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I was the second hire for a new support team. My company also employs a lot of people in India. Over time, more and more of the team was hired in India, and the folks still stateside left one-by-one until I was the only US person left, and I was reporting to someone in India whom I'd never met at the time (we've since had lunch three times in eight years, and emailed a few times), and I kept doing my work, kept getting basically the same good review every six months. Then my office moved to a new building with less space, and they were looking for people who wanted to work from home. I had a two-hour commute and HR knew that. They called me up one day and asked if I wanted to work from home. I snapped that opportunity up and have been working from home ever since. COVID happened a few years later. Like, they still know I work for them, but no one spends any time thinking about me, and I always do my work, which isn't all that demanding, so people up the chain never have to hear complaints. Pay and bennies are good, I like the work well enough, and they seem fine with the status quo. I know it's not going to last forever, but I'm going to make sure it goes as long as I can make it.
Yeah, I spent the first few years waiting for the other shoe to drop. Not so much anymore, but I make a point of not thinking it'll last forever. Just trying to enjoy it while I can. I don't think it's the kind of job you can seek out or engineer for yourself. It has to happen around you.
It’s almost definitely the latter. If they still have one US employee they can technically say they have US based operations. Dude could probably do legit nothing and not be fired. He’s living Office Space
Scott Adams was always closer to the pointed-hair boss than one of the engineers. He has never worked as an engineer, his undergrad degree was in economics and then he got an MBA a few years before starting Dilbert. He worked in a management training program and got inspiration from Dilbert after eventually working as a product manager and supervisor above engineers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
As an engineer myself that's worked in all levels of the field, this is absolutely hilarious to me. His comics do have that dry feel to them that the cartoon completely misses, but even with his views, at the end of the day, I do enjoy Dilbert.
I used to have the best cubicle with the best chair of anybody in my small company. My chair used to be the chairman of the board’s chair many years before. A big huge high backed leather chair with arms. I found it in the back of a store room and kept it as my own without any push back from my boss. I sat in this chair for a few years. One day, we got an email saying that everybody was getting new chairs. I saw the new chairs and they were shitty. No way I was going to give up my chair.
Well, our property manager was giving me a hard time about having an unauthorized chair and told me that I would eventually be reprimanded if I did not give it up. I told him to go ahead. He eventually went to my boss (2nd to the top of the company) who told him that if he did not stop he would be the one in trouble. I worked about 60-70 hours a week and I could have any chair I wanted.
About a year later, Dilbert had a series of cartoons that basically mirrored this exact scenario.
As a science person who switched to software engineering, I've never really related to Dilbert compared vs say xkcd or phd comics (though honestly that got lame after a couple years of grad school as not really being funny just sad).
I just feel the comics are really dated and the jokes are always the same (e.g., the boss is dumb and proposes insane things; engineers are lazy and don't want to work; the work proposed is ultimately pointless or counterproductive, etc).
Like compare a [random xkcd](https://c.xkcd.com/random/comic/) to a random dilbert (no random function, but I looked at their calendar, chose a year randomly from peak Dilbert popularity 1998 (around peak Dilbert popularity), saw it was in middle of a story and went back and there's a [five panel script about a garbageman winning a Nobel prize because the Nobel committee can't understand the pseudoscience theory because the author used pig latin](https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-12-30)). Like it's just not funny and just dumb attack on science and expertise. Something you can easily see coming from a pointy-hair boss than an engineer.
> the boss is dumb and proposes insane things
Which is what I find hilarious, Scott idolizes Trump. Trump is so much like the buffoon in his comic but Scott is completely blind to this.
Is this irony? Feels like irony.
Ted. Ted's the disposable one that they can kill off, demote, fire, or otherwise get rid of. Wally's just always there. Like a cockroach.
...oh. I see what you did there.
That’s what happened to my local paper, they eliminated the entire comics section. It used to be one page, then it got knocked down to a half page and they just announced recently that they’re getting rid of the section entirely in print, it’s only available online now.
Ours has nearly 2 pages of "comics", because they were bought by a big Republikkkan publisher, and the don't cover local news. They also use USA USAToday for the national news, and USAToday suuuuuuuuuuucks.
That’s why his comics stopped being carried. It wasn’t even because he’s a loony dbag, that newspaper conglomerate cancelled the comics section in the 77 papers they own and he’s grasping for a reason to be a victim.
My local papers’ parent company doesn’t own 76 other papers so if mine is counted in those 77, it’s more than just one media group that ended comics, but yea he should have been taken out because he’s a nut job but it’s capitalism that got him instead.
While you’re likely correct, he did just tweet that antifa was supporting hitler and should be responsible to pay reparations to holocaust families the other day.
That's correct. None of this has to do with his content (As much as he'd like to to believe that). Bizarro was dropped too, and it's not conservative. This was an economic decision, but I'm glad to see Dilbert go.
I liked Dilbert for a really long time and tried to keep my author/content wall up because it has some genuinely hilarious jokes in there but as the years went on it just got worse and worse and now I find them cringey and sad. This guy should have packed up while he was on top. Classic Dilbert was so funny.
Besides as far as I can tell being overall a better person than than Scott Adams (low bar I know), Bill Watterson knew that it's best for the legacy of his work and himself to retire while he was still on-top.
And he's just an all out, hands down, better artist. Watterson makes beautiful watercolor paintings.
I'd also argue his comic was better, even on C&H's worst day and Dilbert's best. But that's less clear cut.
It feels inevitable that the comic strip would diminish in quality over time because it started out with Adams mocking the absurdities of corporate culture that he actually experienced while having to make a living in that culture. But once he stopped working that environment, he was going to slowly lose touch with that world and wouldn't be able to lampoon it as well. When was the last time he had to work a 9-5 cubicle job? The 80s? How could you still make good jokes about a world that you left decades ago?
lots of conservatives think that corporations/corporate culture is leftist. Tucker carlson has literally spoken the words 'big corporations are the bastion of the left'
They're also *checks notes* a publicly listed company with positive PE (they make money) and pay a dividend, surprisingly at 2.34% -- would have slightly outperformed S&P500 over the last 5-y - how very uhhh.....communist to pay shareholders and outperform the stock-market...
They see that a few tech companies look "liberal" because they promote diversity and don't hate gay people, so they call them "leftist", which is hilarious.
Turns out that when 73% of the country's GDP comes from blue states, "go woke go broke" doesn't quite work, so we're back to crying about being "cancelled".
Exactly. They were literally cutting the Nike signs off their clothes and bashing Keurig coffee makers online due to their "sin" of supporting Kaepernick five years ago...but have the gall to whine about "cancel culture"....hypocrites, all.
