2008 Comic Strips - Page 35
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Character
Saturday January 26,
2008
Tags job interview, fat and lazy, safe working, thrive on abuse, complain, remove tongue, begging, desparate
Transcript
Albanian: If you hire me, I will do all the jobs that the people born in this country are too fat and lazy to do. I don't require a safe working environment, and I thrive on abuse! The Boss: Do you complain much?" Albanian: I'll remove my own tongue and give it to you in a pickle jar for boss's day.
Friday January 25,
2008
Tags chair, butt hurt, boss, suboptimal, normal
Transcript
Wally: My new chair can be adjusted to a jillion different positions. That practically guarantees I'm using it in a suboptimal way. I think it might be disabling me. Does that look normal to you?"
Thursday January 24,
2008
Tags argument, blame, boss, disater, fault, new software, recommended against, responsible
Transcript
Alice: The new software is a disaster. The Boss: They why did you recommend it? Alice: This software is your idea. I recommended against it! So who's fault is it? The Boss: The person with the unpersuasive recommendations?
Wednesday January 23,
2008
Tags computer, dont breathe, help, rat, software, software consulatant, trying to help, technology, engineering
Transcript
Ratbert the software consultant RatBert: Don't let your lack of knowledge interfere with my brilliance. Don't touch the keyboard, don't offer opinions and don't breathe so loudly that I can hear it. Ratbert: There. I've either configured your software or erased something called a bios.
Tuesday January 22,
2008
Tags configure software, consultant, doohickey, vendor, business
Transcript
The Boss: Our vendor sent us a consultant to help configure the software. We can tell how important we are by looking at the consultant they assigned to us. RatBert: The word that comes to mind is doohickey."
Monday January 21,
2008
Tags functioned as incubator, innovations, contributions, incubating brains
Transcript
Wally: this week I functioned as an incubator of innovations for contributions to the value chain. To the observer, it looks as if I am doing nothing, but on the inside, I am incubating my brains out. The Boss: It doesn't count unless it hurts. Wally: It hurts plenty.
Sunday January 20,
2008
Tags human resources, hr person, evil director, bad attitude, project, corpse of misery, donated brain, gum museum, mental imbalance, clarity, irrational, employee moral festival, won meeting, business
Transcript
Catbert: Evil director of human resources Catbert: Your boss says you have a bad attitude. Dilbert: That's because my project is a flailing corpse of misery, and my boss donated his brain to a gum museum. If I had a good attitude in this situation, it would be a sign of a mental imbalance. My bad attitude is proof that I am thinking clearly. Are you going to compliment me on my clarity or demand I be irrational? CatBert: I'm putting you in charge of the employee morale festival. Dilbert: I have a sudden urge to grab you by the tail and beat myself to death. Catbert: That's how I know I won the meeting.
Saturday January 19,
2008
Tags inmtern, ceo, powerpoint slides, board of directors, bonus, luck, tenuous connections, hopeful
Transcript
The Boss: Our CEO didn't understand the powerpoint slides you made for him, so he asked the board of directors for a bonus. With any luck, the bonus will incent him to try harder to understand your slides. I'm getting better at finding tenuous connections to hope.
Friday January 18,
2008
Tags board of directors, underling, powerpoint, slides, preoccupied, day jobs, mistresses, bonus, meeting, ceo, all in favor, business
Transcript
CEP presents to the board of directors CEO: An underling made these powerpoint slides and I don't understand them. But it doesn't matter because all of you are too preoccupied with your day jobs and mistresses to pay attention. Who votes to give me a huge bonus just to end this meeting?" Aye Aye Aye
Thursday January 17,
2008
Tags board of directors, ceo, hired mole, intern request, janitor, mole, pulling rank, rat, rodent, senior vp
Transcript
Asok: Who will present my findings to the board of directors?" The Boss: They only listen to the CEO. And he only listens to the senior vice presidents, and they only listen to the... Asok: Could you show this to the janitor for me?" RatBert: Whoa! Whoa! You don't talk to me directly!"


