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In the 90's, I worked for a small consulting company with large corporate clients. We joked that we could assess the health of a company's culture by whether D
by pjmorris 9mo ago
In the 90's, I worked for a small consulting company with large corporate clients.
We joked that we could assess the health of a company's culture by whether Dilbert cartoons were tapped up in cubicles. Companies without them tended to have not much in the way of a sense of humor, or irony, or self-awareness.
- macintux 9mo agoI suspect there was a healthy medium: none meant cultural issues, while too many meant the entire company was dysfunctional to an extreme.
- bityard 9mo agoThe worst job I ever had was working for a manager who literally had a "no Dilbert cartoons in the workplace" policy. Other cartoons, fine, go crazy. But no Dilbert. That place wasn't just kinda like Initech in Office Space, it pretty much WAS Initech in Office Space, only way less funny and interesting.
- rightbyte 9mo agoYeah I think that Joel Spolsky wrote some blog post about Dilbert cartoons on walls being a red flag. However, surely no cartoons is surely more often down to stiff policy which in it self is a way worse red flag. (Black flag? At least on the beach)
- antonymoose 9mo agoI worked for a Pointy-Haired Boss who used to pass out Dilbert strips he himself found funny and relevant to that person. Sadly, he could not recognize the PHB in himself.