here is trivia about Scott Adams most people don't know. He was present as a young programmer during an bizarre attempt by a business guru to optimize office life using the ideas of a New Age cultist
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this is actually the origin story of the Dilbert cartoon www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...
jul 17, 2025, 12:28 am • 42 4 • view
the story is absolutely wild and its one of many insane anecdotes in Andre Spicer's book BUSINESS BULLSHIT. The Guardian piece summarizes the opening example, the day of the "Kroning" of Pacific Bell
jul 17, 2025, 12:29 am • 28 1 • view
the occupational trauma of being a captive audience for mystic cultism imposed from the top down on a corporate environment heavily influenced the basic worldview of the Dilbert franchise. And it makes Adams' eventual descent into Trumpian cultism all the more fascinating
jul 17, 2025, 12:31 am • 58 9 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
If I think too long about the evolution of modern business, it makes me start to feel insane. All the options in this wide universe and we decided on cubicles and corporatespeak and KPIs. It will be my villain origin story.
jul 17, 2025, 12:38 am • 8 0 • view
Add in going from cubicles to open-plan (what about this, but worse!) to hot-desking (what about worse, but worse!) and yarrrrrghhhh what is anyone doing
jul 17, 2025, 12:43 am • 5 0 • view
There’s a better option out there. Like, why aren’t we just communing with our people and bartering eggs for art?
jul 17, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
This, too, is also Dilbert
jul 17, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view