
RAH Humor Review - Dilbert
by Ray Koziel

Perhaps you know this person.  He has curly hair, is somewhat
overweight, and wears wire-rimmed glasses.  For reasons unknown the
end of his black and red striped tie always tends to curls up into
the air.  He has become the unsung hero for programmers, technicians,
engineers, and scientists in companies across the country.  For those
of you who are still not sure who it is, it is none other than Dilbert.

Created by Scott Adams, Dilbert and his pets Dogbert (who also wears
wire-rimmed glasses) and Ratbert have become the voice for the
technical worker who is unable to speak out about the dysfunctions of
the management and the corporations where they work.  An applications
engineer at Pacific Bell in California, Adams has used Dilbert as an
outlet for himself in dealing with the day to day frustrations and
aggravations of the workplace.  Apparently the comic strip has a
similar effect on employees of companies from Apple to Xerox who clip
out Dilbert from the paper and post the strips on their doors and
cubicles in the hopes that management might see them and get a clue.

Dilbert made the nation's newspapers in 1989 and quickly became a hit.
He is syndicated in 175 newspapers including the Chicago Tribune,
Denver Post, and The Boston Globe.  If your local newspaper does not
carry Dilbert, never fear, for Scott Adams has published three books
with a fourth soon to be released.  The titles include _Build_a_ 
Better_Life_by_Stealing_Office_Supplies_, _How_to_Avoid_Meetings_with
_Time-wasting_Morons_, _Dogbert's_Clues_for_the_Clueless_, and _Shave
_the_Whales_ (due this spring).  So, the next time management rattles
your cage, never fear - just get Dilbert!                       {RAH}
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Ray Koziel is a systems programmer/analyst for a consulting firm in
Atlanta.  Since Ray has started contributing to RAH, his wife has
become more at ease now that he has a new target for his weird sense
of humor.

