A Hoary old Dilbert Strip

I was once in Ray Stata's office (Analog Devices), with a couple of sales guys.

Ray finally turns to me and says, "You must be the engineer... you haven't been paying any attention to what we've been discussing" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

It's still a good one. Reminds me of myself :-) I hate lying to customers. I rather tell the truth and simply get the job done.

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I used to put up Dilbert cartoons in the Orlando field offce of Tektronix,around my workbench,and they would get the office manager angry.(I didn't work for her,not even in the same part of the building...) When I went on medical leave for a hernia op,the cartoons "disappeared".

Stuff like "Project Death Spiral" and other management fiascos. I think it touched a nerve.... B-) it also could have been an anal-retentive co-worker.

But I had copies,so they went back up when I returned. 8-)

Their so true to life, to the point that you want to look around the plant to see if you think anyone looks like they sent an email to Scott Adams.

Cheers

He claims that he's constantly getting button-holed by folks who insist that they must be writing about _their_ company.

I think that as soon as a company gets large enough that management no longer has to pin their house payments to the company performance, things get inevitably stupid.

Of course, even when management _does_ have to pin their house payments to company performance, things can still get pretty stupid -- I've worked for a few really small companies that stayed that way because of the limitations of their owners.

My all time favorite:

I still have the paper copy from 1994.

I copy it to some of my invoices, the projects get done faster that way.

hamilton

"Why I'm not a salesman."

;-) Rich

Yeah, just tell me the truth. And I'll do the same. How can any other long term relationship make sense?

George H.

On a sunny day (Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:35:24 -0700) it happened Tim Wescott wrote in :

LOL

One reason that I originally hired on at Microsim was that, while getting a tour of the facility, I saw a lot of different cartoons and such on the wall, but very little Dilbert! I realized that if they didn't need to point out dilbertian policies, maybe it was because they were living with them!

Charlie

One reason that I originally hired on at Microsim was that, while getting a tour of the facility, I saw a lot of different cartoons and such on the wall, but very little Dilbert! I realized that if they didn't need to point out dilbertian policies, maybe it was because they were living with them! ^NOT! Charlie

I have a printout of this at the wall in front of my workplace of one of my clients:

They know programmers are strange, but some people even like it (the drawing :-)

Charlie E. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

those that follow the Dilbert pointy-haired manager's philosophies usually are the ones who don't get the humor and are ticked off when viewing a Dilbert strip.

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=A0 =A0 =A0 ...Jim Thompson

I'm sure they would love the latest ones where productivity goes up after killed the boss and had him stuffed :)

-Lasse

On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:50:19 +0200) it happened Frank Buss wrote in :

:-)

"Tim Wescott" schreef in bericht news:ucudnfHEmbBpBwLQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@web-ster.com...

We ever placed a sign on our door: Plenty of fur sellers but what about the bear hunters. We had te remove it...

petrus bitbyter

Richbert:

Cheers! Rich