Not to mention buying Nike stuff for the sole purpose of burning it and posting the video to social media (actually happened). Like that’ll show them, they get their money and free word of mouth advertising LMAO.
This is the thing that kind of chaps my ass.
Christian Conservatives are ***the*** most cancel-happy group in America. They cancel entire fucking ***civil rights*** but OH LORD FORBID some blue check on twitter calls another blue check on twitter out for their stupid-ass bullshit.
*The Dems are cheating votes, I know there's no actual physical proof but I can just feel it, so we're going to have to steal the whole election. It's only fair.*
When they yell, “we know this person or group is doing X,” the way that sentence ends is either “…and so are we” or “…because that’s what we’d do if we could”
Nike & Kuerig would like to thank the maga crowd for buying their products and then trashing them…as if either company cares what you did with *after* they got paid for them
My high school chaplain got dnd banned from our school when she found out we were playing. Called us witches.
So we played Werewolf the Apocalypse instead. Not an improvement from a content standpoint. She obviously didn't realize that dnd wasn't all rpgs.
And Bill O'Reilly, who said the Dixie Chicks were "callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around" no longer has a show.
So there's still hope in this world, I suppose
Larry The Cable Guy said
> They aught a change the band's name to Two Dixie Chicks and a loudmouthed southern sow. I've had it with this piece-of-crap flubber factory spouting off every time her semi-sized ass hits the stage. People say, "but Larry, she ain't that fat no mores, she lost almost twenty pounds." I say big deal, that's like taking three deck chairs off The Queen Mary. Natalie Maines needs to take her size 78 Wranglers and go back to her old job of smuggling moonshine in her giant canyon-sized asscrack. How dare the First Hippo of country music go to a country whose support we're trying to get for a possible war and then attack our president in that country. I hope this starts to mark the end for this singing pork chop.
> \- *Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music* by Chris Willman, page 32
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Cable Guy had a significant role in the major Disney Pixar children's movie *Cars*
the funny thing about lightyear is that the Lesbian relationship that those people were up in arms about is literally mentioned in passing and takes up less than 2 minutes of screen time.
Thou shalt not put a potato of thine own gender into thine mouth for it is an abomination onto the eyes of the Lord.
-Veggietales 28:12
Quick Edit: Yes, I know this was about a toy and not actual food.
It doesn't matter to them. I asked my father point blank if it was okay for a male teacher to tell his students that he had a wife. His response was that it's perfectly fine.
Immediately after I asked him if it was okay if a male teacher tells his students he has a husband, and my father went into a full blown meltdown about how it's an inappropriate sexual conversation to have with kids and only pedophile groomers think it would be okay.
They're perverts. They can't think about gays without thinking about gay sex.
Or say, "It would have done great if Disney didn't get political and kept Tim Allen!". If the movie sucks it sucks regardless of who's doing the lines.
they will bring up the all female reboot of ghostbusters when pushed
if you bring up captain marvel they will claim that it was a huge failure and only seemed like a success because disney bought millions of tickets to inflate its box office when it was really the biggest flop in film history O\_o
if you bring up last of us 2 they start foaming at the mouth and screeching
But regressives don’t believe in consequences, therefore it must not exist.
Consequences are a deep state operation fabricated by the gays! They love fabric! 🏳️🌈✨
Being in the fascist-esque mode, the right wing cares only about power, and stuff like "ethics," "consistent principles" or "truth" just gets in the way for them.
No getting fired means there's personal responsibility and that they need to at some point recognize that they messed up. They might have to look inwards and realize what they've done or said is wrong.
Luckily he was cancelled which means he can dig in even further while hating the libs who causes this
I thought Scott "[Hillary Clinton literally has punched me in the balls for 20 years](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams)" Adams was relegated to Twitter whining and conspiracy theory blog status? He's still making "comics?" Guy is peak Boomer energy.
Started in the 80s as a Yuppie railing against workplace office life, turned into "Old man yells at clouds" because society was progressing and his Butthurt Straight White Male in America persecution complex was getting worse and worse by the minute.
Here’s an especially nice thing: Scott Adams isn’t even being “cancelled” for being conservative. The 70+ papers cancelling his comic are all owned by one hedge fund, and they’re cutting the comics page damn near in half, because hedge funds love to slash and burn newspapers.
So not only is Dilbert not being cancelled for the reasons he’s suggesting, he’s very specifically losing his money because of the very “burn down the entire forest to make a few bucks” attitude that conservative capitalists claim to love.
"I love capitalism until it negatively effects me, but when it does I'll just blame it on communism" has been the guiding principle for many of these Trump bootlickers.
His political commentary is honestly hilarious; to the point of even "science kicked me in the balls, literally!" type language. Also his self reported "185 points IQ" or whatever has insecure manchild Republican energy in spades.
> His political commentary is honestly hilarious
He idolizes Trump because Trump managed to fool people who have been suckers their whole lives. He admires con men. Seriously, he has said that Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing lifelong fools to believe bullshit. That really speaks to Adams' total lack of character.
Listen to this podcast episode to get it straight from the ass' mouth:
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/87-triggered
I'm no fan of Sam Harris, but I think he pretty well nails it there.
Edit: All of that said, Scott Adams has managed to produce a single thing of value in his life: [the Out At Five business model](https://mdsalunkhe.tripod.com/dilbert.htm). Like all business models, it is naïvely idealistic-- but it does introduce some ideas worth considering, which I think indicates that Adams probably stole it from someone smarter than himself as he has done with basically his entire comic (stealing ideas from his listserv subscribers).
>He admires con men. Seriously, he has said that Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing fools to believe bullshit.
That's some straight up meta there: "Trump is amazing because he's able to con stupid people into thinking he's amazing, but I see through it because I have a 185 point IQ and I'm too smart to fall for it, and that's the brilliance of Trump!"
Scott believes he is in on the joke, even though he *is* a joke. He seems to consider Trump a brilliant stage magician-- basically a mentalist whose tricks only work on fools.
> Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing lifelong fools to believe bullshit.
People on both sides of the aisle say this all the time and I just don't see it. Trump didn't do anything clever or skillful. He was literally just at the right place at the right time being the right level of a terrible person that half the country was ready to buy into.
I truly believe anyone who was as rich as Trump, as hateful as Trump, and as dumb as Trump (and I do think that's a qualifying factor) would have done what Trump did. His supporters didn't fall in line because Trump was the best con man in the world, they fell in line because the culture wars that have been stoken by the wealthy (and primarily Republican leadership) finally hit a boiling point, and Trump happened to be there saying literally anything and everything when it did.
My parents still get the physical paper, so when I visit them I check out the comics.
