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63 Results for Excuses
View 51 - 60 results for excuses comic strips. Discover the best "Excuses" comics from Dilbert.com.
Sunday April 06,
2008
Tags 25 questions, before start, bluff, didn't send email, email, excuses, lies to boss, non responsive, slacker, standoff
Transcript
Wally: I planned to be productive this week. I sent you an e-mail with 25 questions I need answered before I can start on my project. I waited patiently while your non-responsiveness crushed my hopes and dreams. The Boss: I don't have time to answer 25 questions! Wally: Well then, it appears we are at a standoff. The Boss: Okay, okay! I'll work all weekend answering your stupid questions!!! Wally: That's great, unless you can't find the e-mail I sent. Dilbert: Did you really send an e-mail?" Wally: That's not how I roll.
Sunday February 27,
2005
Tags deadline, upcoming, annual performance review, finish on time, agree to disagree, no raise, excuses, disrespect for workers, annual review, not paying, not fare wages
Transcript
"Your project deadline is next month, and I can't imagine you finishing on time." "So I dinged you on your annual performance review." "But... I will finish on time." "Well, let's agree to disagree."<r>"What?!" "You're basing my raise on what you IMAGINE I won't do in the furture!" "Relax. If you do finish the project on time, I'll factor it into your next annual review." "Well... Okay. I guess it all averages out." One Year Later "Remember the project that I finished last year?" "No. But the new one looks like it will be late."
Saturday April 10,
2004
Tags vendor list, excuses, same excuses, password, palusible, changed
Transcript
"Wally, do you have the approved vendor list?" "It's on the net. The password is 'Wally.'" "Hmm, you always say information is on the net when I know it's not. Yet, by mentioning a password it sounds plausible." "So, first I'll find out that the password has changed. Then I'll find out the list is out of date. What am I forgetting?" "User name."
Wednesday March 05,
2003
Tags chronic lateness, repertoire, classic excuses, traffic, loserville, jinx
Transcript
Wally says to Dilbert, "I've decided to add chronic lateness to my repertoire." Wally continues, "I'll start with the classic excuses: car problems, traffic, and misplaced items. Then I'll branch out." Dilbert says, "You're the mayor of Loserville." Wally replies, "Don't jinx it."
Thursday January 23,
2003
Tags lazy beaver, excuses, doesnt return calls, making excuses, more jobs, future jobs, scamming, both sdies
Transcript
Dilbert points to a slide of the beaver and says, "The project is behind schedule because our contractor is a lazy beaver." Dilbert says to The Boss, "For a while he was making up excuses. Now, he doesn't return calls." The Boss replies, "What's your plan?" Dilbert says, "I hope to get him back to making up excuses by promising him more jobs in the future."
Wednesday January 22,
2003
Tags construction bid, award for job, team of skilled craftmen, ex wife, truck on fire
Transcript
Dilbert holds a piece of paper and says, "Your construction bid is the lowest so I have to award you the job." Dilbert asks, "When can your team of highly skilled craftsmen begin?" The beaver responds, "I'll call you." The beaver is leaning over a huge book titled, "Excuses." He says into the telephone, "Day one: My ex-wife set my truck on fire."
Thursday February 10,
2000
Tags Dilbert, dilbert not buying it, excuses, get information, hate people, promise, resentment, saves time, advance
Transcript
Dilbert is sitting at a table with a co-worker. The co-worker tells Dilbert: "I'll get this information for you." Dilbert replies: "No you won't. You'll wait until I hunt you down and then you'll say you were too busy." On the couch at home with Dogbert, Dilbert says: "Today I started hating people in advance." Dogbert replies: "It saves time."
Saturday September 25,
1999
Tags evil director, Catbert, sick days, unusual reasons, imagined to be fly, hair, crazy reasons, made up reason, fake excuses
Transcript
CAption: "CAtbert: Evil H.R. Director" CAtbert says, "Wally, you've taken sick days for unusual reasons." Catbert looks at a piece of paper and says, "For example, one day you got sick because you "...accidently imagined what ir would be like if you were a fly." Catbert says, "And today it's your hair?" Wally says, "I lathered and rinsed but I don't remember repeating."
Saturday September 17,
1994
Tags executive style decison, cucbicle, illegible question scrawled, loose original, excuses
Transcript
"This item will require your usual executive-style decision." "You know: keep it on your desk for three weeks, then sneak it back to my cubicle with an illegible question scrawled in the margin." "Or, for your convenience, I have made no copies; so you can lose the original and claim you gave it back to me." "Hmm"
Sunday June 12,
1994
Tags aa meeting, ratbert, fear of computers, technophobe, wrong meeting, alcoholics anonymous, interupt, elaborate excuses, avoid computers, web of deception
Transcript
Ratbert: My name is Ratbert. I fear the information superhighway. Like most of you, my problem started because I never learned to type. I thought only secretaries needed to type. Then the computers came. At first I dismissed them as mere toys for men with no social skills. Soon they were everywhere. I would invent elaborate excuses to avoid computers. I was caught in my own web of deception. MAN: This is "alcoholics anonymous" Ratbert: I didn't interrupt you. Man: Can we talk about me now?


