wally: "How foolish of you to host the all-day staff meeting at your house."
"Let's form sub-teams to be more efficient. Ted will do accidental spills. Alice, you critique the decor. I'll be a floater."
Alice: "Kichen, shoddily done..."
Ted: "I spilled mayonaise on the wall."
Wally: "Where's the bathroom?"
The staff meeting at Dilbert's house ends
Wally: I guess we're done abusing your tasteless hovel.
Ted: It was somewhat dim witted of you to invite us to your house . Lets do it again real soon.
Dogbert: I wondered if Id ever get to use my "cops are wusses" bumper stickers.
Ted: I'm putting you in charge of an important project which is fully funded."
Dilbert: Ima marked man, The other employees will either try to suck up to me for money or throw bricks at me.
Ted: Buddy.
Dilbert: The trick is to keep a protective ring of suck ups around at all times.
Zip.
Ted: The project requirements are forming in my mind.
Now there changing ....changing...changing...changing...okay ...no, wait ,,,,changing ...changing...done.
Ted: Naturally, Wont be sharing any of these thoughts with engineering.
Dilbert: I budgeted for some goons to beat it out of you.
Ted: I predict sales to be nothing for two years and then take a sudden surge.
Dilbert: Why?
Ted: The surge was added so I could get the business case approved. The two -year lag gives me time to get promoted.
Dilbert: What about accountability?
Dilbert: thats where you come in.
EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM
TED: our competitors are kicking our pasty white rumps.
Ted: Im bringing in dogcart to fire employees until we're stronger than the competition.
Man: How will the work get done with no employees?
Ted: Id better form a test force to study that.
Ted: It looks like you're off to a three-hour staff meeting that doesn't apply to me.
Ted: Im glad Im a highly paid contractor, I'll be increasing my skills while you fight to get oxygen to your brains.
THREE HOURS LATER
TED: I became a multimedia developer, How was your day?
Wally stacks binders on his desk chair and tells Dilbert, ". . . And if I pile enough binders on my chair I'll have a window view!" Wally stands on his chair and looks over the cubicle wall. Dilbert thinks as he walks away, "I've got to try that." The Boss hands Ted a binder and says, "Wow! I've never seen so much interest in our business plan!" Ted asks, "Can I have two?" Behind them, Dilbert, Wally and their co-workers stand on their chairs looking out of their cubicles.
The Boss, Dilbert, Wally, Alice and Ted sit at a conference table. The Boss hands around a box of donuts and says, "One of these donuts contains a memo which fires the recipient." The Boss continues, "This seemed like the most humane way to reduce headcount." As they walk out of the conference room, Dilbert says, "How was your donut?" Wally replies, "The first two were great. The third was papery."
Dilbert, Alice and Wally stand in Ted's cubicle flicking their fingers. Dilbert says, "Look, Ted! We get paid the same as you but all we're doing is standing around and flicking our fingers." Dilbert continues, "Come join us and flick your fingers in joyous celebration that our performance is not linked to our pay." The Boss sits at his desk listening to the flicking and thinks, "I don't know what success sounds like, but I'll bet this isn't it."