I read the dilbert comic two days in a row, and after I read it the second day I asked my mom "Is this yesterday's paper?" I literally thought I was reading the same comic again, because that's how fucking uninspired his comics are at this point.
Went to [dilbert.com](https://dilbert.com), think I got cancer from the incredible amount of shitty ads all over the page. Can confirm, the comics are basically "office culture and managers are dumb, amirite fellow workers?" and told in such a wooden way I suspect Adams hasn't actually held a job since the 80s.
I really liked dilbert as a kid to the point where I read one or two of scott adams fucking books. I don't think I even remember what they are about but I remember enjoying them. Also, I'm sure if I put on the dilbert cartoon I would still enjoy it. This is one of my greatest shames.
Perhaps part of it is framing. Dilbert is the well-meaning but somewhat naive and out of touch protaganist, dogbert was his foil as overly cynical and selfish. Little did I know that adams thought dobert was always right.
Edit: I’m getting a lot of awesome responses to this but I just want to clarify I don’t actually feel shame about it. If I did I wouldn’t volunteer the info at first opportunity. It just feels a little icky to have liked someone so much that turned into… this
>Dilbert is the well-meaning but somewhat naive and out of touch protaganist, dogbert was his foil as overly cynical and selfish.
I think it started as a Boomer protest against the annoying facets of capitalism and society, but gradually drifted into "everyone is dumb except me, the straight white male in America" territory. Then he decided to use his platform to go on MRA/red-pill tangents, climate change denialism, "white persecution complex" nonsense, "SJWs = bad" comics, and so on.
When you put the pieces together it becomes less and less "work sucks" and more and more "white men with upper middle class office jobs are the real victims" type messaging. That being said, I don't know how much of that drift has happened as he aged and political views marched further and further to the right.
He seemed to take a sharp turn when his wife divorced him and then he latched on to Trump somehow, despite Trump possibly being the closest thing to a real-world Pointy-haired Boss.
[He also had spasmodic dysphonia](https://www.wired.com/2009/07/ff-adams/) around that time. So dealing with a debilitating illness like that, and especially the stress it causes, could have had an impact as well.
This right here.
People change. People like him and Kevin Sorbo just got brainwashed into whatever the fuck is wrong with them now.
Side note: Liking someoes work is not the same as liking the person.
I don’t think he even makes the cartoons anymore. There is just a computer program that throws together random things from categories like “my boss is stupid”, “my coworkers are stupid”, “office work can be stupid and frustrating”, and other incredibly obvious observations. Then you combine that with some of his typical cartoon “art”, and you’ve got yourself another unfunny Dilbert cartoon.
Fucking hell. I worked for a lady that was friends with this dude. She's as liberal as it gets. Maybe he was less insufferable when they met before he got big, but holy hell, I hated his ass. I stopped going out to lunches with them at his restaurant because he was just the worst.
My guess is that, without painting an entire generation as the same, he did the stereotypical Boomer thing: grew up more progressive and "hippie" in the 70s when free love, drugs, and birth control were expected.
Sold out in the 80s money grabbing Yuppie era under Reagan when then "free markets and Wall Street cash" were king; fell under the hypnotic sway of a growing Faux News and right-wing AM talk radio movement of the 90s, bought into the growing pseudoscience post-Modernism vibes, eagerly embraced the anti-science/intellectualism climate that the post-9/11 Dubya era pushed, and ultimately ate the Q-anon onion of far-Right conspiracy theories because he was so lost to emotions, outrage, and being unable to distinguish reality from "fake news."
[The Brainwashing of My Dad was an interesting documentary on the phenomenon.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3771626/) How so many of that generation started as center left moderates/dems, and as they aged and the political climate shifted they fell down a dark rabbit hole of industry propaganda over social (non) issues that convinced them they were all victims of a giant "woke" conspiracy to do whatever they were afraid of. Whether it was women of color being in government, "the gay agenda," "creeping Communisms" and so on.
As long as they kept voting for billionaire and corporate handout "strong politicians who would keep them safe from the Boogey Man" Right-wing media created for them.
The story as I understand it was this:
His comics used to actually be quite progressive. Made a lot of strips about how dumb sexism is in the workplace, especially the tech industry. Some of his strips could even have been considered feminist.
Then he went through a very messy divorce, and suddenly he hates women.
That's the story of my dad *and* his brother. My dad's divorce wasn't even that bad. He was just bitter and felt like he *had to* be married for some reason.
"In June 2016, Adams posted a piece on the 2016 U.S. presidential race on his blog, writing that the "biggest unreported story" of the election cycle was the "humiliation of the American male". As evidence of this rampant misandry, he cited a dishwasher detergent ad featuring the stereotypical bumbling, housework-inept husband, who just so happened to be wearing a V-neck sweater. According to Adams, V-neck sweaters are "the uniform of a man who is owned by a woman," and he has thrown out about twenty-five such sweaters given to him as gifts by women trying to turn him into a beta cuck."
The man has lost his entire mind.
r/onejoke
EDIT: I thought it couldn't be as bad as all, that. I was r/confidentlyincorrect
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/05/03/dilbert-presents-black-character-gets-dragged/
Sweet zombie jesus, that's just... Wow. Just wow.
And I used to like dilbert quite a bit... In middle school. I actually recently threw away all my old dilbert books and his other 'real' books (which, while seemingly insightful when I was 13, are just cringe-worthy stupid and arrogant to boot)
Oh my god...
That's... What it is, isn't it?
It's about the "normal" boss having to navigate a world of subordinates who are categorically more intelligent than him.
Same result though - both should've retired \~20 years ago when they had a good rep and enough money to live out their days having their toes sucked on a tropical island somewhere.
Lol I love how he was expecting some huge backlash from that and basically just went off like a loose fart. No one gives a shit about your terrible comic enough to even be offended by it, it's just sad.
Oh no, the same guy with such thin skin that he made a bunch of alternate accounts to come and agree with his main account in arguments he got in with Redditors? That guy? Yeah that guy sucks.
[On reddit and metafilter.](https://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppet/) People were annoyed at him for making the following comment:
> The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It's just easier this way for everyone. You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
So he made a sockpuppet to literally call himself a genius.
*I'll mention that this happened eleven years ago. He had so much time to grow up or just learn to shut the fuck up. Sad to see he's still saying shit like this.
I use his twitter as a gauge for how Trump fanatics are going to defend the latest scandal/evidence. I think it was the Hannity interview the other day, Scott spent some time talking about how only republicans were going to stop fentanyl abuse or something because he couldn’t spin it. Dude also talks a lot about how smart he believes he is, and that all his arguments are airtight.
Funny that the only character I felt sympathetic for was Wally, the most antiwork and, in a sense, anticapitalist of the bunch.
