Dilbert hurts my soul…Hurts it so good.
So here’s the deal. I’m phasing out fo the business world. I have had enough, and have come to accept that I don’t like white collar work. I am a smart dude, but I’d rather work a blue collar job. I actually have come to realize that blue collar work might be the smarter option in both the short and the long run. Take it this way: I want to let someone else think up the plan, work on the weekends for no additional pay, alienate his family, gain an ulcer, and ultimately fail. I want to build the failure way over the allotted amount of time, get paid overtime for it, say it was the planner’s fault it couldn’t get done, and then get paid a bonus to take apart the failure only to start all over again. if you have a problem with that, talk to my Union Rep.
I have been reading a lot of Dilbert recently, and it really sucks how true this comic strip actually is. The basic premise is that it revolves around the office life of an engineer at a large firm. The beauty is that it is all about the office interactions and not the product design, so it is basically like any other office.
Everyone is either stupid, lazy, violent or un-motivated. Nothing gets done because everyone is trying to dodge work. Executives know nothing but they speak in jargon (using words like core motivations, paradigm shift, or key action items).
Everyone thinks that they are a Dilbert, but they are probably someone else. I’ll post more about the personality types soon!
