Dilbert cartoon first published on Monday 5th December 2005

Dilbert//6078, first published 21 years ago on Monday 5th December 2005

Tags

cross charging freshly brewed coffee tempting pasteries time to project meeting wrong meeting mis placed business

Official transcript

Um...Why are you here? "Originally I was seduced by the smell of your freshly brewed coffee and tempting pastries."

"But now I'm all about cross-charging my time to your project."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

UM... WHY ARE YOU HERE?

ORIGINALLY I WAS SEDUCED BY THE SMELL OF YOUR FRESHLY BREWED COFFEE AND TEMPTING PASTRIES.

BUT NOW I'M ALL ABOUT CROSS- CHARGING MY TIME TO YOUR PROJECT.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "Coffee Break"

Summary:

The comic strip features a boss who is attempting to seduce an employee with freshly brewed coffee and pastries. The employee is uninterested and asks why the boss is there. The boss explains that he is there to charge his time to the project, implying that he is trying to justify his presence by working on the project. The employee is skeptical and unimpressed by the boss's attempt to justify his actions. The comic strip pokes fun at the common practice of managers trying to justify their time by working on projects, even when they are not actually contributing to the project's success.

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