Still Pumped From Using The Mouse [Paperback]

Scott Adams (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dilbert Books (Paperback Andrews McMeel) | Publication Date: March 1, 1996

An insider's look into the business office finds Dilbert and cohorts dealing and dueling with the gadgets and grievances of technology and providing a display of perplexing electronics power.

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Amazon.com Review

Dilbert is the comic strip for the downsizing, techno-talking workplace of the '90s. Cartoonist Scott Adams provides an outrageously fresh and farcical take on the work-a-day world and Dilbert's own pathetic life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (March 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836210263
• ISBN-13: 978-0836210262
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,131,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

What started as a doodle has turned Scott Adams into a superstar of the cartoon world. Dilbert debuted on the comics page in 1989 while Adams was in the tech department at Pacific Bell. Adams continued to work at Pacific Bell until he was voluntarily downsized in 1995. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 1979.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stereotyping at its best--- intelligent, light, funny!, January 7, 1998

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This review is from: Still Pumped From Using The Mouse (Paperback)

"Dilbert" lovers will see more of Scott Adams' comic commentary on the lives of technical personnel, the marketing group, management and everyone else in the work culture. As always, Dilbert and his circle of socially-handicapped peers in the technical profession live absurd ways at work and lead boring lives elsewhere. The pun and punch is when the characters seem to do or say something wrong and a problem occurs, and what they resort to in response is usually impractical or otherworldly, almost always hilarious and downright funny. It's a great show-- how Adams half-despises people, half-worships his dog, and half-murders members of the rodentia family. Beyond that, it's all for laughs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Examples of intellectual harassment in the workplace, October 28, 2006

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Pumped From Using The Mouse (Paperback)

There are many excellent comic strips, but few are so powerful that they frighten the business world. Some people in management consider the Dilbert comic strip so subversive that they have banned it from their organization. Furthermore, the companion web site is blocked so that it cannot be accessed from the work site. In reading the strip it is easy to see why, which demonstrates a very sad fact about the current business climate in the United States. Despite so much rhetoric to the contrary, the generalized American worker is losing ground. While the conditions of the workplace have improved in the areas of sexual harassment, workers are constantly exposed to intellectual harassment. Forced to agree with senseless policies and criticized as not being a "team player" if they raise any sensible objections, intelligence and initiative are suppressed.
The Dilbert strip demonstrates these conditions in a manner where you laugh because the only alternative is a deep sadness. I have been witness to some of the situations illustrated in the cartoons in this book. The meeting called just so the boss can praise themselves and hear themselves be praised. Memos that criticize a worker for showing some simple and reasonable initiative because that initiative was in direct contradiction to a foolish rule put forward by management. My favorite from my experience is when a co-worker received a reprimand for booting his machine ten minutes before eight in the morning. The reason given was that it could be interpreted that he was starting work before the designated time. The fact that his computer would be booted and ready to go at eight was lost in the reasoning. This book is a "welcome" to the world of petty and incompetent management.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of the Dilbert books., October 26, 2004

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Pumped From Using The Mouse (Paperback)

Right up there with "Clues For The Clueless", "Shave the Whales", and "Bring Me the Head of Willie The Mailboy", this is one of the funniest of Scott Adams's Dilbert books. An excellent blend of the just generally silly (Ratbert gets lost in a hole in the fabric of space) and social commentary (a little girl gets help from Bob the dinosaur punishing adults who are ruining the world by giving them wedgies), there's a chuckle in here for every mood.