Dilbert cartoon first published on Sunday 23rd July 2000

Dilbert//4117, first published 26 years ago on Sunday 23rd July 2000

Tags

baby cio meeting diapers nature calls big words very advanced baby infany genius smart talks business

Open source transcript

HAVE YOU MET THE NEW CIO?

I HEAR HE'S YOUNG.

HELLO.

WE NEED TO INTEGRATE OUR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING WITH OUR EXISTING E-COMMERCE PLATFORM.

NOW IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME, NATURE CALLS.

. .

THEN WE'LL DECENTRALIZE THE PROCUREMENT FUNCTION AND HOLD ON A SECOND.

GRAMPS, COULD YOU DO ME A HUGE FAVOR?

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Comic Strip Title: "Meet the New CIO"

Summary:

The comic strip depicts a meeting between the new CIO and the company's employees. The new CIO is introduced, but the employees are unimpressed, with one employee saying, "I hear he's young." Another employee responds, "Now if you'll excuse me, nature calls," and leaves the room.

The remaining employees discuss the need to integrate the enterprise resource planning with the existing e-commerce platform. One employee suggests decentralizing the procurement function, which another employee agrees with. The new CIO then asks if anyone could do him a huge favor, and an employee responds, "Gramps, could you do me a huge favor?" The new CIO is confused, and the employee explains that he wants to be called "Gramps" instead of "Dilbert."

The comic strip pokes fun at the idea of a new CIO trying to fit in with the company culture, but ultimately being met with resistance and confusion. The use of humor and satire highlights the challenges of integrating new technology and personnel into an existing organization.

generated by llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

Accompanying textual content, such as title, tags and transcripts, is shown here if we have it. Not every comic has all of these, and they seem to be a bit hit and miss even on the official website.