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Friday November 13,
2020
Climate Change And Wally
Tags business, late, attendance, alarm, power, phone, coal power plant, climate change
Transcript
wally to boss and dilbert: sorry i'm late. my alarm didn't go off because my town lost power and my phone battery died. and we lost power because the state closed down the lost coal power plant to reduce co2 emissions. so really, the fault lies with climate change, not me. dilbert: (slow clap)
Saturday November 14,
2020
Angry Tech Writers
Tags anger, business, exercise, technology, writing, tech writer, underpaid, coffee, hate
Transcript
dilbert: why is your writing so angry? tina: tech writers are underpaid, so all of our envy and contempt spill out on the page. dilbert: maybe you tech writers should drink less coffee and exercise more. tina: this is exactly why we hate everyone.
Monday November 16,
2020
Real Men Multitask
Tags business, managers & supervisors, technology, software, software design, concentrate, multitask, distraction, kill, error
Transcript
boss: do you ever think about the fact that one small error in your software design could kill hundreds of people? all it would take is some kind of distraction while you are trying to concentrate. dilbert: are you done? boss: a real man could multitask in this situation.
Tuesday November 17,
2020
Rewriting Shakespeare
Tags author, play, sarcasm, writing, shakespeare, confidence, rewriting, plot, dialogue, drunk
Transcript
Dogbert: My new hobby is rewriting shakespeare's plays so the sentences make sense. He had some good plot ideas, but I think he was drunk when he wrote the dialogue. Dilbert: i admire your confidence. Dogbert typing: "where are you, Romeo?"
Wednesday November 18,
2020
Information From Carl
Tags office workers, colleagues, rude, mumble, ignorance, information, business, stalk, cubicle, layers
Transcript
Tina: i almost got some information from carl. i stalked him to his cubicle and penetrated his outer defense of rudeness. but i never broke through his mumble layer. dilbert: wait until you get to his ignorance layer.
Thursday November 19,
2020
Dilbert Not On Mute
Tags business, meetings, video conference, zoom, time-wasting, fool, mute
Transcript
Dilbert on a video conference call and voices coming from laptop" We've been going for two hours, so let's wrap up... i have a new topic... dilbert: Gaaa!!! why is there always on time-wasting fool on every zoom call??? why? why? voice from laptop: dilbert, you're not on mute. dilbert: oh. did you hear my tv? i'll turn it down.
Friday November 20,
2020
Ghost Writer
Tags author, ghostwriter, autobiography, ghost, fingers, clothes, keyboard, business
Transcript
dogbert: you should hire a ghostwriter to write your autobiography. dilbert: that's dumb. a ghost's fingers would go right through the keyboard. dogbert: then how do their clothes stay on? dilbert: fair point.
Saturday November 21,
2020
Smells Like A Trap
Tags business, office, office workers, sarcasm, disagreement, change, data, reason, trap, insomnia
Transcript
dilbert: yesterday someone disagreed with me, and i changed his mind using data and reason. wally: that isn't possible. dilbert: i didn't think so either, but it happened. wally: smells like a trap. dilbert: i couldn't sleep all night.
Sunday December 06,
2020
Wally Answers Texts Later
Tags business, sarcasm, technology, lazy, working, ignore, text, email, response, data
Transcript
asok: i rarely see you working. how do you get away with it? wally: it's easy. i just wait a day before answering any texts or emails. for example, here's alice asking if i can attend a meeting in an hour. i'll answer her in the morning and say i didn't see her message. And here's dilbert asking me for some data. tomorrow, i will text him to ask for clarification, and he will tell me he found the data on his own. asok: don't you feel guilty? wally: nah. they'd do the same to me. asok: and do they? wally: they would if i didn't ignore them first.
Sunday December 13,
2020
Assigning Dilbert To Project
Tags business, technology, network, redesign, project, phase, positive, optimistic, assign, sarcasm
Transcript
boss: dilbert, i'm assigning you to the network redesign project. dilbert: what phase is that project in? is it in the initial stage, in which everyone is feeling positive and optimistic? or is it in the middle phase, in which everyone is finding away and hating the other team members? boss: it's in the death spiral phase. everyone is trying to assign blame to someone they already hate. they requested that i add you to the team. dilbert: to save the project? boss: um...okay, sure.


