by Scott Adams
Part of Dilbert, book 39
First published 2012
Scott Adams delivers another collection of Dilbert strips that capture the daily torment of corporate life. The pointy-haired boss continues scheduling useless meetings while employees struggle with impossible sales targets and meaningless performance reviews. Dilbert and his coworkers endure their cubicle prison with resigned humor, creating comedy from workplace dysfunction. Adams draws from over twenty years of corporate satire, tracking office culture through economic booms and busts. The strips cover everything from dot-com mania to mortgage crisis fallout to whatever passes for normal business operations. Adams taps into the shared experience of office workers everywhere, making readers suspect he has secretly observed their own workplaces. The book offers comedic relief for anyone trapped in corporate bureaucracy, transforming workplace frustration into laughs.
Genres: satire, humor, business, contemporary, comedy, workplace
Vibes: humorous, satirical, thought-provoking
Tropes: office-life, workplace-comedy
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
208 pages · Paperback · Andrews McMeel Publishing