Lack of understanding of capitalism
Characters
Dilbert
Dilbert is the independent character in the comic strip. He graduated from either a Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Electrical Engineering diploma & is an engineer. Although his ideas come generally sensible & radical, it is rarely carried out because of his impotency. He is well frustrated per incompetence of his cow-orkers and is typically sarcastic and snide. He is normally only following of his unfortunate social skills.
Dilbert unremarkably has there are no seeable mouth or eyes, and altogether however a early strips his tie usually curves upward. When Adams has offered there is no definitive explanation for this, he has explained a tie at least as a farther case of Dilbert's want of power all over his environment. Another explanation from Adams in the Dilbert FAQ is that he is good glad to understand wise shoppers. Adams has too hinted that a tie can be displaying an aversion to him. Around supplementary recent strips a mouth has been drawn in numbers of occasions whilst Dilbert is eating, surprised, furious, or even neural, & in the TV series his mouth is drawn after he is speaking. Numerous of the more "-berts" look a good deal such as he does, by owning glasses & there are no mouth (using a exception of Ratbert).
Dogbert
Although he is Dilbert's best-loved run, Dogbert seldom acts prefer the pet. He occurs as megalomaniac and one of his dreams is to conquer the world & enslave all man, and he has achieved this status many days across methods like hypnosis and masquerading. All the same, he typically quickly relinquishes his post due to tedium, persin foiling his risk, his conviction that humans don't deserve to keep around him when leader due to the on-going peace that final result, or even his want to last nap on the easy pillow.
Despite this dislike for homo, he is known to protect & assist Dilbert once he lessens victim to sinister motives. E.g., he has economized him from either Mr. Tidy, a robber-disguised-when-a-cleaning cost-human, by with the dinosaurs dislodge Mr. Tidy down a potty, & rescued Dilbert from either the trolls in accounting several times.
Dogbert has processed numbers of ventures into a business globe, typically as a consultant who hypes newly trends to the Pointy-Haired Boss. Inside these positions, he often will require benefit of stupidity and gullibility. For example, whilst hired as the advisor to produce a fresh company logo, Dogbert proposed using a piece of paper by owning the handbill stain from either his coffee ventral suction cup when the Black Ring of Quality, then charged the big consultancy fee. (the ring could own borne a certain sneaky similarity to the Lucent logo.)
An alter-ego of Dogbert is Saint Dogbert, the patron saint of technology, and Dogbert's religious form. Dogbert created this form as a method to eliminate a "demons of stupidity," the class action that includes "buzzword-spewers", "clueless morons" & "people who press an extra button to do the job" (Ctrl-Alt-F4-Del, instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del, the soft reboot, for example). Saint Dogbert wears the miter and carries a scepter inside his left paw. His correct paw heals broken technology, & a scepter exorcises a "demons of stupidity."
An additional vary-ego is Nostradogbert, the parody of Nostradamus. On this button, he occurs as psychic, albeit an evil a single. For instance, he created the chain e-e-mail curse that, whenever underst& & sent to others, would turn each the reader and sender into a pooch, however whenever that letter wasn't scroll through, a human would die (virtually all population chose a curse on top demise). His nemesis is John Stossel.
There was the series of airless strips Scott Adams mass produced that exposed Dogbert with the contender, Keno. However, Adams never aired a strips for he didn't need it to turn into the "cartoonist cartoon". To view a "Origin Strips", press [http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/news_and_history/html/dogbert_origin_strips.html here].
Prior to a strip was syndicated, Dogbert's title was "Dildog". Editors noted that any printing error obliterating a g in that title would wreak havoc, and a title was changed to Dogbert.
He typically walks in a park using Dilbert, usually stealing the girls Dilbert is trying to attract.
Ratbert
Ratbert (or even to his man of science master in the early scripts, XP-39C²) was non originally meant to become the regular, instead existence the portion of the series of strips featuring a science laboratory man of science's cruel experiments. Ratbert before long realized that he was the subject of a hideous macaroni and cheese experiment (the man of science mass produced him eat vast numbers of it; he writes inside his notebook that it induces paranoia within rats) and escaped, at length choosing the refuge in Dilbert's home. He was non at the start accepted per residents, especially Dilbert, world health organization was extremely prejudiced & closed-minded against rats. Nevertheless, he eventually allowed Ratbert to be the lasting member of the home.
