The creator of the Dilbert comic strip has died at age 68, after a battle with prostate cancer. God rest his soul and comfort his loved ones and many fans.
I loved the Dilbert series; many of the comically idiotic management policies that formed the basis of much of the humor in the strip I would actually see adopted at the agency I worked for (and in the banking industry in which I had previously worked). It even became a kind of game; someone would circulate a Dilbert cartoon, with one or more characters labeled as people at the agency, and the representation was always spot on. I bet JeffS and others here probably had similar experiences.
Vale, Scott. You will be missed!
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Oh, my, yes. Including circulating Dilbert strips labeled with the names of local idiots.
More times than I care to remember, Dilbert even had predictive value. You'd see the pointy-haired boss formulate some stupid plan, and, sure enough, my employer would adopt something similar, if not the exact thing. It was uncanny.
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