Dilbert cartoon first published on Tuesday 14th April 2015

Dilbert//9495, first published 11 years ago on Tuesday 14th April 2015

Wally's Many Patents

Tags

accomplishments, deception, work ethic, patent, inventions

Official transcript

Dilbert Comic Strip Series - Wally Invents the two-handled coffee mug

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

ON YOUR LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS, YOU SAY YOU FILED SEVENTEEN PATENTS FOR THE COMPANY THIS MONTH.

I DID. HERE'S THE DOCUMENTATION ON EACH OF THEM.

HMM...

IT WILL BE THREE YEARS BEFORE I KNOW IF THESE ARE ACCEPTED.

UNTIL THEN, LET'S PLAY IT SAFE AND ASSUME I'M AWESOME.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "Patent Proliferation"

Summary:

The comic strip depicts a conversation between two office workers, where one employee boasts about filing seventeen patents for the company in the past month. The other employee is skeptical and asks to see the documentation for each patent. The first employee responds that it will take three years to play it safe and assume they are all accepted.

Key Points:

• The first employee exaggerates their achievements, claiming to have filed seventeen patents.
• The second employee is skeptical and requests documentation for each patent.
• The first employee delays providing documentation, citing a three-year waiting period to assume acceptance.
• The comic strip pokes fun at the tendency to exaggerate achievements and the lack of accountability in the workplace.

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