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Still Pumped From Using The Mouse

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"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.

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.

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.

Still Pumped From using the mouse by: Scott Adams is one of his funnier books. That is all

More ... fun isn't a word that comes to mind as useful with Dilbert, a mouthless drone in a world of cubicles and petty politics where stupid managers are out-thought by blobby dogs. For the average person, Dilbert is baffling, but for those of us whohave endured the cubicle world, Dilbert is more of a journal than a comedic view. For those still trapped in the cubicle world, it's amost a religious excercise -- or psychological relief. One wonders if Scott Adams' departure from that square-edged world will take the edge off of his mouthless, bent-tied engineer

This book may cause eyes to leak and perhaps a stomach cramp or two and maybe even a few accidental urinations.

Yeah, it's that funny!

This book is a classic compilation of comic strips in the days that were not so focused on business. Dogbert can be seen more than the current strips doing other things besides consulting, and a glimpse of Dilbert's personal life is seen. Alice, Catbert, and Asok were not characters yet, and the boss hadn't been quite fully developed, but getting there. However, the pointy-haired boss is still a main and hillarious character, along with Dilbert's lazy colleague, Wally, and the many annoying co-workers that fill up the office.

"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.

But I don't expect anything more from a book of purely comic strips... and it was a blast back to the past for me, when I used to work for the nation's biggest telco. :-) Must be why I love Dilbert so much!

You just can't help but to love Dilbert. The comics are hysterical. The sarcasm is very funny, however, if you are looking for some entirely mindless comic that takes no thinking just cued laughter, i'd skip this one. Otherwise, it is a very enjoyable book.