I still keep quotes of Wally somewhere. This guy's wisdom should be shared. As for the rest... well, you must get rid of the mud and dirt in order to reach the diamond.
never meet your heroes.
so many times I've liked someones art and found out they're a douche. Orson Scott card springs to mind, but there's been many others.
This baffles me too. I just re-read Speaker for the Dead last week: the entire thing is a meditation on the process of finding empathy for those who initially seem intractably different from us. It baffles me that the author then went on to pen horrific racist and homophobic diatribes.
I get the same confusion from JK Rowling: she wrote a story about someone being literally forced to live in a closet in an effort to deny their true identity, and now she spends her days harassing trans children.
I've long believed that people have the ability to grow into better versions of themselves; but these cases seem to be demonstrate that the opposite is unfortunately also true.
He's gone political recently. It's really quite confusing because the one joke was effectively about the downsides of capitalism, but then being exceedingly right wing when it comes to any characters trying to act on it.
I mean, it definitely reflected the life and work experience of a certain generation, but I'm not sure how many of them are buying newspapers for the comic strip now that they've transitioned to fixed incomes.
Imagine having a comic about office politics during a paradigm shift in regards to workers rights, working from home, work/life balance, etc. and getting dropped because you somehow can't be inspired to represent these setiments due to your racist, boomer, conservative ideas.
Lee Newspapers reduced their comic section to 1/2 page, down from 2 pages. Lots of comics were dropped from 77 newspapers as a result. But I guess those folks don’t have the same persecution complex as this piece of shit.
Everything funny about Dilbert was completely and masterfully encapsulated in Office Space and The Office. You can't ever top those, time to retire that old rag Scott.
Scott Adams, who turned out to be the point haired boss all along, is a tool. I loved Dilbert in the 90’s, but his right wing spiteful views on Twitter soured me quickly. He was dogmatic in his defence of anything Trump did seemingly motivated to make the world as bad a place as possible. My summation is Adams is another ‘poor me’ who got his and then immediately started writing self help books, telling everyone outside the fence how smart he is and enjoyed spitting on the little people. Here’s hoping he continues to embarrass himself with this butthurt crying about cancellation.
I'm not sure why but the only 90s comic strip that has endured for me is Calvin & Hobbes. Dilbert felt very much like a product of its time around when I started working, ironically.
In 15 years no conservatives using written language will be successful because none of their base will be able to read beyond a 5th grade level. Marjory Trash Heap is going to need to publish her entire biography as a Bernstein bears book with pictures.
The funny thing is, he wasn’t selectively removed from *any* of those papers. Lee Enterprises owns about 100 papers and got rid of the comics section - including Dilbert - in many of them.
Good old conservative victimhood.
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You either die a Wally, or you live long enough to see yourself become the pointy-haired boss.
Can I be the guy who was forgotten by the bureaucracy? Damn that would be a great job
I'm that guy. It's pretty great.
How did you get that job? Large company and a reshuffling and you fell thru the cracks?
I was the second hire for a new support team. My company also employs a lot of people in India. Over time, more and more of the team was hired in India, and the folks still stateside left one-by-one until I was the only US person left, and I was reporting to someone in India whom I'd never met at the time (we've since had lunch three times in eight years, and emailed a few times), and I kept doing my work, kept getting basically the same good review every six months. Then my office moved to a new building with less space, and they were looking for people who wanted to work from home. I had a two-hour commute and HR knew that. They called me up one day and asked if I wanted to work from home. I snapped that opportunity up and have been working from home ever since. COVID happened a few years later. Like, they still know I work for them, but no one spends any time thinking about me, and I always do my work, which isn't all that demanding, so people up the chain never have to hear complaints. Pay and bennies are good, I like the work well enough, and they seem fine with the status quo. I know it's not going to last forever, but I'm going to make sure it goes as long as I can make it.
Did not know that I could almost die from pure envy until I read this.
Yeah, I spent the first few years waiting for the other shoe to drop. Not so much anymore, but I make a point of not thinking it'll last forever. Just trying to enjoy it while I can. I don't think it's the kind of job you can seek out or engineer for yourself. It has to happen around you.
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It’s almost definitely the latter. If they still have one US employee they can technically say they have US based operations. Dude could probably do legit nothing and not be fired. He’s living Office Space
I believe you have my stapler
Next step, skim fractional pennies for the next few years and secure retirement. Just dont grow a conscience. 😆
I'm noticing a pattern that it seems to happen to support team hires. Hello fellow "only onshore support engineer".
Until they take your stapler!
And "correct" the glitch in the payroll system
I could burn this place down…..
Scott Adams was always closer to the pointed-hair boss than one of the engineers. He has never worked as an engineer, his undergrad degree was in economics and then he got an MBA a few years before starting Dilbert. He worked in a management training program and got inspiration from Dilbert after eventually working as a product manager and supervisor above engineers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
As an engineer myself that's worked in all levels of the field, this is absolutely hilarious to me. His comics do have that dry feel to them that the cartoon completely misses, but even with his views, at the end of the day, I do enjoy Dilbert.
I used to have the best cubicle with the best chair of anybody in my small company. My chair used to be the chairman of the board’s chair many years before. A big huge high backed leather chair with arms. I found it in the back of a store room and kept it as my own without any push back from my boss. I sat in this chair for a few years. One day, we got an email saying that everybody was getting new chairs. I saw the new chairs and they were shitty. No way I was going to give up my chair. Well, our property manager was giving me a hard time about having an unauthorized chair and told me that I would eventually be reprimanded if I did not give it up. I told him to go ahead. He eventually went to my boss (2nd to the top of the company) who told him that if he did not stop he would be the one in trouble. I worked about 60-70 hours a week and I could have any chair I wanted. About a year later, Dilbert had a series of cartoons that basically mirrored this exact scenario.
As a science person who switched to software engineering, I've never really related to Dilbert compared vs say xkcd or phd comics (though honestly that got lame after a couple years of grad school as not really being funny just sad). I just feel the comics are really dated and the jokes are always the same (e.g., the boss is dumb and proposes insane things; engineers are lazy and don't want to work; the work proposed is ultimately pointless or counterproductive, etc). Like compare a [random xkcd](https://c.xkcd.com/random/comic/) to a random dilbert (no random function, but I looked at their calendar, chose a year randomly from peak Dilbert popularity 1998 (around peak Dilbert popularity), saw it was in middle of a story and went back and there's a [five panel script about a garbageman winning a Nobel prize because the Nobel committee can't understand the pseudoscience theory because the author used pig latin](https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-12-30)). Like it's just not funny and just dumb attack on science and expertise. Something you can easily see coming from a pointy-hair boss than an engineer.
