2020 Comic Strips - Page 37
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Monday January 06,
2020
Common Sense
Tags business, managers & supervisors, common sense, request, specifications, assumption, sarcasm
Transcript
boss: this isn't what i wanted. dilbert: it is, unless you gave me the wrong specs. boss: i assume you would use your common sense to know what i wanted. dilbert: did you common sense help you make that assumption?
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Sunday January 05,
2020
Clear Email From Boss
Tags managers & supervisors, servers, request, email, reply, project, update, fight, business
Transcript
boss: why didn't you upgrade the servers like i asked? dilbert: you never asked me to do that. boss: yes, i did. i told you in an email. dilbert: no, you did not. boss: i know i saw it because you replied. dilbert: i replied to a different email. boss: okay, let me find the email and show you how wrong you are. see. it clearly says, "give me a project update by thursday." dilbert: which is...an entirely different topic. boss: why are you fighting me on this?
Saturday January 04,
2020
Wally Stopped Trying
Tags managers & supervisors, useless, trying, incompetence, co-workers, pay, work
Transcript
wally: this week i didn't do any work because there is no point in trying. in the unlikely event i did something useful, it would be ruined by the massive incompetence of my co-workers. boss: i pay you to act as if you are trying. wally: oh, in that case, i worked hard this week.
Friday January 03,
2020
Incompetent Employees
Tags managers & supervisors, sarcasm, business, bureaucratic, employees, incompetent, inefficiency, yin, yang
Transcript
catbert: it might my imagination, but it looks as if all of our employees are incompetent. boss: we need to create a tangle of bureaucratic rules that make it impossible for them to get anything done. catbert: you want to use inefficiency to protect us against incompetence? boss: yin and yang.
Thursday January 02,
2020
Inefficiency
Tags managers & supervisors, inefficient, process, obsolete, market, technology, multidisciplinary, systems, fight, fire
Transcript
alice: our internal processes are so inefficient that we can't get products to market before they are obsolete. boss: i'll create a multidisciplinary task force to look into it. alice: you want to use an inefficient system to fix an inefficient system? boss: it's called fighting fire with fire.
Wednesday January 01,
2020
Rfp Process
Tags business, managers & supervisors, rfp, proceed, stupid, technology, obsolete
Transcript
dilbert: we finished the r.f.p. process and selected a vendor. but it tool so long that all of their technology is obsolete. should i proceed stupidly? boss: it got us this far.

