…Wally says, "By that line of reason, it's okay to steal as long as you don't take too much." Wally says, "Incidentally, I have to charge you for the time it just took to label you a thief." Man says, "FORGET I'LL ASK SOMEONE ELSE!" Wally thinks, "Let's call that overhead."
"Remember to charge your time to the appropriate project code." "Unless your project is unfunded, in which case the timecodes won't work and you'll need to falsify your time report." "Are any of our projects funded?" "This is the embarrassing part."
…a photographer, wild and unsupervised. I tasted the sweet nectar of freedom." "Fill out your time report in 15-minute increments so we always know what you're doing." "Attempted self-strangulation is Code 39. If you succeed, it's 40." "RRRRR!!!"
…was moving along well until management changed our coding language and methodology." "Now our timeline is represented by this M.C. Escher print of an endless stairway." "This deep-sea submarine is looking for our morale." "Would this be a bad time to add a few features?"
"We're outsourcing half of our programming work to Elbonia to take advantage of the time difference." "We'll hand off our requirements at the end of our work day and get back the finished code the next morning." "Once again, I have no idea what they want." "Let's pretend we died."
…, "Are you going to lunch?" Wally replies, "No, I have to do an analysis." Dilbert walks away thinking, "When Wally works through lunch . . . It's time to buy stock in our competition." Dilbert tells Alice, "Wally's working through lunch!" Alice says, "Quick! To the online brokerage service!" The Boss…