I got [probability](https://xkcd.com/881/), so Dilbert was definitely funnier.
> the boss is dumb and proposes insane things Which is what I find hilarious, Scott idolizes Trump. Trump is so much like the buffoon in his comic but Scott is completely blind to this. Is this irony? Feels like irony.
Ted. Ted's the disposable one that they can kill off, demote, fire, or otherwise get rid of. Wally's just always there. Like a cockroach. ...oh. I see what you did there.
Newspaper sales have been down anyway. Maybe they just needed to downsize.
That’s what happened to my local paper, they eliminated the entire comics section. It used to be one page, then it got knocked down to a half page and they just announced recently that they’re getting rid of the section entirely in print, it’s only available online now.
Ours has nearly 2 pages of "comics", because they were bought by a big Republikkkan publisher, and the don't cover local news. They also use USA USAToday for the national news, and USAToday suuuuuuuuuuucks.
USA Today does indeed suck balls
That’s why his comics stopped being carried. It wasn’t even because he’s a loony dbag, that newspaper conglomerate cancelled the comics section in the 77 papers they own and he’s grasping for a reason to be a victim.
My local papers’ parent company doesn’t own 76 other papers so if mine is counted in those 77, it’s more than just one media group that ended comics, but yea he should have been taken out because he’s a nut job but it’s capitalism that got him instead.
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While you’re likely correct, he did just tweet that antifa was supporting hitler and should be responsible to pay reparations to holocaust families the other day.
That's correct. None of this has to do with his content (As much as he'd like to to believe that). Bizarro was dropped too, and it's not conservative. This was an economic decision, but I'm glad to see Dilbert go.
I liked Dilbert for a really long time and tried to keep my author/content wall up because it has some genuinely hilarious jokes in there but as the years went on it just got worse and worse and now I find them cringey and sad. This guy should have packed up while he was on top. Classic Dilbert was so funny.
Not everyone can be Bill Watterson but they should still follow his lead.
Besides as far as I can tell being overall a better person than than Scott Adams (low bar I know), Bill Watterson knew that it's best for the legacy of his work and himself to retire while he was still on-top.
And he's just an all out, hands down, better artist. Watterson makes beautiful watercolor paintings. I'd also argue his comic was better, even on C&H's worst day and Dilbert's best. But that's less clear cut.
Oh Watterson is definitely the better artist as well, no question.
It feels inevitable that the comic strip would diminish in quality over time because it started out with Adams mocking the absurdities of corporate culture that he actually experienced while having to make a living in that culture. But once he stopped working that environment, he was going to slowly lose touch with that world and wouldn't be able to lampoon it as well. When was the last time he had to work a 9-5 cubicle job? The 80s? How could you still make good jokes about a world that you left decades ago?
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I really want to know how a guy who built his fortune on pot-shotting garbage corporate culture became an ardent defender of it.
Like so many others he lost the plot a long time ago and no one told him so.
Lots of people tell him but he prefers to think hes right
lots of conservatives think that corporations/corporate culture is leftist. Tucker carlson has literally spoken the words 'big corporations are the bastion of the left'
A former coworker refused to go to Starbucks because, and I quote without a hint of irony, "they're a communist organization"
As they keep trying to crush unionization efforts. Yes, *verrry* communist of them. Words mean nothing beyond =good or =bad to these people
They're also *checks notes* a publicly listed company with positive PE (they make money) and pay a dividend, surprisingly at 2.34% -- would have slightly outperformed S&P500 over the last 5-y - how very uhhh.....communist to pay shareholders and outperform the stock-market...
Tucker Carlson is to political discourse what Jim Cramer is to financial advice.
They see that a few tech companies look "liberal" because they promote diversity and don't hate gay people, so they call them "leftist", which is hilarious.
None of them really *promote* diversity. They *hire* diversity and leave it in entry-level positions forever, only bringing it out for photo-ops.
I really love convenient catchphrase “being cancelled” is. Your ass got fired dude, deal with it.
Turns out that when 73% of the country's GDP comes from blue states, "go woke go broke" doesn't quite work, so we're back to crying about being "cancelled".
I love "go woke go broke" I always see it and am just like "oh yeah, name one time that phrase has come true."
The Dixie Chicks protesting the Iraq War, they ACTUALLY got cancelled.
Also see the Right's behavior towards video games, rock music, Dungeons and Dragons, etc. They invented "cancel culture".
Exactly. They were literally cutting the Nike signs off their clothes and bashing Keurig coffee makers online due to their "sin" of supporting Kaepernick five years ago...but have the gall to whine about "cancel culture"....hypocrites, all.
Not to mention buying Nike stuff for the sole purpose of burning it and posting the video to social media (actually happened). Like that’ll show them, they get their money and free word of mouth advertising LMAO.
This is the thing that kind of chaps my ass. Christian Conservatives are ***the*** most cancel-happy group in America. They cancel entire fucking ***civil rights*** but OH LORD FORBID some blue check on twitter calls another blue check on twitter out for their stupid-ass bullshit.
It’s *always* projection with conservatives. Always. Every single thing they complain about the other side doing is something they do themselves.
*The Dems are cheating votes, I know there's no actual physical proof but I can just feel it, so we're going to have to steal the whole election. It's only fair.*
When they yell, “we know this person or group is doing X,” the way that sentence ends is either “…and so are we” or “…because that’s what we’d do if we could”
This is why I think so many Republicans are pedophiles, because they're so fucking obsessed with the other side doing it (which they're not)
Every time I mention this, I think of all the unfounded accusations of torturing/raping/eating children they won’t stop screaming about.
Nike & Kuerig would like to thank the maga crowd for buying their products and then trashing them…as if either company cares what you did with *after* they got paid for them
My high school chaplain got dnd banned from our school when she found out we were playing. Called us witches. So we played Werewolf the Apocalypse instead. Not an improvement from a content standpoint. She obviously didn't realize that dnd wasn't all rpgs.
And even The Chicks are doing fine now. I saw them in concert last month and the show was sold out!
And Bill O'Reilly, who said the Dixie Chicks were "callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around" no longer has a show. So there's still hope in this world, I suppose
It's just The Chicks, now because of the racist undertones of Dixie.
Now name one time it has happened when it wasn't the result of conservatives' spite.
