Tuesday, June 05, 2007

When worklife mimics Dilbert...

Work is pretty much a Dilbert cartoon these days. It's an exercise in who can do the least, take the longest lunches, leave the earliest, and still not get fired. Our boss is pretty much like Dilbert's too. That is, completely incompetent. We're just waiting for the takeover to wrap up and for ourselves to get laid off.

This recent strip in particular spoke to me:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well, as long as youre getting paid

Anonymous said...

Wow. That is almost an exact description of what happened to me. I had zero to do for months because the company was going to be sold - then at the last minute, the incompetant owner decided he'd rather write the whole thing off. He closed 20-something retail stores, closed the corporate office, and laid everyone off. Now I'm enjoying my freedom until I move to Los Angeles in late July.