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Dilbert also failed to keep up with the times. Despite publishing strips about AI or remote work or etc, you can still tell that he has spent so long away from that world that he no longer has any novel insight into it. All of the jokes come secondhand from anecdotes that he hears or reads about.

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I think Dilbert's cubicle nightmare frozen in time is somewhat charming.

Imagine the luxury of a cubicle in 2025.

You had cubicles? Luxury! Im my day, we put our spare-parts laptop on an old door for a desk and sat on a rickety metal chair on a concrete floor in an unheated warehouse. And we loved it!

Oh you had a chair! In my day we had a desk scavenged from sticks and rocks. Our chair was a piece of pipe with a 2x4 on the end. You had to balance carefully lets you impaled yourself.

You had laptops and spare parts?! At my first job we had to build ourselves a desk out of 1's from the bit bucket to put the card puncher on, and a sort of beanbag chair from the 0's. And the old-timers said we were lucky--the old system did not even have ones, which made less satisfying desks. When we got upgraded card punchers that could do ASCII instead of just typing the raw instructions in hex, that was a happy day, let me tell you.

Isn’t that exactly how Amazon started?

Yes, that’s the meta-joke.

And Facebook too, which is the META-meta-joke.

I unironically had this job. I lastd 6 months. (It was also the late shift.)

Headphones are the cubicle of 2025. Or maybe VR goggles.

I always wondered if you could file for worker's-comp for hearing damage from turning up your headphones loud enough to drown out the office.

Or from the shitty office chairs that break your back day in day out.

Dream on.

You'll quickly find that working in "Virtual Reality" constitutes remote work since you inhabit a different reality and is not allowed.

the public sector beckons. i live in a sea of beige-carpet-cube-walls.

Sometime in the late 90s Dilbert pretty much became Pluggers but without the attribution to the readers sending in their ideas.

Some of the recent stuff is ok. For example https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

Every now and then a topical quip pops out. Someone tacked a strip about cloud on my more or less cubical—that was my thing at the time and quite good. But yeah mostly 90s or so.

That's true.

Dilbert is about the 90s.

And Adams failed to keep with himself with his fawning over who could be described as the pointy-headed-boss in chief.

Seriously, making your whole career deriding stupid, clueless, cruel top managers and then lionizing Trump... I guess there isn't a single mirror in his house.

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