by Scott Adams
Part of Dilbert, book 33
First published 2011
Scott Adams delivers another collection of workplace absurdity through his iconic engineer Dilbert. This thirty-third volume introduces new corporate nightmares including a thieving Idea Squirrel and the dreaded Carbicle. Adams targets the familiar cast of corrupt businesses, incompetent managers, and toxic colleagues that populate modern offices. The strips validate every suspicion readers harbor about their workplaces. Your coworker really might be demonic. Your boss probably is incompetent. Even your dog could be plotting against you. Adams has chronicled office dysfunction since 1989, creating what critics call an everyman antihero for the corporate age. The Miami Herald compared Dilbert to iconic figures like Charlie Chaplin and Charlie Brown, noting how insecurities gather around such characters. This collection proves that as long as people work in cubicles, there will always be material for dark workplace humor.
Genres: fiction, humor, business, contemporary, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: dark-humored, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: dark-comedy, everyman-antihero, workplace-dysfunction
Period: 21st Century
128 pages · Kindle Edition · Andrews McMeel Publishing