[southernindymom]

I never understood Dilbert. My husband loved the cartoon, I just thought it made no sense, which maybe was the whole point. Big business and no point in the methods to their madness.

[Kaslin]

I don’t care for it either. The old cartoons, like Beetle Baily for example were much funnier. Just like the former comedians were funnier unlike those idiots they have now.

[wally_bert]

Dilbert is almost daily reading.

The strip lost something when the suits went away.

[Sooner Gal]

I worked in corporate America for 34 years, and found Dilbert cartoons hilarious because they were so spot on with my experience. In fact, there were times I’d swear he worked for my company.

[IAGeezer912]

I never understood Dilbert. My husband loved the cartoon, I just thought it made no sense, which maybe was the whole point. Big business and no point in the methods to their madness.

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I was an engineer for 35 years in a major, well known equipment manufacturer. The Dilbert cartoons unfortunatly were based upon real world situations which made them funny as hell to me. Especially Dilberts boss. People are often promoted to their level of incompetence. The stories I could tell.

[C210N]

I never understood Dilbert... I just thought it made no sense, which maybe was the whole point

Would you agree to participate in an experiment? If so, see below... is it funny? This recently-relevant but very old Dilbert captures the humor fairly well, IMHO.

[Kommodor]

If you didn’t understand Dilbert, you’ve never been in big business. Dilbert is satire that hits too close to home. Every office has a Wally, and at least one pointy haired boss. There are such things as pointless meetings and ‘productivity’ measures that are anti-productive.

You look at a Dilbert cartoon and see something which makes absolutely no sense.

We look at a Dilbert cartoon and see something that just happened yesterday, or last week, or (you get the idea).

[MarkL]

I've enjoyed Dilbert, partly from working in a large company, partly for working in IT, where you need to explain to people (like managers and execs) why it is you're doing things that you understand, have no idea what it is you're talking about.

Back in the day (late 1980s,) I used to teach network administration, and every Friday (casual Friday) when I was teaching, I'd wear my "Dilbert Tie," which always got a great reply from my students... It had the same pattern, and a wire inside it that allowed it to stand-off at an angle.

Mark

[pepsi_junkie]

Dilbert's humor works for lots of people because corporate groupthink is so strong. I mean that all corporations follow the same dumb trends at the same time. So when Adams writes a strip lampooning some stupid new training everyone has to take everybody who works in a large bureaucratic company thinks 'holy cow, he must work in my building! I had that training yesterday'. I work in such a company and I work with people in many other similar companies and everybody thinks Dilbert is making fun of their specific company, it's that dead on. But it turns out all such companies are the same.

Of course if you don't work in a large bureaucratic company than I can see how it falls flat. It's pretty targetted to a specific subset of people, albeit a very large subset.