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I believe the statistic that you are looking for is 87.

A classic Dilbert - April 17th, 1996.

If you use your television's equalizer you will filter too much sound which in effect kills the atmospehre.

Getting the right sound in while letting the annoying Vuvuzela out is some seriuous job in sound enigneering. But hey, everything one doesn't understand must be easy to do, right?

Today's Dilbert, quite on-topic!

Dilbert on the subject of budgeting

There's prior art!

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1989-06-10/

But seriously, the issue is too much of MGMT sees "design" as a cost variable that can be slashed and money saved. Why waste time "designing" when you can save money doing!

And here, I'll point you to Dilbert on the topic. :-P

Dilbert: keyboard face

Insurance fraud!

Dilbert link: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/thatlost4gphone/

Seen on the blog:

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/thatlost4gphone/

Have you tried draining your ethernet cable?

My desk also happens to be right next to the break room where people religiously burn popcorn, microwave fish,

There could be another reason for that: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-02/

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-05/

> meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week

Bravo, Bravissimo. Many of us have been aware of time wasted on meetings for quite a while.

Let's be clear, planning is necessary and some meetings still might be needed. I guess almost everybody knows what I am talking about... ;-))

I am sure Dilbert hasn't got the monopoly on this topic but here are some links anyway...

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-23/

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2001-12-15/

http://www.revold.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dilbert_MeetingMadness.jpg

http://brontesaurus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dilbert-meeting.gif

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/1000/900/31967/31967.strip.gif

http://slcta.net/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif

> meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week

Bravo, Bravissimo. Many of us have been aware of time wasted on meetings for quite a while.

Let's be clear, planning is necessary and some meetings still might be needed. I guess almost everybody knows what I am talking about... ;-))

I am sure Dilbert hasn't got the monopoly on this topic but here are some links anyway...

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-23/

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2001-12-15/

http://www.revold.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dilbert_MeetingMadness.jpg

http://brontesaurus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dilbert-meeting.gif

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/1000/900/31967/31967.strip.gif

http://slcta.net/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif

> meeting time has gone down from as much as 30 hours per week to as little as 2 hours per week

Bravo, Bravissimo. Many of us have been aware of time wasted on meetings for quite a while.

Let's be clear, planning is necessary and some meetings still might be needed. I guess almost everybody knows what I am talking about... ;-))

I am sure Dilbert hasn't got the monopoly on this topic but here are some links anyway...

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-23/

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2001-12-15/

http://www.revold.no/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dilbert_MeetingMadness.jpg

http://brontesaurus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dilbert-meeting.gif

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/1000/900/31967/31967.strip.gif

http://slcta.net/images/dilbert2007112223221.gif

http://www.dilbert.com/2010-04-02/

If asked about how I would go about doing something, I would explain in enough detail that they would know that I know what I am talking about, but not enough so they can just tell someone else to do it.

Some do and will go to far. Usually in the written part or practical part, however I don't feel obligated to solve their problems until they hire me. The interview is just so they get an idea of who would be best to hire to solve their problems.

Typically your getting evaluated by managers anyway who won't have a clue, and perhaps one in-house expert, so going into too much detail isn't always critical.

If they want me to solve some trivial coding assignment to prove I actually know they stuff on my resume, I have no problem with that. If they give me an example of a problem they are currently having with their system, and give me real data structures to work with, I will tell them HOW I will do it, but I am not about to do unpaid work.

The people who believe in superstition are not worthy of the respect of modern humans. Their drivel should not even be in the marketplace of ideas, deserves nothing but scorn and attack, and is a drag on human progress.

Then you have utterly closed your mind off from seeing if any of their ideas on society are worthwhile merely because they are "tainted" with the association of "superstition." You are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If you wish to engage in genetic fallacy and call it logic, then feel free, but realize that most people consider this sort of strident hate-spewing towards people who are merely "wrong" in your book as a sign of poor credibility.

Well, except Ann Coulter fans, anyway.

The only people who want religion respected are superstitionists themselves.

While I'm sure the militant Dawkins fan club has your back, I somehow doubt that all atheists are quite so arrogant in their beliefs. You might as well ask a Fred Phelps supporter if "real" Christians respect atheism. Anyone who advocates religious tolerance must be No True Scotsman, eh?

Ardent belief in the absence of God is no more provable than ardent belief in the presence of God. It's a matter of Faith. You're just another religious zealot insisting that his interpretation of the unprovable mysteries of existence is the "holy truth" and that all the unbelievers need to be purged. And so, I close by saying, "Bah."

You can even link the source:

http://dilbert.com/fast/1995-01-19/

Obligatory Dilbert... http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/10000/8000/300/18358/18358.strip.gif

That's a good idea, but I think there's more money to be saved where people are using entire colons when semi-colons would suffice.

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/?F=1&CharIDs=&ViewType=Full&NoDateRange=1&SingleDate=08%2F20%2F1996&Order=s.DateStrip&PerPage=5&After=04%2F16%2F1989&Before=03%2F26%2F2010&CharFilter=Any

Maybe they just need help with logging in. http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-11-16/

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-05-08/

(* PUKE, SPLAT, SCREECH *)

From the era when Dilbert was funny.

