcript
voice from Alice's smartphone: i have to cancel our scheduled zoom call today. alice yelling and distressed: i woke up early and put on makeup for nothing! voice: i could do a voice call from my car. alice still yelling: you're making it worse!!!
Friday April 23,
2021
Zoom Could Have Been Worse
Tags business, embarrassment, technology, video call, zoom, time, waste, meeting, imbeciles, mic
Transcript
dilbert with dogbert on video call. dilbert: what a waste of time this zoom meeting is. i hate dealing with imbeciles. voice from laptop: your mic is on. dogbert: could have been worse.
Thursday February 25,
2021
Worst Place To Work
Tags barrel, best, business, dead, employees, employment, place, publication, squirrels, technology, trade, work, sarcasm
Transcript
boss in board room: a trade publication ranked us dead last on their list of "best places to work." the review says, "employees say working there is like eating a barrel of dead squirrels." boss: could have been worse. dilbert: only for the squirrels.
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.
Sunday February 09,
2020
Making World Better Place
Tags managers & supervisors, business, money, meeting, employees, taxes, cancer, sarcasm
Transcript
boss: i don't want employees who are only working for the money. i want employees who are working to make the world a better place. dilbert: how does working here make the world a better place? half of our products cause cancer, and the other half don't work at all. wally: we don't even pay taxes. one could argue that every day we spend working here makes the planet a little bit worse. boss: is that why i never see you doing any work? wally: when did it become a crime to care about people? sheesh!
Friday November 08,
2019
Wally Compared To A Placebo
Tags managers & supervisors, project, failure, coincidence, placebo, insult
Transcript
boss: wally, i've noticed that every project you have worked on has failed. is that a coincidence? wally: it's hard to know. unless you compare me to a placebo. boss: okay, you're worse than a placebo. wally: i thought that would take longer.
Saturday July 06,
2019
Wally Uses Speakerphonetif
Tags cell phone, office, office workers, speaker phone, voice-texting, click
Transcript
the boss: i asked you to stop using your speaker-phone because it was disturbing your co-workers. the boss: now they tell me you started doing voice-texting, which is even worse. wally: okay fine. later that day. alice visually upset and yelling: turn off your keyboard click sound! wally's cell phone: click click click.
Sunday July 23,
2017
Tags analogy, hyperbole, exaggeration
Transcript
Dilbert: Once we have all of the vendors' bids, we will pick the best one. Man: Oh, great, so you're saying we should be exactly like serial killers? Dilbert: Uh... what? Man: Serial killers also choose their victims. Can't you see the warning flags here? You're basically promoting murder. Dilbert: That is literally the most ridiculous and unhelpful analogy of all time. I doubt you could come up with a worse analogy, no matter how hard you tried. Man: Hitler said something like that before invading Poland. Boss: Good point.
Monday June 12,
2017
Don't Make Eye Contact With Ceo
Tags presentation, public speaking, nervous, anxious, fear
Transcript
Asok: I'm nervous because I need to make a presentation to our CEO. Do you have any advice? Wally: Don't make eye contact with him. He hates that. Asok: You have made things far worse! Wally: He also flies into a rage when he hears the word "the."