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Dilbert

Positive Attitude, the latest Dilbert book
Creator(s) Scott Adams
Status Running
Syndicate(s) United Feature Syndicate
Genre(s) Humor
First strip April 16, 1989

Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office, featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip. Dilbert appears in 2500 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 19 languages with over 150 million readers. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is the 29th collection of Dilbert books. ... Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. ... United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... This page deals with micromanagement in business management. ... An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... For the Technical Symposium of NITK Surathkal Engineer , see Engineer (Technical Fest). ... Dilbert is the eponymous main character of the Dilbert comic strip. ... The title role is the role (or position) of the character after whom a literary work (e. ... Title Scene Intro The Gruntmaster 6000 Scene From Episode 3 Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... A coffee mug bearing the logo of a company or organization is a common practice in product merchandising. ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Reuben Awards, named for Rube Goldberg, are presented each year by the National Cartoonists Society. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Contents

Themes

The comic strip originally revolved around the engineer Dilbert and his "pet" dog Dogbert in their home. Many plots revolved around Dilbert's engineer nature or his bizarre inventions. These alternate with plots based on Dogbert's megalomaniacal ambitions. Later on, the location of most of the action moved to Dilbert's workplace at a large technology company, and the strip started to satirize technology workplace and company issues. The comic strip's popular success is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciative audience; Adams admits that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was "when the strip really started to take off." Dilbert is the eponymous main character of the Dilbert comic strip. ... Dogbert is Dilberts pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip, though he rarely acts like a pet. ... Look up megalomania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work praised. Much of the humor emerges as the audience sees the characters making obviously ridiculous decisions that are natural reactions to mismanagement. Kafkaesque is an adjective which is used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novel The Trial and his novella The Metamorphosis. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Bureaucracy is a concept in sociology and political science referring to the way that the administrative execution and enforcement of legal rules are socially organized. ... Busy work, also known as Monkey Motion, is a critical term for schoolwork, coursework, or homework that keeps students occupied without teaching anything constructive or interesting. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Themes explored include:

Announcement of changes in company password policy. From left: the Pointy-Haired Boss, Dilbert, Alice, and Wally
Announcement of changes in company password policy. From left: the Pointy-Haired Boss, Dilbert, Alice, and Wally

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Characters

It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled List of Dilbert characters. (Discuss)
See also: List of minor characters in Dilbert

The main characters in Dilbert include: Image File history File links Splitsection. ... This is a list of minor characters from the Dilbert comic strip. ...

