Dilbert comic strip for 12/26/2010 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

Today's Dilbert is a cautionary tale to those of you that are either brand new to the work force, or are about to finish school and getting ready to join the working world: things don't make a lot of sense.

Yup. And believe it or not, this comic in particular is probably a word-by-word rehash of a real life conversation. I know because it has happened to me, even at my current job. The only relief is that none of my coworkers do this, but our customers do it all the time: they send you an email, then call you and/or leave a voice mail about it. And it doesn't click on them that if they send the email, and then call, it means you have to stop reading the tl;dr email to talk to them, which means you are not spending your time fixing whatever it is they want to complain about.

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On sleep deprivation and Incan Monkey Gods

From: Dilbert comic strip for 08/03/1992 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. I was trying to show this strip to a coworker who is dangerously toying with the harsh mistress that is Insomnia. What shocked me is how quickly I was able to look up the strip, which was published when he was just 11 years old, and two weeks before my just-out-of-college ass shipped out to US Army Basic Training.

The Black Hole

If this was a minigolf hole, you can't reach B from A. Ever. If this was a room lined with mirrors, and you lit a candle at point A, you can't see it from B, not even reflected. Update: I guess I didn't explain this all the way through. You can't reach B from A with just one stroke, there's no direct line between them, and there is no way to bounce the ball (assuming perfect conditions). Thanks to Ben for pointing this obvious error.

The Insomniac Coder

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