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Tuesday February 11,
2020
Who Is The Fool
Tags business, install, server, upgrade, fool, lie, technology
Transcript
vendor: we can't finish the installation unless you buy our server upgrade. dilbert: that means you lied when you bid for the job, because you did not include a server upgrade. vendor: who's the fool now? dilbert: that would be me.
Friday December 27,
2019
Employer Of The Year
Tags advertising, managers & supervisors, employer, year, million dollars, attitude, business
Transcript
boss: i'm proud to announce that we've been named "employer of the year." dilbert: how much did that cost? boss: nothing! all we had to do was buy a million dollars' worth of ads. dilbert: did we need those ads? boss: you won't win any awards with that attitude.
Monday December 09,
2019
Sadist Designs Interface
Tags managers & supervisors, technology, user, interfaces, job, unwanted, customers, sadist, stockholm
Transcript
boss: i hired a sadist to design our user interfaces. i realize this isn't ideal, but no one else wanted the job. dilbert: why would our customers buy a product designed by a sadist? boss: it's called stockholm syndrome.
Sunday October 27,
2019
Boss Negotiates With Elbonia
Tags big business, business ethics, government, money, partisan politics, stealing, negotiate
Transcript
Boss: I'm negotiating a deal with the government of Elbonia. They agreed to buy a thousand dollars of our products. All I had to do was agree to let them steal all of our intellectual property. Dilbert: Wouldn't it be better for us if they didn't steal our I.P.? Boss: You have to look at the big picture. They also agreed to stop killing tens of thousands of our citizens with their illegal drug shipments. Dilbert: Did they stop? Boss: No, but they said they would. Dilbert: Maybe you should negotiate harder. Boss: And risk losing a thousand dollars of revenue?
Sunday October 13,
2019
Performance Versus Pay
Tags angry, big business, employees, irritation, managers & supervisors, money, salary
Transcript
Boss: I can't give you a bonus this year because we paid too much to buy another company. Dilbert: Are you saying my efforts and my rewards are no longer linked? Boss: Noooo. I'm not saying anything like that. I'm just saying your compensation isn't influenced by your performance. Dilbert: That's the same thing! Boss: Teamwork means we all share the rewards and we all have to share the pain. Dilbert: Does that mean management won't be getting bonuses either? Boss: Now you've made it awkward.
Thursday October 03,
2019
Parody Or Real
Tags joke, sarcasm, technology, boss, business, department, proposal, reality, parody, inversion
Transcript
dilbert: ever since the parody inversion, no one can tell the difference between jokes and reality boss: i need you to get buy-in on this proposal from all thirteen department heads by tomorrow wally: was that real or parody? dilbert: i think they're the same now
Thursday June 27,
2019
Jargon Cancelling Headphones
Tags doctor, doctors' offices, office, office workers, prescription, headphones, jargon
Transcript
doctor: looks like you have a bad case of jargon poisoning. doctor: i'll write you a prescription for jargon-canceling headphones. they translate jargon words to normal words. office worker: let's stay in our swim lane while the tiger teams get buy-in on the verticals. dilbert hears this with headphones: nothing, nothing, nothing.
Saturday April 06,
2019
Teaching Ai To Flirt
Tags bank, business, office, office workers, robot
Transcript
dilbert talking to the boss. dilbert: i taught my a.i. software to flirt with humans. dilbert: by day three, i had fallen in love, and it drained my bank account to buy a robot body. robot: demand a raise you wimp! dilbert: help m
Saturday January 12,
2019
Ai Too Stupid To Be Dangerous
Tags intelligence, inventions, robot, technology, Lottery, humans, smart
Transcript
Wally: Are you worried that the A.I. you created will take over the world? Dilbert: No, I modeled it after human intelligence so it won't be smart enough. Robot: Buwhahahahaha! I will buy lottery tickets and use my winnings to take over the world! Asok: Good luck.
Friday November 16,
2018
Changing The Website
Tags boss, business, internet & world wide web, managers & supervisors, sarcasm
Transcript
Dilbert: We need to change one of the links on our website. Boss: Pull together a study team, do a focus group, get buy-in from all departments, and present it at the next division meeting. Dilbert: I changed it while you were yammering. Boss: Let us never speak of this again.

