On Monday Dilblert became one of the few well known Millennials to endorse Donald Trump.Since then the King Of Office Gossip, the Cynic and Political Super star has received 87.987 comments with 378,987 expletives. 28,874 that never existed previously. The FBI and CIA are investigating 6,346 death threats , 8,724 from abroad .to comment, Diblert who has more followers than Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton, Obama, God and Mohammed combined said " Hey, for this type of publicity I will seriously consider giving up my windowless corner office ,my subscriptions to the NY Times and Washington Post, nt Starbuck Cup of ambition every morning, marry my secretary Tiffany Trump and retire to my six room apartment in Trump Tower received from my future brother in laws Donald and Eric , for taking their close to home squeaze of their hands before the mainstream press start asking about their double dip activities and cocaine breakfasts at Tiffany's "
Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 1, 1980. The strip is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring engineer Dilbert as the title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Dilbert Futureand The Joy of Work are among the most read books in the series. Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1997 and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award in the same year for his work on the strip. Dilbert appears online and in 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.
The comic strip originally revolved around Dilbert and his "pet" dog Dogbert in their home. Many plots revolved around Dilbert's engineer nature or his bizarre inventions. Also prominent were plots based on Dogbert's megalomaniacal ambitions. Later, the location of most of the action moved to Dilbert's workplace and the strip started to satirize technology, workplace, and company issues. The comic strip's popular success is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciative audience;Adams has said that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was "when the strip really started to take off". The workplace location is Silicon Valley.
Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised. Much of the humor emerges as the audience sees the characters making obviously ridiculous decisions that are natural reactions to mismanagement.
Themes explored include:
- Engineers' personal traits
- Idiosyncrasy of style
- Hopelessness in dating (and general lack of social skills)
- Attraction to tools and technological products
- Business ethics (or lack thereof)
- Esotericism
- Incompetent and sadistic management
- Scheduling and budgeting without reference to reality
- Failure to reward success or penalize laziness
- Penalizing employees for failures caused by bad management
- Micromanagement
- Failure to improve others' morale, lowering it instead
- Failure to communicate objectives
- Handling of projects doomed to failure or cancellation
- Sadistic HR policies with evil rationale
- Susceptibility to business trends and popular buzzwords
- Corporate bureaucracy
- ISO audits
- Budgeting, accounting, payroll and financial advisors
- Stupidity of the general public
- Susceptibility to advertising
- Susceptibility to peer pressure
- Susceptibility to flattery
- Gullibility in the face of obvious scams
- Fourth World countries and outsourcing (Elbonia)
- Dilapidation
- Bizarre cultural habits
- Lack of understanding of capitalism
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