Dilbert cartoon first published on Sunday 23rd August 2020

Dilbert//11453, first published six years ago on Sunday 23rd August 2020

Ratio Is Too High

Tags

managers & supervisors, expense, budget, capital, ratio, too high, afford, standards, historical, irrelevant, manage, department

Official transcript

boss: we need to reduce our expense budget to 40% of our capital budget.

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

WE NEED TO REDUCE OUR EXPENSE BUDGET TO 40% OF OUR CAPITAL BUDGET.

WHY DO WE NEED TO DO THAT?

BECAUSE THE RATIO IS TOO HIGH.

ARE YOU SAYING WE CAN'T AFFORD IT?

NO. I'M SAYING THE RATIO IS TOO HIGH.

OKAY, BUT BY WHAT STANDARD IS IT "TOO HIGH"?

BY HISTORICAL STANDARDS. IT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS HIGH.

I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO START USING AN IRRELEVANT RATIO TO MANAGE THE DEPARTMENT.

TO BE FAIR, THIS IS JUST THE FIRST TIME YOU NOTICED.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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