Dilbert
The main character in the strip, Dilbert is a stereotypical technically-minded single male. He is usually pictured wearing a white dress shirt, black pants and a red-and-black striped tie which inexplicably curves upward (though it flattens when he meets Antina, an extra-masculine female co-worker; Adams has said that the phallic symbolism was intentional in Seven Years of Highly Defective People). In old Dilbert strips, his neck was long shaped. Over time, his neck has become smaller. Dilbert received his Masters degree in electrical engineering from MIT; he understands engineering well and has good ideas, but has a poor social life. Neither attractive nor blessed with tremendous social graces, Dilbert is capable but ignored at work, and struggles with his romantic life. While he is frequently seen having dates with eligible women, the dates almost invariably end in disaster, usually in surreal and bizarre ways. Dilbert loves computers and technology and will spend much of his free time playing with such things. Two comic strips show the tie pointed downward, which, according to Adams,[1] was a secret message to readers of his newsletter that Dilbert had sex with a date the night before.
Pointy-Haired Boss 
The manager of Dilbert and the other engineers; his real name is never mentioned. In earlier strips the Boss was depicted as a stereotypical late-middle-aged balding middle manager; it was not until later that he developed his signature "pointy hair". He is hopelessly incompetent at management and is very bombastic, he does not understand technical issues but always tries to disguise this, usually by using buzzwords he also does not understand. The Boss treats his employees alternately with disdain or neglect; he is narcissistic, using them to his own ends regardless of the consequences to them. Adams himself wrote that "He's not sadistic, just uncaring." The Boss's level of intelligence varies from near-vegetative to perceptive and clever, depending on the strip's comic needs; his utter lack of ethics, however, is perfectly consistent. His brother is a demon named Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, and according to Adams[2] the pointy hair is intended to remind one of devils' horns.
Wally 
One of the oldest engineers. He hates work and avoids it whenever he can. He often carries a cup of coffee, calmly sipping from it even in the midst of chaos or office-shaking revelations. Wally is even more socially inept than Dilbert, and references to his lack of personal hygiene are not uncommon. Like the Pointy-Haired Boss, Wally is utterly lacking in ethics and will take advantage of any situation to maximize his personal gain while doing the least possible amount of honest work. Squat and balding, Wally is almost invariably portrayed wearing a short sleeved dress shirt and tie. Adams has stated that Wally was based on a Pacific Bell coworker of his who was interested in a generous employee buy-out program -- for the company's worst employees. This had the effect of causing this man -- whom Adams describes as "one of the more brilliant people I've met" -- to work hard at being incompetent, rude and generally poor at his job to qualify for the buy-out program. Adams has said that this inspired the basic laziness and amorality of Wally's character. Despite these personality traits Wally is accepted as part of Dilbert, Alice and Asok's clique. Although his relationship with Alice is often antagonistic and Dilbert occasionally denies being his friend, their actions belie at least a certain acceptance of him.
Alice 
One of the more competent engineers. Alice has a huge, triangular hairstyle. She is often frustrated at her work not getting proper recognition, which she believes is due to her gender. She also has a short, often violent temper, sometimes putting her "Fist of Death" to use, even against the Pointy Haired Boss. Alice originally depicted a series of female characters, like Ted the Generic guy, and appeared for a time as the current Alice with a somewhat more normal hair style before, like the Boss, she finally developed her signature triangular hair. Alice is claimed to be based upon a woman that Scott Adams worked with named Anita, who is described as sharing Alice's "pink suit, fluffy hair, technical proficiency, coffee obsession and take-no-crap attitude."
Asok 
Pronounced "Ah-SHOOK" A young intern. He works very hard but does not always get proper recognition. Asok is intensely intelligent but naive about corporate life; the shattering of his illusions are frequent comic fodder. Asok is Indian, and has graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). The others, especially the Boss, often unwittingly trample on his cultural beliefs. If Asok mentions this, he is normally ignored. Asok's test scores (a perfect 1600 on the old SAT) and the fact his IQ is 240, shows that he is the smartest member of the engineering team. There are a few jokes about him having psychic powers which he learned at the IIT. (Examples are: telekinesis, being able to make others explode, etc.) But despite his intelligence, ethics and mystical powers, Asok sometimes takes advice from Wally in the arts of shiftlessness and passing-the-buck.
