Dilbert cartoon first published on Thursday 9th October 2003

Dilbert//5290, first published 23 years ago on Thursday 9th October 2003

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management retreat hawaii how many employees down size pay of trip against helicopter ride

Official transcript

"The management retreat in Hawaii was productive."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

THE MANAGEMENT RETREAT IN HAWAII WAS PRODUCTIVE.

WE CALCULATED HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WE NEEDED TO DOWNSIZE TO PAY FOR THE TRIP.

DON'T BLAME ME, TED.

I VOTED AGAINST THE THIRD HELICOPTER RIDE.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "The Management Retreat"

Summary:

• The comic strip depicts a meeting of executives, where one executive suggests a management retreat in Hawaii.
• Another executive calculates that the number of employees required to justify the cost of the trip is down to a single person.
• A third executive votes against the trip, citing the cost of helicopter rides.
• The first executive responds by blaming the third executive for the vote, implying that the third executive is responsible for the decision.
• The comic strip satirizes the idea that management retreats are often used as an excuse for expensive trips, and that executives may use their positions of power to justify unnecessary expenses.

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