I read The Dilbert Future when I was in early high school or something. I had never been in an office but loved the book. I still remember the bit about Star Trek.
One big change from the Dilbert era is Work From Home. WFH makes a lot of Dilbert type jobs tolerable, even a good deal. Spending 40 hours in a cubicle and commuting is terrible. Spending a couple hours on zoom calls you aren't paying attention to while doing chores or picking up your kid as a breeze.
I picked up Journey to Cubeville a couple weeks ago (first time in 25+ years), and for straight-up gags and laughs, it was great, as good as any gag strip to ever do it. Scott's "low art" aspirations are likely to be underappreciated in the twitter age, but (let me tell you sonny....) being the funniest strip in the 90s was no small feat!
Scott Adams was one of the more interesting people of the 10's and 20's. He put himself out there, did some dumb stuff, had some good ideas. Win Bigly and HTFAEASS are quality books. He's a good example of having a great life. I never watched his podcast but always enjoyed whenever I saw a clip of him or his good Tweets.
Did he leave his wife (who remained loyal to him until his death) to marry a younger woman who didn’t actually love him like the original wife? Is that that questionable life choice?
What always struck me about Dilbert is how relevant it was even for those of us in other career fields. In education, you’ll encounter admins and their lackeys who are obsessed with implementing corporate culture. They’re addicted to buzzwords and devise braindead “processes” to “expedite” the passage of “data-based,” “robust” solutions to meet the learning needs of our “shareholders.” Alas, us Dilbert-types could only sit and snark while the world lost its mind. And there really wasn’t a way to hop to another job or go our own way.
Then again, I guess I somewhat followed the Scott Adams route and started writing for places. Maybe I should change my format to fit my arguments into a quippy 3-paneled comic strip with bad art. Is the world ready for a mildly transgressive newspaper cartoon about public education?
Dilbert and the movie Office Space completely define the late 90's early aughts office/tech world. Scarily accurate. Now some of the satire turns out to be true and you can't even lampoon real life anymore
I read The Dilbert Future when I was in early high school or something. I had never been in an office but loved the book. I still remember the bit about Star Trek.
One big change from the Dilbert era is Work From Home. WFH makes a lot of Dilbert type jobs tolerable, even a good deal. Spending 40 hours in a cubicle and commuting is terrible. Spending a couple hours on zoom calls you aren't paying attention to while doing chores or picking up your kid as a breeze.
I picked up Journey to Cubeville a couple weeks ago (first time in 25+ years), and for straight-up gags and laughs, it was great, as good as any gag strip to ever do it. Scott's "low art" aspirations are likely to be underappreciated in the twitter age, but (let me tell you sonny....) being the funniest strip in the 90s was no small feat!
Scott Adams was one of the more interesting people of the 10's and 20's. He put himself out there, did some dumb stuff, had some good ideas. Win Bigly and HTFAEASS are quality books. He's a good example of having a great life. I never watched his podcast but always enjoyed whenever I saw a clip of him or his good Tweets.
A fine eulogy! In a way, it's kind of fitting that his life and work ended during the downfall of the managerialism he so expertly lampooned.
Did he leave his wife (who remained loyal to him until his death) to marry a younger woman who didn’t actually love him like the original wife? Is that that questionable life choice?
I don’t know specifically how his first marriage fell apart, but his second wife was the main questionable life choice I was referring to.
His first wife stayed in his little coffee chats in his little online community until after he died. 🥹💔❤️🩹
What always struck me about Dilbert is how relevant it was even for those of us in other career fields. In education, you’ll encounter admins and their lackeys who are obsessed with implementing corporate culture. They’re addicted to buzzwords and devise braindead “processes” to “expedite” the passage of “data-based,” “robust” solutions to meet the learning needs of our “shareholders.” Alas, us Dilbert-types could only sit and snark while the world lost its mind. And there really wasn’t a way to hop to another job or go our own way.
Then again, I guess I somewhat followed the Scott Adams route and started writing for places. Maybe I should change my format to fit my arguments into a quippy 3-paneled comic strip with bad art. Is the world ready for a mildly transgressive newspaper cartoon about public education?
Dilbert and the movie Office Space completely define the late 90's early aughts office/tech world. Scarily accurate. Now some of the satire turns out to be true and you can't even lampoon real life anymore
I likely underestimated Dilbert's staying power. It was a sharp comic.
You're really a jerk.
Huh?