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100% agree ^^^ He went full Elon Musk, before Elon Musk. But yeah, back in the 90s/2000s, when my career in Corporate America started to settle in, his Dilbert comics brought my loads of comic relief. My favorite character was Wally; he always seemed to "fail up". I recall Wally meeting with the pointy-haired boss to tell him he'd returned from his 3-week vacation. The boss said, "You were out on a 3-week vacation?" Wally, the master, replied, "Sorry, I misspoke. I'm leaving now for my 3-week vacation." LOL

>>jimt12+(OP)
Two of my favorites:

Catbert on work life balance: "Give us some balance, you selfish hag" https://steemitimages.com/p/7258xSVeJbKnFEnBwjKLhL15SoynbgJK...

The other, I can never seem to find. They're all in a meeting, and the Pointy Haired Boss says, "This next task is critical yet thankless and urgent, and will go to whoever next makes eye contact with me". Everyone stares at the desk, and then Alice pulls out a hand mirror and angles it between the PHB and Wally.

>>FireBe+37
> Catbert on work life balance: "Give us some balance, you selfish hag"

Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-05-05>

> The other, I can never seem to find.

Here you are: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1993-08-30>

>>FireBe+37
Back in the 90s, I worked on a "side project" that screen-scraped the daily Dilbert strip and added it to an internal "employee portal" website. A lot of people liked it, including all the pointy-haired middle managers. However, after about a week, I was told to remove it immediately, not because of the legal/ethical issues around screen-scraping (stealing) the strip, but rather because this particular day's strip was about Dilbert's company laying off a bunch of employees so the company's executives had more money to buy vacation homes (or something like that), and, by coincidence, our company announced a massive layoff on that exact same day. The timing was totally coincidental, but perfect. Executives were furious; my boss told me he got yelled at by our VP. I loved it.

>>jimt12+pq
Reminds me of when someone did an April Fools prank that printers would require payment to use, and then got in big trouble, but only because management was about to implement that policy for real: >>43543743

>>joseph+8r
Thanks, I couldn't remember where it was from but I find it so funny that he had to write a second apology, for claiming in the first that they didn't plan to do it.

>>jimt12+(OP)
Since we're posting favorites, here's one about lawyers, which I show to my contract-drafting students every semester:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230301101359/https://dilbert.c...

>>jimt12+(OP)
Wally not washing towels because when he uses them he's the cleanest thing in the house, so logically they should get cleaner every time . . .

>>dctoed+xx
Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-08-28>

>>fidotr+ZB
Wally, totally relaxed, reading the newspaper, as everyone else is freaked out, trying to meet an upcoming deadline. Everyone later learns that all the current projects have been cancelled by the new VP, just to make the previous VP look bad. I believe this is when Asok, the intern, started calling Wally "the master", something like that.

>>teddyh+0c
Thankyou!

>>jimt12+(OP)
"Wally, you're in charge of supporting the legacy system. How long will it take to add this feature?"

"Remind me, when are we planning to finish switching over to the new system, again?"

"six months"

"I estimate that it will take 8 months to deliver your feature"

>>jimt12+pq
That reminds me that he got lots of comments from upset readers because shortly after Mother Teresa died, one comic's punchline involved 100 nuns dying in a plane crash ( https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1997-09-13 ). He swears that he drew the comic months before, and had no real idea when it would run, but many readers thought the timing was too good to be accidental.

>>jimt12+pq
I did the same thing, scraping those via telnet, before the company (Texas Instruments) supported HTTP to the world wild web. Fun, and simpler, times.

>>fallin+Bj1
Link: <http://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2017-02-22>