Humour can howl what literature fears to whisper.
The founder of Dilbert - Scott Adams, is dead.
I first saw his work in the Economic Times. And LOLed.
Unlike the cartoon strips we grew up reading - Dennis, Blondie, Archie, etc., this strip had office as the setting. Like Calvin, it delivered deep truth bombs in LOL doses. The only other strip office strip was Glasbergen, but they were two different categories. Dilbert was Dilbert. Glasbergen is Glasbergen.
He made his strips free to access from his blog. If you signed up, you got the daily Dilbert for free in your inbox. I used that for quite some time.
Over the years, I have used his strips EXTENSIVELY - to voice a shared pain, to drive home a point, to teach, but mostly, to laugh with self. To see a real side of the office existence - The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Sharing some of the best Dilbert strips.
The REAL reason American companies don't last 100 years:
On Risk Management:
On Root Cause Analysis:
On Testing and project planning:
2 comments:
I was a Scott Adams "Dilbert" fan for a lot of years and found his office humour funny. Then it started to change. I noticed that his satire about women (especially) got very mean-spirited and demeaning. It got more frequent and more off-putting. That's when I said "to hell with this asshole" and quit reading his cartoons. Ultimately his cartoon syndicate fired him after he went on some horribly racist rant the further MAGA-right-wing he got. He also apparently became a major science-denier and treated his cancer with unproven alternative means until the inevitable happened, so that didn't work out well.
Yes Debra.. the recent work was rather uninspiring. But his earlier work has helped me a lot. Hence the Obit.
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