Dogbert
Dilbert's pet dog. Dogbert is a megalomaniac intellectual, planning to one day conquer the world and enslave all humans. He once succeeded, but got bored and quit. Often seen in high ranking consultant jobs, he constantly abuses his power and fools the management of Dilbert's company, though considering the intelligence of the company's management in general and Dilbert's boss in particular, this is not very hard to do. Dogbert also enjoys pulling scams on unsuspecting, and usually dull customers to steal their money. However, despite Dogbert's cynical exterior, he has been known to pull his master out of some tight jams. Dogbert's nature as a pet was more emphasized during the earlier years of the strip; as the strip progressed, references to his acting like a dog became less common, although he still wags his tail when he perpetrates his scams. When an older Dilbert arrives while time-traveling from the future, he refers to Dogbert as "majesty", indicating that Dogbert will one day indeed rule the world.
Ratbert
A rat formerly used as a laboratory test animal. A cheerful pollyanna character, and something of a nitwit though he does make the occasional brilliant observation. He usually gets all the lowest and most menial jobs (e.g. temp.). Ratbert is originally disliked by Dilbert for being a rat, but is later accepted as a member of the family. He was not originally intended as a regular character, but because of his popularity with readers he was kept.
Catbert
The company's evil feline Human Resources director. Although he was originally just supposed to be around for a few strips, the fans named him and demanded more of him. He derives sadistic pleasure from seeing employees worry about their jobs, and particularly enjoys tormenting Wally. Merely mentioning the term "layoffs" causes him to purr with delight.
Carol
The misanthropic and bitter secretary of the Pointy-Haired Boss, who hates her boss and all of her co-workers. Originally a minor character in the company where Dilbert, Alice, Asok, and Wally work, her character's popularity as the "secretary from hell" grew enough to the point where she was given entire storylines to herself in the strip.
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light 
A minor demon who punishes people for small crimes by "darning them to heck" with his "pitchspoon", a parody of Satan (the "Prince of Darkness"). Ostensibly, Phil is eventually revealed to be the Pointy-Haired Boss's brother. Adams is inconsistent with his depictions of Phil; he sometimes has horns and sometimes does not, and sometimes carries a pitchfork rather than a spoon. Adams has stated that the inconsistency is because he sometimes forgets that Phil is not supposed to have a cape or a pitchfork.
Elbonians 
People from a fictional Fourth World nation, used as a parody of outsourcing. Their culture is radically different from western culture, and their patriarchy often annoys Alice. Their country is covered in waist-deep mud which they keep wet using expensive bottled water as revealed in one strip. The main vehicle of their national airline is essentially a giant slingshot. At one point, the French declare war on Elbonia because they tried to launch a French satellite with the town slingshot before Dilbert can intercede; the satellite flattens the French Embassy. Elbonia's traditional hats, long beards, male-centric culture and technological backwardness suggest it is modeled after a Third World Islamic society, such as Afghanistan; it is also similar to Post-Soviet States in its headwear and former communism. Scott Adams stated in Seven Years of Highly Defective People that Elbonia was created to allow for a foreign nation inoffensive to people outside the United States, and is based on the average American's perception of any country without cable TV. Despite this, Adams has been accused of racism several times.
Bob the Dinosaur
A dinosaur who is the wedgie enforcer at the office. He was found after Dilbert calculated that dinosaurs could not be extinct, and they therefore must be in hiding. Bob is found hidden behind the couch. Bob has a wife (Dawn) and son (Rex), who also live in Dilbert's house, but they are seen far less frequently than he is, since most of his time he spends at Dilbert's office, where his wedgie duty is constantly in need while working with incompetent co-workers, salesmen, or clients.

