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View 521 - 530 results for office politics comic strips. Discover the best "Office Politics" comics from Dilbert.com.
Sunday September 23,
2012
Tags suspicion, decisons, office, options, blame later, evil, record on phone. boss, work
Transcript
Dilbert: I need a decision of this by end of business today. Boss: Which option do you recommend? Dilbert: Nice try, but I'm not falling for it. You're trying to set me up to take the blame later. I want to hear you make a decision, and I'm going to record it on my phone so you don't later deny it. Talk, you evil monster! Talk! All I know for sure is that the other approach wasn't going to work either.
Tuesday September 25,
2012
Tags boredom, secretaries (office), mindless and repetetive, task, spur creativity, creative person, dispose of body, snide, snarky
Transcript
Boss: Experts say that doing mindless and repetitive tasks is a good way to spur creativity. That means you must be the most creative person in the office. Did you come up with any ideas? Carol: Yup. So far, I've come up with over seven hundred ways to dispose of your body.
Thursday November 01,
2012
Tags cubicle workplaces, lowers intelligence, work ethic, office, boss
Transcript
Dilbert: I would be more productive with my own office. Studies show that cubicle workplaces lower intelligence. Boss: You can't be sure that's true because your cubicle lowered your intelligence. Dilbert: Wait... why does that make sense? Boss: Because I have an office.
Friday November 02,
2012
Tags office buildings, cubicle workplace, open floor plan, research, pattern, randomize evil, science
Transcript
Boss: We're thinking of moving from a cubicle workplace to an open floor plan. Dilbert: Is that because you did some research that discovered that the open floor plan is the only thing worse than what we have now? Boss: They figured out the pattern. Catbert: I told you we should randomize our evil!
Wednesday December 05,
2012
Tags suspicion, assemble data, boring work, quality over quality, poor politics, office politics
Transcript
Boss: I need you to assemble a huge amount of totally incomprehensible data. Make it boring so no one looks at it too closely. I'm aiming for quantity over quality. Dilbert: I have a bad feeling about this. Boss: No one would pay you to feel good.
Saturday December 08,
2012
Tags grass roots politics, taxes, work ethic, initiative, grass roots movement, raise taxes, checkmate, income level
Transcript
Boss: Carol, I can't give you a raise this year because you didn't show enough initiative. Carol: I just formed a grass-roots movement to convince the government to raise taxes on people at your income level. Checkmate. Boss: That can't be legal.
Sunday December 23,
2012
Tags fear, managers & supervisors, snake, cublicle, culture of fear, motivate, short term, first step, urinals, electrified, office plant, pain, tactics, business
Transcript
Dilbert: Gaaa!!! Boss: Did you find the snake in your cubicle? Dilbert: What the...? Boss: I put it there because I'm trying to motivate you with a culture of fear. Dilbert: That only works in the short term! Boss: A leader takes the first step without knowing where the next step will be. So get to work, and by they way, one of the urinals is electrified. It's only set to stun, so don't be a baby about it. Wally: His office plant is clear.
Sunday January 27,
2013
Tags discussion, frustration, deliverable deadline, proactive, opposite of proactive, empowered employees, bad morale, big bungler, open door policy
Transcript
Wally: I decided to be proactive and push back my deliverable deadline by a year. Boss: That' snot being proactive. That's the opposite of proactive! Wally: You said you want employees to be empowered and now you're criticizing my decision. That's just great. Now my morale is bad, too! I can't be proactive. I can't be empowered. And now I can't even be happy! You've bungled everything! You're a big bungler! Boss: Get out of my office. Wally: Well, say goodbye to the open-door policy!
Saturday February 09,
2013
Tags corporate yoga, power poses, realizing testosterone, office, cubicle
Transcript
Boss: What's this? Dilbert: It's corporate yoga. I'm using victory and power poses to trick my brain into releasing testosterone to make me more of a leader. Alice: I don't know what this is, but I want in.
Wednesday February 27,
2013
Tags office buildings, economic consulting, benefits of standing
Transcript
Boss: I hired The Dogbert Ergonomic Consulting Company to tell us about the health benefits of standing. Dogbert: Standing be good. Boss: That's it? Dogbert: The topic isn't as complicated as you might think.

