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Friday February 21,
2020
Expecting Excellence
Tags #business, #technology, #happiness, #expectations, #coffee, #dysfunction, #excellence
Transcript
wally: asok, he key to happiness is lowering your expectations. for example, all i expect from work today is twelve cups of coffee and a humorous display of corporate dysfunction. asok: that sounds sad. wally: try expecting excellence and see how that works for you.
Sunday February 02,
2020
Knowing What Wally Does
Tags #business, #managers & supervisors, #performance, #review, #job, #projects, #expectations, #heuristics
Transcript
boss: i can't give you a good performance review because you haven't performed up to expectations. wally: do you even know what my job is? boss: of course i do. you're an engineer. wally: yes, but do you know what projects i'm working on? boss: well, various things, and some miscellaneous things too. wally: how can you determine my job performance when you don't know what my job is? boss: have you heard of heuristics? you're bad at everything i've observed, so i assume you are bad at everything else as well. wally: you should have started with that.
Wednesday July 17,
2019
Asok Lives In The Office
Tags #boss, #cost, #criticism, #house, #office, #office workers, #expectations
Transcript
Boss: All of you should be more like Asok. He is in the office before I arrive and still here when I go home. Asok: That is because housing costs are so high that I live here in the office and sleep in a bathroom stall. Boss: That still leaves a lot of stalls for the rest of you.
Tuesday March 05,
2019
Asok's Employee Engagement
Tags #employees, #managers & supervisors, #office workers, #work, #attitude, #expectations
Transcript
Boss: Asok, your employee engagement has been a bit soft this quarter. I expect a higher level of irrational enthusiasm for the endless string of thankless tasks you call your job. Asok: How's this? Boss: I also want to see an unnatural preference for work over leisure.
Wednesday January 23,
2019
No Recognisiton
Tags #addiction, #office workers, #social media, #video games, #expectations
Transcript
Man: Video games and social media have made me addicted to artificial success. But here in the real world, I do not receive the recognition I so crave. Dilbert: That's because all you do is play video games and use social media. Man: See? I'm getting nothing.
Thursday November 01,
2018
Exceeding Expectations
Tags #employees, #employment, #job, #managers & supervisors, #office, #office workers, #salary
Transcript
Boss: I can't give you a bonus because you haven't exceeded my expectations. Dilbert: Did you expect me to exceed your expectations? Boss: Yes. Dilbert: It is logically impossible to exceed your expectations when you expect me to do it. Boss: No bonus!!!
Saturday June 30,
2018
No Path To Victory
Wednesday January 11,
2017
Coaching Ted
Tags #quitting, #fired, #annoy, #irritate, #drive away, #repel
Transcript
Boss: Ted, you have not performed up to my expectations, so I thought I would spend more time coaching you. I'll be with you every minute of the day. Ted: I quit! Catbert: I told you that would work. Boss: I didn't want to believe it.
Sunday November 13,
2016
Tags #app, #developer, #workload, #ideas, #obliviousness, #unrealistic, #goals
Transcript
Tina: I have a great idea for an app. And I choose you to be on my start-up team. I'll be the idea person and you do all of the technology. Dilbert: So... I would be doing 100 percent of the work? Tina: I already did the hard part of coming up with an idea. Your part is just typing. So stop complaining and type me an app. Dilbert: It isn't that easy. Tina: Can you recommend someone less lazy?
Saturday August 20,
2016
Dilbert Is Barely Trying
Tags #jobs, #progress, #problems, #expectations
Transcript
Dogbert: I've notice that you go to work every day and yet the world is still a boiling cesspool of terribleness. It's as if you're not even trying. Dilbert: I gotta go. I'm late for doing nothing useful. Dogbert: I'm already forgetting your name.