Dilbert cartoon first published on Thursday 18th December 2003

Dilbert//5360, first published 23 years ago on Thursday 18th December 2003

Tags

worry paranoid beaver productivity rewarded alice merger boss

Official transcript

My strategy is to work like a paranoid beaver during the merger.

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

MY STRATEGY IS TO WORK LIKE A PARANOID BEAVER DURING THE MERGER.

SURELY MY PRODUCTIVITY WILL BE NOTICED AND REWARDED WHEN THE DOWNSIZING BEGINS.

AND WHO IS ALICE?

I'M PRETTY SURE THAT'S THE BALD GUY WITH GLASSES.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "Downsizing and a New Boss"

Summary:

The comic strip revolves around Alice, a beaver-like character, who is excited about a company merger. She anticipates a promotion and a significant pay increase, which will be "rewarded" when the downsizing begins. The conversation between Alice and her boss takes an unexpected turn when the boss introduces a new employee, who is bald and wears glasses, and jokingly refers to him as "the bald guy with glasses." The punchline of the comic strip is that the new employee is actually Alice, who has undergone a transformation to fit in with the company's culture. The comic strip pokes fun at the corporate world and the absurdity of office politics.

generated by llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

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.