As a elementary rat, & with been specially bred to become susceptible to peer pressure, Ratbert is very gullible & guiltless, although affirmative. Another time, his actions potty turn into quite plaguy. Rather Dogbert, he has processed inroads into business, it used to be that working as an intern, a concierge, a adviser (by having an external brain-few dozen attached to his trunk) & vice-president of marketing. He besides became CEO when the stimulator-&-consequence series of strips that taking part the former CEO jumping into a volcano. He was fired for varnishing employees.
Ratbert's large ambition within life is to get loved & accepted. He endeavors to impress victims he considers his friends in various occasions, & about universally fails miserably. Upright such as Dogbert protects Dilbert in many occasions despite his contempt for him, and then launder Ratbert's friends & personal. Ratbert is as well full friends by owning a garbage carter, world health organization strains—& fails—to enlighten Ratbert on the complexness of the universe.
Catbert
When by having Ratbert, Catbert was non the plotted regular. Therein experience, he was introduced for the series involving an attack in Ratbert, world health organization was acting as an optimist. While them had front yard (& fallowing Bob shows his stupidity by stomping in Ratbert's head instead of Catbert), Catbert rebooted Dilbert's computer. Dogbert at length forced him to leave.
Readers of Dilbert enjoyed a character such that it spontaneously known as him "Catbert," encouraging Adams to bring him back. He wwhen reintroduced as a "evil director" of human resources, and around the parody of typical cat behavior he "plays" with his "prey", coming higher sustaining sadistic & unlogical policies to enforce on the employees. He typically works tandem using a PHB.
Catbert officially entered a strip inside March 1995, when Dogbert hired him to a company to cover "the downsizing." Indeed, curtailment is Catbert's greatest joy, & he has many binders on this subject (& a single that says, "hire losers").
Pointy-Haired Boss
A Pointy Haired Boss (often abbreviated to simply "PHB") is notable for his gross incompetence and unknowingness of his surroundings, however however retaining power in the work. In the Dilbert TV series, he was notably hurt & extra actively evil.
A PHB's very title is non known, although around the single episode of the TV series he signs for a pack utilizing his line dancing pseudonym, "Eunice". Adams hwhen said that this is because these are more comfortable to believe a PHB as a single's have boss after he is non given the title.
a Pointy Haired Boss is mostly bald, except for a fringe of hair through the back of the head, & burnside that rise higher around points. Scott Adams has admitted that a Boss's odd hair was inspired by devil horns. He utilized to stand jowls at first because Scott wanted a character to look gruff, however a boss ended higher seeking dumb instead.
Within early strips, once he was only "balding", a Boss was super cruel & uncaring (shocking humans by owning electric belts or wanting the two to act 178 hours the week, although there are single 168 hours inside the week — he required a employees' families to contribute two or three hours). All the same, whilst the hair reached its todays state of straight-out pointiness, he became a complete cretin. A Boss is infantile, unformed, ignorant, & uncivil, eventually besides annoyingly pollyannaish & oblivious to his have actions.
A boss processed his virtually all important vary around appearance in the period of a single year in the fall of 1991. A go confirmed sighting of the loose-jowled boss was in the strip dated 1991-09-20, although he may too use been in the strip of 1991-09-26, seen from a back. He went unseen for many weeks in the period of the lengthy series all about Elbonia, so reappeared in 1991-10-21, without a jowls & using a pointed hair.
A Boss' personal another time makes an appearance in the strips, & come oft presented when existence when incompetent person when him. Around 1998, the Boss's boy, world health organization hid in the attic for four years instead of attending college, was hired for the company and mass produced VP of marketing due to his complete lack of noesis. Years late, a Boss’s married woman was hired as a receptionist for the company. Two a Boss’s married woman & boy part his trademarked coif, when run numbers of managers in the comic strips. the Pointy-Haired Boss finds pointy hair as a caring & attractive feature, & typically judges population according to a pointyness of their hair, like whilst he promoted an employee known as Ted because of a pointy "beard" that was growing in top of his head, or even after he became attracted to Alice because she styled her hair rather his.
