Dilbert cartoon first published on Monday 29th September 2003

Dilbert//5280, first published 23 years ago on Monday 29th September 2003

Tags

no raise next year disincentivized moping around muscles weak motovation

Official transcript

"I can't give you the salary that you deserve because then there'd be no room for a raise next year."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE SALARY THAT YOU DESERVE BECAUSE THEN THERE'D BE NO ROOM FOR A RAISE NEXT YEAR.

I WOULDN'T WANT YOU TO BE ALL DISINCENTIVIZED, YOU KNOW, JUST MOPING AROUND.

NECK.

MUSCLES..

SO.

WEAK.

I THINK MOTIVATION CAUSES THAT.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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