To be fair, it's Dilbert. This is a comic strip from a bygone era of observational "humor," like Garfield or Kathy. I don't think people actually expect humor,

To be fair, it's Dilbert. This is a comic strip from a bygone era of observational "humor," like Garfield or Kathy. I don't think people actually expect humor, so much as "I find something in this comic strip that I recognize as similar to something I've encountered elsewhere."