2003 Comic Strips - Page 35
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Sunday December 07,
2003
Tags intern, cheap boss, full size cubicle, half size, cubicle, treats poorly, no budget, garbage can, misunderstand
Transcript
Asok: "May I move to one of the empty cubicles?" The Boss: "Those are full-size cubicles; interns get half-size cubicles." Asok: "Yes... ordinarily, but there are hundreds of vacant cubicles because of downsizing." The Boss: "I'm not following you." Asok: "They're EMPTY! They will never be occupied. I want to use one." The Boss: "We don't have the budget to turn a full-size cubicle into a half-size cubicle just for you." "GAAA!!! That's not what I... never mind! Forget it!" "Furthermore, I do not believe this is a half-size cubicle."
Monday December 08,
2003
Tags trudge, work, earn money, lights on, shower is ready
Transcript
Dogbert: Wake up and trudge to work! Earn money so I can leave on the lights in every room. Dogbert: Your shower is ready, I turned it on last night.
Tuesday December 09,
2003
Tags retired, do anything, all day long, banging head, earn money, social infrastructure, warm, tingly, sensation, guilty
Transcript
Dogbert: "It's nice to be retired. I'll do a-a-anything I want to do all day long." "I guess you'll be banging your head against a wall today, trying to earn money for the social infrastructure." Dilbert: "Do you ever feel guilty?" Dogbert: "Is it a warm, tingly sensation that makes you wag?"
Wednesday December 10,
2003
Tags global economy, vibrant, fly bait, reformatted, disguise true objective
Transcript
Dilbert: "It's workers like me that make the global economy so vibrant." Carol: "The pointy-haired fly-bait wants this reformatted to disguise his true objective." Carol: "When you're done, don't show it anyone. No one cares." Dilbert: "Zesty!"
Thursday December 11,
2003
Tags insincere optimism, artificial sense of urgency, delusion, work for challenge, not money, good ideas, sound bad
Transcript
Dilbert: I'm developing an insincere optimism to complement my artificial sense of urgency. Dilbert: I hope to top it off with a delusion that I work for the challenge and not the money. The Boss: How can you make good ideas sound so bad? Dilbert: Im an engineer.
Friday December 12,
2003
Tags product training, pride in product line, users experience, painful boils, relatively satisfied customers, techniques
Transcript
Product Training. Man: You work for a company that takes pride in its product line. Only half of our users experience painful boils. We call that group the "relatively satisfied customers. what the?!
Saturday December 13,
2003
Tags feet off desk, random mangement, stock rise, so random, commands
Transcript
The Boss: "Take your feet off the desk." Dilbert: "Is this an example of random management or do you think it will make our stock rise?" The Boss: "It's up .02%. Heh-heh-heh, not so random after all."
Sunday December 14,
2003
Tags boss, engineering manager, graphic artist, graphics guy upset, logo, mocks him, puts down idea, thinks idea, threatned, graphics dept.
Transcript
The Boss: Its totally Brilliant. Boss: I must show this to our creative department. I designed a new logo for the company, see what you can do with it. Graphics Artist: well, well, well an engineering manager becomes and artist. Apparently I wasted my time getting an masters degree in graphic arts and design. AlI I needed was a dull pencil and scrap of paper. Art is not that easy, you arrogant pile of perfectly symmetrical crud!! The Boss: what if the logo is inside a rectangle? Artist: SOB
Monday December 15,
2003
Tags watching tv, news anchors, report, tv cameras, shows, evil or stupid, heart disease, stupid, banter, stinks
Transcript
TV Anchorman: Researchers have proven that working with evil or stupid people causes heart disease. Ha Ha! I wonder if the amount of stupidness makes a difference. Your witty banter stinks today.
Tuesday December 16,
2003
Tags engineers, jobs, want job your job, falling out of trees, dime a dozen, intimidation, job on line, idle threats
Transcript
The Boss: The woods are full of people who want your job. These days you can't shake a tree without three or four engineers falling out. Id love to stay and chat but I need to go motivate the other headcounts.


