tina: i'll be in your neighborhood saturday, maybe i'll stop by.
dilbert: i'm not falling for that trick.
tina: what trick?
dilbert: the trick where you give me an estimated time and then push it back seven times until you cancel. i'll be stuck waiting at home until my whole day is wasted.
tina: i promise i won't do that. i'll stick to the time.
dilbert: what time is that?
tina: depends how my day goes.
dilbert thinking: and so it begins.
tina: i'll text you if i'm running late.
tina tying on laptop computer: "no one on the project team could have foreseen that the problem that..."
tina's soul: you are a lying piece of garbage.
tina: who said that?
tina's soul: it's your soul. we can't hang out anymore.
tina: fine. you were slowing me down.
tina: is it lying if i leave out important context from my project updates?
dogbert: that's called "business lying" and it is totally acceptable.
tina: but it makes me feel sick.
dogbert: that's how you know you are doing it right.
boss: when you write the project summary, make it seem as if we didn't make any mistakes.
tina: you want me to lie? that would be a massive ethical violation.
boss: no, no. i only want you to omit important context.
tina: why does my stomach hurt?
boss: i couldn't help noticing you are having a heated discussion. watch me use my conflict resolution skills to lower the temperature. okay, what were you idiots yammering about?
tina: solid start.
tina: ...so, maybe you can help?
wally: i'll look into it.
tina: perhaps you could write yourself a little note so you don't forget.
wally: nah.
tina: should i abandon all hope now or wait?
wally: depends how much you like surprises.
tina: i want you to fire dilbert because he said i might be nuts. he wouldn't say that to a man.
boss: he said the same thing to me last week.
tina yelling: it doesn't count if it's true!
tina wearing face mask: you did not have sufficient empathy when i told you my sad story.
dilbert wearing face mask: how could you possible measure my internal feelings of empathy?
tina: i used my empathy sensor.
dilbert: that's a stapler.
staff in conference room and all wearing face masks.
dilbert: we agreed at our last meeting to postpone the version release.
tina: no, we agreed to do it sooner.
dilbert: i don't think so. who took notes at the last meeting?
wally: i did.
click
wally: forwarding those notes to each of you.
dilbert: um...your notes are mostly insults about the intelligence of your co-workers and...some sort of snack list. this is no help at all.
wally: don't blame me. i'm not the one who schedules these meetings when i'm hungry.
dilbert wearing face mask: did you know you can just refuse to do things that are stupid, and it will be okay?
tina: i don't believe that.
dilbert: it's true! i've been testing it all week.
tina: take a video next time you do it so i can see how.
dilbert: no, that's stupid.
