November 2019 Comic Strips - Page 2
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Monday November 11,
2019
The Best Way To Succeed
Tags business, managers & supervisors, office workers, success, delegate
Transcript
boss: the best way to succeed in this world is through hard work dilbert: is that the way you did it? boss: no, i used the second-best way dilbert: which is... boss: making other people work hard
Tuesday November 12,
2019
Workflow Training
Tags business, managers & supervisors, office workers, system, technology, training, new
Transcript
boss: has everyone taken the new workflow system training? alice: yes, and we all concluded the new system is poorly designed and should be abandoned. boss: sounds like you need more training. alice: i meant to say we love the new system
Wednesday November 13,
2019
Not Humanly Possible
Tags managers & supervisors, office workers, budget, workflow, procedure, impossible, useful
Transcript
boss: i can't approve your budget because you didn't follow the seventeen-step workflow procedure. dilbert: it is not humanly possible to follow the company workflow procedure and also accomplish anything useful. boss: would it help if i add a few steps? dilbert: yes, if you have to go back to your office to do it.
Thursday November 14,
2019
Attending A Funeral
Tags managers & supervisors, time off, funeral, sick, unsympathetic
Transcript
carol talking to distracted boss on cell phone: can i take the day off to attend a funeral? boss: sure. i didn't even know you were sick. carol: it's not my own funeral. boss: oh. in that case, no.
Friday November 15,
2019
Stay Home When Sick
Tags office workers, healthy, sick, sneeze, infect, deadlines
Transcript
dilbert: maybe you should stay home when you are sick. alice sneezing: honk! i will, but first i need to infect the rest of you so i'm not the only one missing deadlines. can you hold this for me? (passes off tissue to dilbert)
Saturday November 16,
2019
Help Me With Something
Tags office workers, compensation, system, incentive, budget, limit, smart, business
Transcript
male office worker: can you help me with something? dilbert: no, our employee compensation system incentivizes me to let you fail so i can lay claim to a larger share of our limited budget for raises. maybe you could ask someone who is less aware. office worker: none of them are smart enough to help.
Sunday November 17,
2019
Dilbert Gets A Mentor
Tags managers & supervisors, Advice, mentor, productivity, operations, vice president, pressure, trick
Transcript
boss: i heard you asked our v.p. of operations to be your mentor. why didn't you tell me you needed some mentoring? i'm full of useful advice. dilbert: such as? boss: well... not you're putting me on the spot. it's hard to think of advice while you're pressuring me. maybe you could give me a scenario, and then i'll tell you what to do. dilbert: okay, suppose my boss is ruining my productivity by yammering about his great advice. what can i do? boss: that feels like a trick question. dilbert: our v.p. of operations could answer it.
Monday November 18,
2019
Boss Helps
Tags managers & supervisors, project, deadline, interruption, business, new, task, priority
Transcript
boss: why isn't your project done yet? dilbert: because every time i walk past your office you give me three new tasks and tell men they are my highest priority. boss: i was hoping you didn't know why. dilbert: hire someone dumber next time.
Tuesday November 19,
2019
Meeting To Decide When To Meet
Tags business, managers & supervisors, meeting, schedule, thursday, berate
Transcript
boss: i need everyone to come to the thursday meeting so we can decide when to schedule our next meeting. dilbert: why don't we just have the meeting on thursday? dilbert: see me later, so i can berate you for saying that. dilbert: do we need a meeting to schedule that?
Wednesday November 20,
2019
Elbonian Spy
Tags business, managers & supervisors, elbonian, spy, engineers, economy, intellectual, property, collaborate
Transcript
boss: i hired an elbonian spy who, i assume, will try to steal our intellectual property. it's hard to find good engineers in this economy, so that is a risk i am willing to take. dilbert, i'd like you to collaborate with him. dilbert: can we call it something else?
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