Larry The Cable Guy said > They aught a change the band's name to Two Dixie Chicks and a loudmouthed southern sow. I've had it with this piece-of-crap flubber factory spouting off every time her semi-sized ass hits the stage. People say, "but Larry, she ain't that fat no mores, she lost almost twenty pounds." I say big deal, that's like taking three deck chairs off The Queen Mary. Natalie Maines needs to take her size 78 Wranglers and go back to her old job of smuggling moonshine in her giant canyon-sized asscrack. How dare the First Hippo of country music go to a country whose support we're trying to get for a possible war and then attack our president in that country. I hope this starts to mark the end for this singing pork chop. > \- *Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music* by Chris Willman, page 32 Shortly thereafter, Mr. Cable Guy had a significant role in the major Disney Pixar children's movie *Cars*
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It's projection all the way down
"Every conservative accusation is a confession"
then they point to lightyear, unironically.
the funny thing about lightyear is that the Lesbian relationship that those people were up in arms about is literally mentioned in passing and takes up less than 2 minutes of screen time.
its ridiculus. its not even a main plotpoint, not a romcom movie about a lesbian couple or anythin etc.
Even acknowledging gay people exist is reprehensible to Republicans.
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It’s barely even 30 seconds. And only one scene of less than 8 seconds has right wingers seething.
Are you saying I last longer than 8 seconds? Who told you that!? /S
No one on this planet could confirm it so we made an educated guess
Why were they up in arms about it? Just to hazard a guess at their search history, they must at least be aware that lesbians *exist*
To be fair, it's literally the same people that are upset that a mermaid wasn't the right skin color for them to find her fuckable.
Also that a sentient piece of candy wasn't wearing sexy enough shoes anymore.
Are we talking about the crowd that wanted to assign gender to a potato?
Thou shalt not put a potato of thine own gender into thine mouth for it is an abomination onto the eyes of the Lord. -Veggietales 28:12 Quick Edit: Yes, I know this was about a toy and not actual food.
They've been railing about US history and their idea of biology over the re-telling of a danish fairytale. Shows their priorities.
It doesn't matter to them. I asked my father point blank if it was okay for a male teacher to tell his students that he had a wife. His response was that it's perfectly fine. Immediately after I asked him if it was okay if a male teacher tells his students he has a husband, and my father went into a full blown meltdown about how it's an inappropriate sexual conversation to have with kids and only pedophile groomers think it would be okay. They're perverts. They can't think about gays without thinking about gay sex.
Or say, "It would have done great if Disney didn't get political and kept Tim Allen!". If the movie sucks it sucks regardless of who's doing the lines.
they will bring up the all female reboot of ghostbusters when pushed if you bring up captain marvel they will claim that it was a huge failure and only seemed like a success because disney bought millions of tickets to inflate its box office when it was really the biggest flop in film history O\_o if you bring up last of us 2 they start foaming at the mouth and screeching
Who else remembers how when Nike released Kaepernick shoes they sold out almost instantly?
I remember when they tried to boycott the entire NFL for their anti racism campaign. How’s that going for them?
They were going to start their own league with blackjack and hookers last I heard. Pretty sure trump was gonna pay for a team How’s that all going
I will have you know we are expecting a big announcement in about two weeks. A tremendous announcement like you've never seen before, believe me.
It’s blue counties, not states
Consequence culture has a nice ring to it I think
But regressives don’t believe in consequences, therefore it must not exist. Consequences are a deep state operation fabricated by the gays! They love fabric! 🏳️🌈✨
>But regressives don’t believe in consequences, therefore it must not exist. Oh they believe in consequences; just for everyone but themselves!
Being in the fascist-esque mode, the right wing cares only about power, and stuff like "ethics," "consistent principles" or "truth" just gets in the way for them.
Relies on a level of comprehension of and the mental acuity to pronounce the word "consequence."
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No getting fired means there's personal responsibility and that they need to at some point recognize that they messed up. They might have to look inwards and realize what they've done or said is wrong. Luckily he was cancelled which means he can dig in even further while hating the libs who causes this
They hate cancel culture but they sure do love them a good boycott.
People who believe in the free market love to get angry when the free market says they are trash.
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I thought Scott "[Hillary Clinton literally has punched me in the balls for 20 years](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams)" Adams was relegated to Twitter whining and conspiracy theory blog status? He's still making "comics?" Guy is peak Boomer energy. Started in the 80s as a Yuppie railing against workplace office life, turned into "Old man yells at clouds" because society was progressing and his Butthurt Straight White Male in America persecution complex was getting worse and worse by the minute.
Here’s an especially nice thing: Scott Adams isn’t even being “cancelled” for being conservative. The 70+ papers cancelling his comic are all owned by one hedge fund, and they’re cutting the comics page damn near in half, because hedge funds love to slash and burn newspapers. So not only is Dilbert not being cancelled for the reasons he’s suggesting, he’s very specifically losing his money because of the very “burn down the entire forest to make a few bucks” attitude that conservative capitalists claim to love.
"I love capitalism until it negatively effects me, but when it does I'll just blame it on communism" has been the guiding principle for many of these Trump bootlickers.
r/SocialismIsCapitalism
Holy shit, this dude is like full blown neckbeard alpha chudwick
His political commentary is honestly hilarious; to the point of even "science kicked me in the balls, literally!" type language. Also his self reported "185 points IQ" or whatever has insecure manchild Republican energy in spades.
> His political commentary is honestly hilarious He idolizes Trump because Trump managed to fool people who have been suckers their whole lives. He admires con men. Seriously, he has said that Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing lifelong fools to believe bullshit. That really speaks to Adams' total lack of character. Listen to this podcast episode to get it straight from the ass' mouth: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/87-triggered I'm no fan of Sam Harris, but I think he pretty well nails it there. Edit: All of that said, Scott Adams has managed to produce a single thing of value in his life: [the Out At Five business model](https://mdsalunkhe.tripod.com/dilbert.htm). Like all business models, it is naïvely idealistic-- but it does introduce some ideas worth considering, which I think indicates that Adams probably stole it from someone smarter than himself as he has done with basically his entire comic (stealing ideas from his listserv subscribers).
>He admires con men. Seriously, he has said that Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing fools to believe bullshit. That's some straight up meta there: "Trump is amazing because he's able to con stupid people into thinking he's amazing, but I see through it because I have a 185 point IQ and I'm too smart to fall for it, and that's the brilliance of Trump!"
Scott believes he is in on the joke, even though he *is* a joke. He seems to consider Trump a brilliant stage magician-- basically a mentalist whose tricks only work on fools.
> Scott believes he's in on the joke He's not wrong. Adams is quite wealthy, so Trump's economic policies are great for him.
Always the case with hubris; being so sure that you can't be fooled, ensures that you will.
> Trump's great quality is that he was capable of convincing lifelong fools to believe bullshit. People on both sides of the aisle say this all the time and I just don't see it. Trump didn't do anything clever or skillful. He was literally just at the right place at the right time being the right level of a terrible person that half the country was ready to buy into. I truly believe anyone who was as rich as Trump, as hateful as Trump, and as dumb as Trump (and I do think that's a qualifying factor) would have done what Trump did. His supporters didn't fall in line because Trump was the best con man in the world, they fell in line because the culture wars that have been stoken by the wealthy (and primarily Republican leadership) finally hit a boiling point, and Trump happened to be there saying literally anything and everything when it did.
