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"I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so that he could read it twice as fast." - @rkoutnik https://twitter.com/RichRogersIoT/status/8649639144

• hinkley 9y ago
  When I was a lad there was a bit of advice when interviewing called the Dilbert Index. When they are walking you through the building for your interview, check out how many Dilbert cartoons people have posted in their cubes. I believe the advice went on to say that if you see more than 2 you should be worried, but maybe it was a higher number. I'm starting to believe there's a similar rule for how many copies of MMM you see on the bookshelf. I've seen as many as 5 stacked together, and that place was whackadoodle.
  • gargravarr 9y ago
    I use the Dilbert-o-Meter as a measure of how bad the job is once you're actually in it - how many Dilbert cartoons do you witness play out in real life exactly as in the strip. I had this happen in my first job out of university, watching strip after strip happen in front of me without any irony. I lasted three months in that job before I quit. I now use the same metric to decide when to quit a job and move on. I'm now at a startup, and keeping a close eye on its inevitable transformation...
  • TheRealDunkirk 9y ago
    My own theory is that the morale of a workplace is inversely proportional to the number of Dilbert strips hung on the cube walls.