A term "pointy-haired boss", or even "PHB", has get the generic term for managers world health organization don't read what their employees run for the dwelling, however try to pretend it launder.
In Dilbert's company a Boss is middle management. A corporate CEOs and vice presidents of the firm come constantly changing & come ordinarily minor characters while forgoing developed personalities. A strip is rarely particularly shy just about killing members of upper management.
There exists an unspoken however subtle heading joke in the Dilbert account. When a boss is "clueless", these are a boss world health organization has a social life & personal, patch the "smart" ones world health organization act for him develop there is no social skills to speak of, & come out destined never to reproduce.
Wally
Elysian by the co-worker of Adams at Pacific Bell, Wally is a sleeping employee universally trying to function a formulas, although he is very capable at his occupation. Around Seven Years of Extremely Defective Humans, Adams explained that his co-colleague at Pacific Bell wanted to avail of the generous severance packages being offered per company when you took the period of retrenchment, which were actually better than the likely retirement pack; he so commence the mission for dismissed. Adams was inspired by this co-fellow worker's good dedication towards this goal, & the construct of a all wild employee by having there are no feel of loyalty became Wally.
In the alive series, you discover that Wally was it used to be that a great coder. He is utilized afterwards in a episode to solve the Y2K bug while being hypnotized.
Due to his obsession by having coffee, Wally's idea of "work" is just carrying about the cup of a potable, of which he drinks hundreds of cups a day. He too has the notable want of hygiene. There exists, in point of fact, the class action of population that look such as him, which led to Wally it used to be that existence arrested for impersonating the dead human (&, since he gave the law a fake title, as well stimulated Asok's career to go down the tube). Wally has there are no feelings for more humans around him, therefore to him, it's o.k. to irritate humans, ask unfortunate Asok for frivolous items when you took budget requests, & run items at function that come forbidden by policy. For instance, he had obviate Dilbert's monitor whenever company policy asked the employees for eliminate professional devices it never utilized, & another time turned his cubicle into a pool.
Wally enjoys viewing pornographic site, equally indicated around two or three of strips. He was married at least fourfold however is okay, individual & has there are no kids (his survive attempt at reproduction was at a cellular level). His household life occurs as bit odd, like getting the veterinarian for a doctor.
Alice
Alice occurs as difficult-untiring engineer world health organization works by owning Dilbert. She has yearn curly hair, which transformed into the big & distinctive triangular hairdo while the character became a regular.
Alice is seldom rewarded for her protective operate, although she was for a instance the greatest paid engineer in the company. She substitute direct contrast sustaining Wally, world health organization does there are no operate & is rewarded about a equivalent. Alice as well suffers all the problems of existence the female engineer. She has there is no tolerance for the discrimination she lives.
Alice has the short temper. Her anger is oft expressed within physical violence, & she is known for her "fist of death". It used to be that she has, among more items, kicked an Elbonian into his have hat, stuffed Asok into his shirt sleeve, & when slapped the human thus stiff he travelled forwards in time.
Alice is fractionally additional successful inside her social life than fellow employees. She has dated many days. She was most into a committed relationship using an emotionally supportive human however turned him down at the eleventh hour, when it was additional numbers appropriate to train monkeys to wash similar act for Alice.
A women in a strip, in the main, tend to become aggressive & another time violent, whereas the men come mostly meek & modest. Occasionally observers can watch this as a modern incarnation of the ancient sitcom staple of the henpecked hubby. Nonetheless, it might likewise exist as that these are politically safer to let women clean violence. Adams is one of numbers of cartoonists world health organization admired Charles Schulz. In the Peanuts strip, Lucy was often violent, either "slugging" Linus or even threatening to. When Schulz when explained, "Girls hitting boys is funny. Boys hitting girls is not funny." That equivalent philosophy seems to use within "Dilbert".
Asok
Asok (pronounced "Ah-shook") occurs as brilliant graduate from either India Institute of Technology (parody of the really IIT) and an intern in Dilbert's company. the character is known as fallowing a friend & co-colleague of Adams' at Pacific Bell. "Asok" occurs as most common Indian name, though it is commonly spelled "Ashok". A title is too similar to the title of an ancient king of India, Ashoka. Asok himself is Indian, however this is never mentioned in the strip. Adams says around Seven Years of Extremely Defective Humans that this is because "I only like characters who have huge, gaping character flaws. The world is far too sensitive to let me get away with a highly flawed minority member."