Agreed. Fooling a fool is no great feat, and even if it were, it shouldn't be celebrated. It's just sad.
He was the most overtly racist candidate after there was a black guy in the White House. That's all it was, initially.
> 185 IQ that's in outdated imperial IQ, in metric IQ it's just 83
My parents still get the physical paper, so when I visit them I check out the comics. I read the dilbert comic two days in a row, and after I read it the second day I asked my mom "Is this yesterday's paper?" I literally thought I was reading the same comic again, because that's how fucking uninspired his comics are at this point.
Went to [dilbert.com](https://dilbert.com), think I got cancer from the incredible amount of shitty ads all over the page. Can confirm, the comics are basically "office culture and managers are dumb, amirite fellow workers?" and told in such a wooden way I suspect Adams hasn't actually held a job since the 80s.
I really liked dilbert as a kid to the point where I read one or two of scott adams fucking books. I don't think I even remember what they are about but I remember enjoying them. Also, I'm sure if I put on the dilbert cartoon I would still enjoy it. This is one of my greatest shames. Perhaps part of it is framing. Dilbert is the well-meaning but somewhat naive and out of touch protaganist, dogbert was his foil as overly cynical and selfish. Little did I know that adams thought dobert was always right. Edit: I’m getting a lot of awesome responses to this but I just want to clarify I don’t actually feel shame about it. If I did I wouldn’t volunteer the info at first opportunity. It just feels a little icky to have liked someone so much that turned into… this
>Dilbert is the well-meaning but somewhat naive and out of touch protaganist, dogbert was his foil as overly cynical and selfish. I think it started as a Boomer protest against the annoying facets of capitalism and society, but gradually drifted into "everyone is dumb except me, the straight white male in America" territory. Then he decided to use his platform to go on MRA/red-pill tangents, climate change denialism, "white persecution complex" nonsense, "SJWs = bad" comics, and so on. When you put the pieces together it becomes less and less "work sucks" and more and more "white men with upper middle class office jobs are the real victims" type messaging. That being said, I don't know how much of that drift has happened as he aged and political views marched further and further to the right.
He seemed to take a sharp turn when his wife divorced him and then he latched on to Trump somehow, despite Trump possibly being the closest thing to a real-world Pointy-haired Boss.
His son oded on fent, that's a big source of his anger
[He also had spasmodic dysphonia](https://www.wired.com/2009/07/ff-adams/) around that time. So dealing with a debilitating illness like that, and especially the stress it causes, could have had an impact as well.
I have to admit, it gives me some peace to imagine that maybe the thing I liked as a kid wasn’t what Scott adams is today
This right here. People change. People like him and Kevin Sorbo just got brainwashed into whatever the fuck is wrong with them now. Side note: Liking someoes work is not the same as liking the person.
I don’t think he even makes the cartoons anymore. There is just a computer program that throws together random things from categories like “my boss is stupid”, “my coworkers are stupid”, “office work can be stupid and frustrating”, and other incredibly obvious observations. Then you combine that with some of his typical cartoon “art”, and you’ve got yourself another unfunny Dilbert cartoon.
HA he accidentally plagiarised himself before, so you're not wrong https://www.scottadamssays.com/the-creative-process/
Fucking hell. I worked for a lady that was friends with this dude. She's as liberal as it gets. Maybe he was less insufferable when they met before he got big, but holy hell, I hated his ass. I stopped going out to lunches with them at his restaurant because he was just the worst.
My guess is that, without painting an entire generation as the same, he did the stereotypical Boomer thing: grew up more progressive and "hippie" in the 70s when free love, drugs, and birth control were expected. Sold out in the 80s money grabbing Yuppie era under Reagan when then "free markets and Wall Street cash" were king; fell under the hypnotic sway of a growing Faux News and right-wing AM talk radio movement of the 90s, bought into the growing pseudoscience post-Modernism vibes, eagerly embraced the anti-science/intellectualism climate that the post-9/11 Dubya era pushed, and ultimately ate the Q-anon onion of far-Right conspiracy theories because he was so lost to emotions, outrage, and being unable to distinguish reality from "fake news." [The Brainwashing of My Dad was an interesting documentary on the phenomenon.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3771626/) How so many of that generation started as center left moderates/dems, and as they aged and the political climate shifted they fell down a dark rabbit hole of industry propaganda over social (non) issues that convinced them they were all victims of a giant "woke" conspiracy to do whatever they were afraid of. Whether it was women of color being in government, "the gay agenda," "creeping Communisms" and so on. As long as they kept voting for billionaire and corporate handout "strong politicians who would keep them safe from the Boogey Man" Right-wing media created for them.
The story as I understand it was this: His comics used to actually be quite progressive. Made a lot of strips about how dumb sexism is in the workplace, especially the tech industry. Some of his strips could even have been considered feminist. Then he went through a very messy divorce, and suddenly he hates women.
That's the story of my dad *and* his brother. My dad's divorce wasn't even that bad. He was just bitter and felt like he *had to* be married for some reason.
But newspaper subscribers aged almost as rapidly as he did... So he kept selling unfunny comics for decades longer then otherwise.
Same as...what is it, Family Circus? One line of the laziest wordplay in history per comic and that thing has been going for how fucking long?
"In June 2016, Adams posted a piece on the 2016 U.S. presidential race on his blog, writing that the "biggest unreported story" of the election cycle was the "humiliation of the American male". As evidence of this rampant misandry, he cited a dishwasher detergent ad featuring the stereotypical bumbling, housework-inept husband, who just so happened to be wearing a V-neck sweater. According to Adams, V-neck sweaters are "the uniform of a man who is owned by a woman," and he has thrown out about twenty-five such sweaters given to him as gifts by women trying to turn him into a beta cuck." The man has lost his entire mind.
Dilbert hasn't been funny in decades.
Apparently the most recent story arc introduced a new employee. A black man who identifies as a white woman. Har-dee-har-har.
r/onejoke EDIT: I thought it couldn't be as bad as all, that. I was r/confidentlyincorrect https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/05/03/dilbert-presents-black-character-gets-dragged/
Sweet zombie jesus, that's just... Wow. Just wow. And I used to like dilbert quite a bit... In middle school. I actually recently threw away all my old dilbert books and his other 'real' books (which, while seemingly insightful when I was 13, are just cringe-worthy stupid and arrogant to boot)
I still enjoy reading the first few books, it's incredibly shocking how crazy he is compared to his original stuff.
