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>" Can they keep running with such deep cuts to staff and morale…"

...First time?

Oracle is literally the company Dilbert was making fun of

He worked at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 30, 1995, and the personalities he encountered there inspired many of his Dilbert characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

And probably no small part of the downturn of Dilbert (besides Adams going a bit nuts) is that Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize so it remains stuck largely in 90s cubeland.

> Adams is no longer

Indeed.

> Adams is no longer in a workplace he can satirize

He's also not in a place where he can draw cartoons, what with being dead and all.

Yes, I was speaking of latterly and I could have been clearer with tenses.

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