by Scott Adams
Part of Dilbert, book 5
First published 1996
Willy works as a mailboy in a dysfunctional corporation where incompetent managers scheme and plot against each other. When office politics turn deadly, someone puts a bounty on Willy's head. The hapless mailboy must navigate corporate backstabbing, bureaucratic insanity, and actual assassination attempts while delivering interoffice memos. Willy discovers that survival in the business world requires more than just pushing a mail cart through cubicle mazes. Scott Adams transforms workplace frustrations into dark comedy as Willy faces enemies who treat corporate warfare as literal warfare. The story exposes how office hierarchies can turn ordinary employees into targets when ambition meets absurdity.
Genres: fiction, satire, humor, contemporary, comedy
Vibes: dark-humorous, fast-paced, satirical
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, fish-out-of-water, underdog
128 pages · Andrews and Mcmeel