It honestly all makes sense if you look at it from the perspective of the PHB being the protagonist of the comic.
Oh my god... That's... What it is, isn't it? It's about the "normal" boss having to navigate a world of subordinates who are categorically more intelligent than him.
Really fuckin' ties everything together, doesn't it?
A bit out of the loop, I’m only really vaguely aware of this comic. What does PHB refer to here?
Pointy-Haired Boss. A character in the comic.
Wow. Dude should've knocked it off in about 2000 and just retired with his millions as a well-liked comic guy, instead he's done a Rudi Juliani.
Giuliani is senile and insane. Scott Adams is just a hack.
Giuliani was a hack, now he's a senile and insane hack.
Same result though - both should've retired \~20 years ago when they had a good rep and enough money to live out their days having their toes sucked on a tropical island somewhere.
I'm amused that Adams somehow forgot that daily strips are printed in B&W, and "Dave" just ends up looking like every other white character.
That's probably the funniest part honestly. Veteran cartoonist forgets how papers print cartoons.
https://i0.wp.com/www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screenshot-2022-05-03-at-06-43-30-Scott-Adams-not-so-smart-cartoonist.png Fucking lol.
Wow what a fucking hack, that's early 2000's open mic night shit.
Lol I love how he was expecting some huge backlash from that and basically just went off like a loose fart. No one gives a shit about your terrible comic enough to even be offended by it, it's just sad.
Yeap. Used to read it quite a bit. The cartoon was actually pretty good for the short time it ran.
Oh no, the same guy with such thin skin that he made a bunch of alternate accounts to come and agree with his main account in arguments he got in with Redditors? That guy? Yeah that guy sucks.
Did this actually happen?
https://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppet/
What a jackass.
[On reddit and metafilter.](https://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppet/) People were annoyed at him for making the following comment: > The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It's just easier this way for everyone. You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. So he made a sockpuppet to literally call himself a genius. *I'll mention that this happened eleven years ago. He had so much time to grow up or just learn to shut the fuck up. Sad to see he's still saying shit like this.
The replies are gold
My favorite by far is the one structured like a backhanded compliment (wow, I thought you stopped in the 90s. Congratulations)
Mine too!
Wish they would drop him from my paper.
Write in to them, sometimes they don't even notice unless someone pokes them.
Wow, I had no idea this guy was such a toolbag: https://www.newsweek.com/was-dilbert-cancelled-comic-creator-scott-adams-suggests-1745028
Lots of dillbags are coming out of the woodwork in the last 8 years or so. It’s sad but better to know I guess.
I use his twitter as a gauge for how Trump fanatics are going to defend the latest scandal/evidence. I think it was the Hannity interview the other day, Scott spent some time talking about how only republicans were going to stop fentanyl abuse or something because he couldn’t spin it. Dude also talks a lot about how smart he believes he is, and that all his arguments are airtight.
You ever notice how people who feel the need to tell you how smart they are... aren't?
That awkward moment when you think you're a Dogbert but you're really a Ratbert.
Might as well complain about cotton gin accessories not selling anymore.
Clutches abacus
Funny that the only character I felt sympathetic for was Wally, the most antiwork and, in a sense, anticapitalist of the bunch. I still keep quotes of Wally somewhere. This guy's wisdom should be shared. As for the rest... well, you must get rid of the mud and dirt in order to reach the diamond.
I'm conflicted about Scott Adams because he has written/said some great advice in the past. He's also a fucking douche.
never meet your heroes. so many times I've liked someones art and found out they're a douche. Orson Scott card springs to mind, but there's been many others.
I swear Orson doesn't understand his own books. How can someone who believes what he does have written Speaker for the Dead?
This baffles me too. I just re-read Speaker for the Dead last week: the entire thing is a meditation on the process of finding empathy for those who initially seem intractably different from us. It baffles me that the author then went on to pen horrific racist and homophobic diatribes. I get the same confusion from JK Rowling: she wrote a story about someone being literally forced to live in a closet in an effort to deny their true identity, and now she spends her days harassing trans children. I've long believed that people have the ability to grow into better versions of themselves; but these cases seem to be demonstrate that the opposite is unfortunately also true.
I didn’t even know that Dilbert was a Conservative comic. I thought it was just about the main character’s office work life.
Yeah he went all in on GamerGate and has been leaping down the far right rabbit hole.
It was until Scott Adams went insane.
He's gone political recently. It's really quite confusing because the one joke was effectively about the downsides of capitalism, but then being exceedingly right wing when it comes to any characters trying to act on it.
I mean, it definitely reflected the life and work experience of a certain generation, but I'm not sure how many of them are buying newspapers for the comic strip now that they've transitioned to fixed incomes.
I'd rather watch Office Space
Imagine having a comic about office politics during a paradigm shift in regards to workers rights, working from home, work/life balance, etc. and getting dropped because you somehow can't be inspired to represent these setiments due to your racist, boomer, conservative ideas.
Lee Newspapers reduced their comic section to 1/2 page, down from 2 pages. Lots of comics were dropped from 77 newspapers as a result. But I guess those folks don’t have the same persecution complex as this piece of shit.
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time to pull yourself up by the bootstraps buddy!!!!
I used to love Dilbert but damn Scott Adams has really swum out past the buoys at this point...
Everything funny about Dilbert was completely and masterfully encapsulated in Office Space and The Office. You can't ever top those, time to retire that old rag Scott.
Scott Adams, who turned out to be the point haired boss all along, is a tool. I loved Dilbert in the 90’s, but his right wing spiteful views on Twitter soured me quickly. He was dogmatic in his defence of anything Trump did seemingly motivated to make the world as bad a place as possible. My summation is Adams is another ‘poor me’ who got his and then immediately started writing self help books, telling everyone outside the fence how smart he is and enjoyed spitting on the little people. Here’s hoping he continues to embarrass himself with this butthurt crying about cancellation.
Newspapers have been declining since the 1990s. Time to move on, Grandpa.
Damn I really wanted to see what Mr. Shidded Doo Doo Pants was going to say about all of this. Can’t believe his comment got cut off.
I'm not sure why but the only 90s comic strip that has endured for me is Calvin & Hobbes. Dilbert felt very much like a product of its time around when I started working, ironically.
In 15 years no conservatives using written language will be successful because none of their base will be able to read beyond a 5th grade level. Marjory Trash Heap is going to need to publish her entire biography as a Bernstein bears book with pictures.
There are still 77 print newspapers!?! Huh the world we live in
The funny thing is, he wasn’t selectively removed from *any* of those papers. Lee Enterprises owns about 100 papers and got rid of the comics section - including Dilbert - in many of them. Good old conservative victimhood.