Asok typically solves hard problems inside two or three keystrokes, however he is however naïve to the cruelties & politics of the business globe. Following, he typically ceases higher existence a whipping boy for his coworkers' prank. Despite a fact that he hwhen completed half a dozen years as an houseman (as of 2005) & performed a functions of the senior engineer, Asok has been denied permission to exist as a regular employee and the usage of company resources for his function.
It has been mentioned that Asok when sleep in the disabled stall; he late moved to the storage facility (however was merely allowed an hour leave per Pointy-Haired Boss). Asok is too trained to sleep simply in national holidays, the trait that he allegedly carried on top from either his alma mater.
Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light
Phil serves when ruler of heck and punishes people for minor offense non worthy of damnation around hell, such as applying duplicator even paper for the printer or stealing the chair from either a second cubicle (each of which Dilbert has done). He when well serves as manager of limbo, which in the strip is a subsidiary of heck. He is the PHB's immature brother, though this is seldom mentioned (twice, sustaining the recent strip involving Phil outsourcing evildoer world health organization partake of carbohydrates to the PHB worker's cubicles).
Originally, Scott Adams planned to own Satan become a regular member of the Dilbert cast, however yet softened a character fallowing suggestions by his editor. Instead of the pitchfork, he carries an tremendous spoon, & he has the fanny by having the fat prevent (although Adams has "forgotten" just about this another time or even twice). Instead of damnatory population to eternal flaming he darns the children, when within "I darn you to heck." Occasionally, he too wears the cape (which Adams forgot he wasn't supposed to have).
Elbonians
A Elbonians come the residents of a fabricated fourth-world country that appears in the comic strip, named Elbonia. the united states is said to exist as a new underdeveloped united states which — prefer the rattling united states of Albania — has only recently embraced capitalism. Its neighbour & enemy which it has threatened by owning the catapult launched nuclear weapon is known as Kneebonia. Virtually all of the united states is covered by using waist-waist-high mud, although around "Seven Years Of Highly Defective People", Adams admitted much of humans thought a united states was covered by owning snow- either way, a consequence was a equivalent & two alternatives were amercement using him. Adams created the united states sequentially to allow the "foreign" aspect within Dilbert forswearing applying any specific location, sequentially to keep away from either the backlash by readers world health organization can be from that vicinity. Dilbert's company typically utilizes Elbonia as a source of inexpensive labor & general outsourcing.
About a lot of a Elbonians develop beards (possibly the women & infants), tall hats, & mittens. Their technology is very out-of-date: "phones" are actually cans bonded to a finishes of strings & the means of "air transportation" (Air Elbonia) is flinging humans from either the giant catapult (something Dilbert hates to wash because he loses his baggage & gets head-deep into mud). Elbonians come ordinarily portrayed when idiotic & feebleminded, however a PHB seems to approve of outsourcing programming or even documentation tasks to the children. For numerous years the united states has been mired around a civil war between the left- & best-handed Elbonians.
Dogbert it used to be that became their ruler awhile, then again he & Dilbert (world health organization acted while his consultant) fled a palace when it mistook a Elbonians' coming to the babies bearing domestic information as an rebellion. It turned out it were calling him to preside across the domestic holiday. As a matter of fact, this was a prolonged series in a period of which the "jowly" boss was replaced per Pointy Haired Boss.
the bit of strips information a "North Elbonia" which is Communist and appears to be loosely according to North Korea. Northerly Elbonithe was destroyed once it utilized a machine made by Dilbert's employer; a manual experienced been mass produced by Tina away from anger around how else women in Northward Elbonia come mistreated (at least based on data from Dilbert).
The spinoff comic strip known as Plop follows the life of an Elbonian by owning there is no hair, which occurs as uncommon trait.
Elbonia will exist as either a conscious or even concurrent parallel to one of the venues inside Al Capp's long-running strip Li'l Abner: a nation called Lower Slobovia (based on Siberia), whose citizens were perpetually seen in waist deep snow and ice.
Other characters
Dilbert in popular culture
A popularity of a comic strip inside the corporate sector has led to the character of Dilbert existence utilized inside numbers of business magazines & publications (he has mass produced many appearances on the handle of Fortune).
