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When Clarity Is Not Your Friend

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When Clarity Is Not Your Friend - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags language, jargon, communication

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Boss: Your project summary needs mare jargon and acronyms. The goal is to make ourselves look smart while making the readers feel dumb. Dilbert: What about clarity? Boss: Clarity is not our friend on this one.

Team Building Lunch

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Team Building Lunch - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags lunch, team, teamwork, team-building, business

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Dilbert: Is everyone ready to go to lunch yet? I've been waiting for ninety minutes. Alice: We just got back. No one noticed you weren't with us. Dogbert: How was your team-building lunch? Dilbert: Suboptimal.

Story Telling Mothman

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Story Telling Mothman - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags mothman, workload, responsibility, stress, story, talking

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Boss: I hired a storytelling mothman. He identifies with employees with the greatest workloads and wastes their time telling long stories. Dilbert: We don't need a storytelling mothman. Boss: Then why does every company have one?

Moth Man Keeps Popping In

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Moth Man Keeps Popping In - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags conversation, talking, frustration, workload, annoyance

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Dilbert: I can't get any work done because the storytelling mothman keeps popping in to my cubicle uninvited. Why did you hire a storytelling mothman in the first place? Was it not obvious this would happen? Boss: Everyone's a genius in hindsight.

Mentor Can't Tell A Hoax From Reality

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Mentor Can't Tell A Hoax From Reality - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags Advice, competition, bad advice, deception, wedgie

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Man: Alice has been mentoring me for a month, and I can't tell how much of her advice is real and how much is a hoax. For example, she advised me to give our boss a wedgie because she said he likes assertive people. Is that real? Dilbert: I'm gonna say yes.

Meeting Rooms Are Booked

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Meeting Rooms Are Booked  - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags meetings, managers, scheduling, conflict

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Dilbert: My project stalled because all of our meeting rooms have been reserved by managers just in case they need them. My current plan for success is to wait until one of you dies sow e can use your meeting room. Boss: Let's not do project status reports anymore.

Mothman Detects Energy

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Mothman Detects Energy - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags workload, talking, socializing, conversation

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The Storytelling Mothman. Mothman: I detect the energy of an employee with a high workload. I'm here to tell you a long story that you think will never end. Alice: That is the last thing I need right now. Mothman: Do you know the history of the paper clip?

Alice Mentors The New Guy

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Alice Mentors The New Guy - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags mentor, mentee, competition, threat, paranoia, protege

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Alice: our boss asked me to mentor you. But don't expect too much from me because I see you as a competitor for my job. Man: May I have a mentor who doesn't see me as a threat? Boss: Why? So you can take my job?

Elbonian Slave Labor

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Elbonian Slave Labor  - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags employees, slave, wages, compensation, minimum wage, morality, business, money

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Boss: Management was shocked to learn that the company we acquired had been using Elbonian slave labor. We immediately replaced them with minimum wage employees who have no hope of career advancement. Wally: You did the right thing. Boss: That's how it felt.

Moth Man Visits Alice

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Moth Man Visits Alice - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tags conversation, annoyance, mothman, anger, frustration, workload

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Asok: The storytelling mothman you hired is keeping us from doing our work! He's in Alice's cubicle right now. Mothman: Gaaaa!!!! Asok: Sounds like he flew too close to the flame. Boss: Problem solved.