The boss says, "I'll be right back after I inoculate our CEO." The boss says, "If you ever decide to reduce our layers of management, Carl is worthless and he thinks your kids look like the director of sales." The boss thinks, "That should buy me a few months."
…deadline." Dilbert passes a box of 3-D glasses and says, "Now if you'll each take a pair of 3-D glasses..." Dilbert continues, "You can see the layers of management incompetence practically jump out at you." Dilbert hands out cards and says, "Now scratch one of these scented cards to sniff the unmistakable…
The Boss says to Alice, "Alice, write a performance evaluation of yourself for me to sign." Alice replies, "What will our seven layers of management be doing while I manage myself?? Alice continues, "Sorry. I'll ding myself for that on my evaluation." The Boss says, "If you can't find me, have Carol…
…presentation to senior management, Alice." The Boss continues, "They might try to solve the problems during the meeting. That would be a disaster." Alice tells Dilbert, "As far as I can tell, every layer of management exists for the sole purpose of warning us about the layer above." Dilbert asks, "Are…
…root cause of our slow design process." "Let me take some wild guesses here." "Management keeps increasing our work and cutting our staff." "We spend all our time giving status reports to unnecessary layers of management!!" "Now we're having all day meetings to talk about our inefficiency!!" "I was kinda…
"I'm creating a new layer of management so I don't have to talk to you in person anymore." "Richard is your new boss. He has an MBA from Harfurd University." "You mean 'Harvard' don't you?" "Uh-oh."