A Toronto Star, Montreal's La Presse, the Indianapolis Star, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier Mail and San Francisco Chronicle, among more publications, begin a comedian in the business segment, separate from either other comedian, which together develop their have division. This is neutralise very much a equivalent manner that Doonesbury is now typically carried simply in the editorial part due to its pointed comment.
These are the basis of a popular (though unproved) theory suggesting that the morale at a given work is the opposite of the total of Dilbert comic strips taped & posted at various desks & cubicles. The plurality of Dilbert comic strips reflects general frustration by owning a bureaucratic administration at a company, whereas a usually satisfied men understands less identification by owning the character of Dilbert, & consequently fewer Dilbert comic strips come displayed when souvenir. An professional by owning there are no Dilbert strips, notwithstanding, doesn't necessarily stand high morale; like, it might show that the truly authoritarian administration has prohibited employees from either displaying the two.
Criticism
A adoption of Dilbert as an icon for corporate America has led to Scott Adams being criticized, inside a select few circles, for letting his creation to exist as adopted & embraced per super equivalent corporate globe his strip satirizes.
Dilbert's irony admits couple of good choice to a corporate life-style, when in case Adams anticipated criticism however planned across irony to disarm the critics. Norman Solomon believes the strip is insufficiently critical of CEOs & aweless of ordinary working population (A Pain using Dilbert: How else Corporate Culture Gets a Endure Laugh, Most common Courage Click, 1997). the idea that whiten collar humans may exist as inside want of additional respect contrasts sustaining a most commin belief that whiten collar career occurs as loose guide, however retrenchment & a select few of the pressures on Dilbert own been predicted in the Seventies by Harry Braverman (Labor & Monopoly Capital, Monthly View Click, 1998 existence a virtually all recent reprinting). Treating by using victims pressures would necessitate Dilbert to become supplementary blue-wage-earning withwithin terms of struggle across his operate run, however in Dilbert a boss may exist as lampooned however has to be obeyed.
David Noble (Forces of Production, Oxford 1986) narrated a cyberstruggle of the Fifties on top control of the programming of so-future computerised machine information by owning the clear beginning (management introduces information programmed by back-professional Dilberts ignorant of shop floor requirements), middle (union men have & watch over the improperly programmed information produce "scrap at high speed") & prevent (management agrees that a union guys should run a programming). Solomon seems humor-challenged withinside his have book, however a irony in Dilbert, he feels, occurs as effective way of avoiding good confrontation all over a better allocation of work control.
Peter Drucker and C. Wright Mills both pointed out the paradox on which the strip is based but does not address: Dilbert, Wally, Alice and the rest of the gang are at one and the same time supposed to compete with each other, and produce a collective product. A strip satirizes a outdoor enthusiasts of this double attach. Solomon's concern is that it reconciles population to their fate, & doesn't indicate the babies how else out.
A conceivable flaw all told these criticisms is the assumption on the a share of their authors that humans would utilize Dilbert when the model, as opposed to simply selecting it a of these or even deuce microscopic "funny" in the day-to-day basis.
Language
Terms invented by Adams inside relation to the strip, & periodically utilized by fans within describing their have professional environments, include "Induhvidual." This term is according to an American English expression "duh!". A conscious misspelling of human when induhvidual occurs as dislogistic term for humans world health organization are non in the DNRC (Dogbert's New Ruling Class). Its coining is explained inside [http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/dnrc/html/newsletter06.html Dilbert Newsletter #6].
A strip has likewise popularized a usage of the terms "cow-orker" and PHB. A word "frooglepoopillion" is currently now and again wont to describe an extremely heavy total, fallowing a strip which revealed that a company for which Dilbert worked undischarged such money that there is no title existed to describe a total, and so the marketing department was promptly placed to operate on that, coining "frooglepoopillion".
A bit of fans use at times utilized "Dilbertian" to analogize situations within realistic to people in the comic strip.
Management
Inside 1997 Scott Adams masqueraded as a management advisor to Logitech executives (as Ray Mebert), by having a cooperation of the company's vice-chairman. He acted around lot a way he portrays management advisor in the comic strip, using an self-important manner & freaky suggestions, like comparing mission statements to broccoli soup. He convinced a executives to replenish their existent mission statement for their Up to date Ventures Class action, "to provide Logitech with profitable growth and related new business areas", by having "to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings".
