We enhance stockholder value through strategic business initiatives by empowered employees working new team paradigms. One of Adams E-mail correspondents demonstrated the observation that Dilbert is more documentary than satire. My boss actually said to me Let s bubble back up to the surface and smell the numbers. I had no idea what it meant. I've decided to use humor in the workplace.
Experts say humor eases tension which is important in times when the workforce is being trimmed.
But Adams cynicism about human nature does not stop with the boss. Co-workers also seem to be caught up in this absurd work culture. A group of workers gather around another s desk. We calculated that if ten of your friends here took ten percent pay cuts, then the company can keep you. No, we re here to look at your office furniture.