How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? - A Dilbert Book

Scott Adams

Sinopse

Everyone’s favorite engineer navigates the problem-filled work world of pointless projects, questionable employment practices, and interoffice politics.

In How’s That Underling Thing Working Out for You?, Scott Adams takes on the challenges of Elbonian sensitivity training, employee satisfaction surveys, confusopoly consultants, and more.

If you agree that every indeterminable project has to have at least one WDG (Worthless Dumb Guy), or are subjected to results-free sensitivity training, questionable employee surveys, and freelance consultants that seem to offer little more than exorbitant invoices, then chances are you find the workplace philosophy represented inside How’s That Underling Thing Working Out for You? alive and well inside your own office environment—and that’s exactly what makes Dilbert one of the most successful and popular comic strips of all time.

From Dogbert’s invention of a beheading app to Dilbert’s PowerPoint presentation that proves two monkeys could lead better than current management, How’s That Underling Thing Working Out for You? chronicles corporate cubicle culture, questionable training seminars, and made-up consultancies one Dilbert strip at a time.

“Confined to their cubicles in a company run by idiot bosses, Dilbert and his white-collar colleagues make the dronelike world of Kafka seem congenial.” —The New York Times

“Once every decade, America is gifted with an angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-universe everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet. Charlie Chaplin. Dagwood Bumstead. Charlie Brown. Cathy. Now, Dilbert.” —The Miami Herald

Disponível desde: 29/11/2011.

Comprimento de impressão: 130 páginas.

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