Dilbert cartoon first published on Friday 12th September 2003

Dilbert//5263, first published 23 years ago on Friday 12th September 2003

Tags

slither away doomed project assistant teach you manager skin speaking metaphor

Official transcript

"You need to slither away from your doomed project before you get blamed."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

YOU NEED TO SLITHER AWAY FROM YOUR DOOMED PROJECT BEFORE YOU GET BLAMED.

MY ASSISTANT WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO SHED YOUR PROJECT MANAGER SKIN.

YELLO!

OW! OW!

OW! HOW'S THIS SO FAR?

IMPRESSIVE, BUT WE WERE SPEAKING METAPHORICALLY.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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.