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View 1 - 10 results for Mission Statement comic strips. Discover the best "Mission Statement" comics from Dilbert.com.
Monday June 14,
1993
Tags the boss, Dilbert, Wally, crack, writing, mission statement, strategic, business, initiatives, empowered, employees, team, paradigms, marvel, paid, donuts
Transcript
The Boss, Dilbert, Wally, Alice and Ted sit at a conference table. The Boss says, "I took a crack at writing a 'mission statement' for our group." The Boss reads, "We enhance stockholder value through strategic business intiatives by empowered employees working in new team paradigms." Dilbert asks Wally, "Do you ever just marvel at the fact we get paid to do this?" The Boss asks, "Did anybody bring donuts?"
Wednesday February 26,
1997
Tags off site meeting, overworked, invite staff, discuss mission statement, sack race, state trooper, shoot any animal
Transcript
Dilbert sits at his desk working and talking on the phone at the same time. The Boss asks, "Have you set up our off-site meeting so we can talk about how overworked you are?" The Boss continues, "I was thinking we should invite the reast of the staff, too. We can discuss our mission statement, maybe have a sack race." The Boss adds, "Did you know that if you're a state trooper, you can shoot any animal that's been hit by a car?"
Friday March 28,
1997
Tags profits down, morale down, anti management cartoons, hang cubicle walls, mission statement
Transcript
The Boss sits at his desk thinking, "Profits are down. Morale is low. What is the root problem?" The Boss thinks, "It's got to be those anti-management cartoons the employees hang on their cubicle walls!" The Boss looks at the comic strips hanging on Wally's cubicle. The Boss says, "And they aren't even funny." Wally points to a strip and says, "This one has our mission statement."
Saturday May 17,
1997
Tags agenda, project meeting, two hours, temporaily sane, repeat mission statement
Transcript
Carol hands Alice a document and says, "Alice, here's the agenda for the next project meeting." Alice shouts, "Two hours?!! Aaagh!!! There's only ten minutes' worth of tasks!!" Alice thinks, "Uh-oh. I think I'm temporarily sane." Carol says, "Try breathing into a paper bag and repeating our mission statement."
Saturday April 04,
1998
Tags overdosing, anti depressants, induce vomiting, mission statement, ten times salary, heaving, alice punching
Transcript
Wally, Alice, and Dilbert are meeting. Wally says, "Alice is overdosing on antidepressants." Dilbert says, "We must induce vomiting." Wally holds a piece of paper in front of Alice's face. Wally says, "Look at our mission statement, Alice. The people who wrote it earn ten times your salary." Dilbert comes home disheveled. Dilbert says to Dogbert, "The plan worked perfectly, up to the point where all three of us were having and Alice was punching us."
Sunday August 10,
1997
Tags project sparkle, desk policy, company wide effoert, tiny question, curious, top executives, competitive threat, panic, lone voice of reason, paper towles, laminated card, mission statement
Transcript
At a meeting, The Boss says, "Announcing Project 'Sparkle', the clean desk policy." The Boss says, "This is a company wide effort to keep our work spaces clean." Alice says, "Tiny question. I'm curious about one thing." Alice says, "I'm picturing our top executives in the 'War Room.'" Alice waves her arms wildly and says, "They talk about the competitive threat and our lack of resources. Suddenly, panic sets in!!" Alice is wide eyed and finishes, "A lone voice of reason penetrates the confusion. Two words: Paper towels." Alice asks, "Is that pretty much how it went?" The Boss says, "Moving along. Each of you get a laminated card with our mission statement." Wally puts his arm out to restrain Alice and says, "Let me do this one." Dilbert just watches it go by. The only reason he's here is because his name is on the strip.
Tuesday August 28,
2001
Tags lower costs, retirement package, smart employees, rewrite mission statement, fit better, retired by now
Transcript
Catbert is sitting on The Boss' desk. The Boss says, "First, we'll lower costs by offering a retirement package that induces all the smart employees to leave." The Boss continues, "Then we'll rewrite our mission statement to make it fit better." Dilbert says to Dogbert, "Our new mission statement is, 'If you can read this you should have retired by now." Dogbert replies, "Ouch."
Saturday January 05,
2002
Tags paper weight, mission statement, sun, fire, cubicle fire, mug, water, shards
Transcript
A disheveled coworker with smoke effusing from his head says to Dilbert and Wally, "Sorry I'm late." The coworker continues, "I left my mission statement paperweight in the sun and it set my cubicle on fire." The coworker continues, "I tried to douse it using my "We are Quality" mug but the handle broke and I got shards."
Tuesday April 02,
2002
Tags buzzwords, strung together, same status reprt, every week, eleven years, mission statement
Transcript
The Boss says to Wally, "Wally, your status report is just a bunch of buzzwords strung together." Wally replies, "I've been giving you that same status report every week for eleven years." Wally continues, "Five years ago you adopted it as our mission statement."
Friday December 08,
2017
Elbonian Virus Infects Mission Statement
Tags virus, hack, infection, computer, spelling, grammar, edit, improvement, technology
Transcript
Dilbert: The Elbonian virus scrambled our mission statement into nonsense. Alice: No, that's our actual mission statement. Dilbert: Why does it look so different? Alice: The virus fixed the grammar and punctuation.