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Dilbert in popular culture

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the character of Dilbert being used in many business magazines and publications (he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune). Fortune magazine is Americas second longest-running business magazine after Forbes magazine. ...


The Toronto Star, Montreal's La Presse, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier Mail, the Windsor Star, and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in the business section, separate from other comics, which together have their own section. This is done in much the same manner that Doonesbury is now often carried only in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary. The Toronto Star is Canadas highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. ... La Presse, founded in 1884, is a large-circulation French-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec. ... The Indianapolis Star began publishing on June 6, 1903 and celebrated its 100th anniversary on June 6, 2003. ... The Providence Journal is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island. ... ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... The Courier-Mail is a Queensland-based newspaper published in Brisbane. ... The Windsor Star is the regional newspaper of Windsor, Ontario (the only daily newspaper in Windsor and Essex County), and is owned by CanWest Global Communications. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ... Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. ...


In the episode "Review" of the sitcom NewsRadio news reporter Matthew Brock discovers "Dilbert" and after his news director Dave Nelson refuses to let him do a story about it, he quits. Scott Adams also makes a cameo appearance in the episode. As a funny sidenote, Andy Dick who plays Matthew later played Dilbert's assistant Alfonso in the Dilbert animated series. NewsRadio was an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms. ...


Criticism and parody

Norman Solomon believes the strip is insufficiently critical of CEOs and disrespectful of ordinary working people (The Trouble with Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh, Common Courage Press, 1997). The idea that white-collar workers might be in need of more respect contrasts with a common belief that white collar career is a free choice, but downsizing and some of the pressures on Dilbert have been predicted in the 1970s by Harry Braverman (Labor and Monopoly Capital, Monthly Review Press, 1998 being the most recent re-issue). Dealing with those pressures would require Dilbert to be more blue-collar in terms of strife over his work process, but in Dilbert the boss can be lampooned but has to be obeyed. Solomon's argument followed a similar one made by his cover artist Tom Tomorrow in his weekly comic strip This Modern World. Adams responded in the 2/2/98 strip and in his book The Joy of Work, simply restating Solomon's argument, apparently suggesting the argument was absurd and required no rebuttal. Norman Solomon (1952 - ) is a Jewish American journalist and antiwar activist from Maryland who writes frequently about media and politics. ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less physically laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... Downsizing is a euphemism referring to layoffs initiated by a company in order to cut labor costs by reducing the size of the company. ... Harry Braverman (1920 – 1976) was an American Communist and political writer. ... A blue-collar worker is a member of the working class who performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage. ... Dan Perkins (born 1961 in Wichita, Kansas), better known by the pen name Tom Tomorrow, is an editorial cartoonist. ... Several of the main characters in From left to right: Sparky, Biff, and Blinky. ...


Peter Drucker and C. Wright Mills both pointed out the paradox on which the strip is based but does not address: Dilbert, Wally, Alice and the rest of the gang are at one and the same time supposed to compete with each other, and produce a collective product. The strip satirizes the victims of this double bind. Solomon's concern is that it reconciles people to their fate, and does not show them a way out. Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909–November 11, 2005) was an Austrian author of management-related literature. ... Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. ...


Bill Griffith, in his daily strip Zippy the Pinhead, used his strip as a forum to criticize Adams' artwork as simplistic. Adams again responded on 5/18/98, this time having Dogbert create a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke...[and] it's on the reader." Dilbert notes that the strip is "nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things" and Dogbert responds that he is "maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy." Bill Griffith (born 1944) is a popular cartoonist best known for his comic strip Zippy the Pinhead. ... Zippy the Pinhead is the main character in the comic strip of the same name, created by Bill Griffith. ...


In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell (credited as "Karl H.") began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen. This soon became a regular feature in the Savage Dragon comic book, entitled "The Savage Dragonbert and Hitler's Brainbert" ("Hitler's Brainbert" being both a loose parody of Dogbert as well as the Savage Dragon villain identified as Adolf Hitler's disembodied, superpowered brain). The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing a skillful emulation of Adams' cartooning style. It later evolved into commentary on the comics industry in general, with much the same take as Adams has on corporate structure. The strip's final appearance in The Savage Dragon was in issue #99, cover-dated May 2002; it was collected in its entirety later that same year in Savage Dragonbert: Full Frontal Nerdity. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Image Comics Logo Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. ... The Savage Dragon is a long-running comic book by Erik Larsen, published by Image Comics since 1993. ... Cover to The Savage Dragon (original miniseries) #1. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Hitler redirects here. ...


The show was also parodied in the animated television show Family Guy in the episode Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington. The main character Peter claims that "The business world sure can be funny," and the scene switches over to Dilbert and Wally going over an intentionally poor office joke. Then it jumps back to Peter who says, "Well, sometimes the business world can be funny." Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Family Guy is an American animated television series about a nuclear family in the suburb of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... Mr. ...


Language

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include "Induhvidual". This term is based on an American English slang expression "duh!". The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC (Dogbert's New Ruling Class). Its coining is explained in Dilbert Newsletter #6. For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Look up duh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dogberts New Ruling Class, or DNRC, is the official Dilbert fanclub. ...


