[.ca] Fugitive from the Cubicle Police (ISBN 0836221192)

From Amazon.com:
This book is freedom for those who feel imprisoned in a cubicle. Called "the cartoon hero of the workplace" by the San Francisco Examiner, Dilbert is revered by technology and computer workers, engineers, white-collar types, scientists and everyone who works these days (in cubicles or not). This collection captures it all, from clueless management decrees to near revolts among the cubicly confined.

Okay, I'm amused:
Scott Adams has talent. That is a fact. His comics, Dilbert, are basically about this engineer who works in a cubicle and has no social life. They're so funny, and have such original characters. Bob the Dinosaur, who basically goes around giving wedgies to people, is probably one of my favourites. I find it very amusing how a lot of characters are animals, like Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, etc. It seems so funny, somehow, to incorporate animals into work at an office building. So, overall, any Dilbert books are incredibly hilarious. Go buy one.

Hey! We all brought bananas again:
Calling Scott Adams a cynic is a true application of the word, but will not justify his work alone. He does it in a matter that is not undermining or condescending. His drawings are mediocre at best, but his ideas are superb. Here is an artist who chooses concept over form. Good, funny, amusing stuff.

Dilbert is flat hilarious!:
For some reason, I didn't find this book quite as funny as some of Adams' later stuff, but it still gave me some good laughs! The funniest humor always has a root in reality. . . that's why Dilbert is so hilarious! Though sometimes outlandish, I can sometimes see similarities between the Dilbert characters and people I work with!

Dilbert Office Antics:
How can cubical dwellers vent with their office related frustrations? Dilbert. From's Wally's lazy and devious ways to the boss's incompetence to Dogbert's sarcasm, this classic book provides hillarious office antics. It can identify with employees' stress and give them a good laugh at the absurd corporate world. With more useless meetings, reorganizations, downsizing, performance reviews, and many other workplace woes, this is an exquisite book.

Corporate America's Most Wanted...:
Monkey: Evolution favors monkeys. Eventually humans will be kept in cages as pets... Dilbert: Impossible! We humans will never allow ourselves to be treated like that! Now, get out of my cubicle! Dilbert, the mainstay of office-life critical witticisms, is the concept of Scott Adams, who quit his job to write the column, using it primarily to exorcise the demons that haunted him (and, indeed, seem to haunt all in small-to-large corporate America) during his tenure as a mid-level office worker. In his introduction, he says: 'I was doing some thinking today. But I didn't enjoy it very much, so I decided to write this introduction instead....' Who can argue with this? This, perhaps in a brief statement, summarises much of the underlying philosophy of the corporate culture Adams presents in his Dilbert column. It certainly epitomises the prevailing attitude of the boss and management structure. And of course, being in charge of his own column, Adams has graduated (or, perhaps sunk) to the level of management. This book consists of a generous sampling of Sunday columns (complete with colour -- OOOH! AAAH!) -- colour of course being a Dilbert-ian device to disguise the lack of information. Yet, the information here is timely and timeless (insofar as anything about corporate culture can be timeless). Dogbert's entry into and rising through the hierarchy is a good case in point, where LOUD equals results. After securing a corner office with a window by being LOUD, a task force ripe for empire-building within the company, the budgetary control of his boss, he is invited, at the end of his first week on the job, to meet with the president of the company. President: You've made quite a name for yourself in the week you've worked here. Dogbert: It was easy to grab power, once I realised that other executives were just imbeciles with good hair. President: I hope you don't think that of me. Dogbert: No, that looks like a toupee from here... Onward and upward... Finally Dogbert becomes president, exercises stock options after a disastrous but stock-market-friendly series of initiative plans (of course, they only have to be plans for the stock market to react), and retires to devote himself to philanthropy, which is 'mostly about watching people beg, and having buildings named after me.' We are introduced to Dilbert's co-workers, who are variously competent and stuck in their jobs, rejoicing the occasional tiny victories, or, more frequently, plotting grand schemes to gain the minor advantage (a few more inches of cubicle space, for instance). We are introduced to incompetent co-workers who get promotions and jobs in other firms with real offices and perks. We discover what kinds of women will date (and dump) Dilbert. Of course, that might have become a bit of a different problem had Dilbert's boss not been corrected in time... Boss: My boss says we need some eunuchs programmers. Dilbert: I think he means Unix, not eunuchs. And I already know Unix. Boss: If the company nurse drops by, tell her I said "Never mind." Dilbert does sometimes win after all.