Dilbert cartoon first published on Sunday 28th February 2021

Dilbert//11642, first published five years ago on Sunday 28th February 2021

Destroy The Competition

Tags

business, technology, destroy, competition, approve, violence, figure of speech, engineers, literal, competitors, beat, sticks, sarcasm, incite, figurative, speech

Official transcript

boss: we need to destroy our competition!

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

WE NEED TO DESTROY OUR COMPETITION!

I DON'T APPROVE OF VIOLENCE.

I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT VIOLENCE.

YOU SAID "DESTROY" THEM. I DON'T SEE HOW THAT COULD MEAN ANYTHING ELSE.

IT WAS JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

WE'RE ENGINEERS!

YOU CAN'T USE FIGURATIVE SPEECH WITH US. WE TAKE THINGS LITERALLY SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS IT YOU WANT US TO DO WITH OUR COMPETITORS?

BEAT THEM!

WITH STICKS?

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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