For those of us whose systems block the Wayback machine as an anonymizer, you might try http://dilbert.com/2001-10-25/ instead. (They started putting pretty much all of the old Dilberts online a few months ago.)

Psh, Dilbert's been doing that since 1994.

AI is here... it's just hiding!

Make sure to check your references.

Found it for you.

The batshit doesn't lie. MBA's have a big effect on our economy: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-22/ http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-20/

The batshit doesn't lie. MBA's have a big effect on our economy: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-22/ http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-20/

with lean methods?

Where have I heard this before?

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-09-12/
I hate wearing things on my wrist, which is why I used to have a pocket watch before I got a cell phone. I might wear Dilbert's invention though.

The n's justifies the means.

Way to rip off Dogbert there, pal.
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-09-08/

Mordoc Rules: http://dilbert.com/strips/?CharIDs=15&After=01/01/1996&Before=12/31/2009&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=23&y=9&CharFilter=Any

Really several of those have happened here, and a couple of more from Dilbert[TM] that don't show up in that link. I thought Dilbert[TM] was meant to be a cartoon, not a documentary?

IT controls the virus checkers on all the machines, but they never keep them up to date for Windows, nor alow us to update them. "Linux is just a Toy" is a direct quote from IT. The other day a colleague told IT that someone had to move down from Mac to Windows, and ITs reply was "at least they didn't take even more steps backwards to Linux", but I digress.

After IT discovered the Virus, they declared, without any evidence, all Open Source Browsers, like Firefox and Opera, and Email programs must be ameliorated from all company computers, or you would be terminated. They then decreed that in the name of security only IE6 and Outlook would be acceptable for Internet access for any reason (so much for using any other ports, those do not exist per IT). Makes lots of sense to force the usage of the two most attacked programs in the history of Mankind in the name of security. I've about given up on Internet at work and do most of what I need at home now.

IT always says "we must protect The Server". If The (Windows) Server is so vulnerable that it needs so much protection, why do they keep using it? I've asked to be removed from The Serve as I don't use it to do my job other than for backups, and IT says my source code backups are to large and want them removed (WTF?).

I develop Embedded Systems. Right now I'm trying to write a USB driver for a AVR, that has to work with Windows, but IT says I don't need Admin Rights. Boss says "do what IT says". Guess I'll just tell the customers "sorry I could not test this, talk to the boss or IT if it does not work", as I'll have no idea if it works. Its a small company, telling me to talk to someone higher up won't help. Resume anyone?

I don't think it's utterly beyond belief that a good CEO can make deals with other bigwigs and boost the company's bottom line at least 200x as much as an average worker can.

The multiplier can be much greater than that -- but there are still ways to make it work for you.

The key is to grimace so they know you're working

But make sure you use pie charts.

I remember when you could come to slashdot and truly read original content. Now all these sites just seem to regurgitate the same thing.

Obligatory Dilbert

"After moving up the ranks within my department from Intern to Technical Lead .. and will now be required to work 5 eight-hour days rather than 4 ten-hour days and be on call during the other two days of the week

If you still have to clock-on then you ain't a lead anything just another replaceable company drone. Time to move on. But don't tell them until you have the other job lined up. For your next job go for the donut downsizing executive position ..

http://dilbert.com/

Dude,

read Dilbert to get more insight into the Industry then you ever wanted.
Also you may want do have a look at Userfriendly, Hackles and early Reallifecomics.

Maybe all this wisdom can help you picture, where you are going.

For your Internship, be ready to be the *** of the Company.

Do not stop looking for more internship opportunities.

In fact, if GM REALLY wanted to excel, they would break themselves up, and have the divisions compete. The problem with the situation for GM, Chrysler and Ford was that it was too few CEO's and worse, they were incestuous (had to come up through the industry). Heck, rather than sell volvo, saturn, and hummer to China, they would be better off rolling them into one company, giving them a CEO from outside of the industry, and then allowing them to compete against others, esp GM itself. It will mean that the company would have to shrink, but, within 4 years they would be ready for IPO, or would be bankrupt.

I seriously doubt this would work... Have a look at this comic which illustrates my point.

Dilbert.com

The entire site screams PHB. It takes five minutes to load a single gif comic with all the extra crap and flash and popups that go along with it.

Seriously - it's like an act of self parody. I just picture Scott Adams sitting in a cube somewhere trying to draw comics while tearing his hair out and a PHB over his shoulder saying "We'll call it Dilbert.com BETA! And we'll have MASHUPS! OooooOOOooo!!"

Fortunately they have this: http://www.dilbert.com/fast/

At least Dilbert has a fast URL. It's the only one I way I read Dilbert any more, at least partially because Scott Adams is a flaming moron in his blog and I have no desire to read it. The comic still manages to be funny periodically, I think mostly because of ideas sent to him.