Dilbert cartoon first published on Friday 1st December 2000

Dilbert//4248, first published 26 years ago on Friday 1st December 2000

Tags

know first aid marketing picked intern engineering dead pool team building pot luck lunch business

Official transcript

Asok the Intern is lying on the floor with his legs sticking straight up in the air. Dilbert says to Wally, Alice and The Boss, "I'll see if the guys in marketing know First Aid."

Ted says to Dilbert, "Really? I picked that intern in our engineering dead pool!"

Dilbert says to Wally and Alice as Asok continues lying on the floor, "Apparently our team-building potluck lunch didn't take."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

I'LL SEE IF THE GUYS IN MARKETING KNOW FIRST AID.

REALLY? I PICKED THAT INTERN IN OUR ENGINEERING DEAD POOL!

APPARENTLY OUR TEAM-BUILDING POTLUCK LUNCH DIDN'T TAKE.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

The title of this comic strip is "Engineering Dead Pool".

Summary:

The comic strip depicts a scene in an office where employees are discussing who will pick the intern for the engineering department. The boss asks if anyone knows first aid, and one employee suggests picking the intern from the engineering department, as they are likely to be dead soon anyway. The boss is shocked by this suggestion and asks if the team-building potluck lunch didn't take. The employees are confused and try to figure out what happened to the intern. The comic strip pokes fun at the idea that engineers are often seen as being "dead" or uninterested in social events, and the humor comes from the unexpected twist on the typical team-building activity.

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