As Dilbert would say...

Many of you are familiar with the comic strip "Dilbert" created by Scott Adams. Well this funny little comic has come under recent scrutiny and attack in the news because an employee posted a comic strip in his office that depicted the company's management as "drunken lemurs". End result = he was fired! How many of you can relate? I can! Not only to this comic strip but to the specific strip that was posted. (Especially lately, but we will get into that in another blog.) I love the "Dilbert" comic strip for many reasons:

• It's hilarious.
  
• It most often directly correlates to a similar problem I am having at my job.
  
• Makes fun of engineer types - whom I work with on a daily basis.
  
• And it makes the stuffy types in my office laugh.

So here is an employee who has found something to be humorous to him and he felt would be something uplifting to share with his fellow co-workers because the truth hit a little too close to home! What has happened to this country? I can see how this comic may be offensive but to take it as far as to say that an individual is a not a team player. Oh please! Heaven forbid, its a comic strip, people intended to be funny. If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? Gone are the days when one could laugh at the stupid things about your job, company, or co-workers. Maybe that's why we have some many people jumping off bridges or shooting up their workplace. Sometimes stupid decisions are made by management and there are consequences to those stupid decisions. All I can say as a manager, is that I am glad they don't pay me to make the stupid decisions.

Kudos to Scott Adams and his ability to make us laugh at corporate America and our management who at times do act like "drunken lemurs."