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47 Results for Explaining
View 21 - 30 results for explaining comic strips. Discover the best "Explaining" comics from Dilbert.com.
Sunday May 17,
2009
Tags meeting, explaining, work, progress, ridiculous, lazy, business
Transcript
Wally says, "I didn't do any work this week because my project will probably be cancelled in the next budget cuts." The boss says, "Wally, I don't pay you to do nothing." Wally says, "I'm pretty sure you do." Wally says, "But I understand your confusion." Wally says, "I too was surprised by the first few years of getting paid to do nothing." Wally says, "In time, doing nothing becasme its own sort of challenge." Wally says, "I'm like a ninja with no hopes and dreams." The boss says, "Wally, set up a meeting with me later." Wally says, "I'll get right on that."
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Tuesday June 09,
2009
Tags meeting, explaining, angry, confronting, annoyed, business
Transcript
The boss says, "Last week I attended the circle of excellence conference for managers." Alice says, "So, while we were doing actual work, you sat in a circle with a bunch of managers?" The boss says, "It wasn't like that." Alice says, "Oh, I think it was."
Tuesday June 16,
2009
Tags meeting, explaining, pirate, plan, scheme, uncertainty, business
Transcript
Dogbert the CEO Dogbert says, "I'm taking a side job as a pirate." Dogbert says, "I'll kidnap employees and authorize huge ransom payments to myself for their return." The boss says, "Then you'll return them safely?" Dogbert says, "That's a different business model."
Tuesday August 18,
2009
Tags sitting, explaining, plan, delivery, stuck, arrow
Transcript
The Boss says, "I found a less expensive delivery service for our oversees business packages." The boss says, "Find someone who is traveling to the same country as the package, shoot him with a tranquilizer dart, and hide the package under his hat." Carol thinks, "The first day of any new system is always a problem."
Wednesday August 19,
2009
Tags meeting, rating, performance, reviews, attributes, explaining, ridiculous, business
Transcript
The Boss says, "We have new software for performance reviews." The boss says, "It has a category for everything." The boss says. "Fish-faced nincompoop! Bingo!"
Monday August 24,
2009
Tags sitting, meeting, explaining, project, annoyed, angry, lazy, wasting, time, business
Transcript
Wally says, "I spent the first part of the week installing our new productivity software." Wally says, "Then I used the rest of the week trying to make it interface with our time reporting system." Wally says, "So far all it can do is tell me how much time I'm wasting in this meeting."
Tuesday August 25,
2009
Tags excuses, ridiculous, explaining, software, reassurance, angry, annoyed, lazy, engineering
Transcript
Wally says, "My productivity software turned on me." Wally says, "It keeps crashing my computer. But that's okay because I don't need a computer to do my job." Wally says, "Do you have any assignments that are sort of pre-industrial?"
Sunday September 06,
2009
Tags asking, approval, bureaucracy, avoiding, explaining, disappearing
Transcript
Dilbert says, "Can you approve this change?" Woman says, "I'll have to run it by my corporate office." Woman says, "And we're in merger talks, so they'll need to clear it with our future owners." Woman says, "No one will know who should make the decision or what the right decision is." Dilbert says, "When do you think you'll have an answer?" Woman says, "Sometime between next week and whenever the earth is devoured by a gravitational singularity." Woman says, "Meanwhile I will avoid your calls and e-mails by becoming a vapor." Dilbert says, "You forgot the approval form."
Sunday September 27,
2009
Tags job, meeting, circular, ridiculous, talking, explaining, angry, annoyed, business
Transcript
The Boss says, "Dilbert, I want you to develop a procedure for creating policies." Dilbert says, "Do we have a policy on how to develop procedures?" The Boss says, "I think someone wrote a white paper on that." Dilbert says, "What's the procedure for finding white papers?" The Boss says, "Maybe you could ask around." Later that night Woman says, "So, what do you do?" Dilbert says, "I ask around to see if anyone knows about a white paper that talks about a policy for developing procedures to create policies." Dilbert thinks, "You find that sexy." Woman says, "Stop doing the Jedi mind trick!"
Friday October 09,
2009
Tags asking, approval, bureaucracy, avoiding, explaining, discouraged
Transcript
Dilbert says, "Did the executive steering committee approve my project?" The boss says, "We agreed on a predecisional draft framework for making the decision." Dilbert says, "Does that mean anything?" The Boss says, "It depends what you mean by 'Anything.'"