The strip has also popularized the usage of the terms "cow-orker","splendsmartful", and PHB. The word frooglepoopillion is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number. Cow-orker is a term widely used in Usenet for a co-worker, derived from a fortuitous typo, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. ... The original Pointy-Haired Boss is the fictional manager in the Dilbert comic strip. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Look up marketing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Some fans have used "Dilbertian" or "Dilbertesque" to analogize situations in real life to those in the comic strip.


Management

In 1997 Scott Adams masqueraded as a management consultant to Logitech executives (as Ray Mebert), with the cooperation of the company's vice-chairman. He acted in much the way he portrays management consultants in the comic strip, with an arrogant manner and bizarre suggestions, such as comparing mission statements to broccoli soup. He convinced the executives to replace their existing mission statement for their New Ventures Group, "to provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas", with "to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission-inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings". Logitechs Silicon Valley office in Fremont Logitech International S.A. (SWX: LOGN, NASDAQ: LOGI), headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland, is the holding company for Logitech Group, one of the industry leaders in the personal peripheral market. ... Strategic planning is an organizations process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. ... Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). ... Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. ...


In order to demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively, Adams has worked with companies to develop "dream" products for Dilbert and company. In 2001 he collaborated with IDEO, a design company, to come up with the "perfect cubicle", a fitting creation since many of the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates. The result was both whimsical and practical.[3][4] IDEO is a design consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. ... A cubicle farm A cubicle desk is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions, generally five to six feet high. ...


This project was followed in 2004 with designs for Dilbert's Ultimate House (abbreviated as DUH). An energy-efficient building resulted, designed to prevent many of the little niggles which seem to creep into a normal building. For instance, to spare time from having to buy and decorate a Christmas tree every year, the house has a large yet unapparent closet adjacent to the living room where the tree can be stored for later holiday seasons. A Christmas tree from 1900. ...


Awards

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards. Adams was named best international comic strip artist of 1995 in the Adamson Awards given by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art. Adamson Awards have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair since 1965. ...


Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998. In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of 1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000. The strip also won the Zombie Award as the best comics strip of 1996 and 1997, and the 1997 Good Taste Award as the best strip of 1996. The Harvey Awards are given for achievement in comic books. ... The Squiddy Awards, also known as The Squiddies are the annual awards given by the participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec. ...


Media

Comic strip compilations

Books in bold indicate special compilations or original strips.

  1. Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — 16 April 1989 (first strip) to 21 October 1989
  2. Build a Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies
  3. Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless
  4. Shave the Whales — 22 October 1989 to 4 August 1990
  5. Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! — 5 October 1990 to 18 May 1991
  6. It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone — 19 May 1991 to 13 December 1992
  7. Still Pumped from Using the Mouse — 14 December 1992 to 27 September 1993
  8. Fugitive From the Cubicle Police — 28 September 1993 to 11 February 1995
  9. Casual Day Has Gone Too Far — 5 February 1995 to 19 November 1995
  10. Seven Years of Highly Defective People — 1997; strips from 1989 to 1995, with handwritten notes by Scott Adams
  11. I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot — 20 November 1995 to 31 August 1996
  12. Journey to Cubeville — 1 September 1996 to 18 January 1998
  13. Don't Step in the Leadership — 12 January 1998 to 18 October 1998
  14. Dilbert Gives You the Business - Collection of favorites before 1999.
  15. Random Acts of Management — 19 October 1998 to 25 July 1999
  16. A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 — 1999; color version of all Sunday strips from 1995 to 1999
  17. Excuse Me While I Wag — 26 July 1999 to 30 April 2000
  18. When Did Ignorance Become A Point Of View? — 1 May 2000 to 4 February 2001
  19. Another Day In Cubicle Paradise — 5 February 2001 to 11 November 2001
  20. What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker
  21. When Body Language Goes Bad — 12 November 2001 to 18 August 2002
  22. Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — 19 August 2002 to 25 May 2003
  23. Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — 26 May 2003 to 29 February 2004
  24. It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It — 2004; strips from 1997 to 2004, with more of Adams' handwritten notes
  25. The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — 1 March 2004 to 5 December 2004
  26. Thriving on Vague Objectives — 6 December 2004 to 11 September 2005
  27. What Would Wally Do? — 2006; strips focused on Wally.
  28. Try Rebooting Yourself — 12 September 2005 to 18 June 2006
  29. Positive Attitude - 19 June 2006 to 31 March 2007

