OT: I've found the problem

Hollywood is not the service. I guess some are want to get their education from Hollywood.

I work for a large Japanese company and that's how we're told to dress when we're in front of customers (other large multi-nationals). Even the "suits" rarely wear suits. The dress code at work is jeans and shirts (t-shirts are discouraged, unless they're company shirts ;-).

The author of "Dilbert" made a pretty good living off drawing comics playing to the "le sigh, everyone in the workplace/world is stupid and incompetent except for me, why can't everyone be as smart as me?" nerd-segment.

You're right, it's not.

"That's the joke."

thetica than actual work achievement. The 2 main things I learnt were

ll, yet totally unable to see it. Sadly for them I was correct on that one.

Dilbert is not about imagining oneself smarter than everyone else, it's abo ut the various stupidities that have become common practice in large busine sses, and that so many of us are all too aware of. A large percentage of em ployees can see them.

Something I learnt about large corps is that when you have multiple layers of management & therefore multiple layers of information flow, each flow di storts the situation for various reasons and the result is bad decisions, o ne hand not knowing what the other is doing, and bull waste rules way too m uch of the time. In that process the whole point of business gets subverted and replaced with people's petty agendas.

NT

Yes, large corporations that suffer from poor management are often, well, bloated, inefficient, and mismanaged.

So don't work for 'em.

Remember the first month in Afganistan when we captured that California boy who joined Bin Laden? He previously went through a gangster rap phase, all because his father was like the guy in the picture. The same psychological phenomenon was portrayed in Rebel Without a Cause.

about the various stupidities that have become common practice in large bu sinesses, and that so many of us are all too aware of. A large percentage o f employees can see them.

ers of management & therefore multiple layers of information flow, each flo w distorts the situation for various reasons and the result is bad decision s, one hand not knowing what the other is doing, and bull waste rules way t oo much of the time. In that process the whole point of business gets subve rted and replaced with people's petty agendas.

correct answer.

NT

"Rebel Without a Cause", one of my all-time favorite movies. Too bad that James Dean died so early in life :-(

I was 15 years old when I first saw it. ...Jim Thompson

The travel bag is described as "resolutely masculine".

In what universe?

Mark L. Fergerson

All because of that, huh? That's fascinating, how did you discover this information?

Weighs less than 75 lbs

Just looks like a heroin addict to me.

He looked more to me like a UCal Berkeley journalism student >:-} ...Jim Thompson

...Jim Thompson

CNN talking head.

If only there had been one movie with him, Steve McQueen, and Marlon Brando.

I learned this morning on Larry Kudlow's radio show that Harvard was established illegally because the king had to approve the creation of any organization, and they didn't ask him.

...and... Rock Hudson! That would be just perfect! - oh er..