In 1994 I "received training" at a ex-Berkeley startup a $HUGECORP had bought.
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In 1994 I "received training" at a ex-Berkeley startup a $HUGECORP had bought.
When I arrived, the new management had settled in, rules had changed, logo had been updated, time-sheets in different colors - you know that routine.
Then Dilbert broke though, and pretty soon the question quietly asked in corridors was "who is it ?" because he nailed that $HUGECORP vibe so precisely, it could only be an inside job.
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In 1994 I "received training" at a ex-Berkeley startup a $HUGECORP had bought.
When I arrived, the new management had settled in, rules had changed, logo had been updated, time-sheets in different colors - you know that routine.
Then Dilbert broke though, and pretty soon the question quietly asked in corridors was "who is it ?" because he nailed that $HUGECORP vibe so precisely, it could only be an inside job.
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The Mgt. was not amused, and we were not allowed to have Dilbert strips on the wall during customer visits, "It would look Unprofessional." Being from the .eu service org, we didn't feel that applied to us, we left him up, and the .eu customer discovered Dilbert.
Later we learned the cartoonist worked in the next high-rise over, I could have waved to him from my 26th floor window.
Later again he lost his edge and ended a nazi, but for few brief years, he was a genius.
RIP Scott Adams.
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The Mgt. was not amused, and we were not allowed to have Dilbert strips on the wall during customer visits, "It would look Unprofessional." Being from the .eu service org, we didn't feel that applied to us, we left him up, and the .eu customer discovered Dilbert.
Later we learned the cartoonist worked in the next high-rise over, I could have waved to him from my 26th floor window.
Later again he lost his edge and ended a nazi, but for few brief years, he was a genius.
RIP Scott Adams.
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@bsdphk he worked for PacBell marketing ISDN in San Francisco, their office was across the street from mine, but he’d left a long time ago by then.
I’d been to a book signing of his circa 2001 at Stacey’s Books in SF (RIP), and was given a 30 minute rant about how white men are a much put-upon, despised, discriminated against minority. I stopped buying his books at that point.
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