Still Pumped From Using The Mouse
by Scott Adams
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Author: Scott AdamsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN: 0836210263
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Book Review: Examples of intellectual harassment in the workplace
Summary: 5 Stars
There are many excellent comic strips, but few are so powerful that they frighten the business world. Some people in management consider the Dilbert comic strip so subversive that they have banned it from their organization. Furthermore, the companion web site is blocked so that it cannot be accessed from the work site. In reading the strip it is easy to see why, which demonstrates a very sad fact about the current business climate in the United States. Despite so much rhetoric to the contrary, the generalized American worker is losing ground. While the conditions of the workplace have improved in the areas of sexual harassment, workers are constantly exposed to intellectual harassment. Forced to agree with senseless policies and criticized as not being a "team player" if they raise any sensible objections, intelligence and initiative are suppressed.
The Dilbert strip demonstrates these conditions in a manner where you laugh because the only alternative is a deep sadness. I have been witness to some of the situations illustrated in the cartoons in this book. The meeting called just so the boss can praise themselves and hear themselves be praised. Memos that criticize a worker for showing some simple and reasonable initiative because that initiative was in direct contradiction to a foolish rule put forward by management. My favorite from my experience is when a co-worker received a reprimand for booting his machine ten minutes before eight in the morning. The reason given was that it could be interpreted that he was starting work before the designated time. The fact that his computer would be booted and ready to go at eight was lost in the reasoning. This book is a "welcome" to the world of petty and incompetent management.
Summary of Still Pumped From Using The Mouse
An insider's look into the business office finds Dilbert and cohorts dealing and dueling with the gadgets and grievances of technology and providing a display of perplexing electronics power.Dilbert is the comic strip for the downsizing, techno-talking workplace of the '90s. Cartoonist Scott Adams provides an outrageously fresh and farcical take on the work-a-day world and Dilbert's own pathetic life.
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