by Scott Adams
Part of Dilbert, book 12
First published 1998
Scott Adams returns with another collection of his workplace satire featuring engineer Dilbert, his cynical dog Dogbert, and their corporate companions. Adams targets the familiar frustrations of office life with his trademark unsympathetic humor. Network administrators wield destructive power over entire companies. Accountants wage battles over trivial expense reimbursements like ham sandwiches. Managers embody incompetence by definition in Dilbert's universe. Adams writes as an insider who understands corporate dysfunction intimately. His observations strike readers as so accurate they believe the comic strip depicts their own workplace. The collection offers ammunition for office workers to share the misery and find solidarity in recognizing universal corporate idiocy. Adams provides the kind of workplace commentary that transforms mundane frustrations into shared moments of recognition and laughter.
Genres: fiction, satire, humor, contemporary
Vibes: shared-recognition, thought-provoking, unsympathetic
Tropes: insider-perspective, universal-idiocy
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
224 pages · Paperback · Andrews McMeel Publishing