2019 Comic Strips - Page 28
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Monday September 23,
2019
Would It Look The Same
Tags #boss, #managers & supervisors, #office workers, #sarcasm, #dumb, #smart
Transcript
Dilbert: Hypothetically, how would you know if I were dumber than you or much smarter? Because in both cases I would make choices that you wouldn't understand. Wouldn't it look the same to you? Boss: I don't enjoy talking to you.
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Tuesday September 24,
2019
Try Hiding
Tags #Advice, #boss, #compliment, #criticism, #ego, #employees, #managers & supervisors
Transcript
Dogbert: If you compliment your employees, they will get big heads and think they are underpaid. But if you criticize them, they will be unhappy and quit. Boss: What should I do instead of those things? Dogbert: Have you tried hiding?
Wednesday September 25,
2019
Curse Of Competence
Tags #computer software, #employees, #office workers, #problem, #sarcasm, #condescending
Transcript
Man: I need your help solving a software problem on my computer. Dilbert: Why am I cursed with the sort of competence that makes me a servant to the incapable? Man: I don't know what that means. Dilbert: If you did, you could probably fix your own problems.
Thursday September 26,
2019
Juggling 17 Balls
Tags #comparison, #criticism, #employees, #office workers, #overwhelmed, #juggle
Transcript
Alice: I have too many projects. Boss: Pfft! If a juggler can juggle five balls at once, you can handle seventeen projects. Alice: But...no juggler can juggle seventeen balls at once. Boss: Not the lazy ones.
Friday September 27,
2019
Hypothetical Observer
Tags #boss, #employees, #insults, #managers & supervisors, #office workers, #sarcasm, #idiot
Transcript
Dilbert: Thank you for explaining to me how to do my job, for which I am highly trained and you are not. An observer might be tempted to say only an idiot would do such a thing. Boss: Is that an insult? Dilbert: Hey, don't blame me for what a hypothetical observer says.
Saturday September 28,
2019
Ron Moore
Tags #business, #employees, #insults, #jokes, #mistake, #sales, #customers
Transcript
Ron: Hi, I'm Ron Moore. Dilbert: Heh-heh. That's funny, because if you say your last name first, you're a "Moore, Ron". Okay, now I get why you never take me on sales calls.
Sunday November 03,
2019
Goofy Words
Tags #business, #managers & supervisors, #proposal, #understand, #clarification, #end, #misunderstand
Transcript
dilbert: and that's my blockchain proposal. any questions? boss: there was a part i didn't understand. dilbert: which part? boss: the words dilbert: all of them? boss: only the goofy ones. such as token, smart contract, certainty as a service, utxo blockchains, node, ledger, and daps. dilbert: so... you didn't understand anything i said for the past hour? boss: don't try to turn this into my fault dilbert: you could have asked me to clarify boss: i also wanted it to end.
Monday September 30,
2019
Casserole For Pot Luck
Tags #Food, #health & safety, #office, #office workers, #casserole, #potluck, #inspection, #home, #kitchen
Transcript
tina: i brought a casserole for the potluck. when are you coming? dilbert: when was the last time the health department did an inspection of your home kitchen? tina: never dilbert: that's when i'll be going to the potluck.
Tuesday October 01,
2019
Food Poisoning
Wednesday October 02,
2019
Parody Inversion Point
Tags #government, #sarcasm, #parody, #business, #inversion, #reality, #absurd
Transcript
dilbert: according to my algorithm, we are heading toward a parody inversion point. that happens when reality becomes so absurd that it is indistinguishable from parody. dogbert: maybe the government can fix that dilbert alarmed: gaaa! i can't tell if you're serious!