StangDreamin'
Founding Member
Scott Adams (I think that's the "Dilbert" author) was a Engineer for Pacific Telecom; and, until I heard that on Leno, I really didn't "get" some of his humor. After I heard about his previous employment background, I started reading his stuff while "wearing" my work mindset - It all started to make sense.
Understand that my work uniform includes a shirt with a big blue Q over the pocket; and that my company bought me along with another telco (USWest). It's even more interesting that our most previous CEO (not the one before him whose gotta pay $90-something mill to maybe stay out of jail) had prior to that, gotten Ameritech ready for purchase by SBC Telecom (now AT&T); and that our present CEO had previously prepared PacBell (again, Scott Adams' previous employer) ready for sale to, hmmmmm.... SBC/AT&T! Makes you kind of wonder, huh?
My present supervisor retired from PacBell-SBC. I have no clue what she was thinking upon jumping out of their frying pan into our fire, and I bet she has her doubts after 3 months in what passes for a system here. Anyway, she either heard of or slightly knew of Adams; and apparently early on in the "life of Dilbert" he was in fact asked to make a decision between continuing the comic or keeping his job. You may have noticed that the strip is still in production........
I'm probably going to get in that kind of trouble myself fairly soon, as I've caught myself telling people (at work) that "we work in a Dilbert cartoon". Oh, well, at my present state of mind; if "the word" ever comes down to me, I'll seriously consider following Adam's decision to "explore other career opportunities". I've been unemployed before, and my track record has always been one of actually coming out ahead in the next job.
Even if it does make me feel like a rat jumping overboard after the big ice-cube flood on the Titanic......
Understand that my work uniform includes a shirt with a big blue Q over the pocket; and that my company bought me along with another telco (USWest). It's even more interesting that our most previous CEO (not the one before him whose gotta pay $90-something mill to maybe stay out of jail) had prior to that, gotten Ameritech ready for purchase by SBC Telecom (now AT&T); and that our present CEO had previously prepared PacBell (again, Scott Adams' previous employer) ready for sale to, hmmmmm.... SBC/AT&T! Makes you kind of wonder, huh?
My present supervisor retired from PacBell-SBC. I have no clue what she was thinking upon jumping out of their frying pan into our fire, and I bet she has her doubts after 3 months in what passes for a system here. Anyway, she either heard of or slightly knew of Adams; and apparently early on in the "life of Dilbert" he was in fact asked to make a decision between continuing the comic or keeping his job. You may have noticed that the strip is still in production........
I'm probably going to get in that kind of trouble myself fairly soon, as I've caught myself telling people (at work) that "we work in a Dilbert cartoon". Oh, well, at my present state of mind; if "the word" ever comes down to me, I'll seriously consider following Adam's decision to "explore other career opportunities". I've been unemployed before, and my track record has always been one of actually coming out ahead in the next job.
Even if it does make me feel like a rat jumping overboard after the big ice-cube flood on the Titanic......