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons Is the 1st Dilbert book. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Clues For The Clueless Cover Clues For The Clueless Alternative Cover Clues For The Clueless is the sequel to Dogberts Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies in which Dogbert explains in 15 chapters a twisted look at how to be polite. ... Shave the Whales Is the 4th Dilbert. ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! Is the 5th Dilbert book. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Its Obvious You Wont Survive By Your Wits Alone Is the 6th Dilbert book. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Still Pumped from Using the Mouse is the 5th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... el 18 de mayo nacio claudia // 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Fugitive From the Cubicle Police is the 6th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... el 18 de mayo nacio claudia // 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Casual Day Has Gone Too Far is the 9th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Im Not Anti-Business, Im Anti-Idiot is the 11th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Journey to Cubeville is the 12th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Dont Step in the Leadership is the 13th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Dilbert Gives You the Business is number 14 in the Comic Strip compilation series and contains hundreds of comics divided into 39 sections with each one detailing a different part of business life. ... Random Acts of Management is the 15th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Excuse Me While I Wag is the 17th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... When Did Ignorance Become A Point Of View? is the 18th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Another Day In Cubicle Paradise is the 19th Dilbert book by Scott Adams. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The cover of When Body language Goes Bad When body Language Goes Bad. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Words You Dont Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review Is the 22nd Dilbert book. ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dont Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil Is the 23rd Dilbert book. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 29th, or bissextile day, is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head Is the 25th Dilbert book. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thriving On Vague Objectives Is the 26th Dilbert book. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Try Rebooting Yourself contains all the Dilbert comics between 9/12/2005 through 6/18/2006. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This is the 29th collection of Dilbert books. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (91st in leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Business books

The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management, in order to limit the amount of damage that theyre capable of doing. ... Written from the point of view of his unscrupulous alter-ego, Dogbert, Scott Adams 1996 Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook complemented The Dilbert Principle by analyzing the stupidities and inadequacies of 1990s management from a managers point of view. ... The Dilbert Future hardcover edition front cover The Dilbert Future (1997) is a gloves-off satire of humanity by Scott Adams that breaks the net motivations of humanity down into stupidity, selfishness, and horniness, and presents various ideas for profiting from human nature. ... The Joy of Work by Scott Adams The Joy of Work (1998) by Scott Adams is a two-part book, the first offering recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second sharing Adams’ formula for creating humor, based on his experience... Scott Adams 2002 satirical book, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel labels the everyday actions of humanity as neither consistently honest nor criminal, but rather weasel. ...

Other

  • Telling It Like It Isn't — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-1324-6
  • Work is a Contact Sport — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-2878-2
  • Random Acts of Catness — 1998; ISBN 0-8362-5277-2
  • Work—The Wally Way — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7480-6
  • Alice in Blunderland — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7479-2
  • The Boss: Nameless, Blameless and Shameless
  • You Don't Need Experience If You've Got Attitude
  • Access Denied : Dilbert's Quest for Love in the Nineties
  • Conversations With Dogbert
  • The Dilbert Bunch
  • No You'd Better Watch Out
  • Dilbert Meeting Book Exceeding Tech Limits
  • Please Don't Feed The Egos — [1997]; ISBN 0-8362-3224-0
  • Dilbert Book Of Days — [1998]; ISBN 0-7683-2030-5
  • All Dressed Down And Nowhere To Go; [2002]; ISBN 0-7407-2931-4
  • Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland

1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Merchandise

Richard Garfield Richard Garfield (born 1966) is the billionaire game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (originally known as Jyhad), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game RoboRally. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... President (also popularly known as Presidents and Assholes, Asshole, Ps and As, or Presidents and Eejits) is a card game for 3 or more in which players race to get rid of all their cards. ... The Dilberito is the exclusive product of Scott Adams Food, Inc. ... For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ... A Big Kahuna burrito from Costa Vida South Portland, Maine. ...

