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View 51 - 60 results for vortex of failure comic strips. Discover the best "Vortex Of Failure" comics from Dilbert.com.
Saturday January 12,
2013
Tags #gratitude, #lay offs, #seven engineers, #trying to succeed, #gratutude, #pressure off
Transcript
Boss: I had to lay off seven engineers and... I need you to pick up those functions. Dilbert: Wow! I feel a weight has been lifted from my chest. Now that my failure is guaranteed, I no longer feel the stress of trying to succeed! I don't know how to thank you for this. Boss: This didn't go the way I hoped.
Tuesday April 20,
2010
Tags #fix control management system, #long time, #meeting, #leadership, #timeline, #failure, #annoyed, #blame others, #business
Transcript
The Boss says, "What's taking you so long to fix the control management system?" Dilbert says, "Your leadership has taught me to give you laughably unrealistic timelines, then blame others when I miss deadlines." The Boss says, "You're not even doing that right." Dilbert says, "I guess I need more of your leadership."
Friday November 19,
2010
Tags #website, #revamp, #launch, #technology, #crash, #success, #failure
Transcript
Dilbert says, "We launched our revamped website today." Dilbert says, "All of the technology we used is already obsolete and every vendor we hired is out of business." Dilbert says, "?And it just crashed." Dilbert says, "I miss the days when we had brief windows of success."
Monday December 27,
2010
Tags #cheer up, #happiness, #comparing yourself, #reference group, #successful member, #psychology
Transcript
Dilbert says, "I feel like a failure. Say something to cheer me up?" Dogbert says, "Happiness comes from comparing yourself to a reference group that is relatively worse off." Dogbert says, "You're a successful member of the reference group." Dilbert says, "And that's not nothing!"
Monday May 25,
2009
Tags #project, #budget, #deadline, #resources, #ridiculous
Transcript
Dilbert says, "I'll never be able to finish my project on time." The Boss says, "You need to take ownership." Dilbert says, "Can I hire more programmers?" The Boss says, "No." Dilbert says, "Can I reduce the number of features?" The Boss says, "No." Dilbert says, "So...I'm just taking ownership of the failure?" The Boss says, "Don't be greedy."
Friday May 29,
2009
Tags #presentation, #plan, #lying, #marketing, #screaming, #guilt, #business
Transcript
The boss says, "In phase one, we'll tell our customer that the system failure won't happen again." Not us! The boss says, "In phase two, when it happens again, we'll act surprised." The boss says, "Then we'll say a software patch is being installed." Asok the intern says, "Gaaa!!! We're bad people!"
Monday June 01,
2009
Tags #sitting, #complaining, #confessing, #excuses, #angry
Transcript
Wally says, "I couldn't do any work this week because my project doesn't have a charge code." Wally says, "The chargeback group won't answer my e-mails, and our ethics rules forbid me from using a false code." Wally says, "It's another failure of management, but I know you can do better next week."
Monday June 22,
2009
Friday July 24,
2009
Tags #coworker, #thinking, #sitting, #computer, #depressed, #technology
Transcript
Dilbert thinks, "As usual, my coworkers have filled in every space on my outlook calendar." Dilbert says, "Now I am only a puppet hurdling toward failure." Man says, "Hey there, dailure puppet!" Dilbert thinks, "I hoped it wasn't so obvious."
Saturday August 08,
2009
Tags #guilt, #excuse, #lie, #work, #avoiding, #acting
Transcript
Wally says, "The successful work - avoider combines a fake eagerness to help with just a hint of likely failure." Man says, "Wally, I need load calcs in an hour." Wally says, "No problem! Unless my computer keeps crashing like it did all morning." Man says, "I'll ask someone else." Wally says, "I am begging you to let me help!" Asok thinks, "Wow!"