Dilbert cartoon first published on Sunday 16th February 2003

Dilbert//5055, first published 23 years ago on Sunday 16th February 2003

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numbing cubicle emplyess been numbs pain of working quite beautiful happy place

Official transcript

Dilbert enters Wally's cubicle and asks, "Do you want to watch a numbing?"

Wally responds, "You know I do!"

Dilbert and Wally are walking. Wally asks, "Where is it?"

Dilbert responds, "Cubicle 15950."

Alice comes out of her cubicle and asks, "Are you going to the numbing?"

Wally responds, "You know we are!"

Wally, Alice, and Dilbert approach Asok. Asok asks, "What is a numbing?"

Wally responds, "It's the moment that an employee's brain numbs to the pain of working here."

Wally says, "It's actually quite beautiful."

Dilbert adds, "No two are alike."

A coworker sits at his computer. He exclaims, "I can't take this anymore!! Gaa!! Gaa!!"

He pauses and then says, "Ooh."

He takes another pause and then asks, "What the...?"

The coworker is stiff with his arms out. Wally, Alice, Dilbert, and Asok watch from over the cubicle wall. Asok looks horrified. Dilbert says, "It's okay - he's in a happy place now."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

DO YOU WANT TO WATCH A NUMBING?

YOU KNOW I DO!

WHERE IS IT?

CUBICLE 15950.

ARE YOU GOING TO THE NUMBING?

YOU KNOW WE ARE!

WHAT IS A NUMBING?

IT'S THE MOMENT THAT AN EMPLOYEE'S BRAIN NUMBS TO THE PAIN OF WORKING HERE.

IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE BEAUTIFUL.

NO TWO ARE ALIKE.

I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!

GAA!! GAA!!

OOH WHAT THE.?

IT'S OKAY - HE'S IN A HAPPY PLACE NOW.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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