sick of all the bull rant. is it the same everywhere? 3

[ukengineer58]

The new strategy every two years, usually a new ceo, providing more bullshit and hot air for the management team to discuss and monitor in meetings when the rest of us carry on as normal delivering projects to the same clients under the same conditions. Decisions taken that effect delivery by those with have no idea. HR giving themselves fancy names and producing endless paperwork for the simplest thing making work for themselves but also for the rest of us. Rant over.
Your turn.

 

[ajack1]

I would guess the reason Dilbert is so popular is we can all relate to the behaviour in some way and think that could happen here.

 

[rmw]

It's like Dilbert's writer is lurking at our office taking notes on all of us.

What puzzles me about Dilbert is that when the guy started writing the cartoon, he worked at a real company. He was so successful he left and did Dilbert full time. I wonder how he keeps fresh on his material for the column because he continues to be spot on.

rmw

 

[patprimmer]

I think the basics behind the behaviour shown in Dilbert have been around for millennia. Nothing in this regard is new, so there is no need to stay up to date. The writer can simply draw of memory from when he did work in a corporate structure.

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[MikeHalloran]

1. He has spies in his fan club who keep him up to date.

2. Life on one slave ship is not substantially different from life on any other slave ship, and change comes slowly.

As an example of (2), he could update many old strips by:
- drawing the cell phones smaller.
- drawing the computer monitors larger and thinner.
- drawing the computers themselves smaller.

3. Pointy haired bosses never change.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[SomptingGuy]

Nothing really new in management:

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

- Steve

 

[jmw]

Nice one Steve. Not just a hairy biker after all?

JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[rerig]

Dilbert's writer is lurking at Eng-Tips and uses it for free material for the next cartoon.

 

[casseopeia]

Free Eng-Tips t-shirt and mug to the member who figures out which one of us is Scott Adams. Here's one hint. It's not me.

"Gorgeous hair is the best revenge." Ivana Trump

 

[jmw]

Or me.... The artwork maybe but .... a cartoon with only about twenty words?

JMW

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[ewh]

jmw,
You would have to do like Gary Trudeau did with Doonesbury and make the panels bigger... but a lot bigger. Then we can get out our magnifiers to read them once the papers shrink them.

Technically, the glass is always full.

 

[bridgebuster]

I probably worked with Scott Adams under the alias J---- N-----. It was a Friday in '98 or '99 when he said "I'm thinking of starting a mutual fund for the office". On Monday, Dogbert said the same thing. There were a lot of strange coincidences for several years. Anyway...

I think mergers and acquisitions have added to the stupidity in our business by waiting too long to integrate firms. My current slave masters are probably the leader in dysfunctionality, buzz words and embracing any fad that comes along, but no tee shirts. The previous slave masters were big on tee shirts.

Sometimes, work reminds me of photos and film clips of Nazi Germany near the end - posters, banners, flag waving - proclaiming all is well and great. Some of initiatives that the company implements are in theory good but in the end they either over complicate things or don't develop them in a practical and useful way.