Dilbert cartoon first published on Friday 13th April 2001

Dilbert//4381, first published 25 years ago on Friday 13th April 2001

Tags

tight labor market complicated tasks harder jobs dumb employees

Official transcript

Dilbert is pointing to a graphic of a person being squeezed in a vise. Dilbert says, "Due to a tight labor market and increasingly complicated tasks.."

Dilbert continues, "Harder and harder jobs will be staffed with dumber and dumber employees until the logical limit:"

As a table to zombie like employees stare, Dilbert says, "This meeting."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

DUE TO A TIGHT LABOR MARKET AND INCREASINGLY COMPLICATED TASKS.

AATEE!

HARDER AND HARDER JOBS WILL BE STAFFED WITH DUMBER AND DUMBER EMPLOYEES UNTIL THE LOGICAL LIMIT: THIS MEETING.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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