Sequentially to demonstrate what may be achieved sustaining a virtually all mundane objects whenever plotted aright & imaginatively, Adams has worked by owning corporations to acquire "dream" products for Dilbert & company. Around 2001 he collaborated by owning IDEO, a project company, to are higher by having a "perfect cubicle", the fitting creation since several of the Dilbert strips ridicule of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates. A symptom was two capricious & practical.
This plan was followed around 2004 by using designs for Dilbert's Ultimate Home (abbreviated when DUH). An energy-effective building resulted, intentional to cease numerous of the little niggles which seem to creep into the normal building. For example, to spare instance from either with to acquire & decorate the Christmas tree every year, a home has a prominent however inapparent closet adjacent to the front room in which the tree may be stored for afterwards holiday seasons.
Media
Compilations of newspaper strips
Universally Postpone Meetings by owning Instance-Wasting Retard — April 16, 1989 (first strip) to October 21, 1989
Shave a Whales — October 22, 1989 to August 4, 1990
Bring Maine a Head of Willy a Mailboy! — August 5, 1990 to May 18, 1991
''It's Conspicuous Busy people Won't Subsist By Your systems Wits Alone — May 19, 1991 to December 13, 1992
However Pumped from either Using the Mouse — December 14, 1992 to September 27, 1993
Fugitive From either a Cubicle Police — September 28, 1993 to February 11, 1995
Casual Day Has No more As well Far — February 5, 1995 to November 19, 1995
We'thousand Does'nt AntI personally-Business, I'1000 Anti-Idiot — November 20, 1995 to August 31, 1996
Journey to Cubeville — September 1, 1996 to January 18, 1998
Don't Step in the Leadership — January 12, 1998 to October 18, 1998
Random Acts of Management — October 19, 1998 to July 25, 1999
Excuse Pine tree state When We Wag — July 26, 1999 to April 30, 2000
Whilst Did Ignorance Get The Point Of Learn from? — May 1, 2000 to February 4, 2001
An additional Day Around Cubicle Paradise — February 5, 2001 to November 11, 2001
After Person Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 2002
Words Wise shoppers Don't Obviously Hear When you took Your systems Annual Performance View — August 19, 2002 to May 25, 2003
Don't Could have In which a Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 2004
A Fluorescent Weak Glistens Off Your systems Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 2004
Special compilations
Telling It Prefer It Isn't — 1996; ISBN 0-8362-1324-6
Operate occurs as Email Sport — 1997; ISBN 0-8362-2878-2
Seven Years of Extremely Defective Population: Scott Adams' Guided Tour of the Evolution of Dilbert — 1997; A attach to bag of strips from either 1989 to 1995, with handwritten notes by Scott Adams
Random Acts of Catness — 1998; ISBN 0-8362-5277-2
Operate—A Wally Way — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7480-6
Alice within Blunderland — 1999; ISBN 0-8362-7479-2
Dilbert Gives We a Business — 1999
The Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 — 1999; Colour version of 100% Sunday strips published within newspapers from either 1995 across 1999 (average compilations use black and white Sunday strips)
What Do You Call for The Sociopath Around The Cubicle? Guide: The Coworker — The compilation of pick out comic strips from either 1989 to 2001
It's Does'nt Funny Whenever We've To Teach you It'' — 2004; An additional attach to bag of strips from either 1997-2004, sustaining Adams' handwritten notes, again
Related Merchandise
Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997; A Dilbert-branded cards similar to Wizard of the Coast's A Peachy Dalmuti & a ingesting stake President
Business books
Build the Better Life by Stealing Professional The diapers — 1991; Original cartoons using Dogbert as a remedy to the business world
''Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless — 1993; Original cartoons sustaining satiric advice in life
Dogbert's Top-Secret Management Handbook — 1996
The Dilbert Principle — April 1996
The Dilbert Future — May 1997
The Joy of Work — 1998
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel — October 2002
Non-Dilbert:
God's Debris — May, 2001
The Religion War — Sequel to God's Debris''
Animated series episode guide
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