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Character
Saturday February 18,
2012
Tags gadgets, sales personnel, tablet computer, prototype, indestuctable, crash
Transcript
CEO: Our tablet computer is indestructible. Watch this... Man: Our company is next. Find the prototype. CEO: Oops. Was that yours?
Sunday February 26,
2012
Tags secretary, busy day, phone rings, lunch, meetings, bad timing
Transcript
Alice: Don't talk to me now, Im trying to think. ONE HOUR LATER Alice: Im on the phone. TWO HOURS LATER Alice: Im late for a meeting. THREE HOURS LATER Alice: Come back when Im not busy. FOUR HOURS LATER ALICE: Please. Im trying to eat my lunch. FIVE HOURS LATER Alice: Okay. this is a perfect time, what can I do for you? Dilbert: Okay, so.... ring Alice: I think your problem is bad timing.
Sunday February 19,
2012
Tags charge customers, free features, customers, abusive realtionship, move in direction, put up with
Transcript
Boss: We've decided to charge customers for features they currently get for free. Dilbert: Um... Have you considered how our customers might react? Boss: Obviously. Wally: I'd like to hear how that reasoning process went. Boss: Fine. Customers love us and they will put up with anything we dish out. Wally: So... It's sort of an abusive relationship? Boss: Not yet, but we're trying to move in that direction.
Monday February 20,
2012
Tags charity, bottle caps, fund, chemo, pro children, snopes.com, internet hoax, award mug
Transcript
CEO: Thanks to your leadership, we collected twenty thousand bottle caps to help fund chemo for poor children. And thanks to your... whatever... we checked snopes.com and learned that the bottle cap thing was an internet hoax. I only brought one teamwork award mug, so you'll have to take turns drinking from it.
Tuesday February 21,
2012
Tags gods, inventions, physics, build an ark, higgs boson, trouble, computer, works achievement, technology
Transcript
Dilbert: Gasp! I've found the Higgs boson! Higgs Boson: Build an ark! Dilbert: Nothing but trouble.
Wednesday February 22,
2012
Tags frustration, mobile (cell) phones, dead battery, charge cell phone, too busy, no time
Transcript
Co-worker: You never answer when I call your cell. Wally: My battery is dead. Co-worker: Maybe you should charge it for once. Wally: I don't have time for that. Co-worker: What do you do all day that makes you so busy? Wally: For starters, I have this conversation a lot.
Thursday February 23,
2012
Tags gadgets, market, bigger phone, design, market niche, mind out of niche
Transcript
Boss: There's room in the market for a device that's bigger than a phone but smaller than a tablet. Dilbert: So you want me to design something that is a bad tablet and an even worse phone? Boss: To my mind, it's a market niche. Dilbert: Maybe you should get your mind out of your niche.
Friday February 24,
2012
Tags salutations, sven, elbonia, handshake, kiss mitten, greetings, foreigner
Transcript
Wally: This is Sven, our biggest customer from Elbonia. Whoa! No handshake. That's an insult. The first time you meed an Elbonian you kiss his mitten. Elbonian: Seriously? Wally: Oh, we're just getting started.
Saturday February 25,
2012
Tags meetings, public speaking, powerpoint slides, intelligent viwers, manipulative anecdotes, boss died, praise employees
Transcript
Dilbert: My PowerPoint slides have a little something for everyone. For my intelligent viewers, I have data, and for the morons, I have manipulative anecdotes. Which reminds me-- did you hear about the boss who died because he didn't praise his employee?
Monday February 27,
2012
Tags internet & world wide web, ideas, wine, liquid lunch, tweet, down trodden, sense of humor, twitter, cell phone, office, technology
Transcript
BAD IDEA Boss: I should drink wine at lunch more often. WORSE IDEA I'm in the mood to tweet. WORST IDEA I hope the down-trodden have a sense of humor.