Animated series

Main article: Dilbert (TV series)

Dilbert was adapted into a UPN animated television series, which ran for two seasons from January 25, 1999, to July 25, 2000. The first season centered on the creation of a new product called the "Gruntmaster 6000", including the idea process and testing by one Bob Bastard. The second season had no connecting story arc; plots varied from Wally finding disciples ("The Shroud of Wally") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder ("The Trial"). Featured voice actors included Daniel Stern as Dilbert and Chris Elliot as Dogbert. Title Scene Intro The Gruntmaster 6000 Scene From Episode 3 Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Shroud of Wally is an episode from the animated television program, Dilbert. ... The Trial was the fifteenth episode of the Dilbert animated television series. ... Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957), is an American television and film actor. ... Dilbert is the eponymous main character of the Dilbert comic strip. ... Chris Elliott born May 31, 1960 in New York City. ... Dogbert is Dilberts pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip, though he rarely acts like a pet. ...


See also

v • d • e
Dilbert
Characters: Alice • Asok • Carol • Catbert • Dilbert • Dogbert • Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light • Pointy-Haired Boss • Ratbert • Wally • Minor characters
In other media: Animated series • Books • Plop: The Hairless Elbonian
Terms: Cow-orker • Imaginary productivity
Other: Scott Adams • Dogbert's New Ruling Class • Elbonia • Dilberito

Dilberts Desktop Games is a collection of Dilbert-related games for Microsoft Windows. ... The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management, in order to limit the amount of damage that theyre capable of doing. ... The Peter Principle is a colloquial principle of hierarchiology, stated as In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ... Microserfs is a novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 1995. ... Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... Alice is a hard-working engineer from the Dilbert comic strip. ... Asok (pronounced Ah-shook) is an intern in the Dilbert comic strip. ... Carol is the Pointy-Haired Bosss misanthropic and bitter secretary in the Dilbert comic strip, who feels she is underappreciated and demeaned by her job and therefore takes out her frustration on all employees, especially her boss. ... Catbert is the evil director of human resources in the Dilbert comic strip. ... Dilbert is the eponymous main character of the Dilbert comic strip. ... Dogbert is Dilberts pet dog from the Dilbert comic strip, though he rarely acts like a pet. ... Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is the ruler of Lower Heck in Scott Adamss Dilbert comic strip. ... The Pointy-Haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB) is Dilberts boss in the Dilbert comic strip. ... Dilbert is a popular American comic strip. ... Wally is a character from the Dilbert comic strip. ... This is a list of minor characters from the Dilbert comic strip. ... Title Scene Intro The Gruntmaster 6000 Scene From Episode 3 Dilbert is an animated television series spin-off of the comic strip of the same name. ... Cow-orker is a term widely used in Usenet for a co-worker, derived from a fortuitous typo, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. ... Imaginary productivity is completing tasks without accomplishing anything. ... Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. ... Dogberts New Ruling Class, or DNRC, is the official Dilbert fanclub. ... The average Elbonian The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country from the comic strip Dilbert created by Scott Adams. ... The Dilberito is the exclusive product of Scott Adams Food, Inc. ...

References

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  1. ^ Seven Years of Highly Defective People
  2. ^ Seven Years of Highly Defective People
  3. ^ Porter Anderson. "Fred Dust: Designing for Dilbert", CNN Career, 2001-08-28. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
  4. ^ Porter Anderson. "Scott Adams: Dilbert's Ultimate Cubicle", CNN Career, 2001-08-28. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.

2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ...

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