Hows That Underling Thing Working Out for You?

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For more than 20 years, Scott Adams's Dilbert has chronicled the problem-filled work world of pointless projects, questionable employment practices, and interoffice politics that eerily resemble our own 9-to-5 cubicle existence.

In How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You?, Adams takes on the challenges of Elbonian sensitivity training, employee satisfaction surveys, confusopoly consultants, and more inside this new Dilbert book.

If you agree that every indeterminable project has to have at least one WDG (Worthless Dumb Guy), or are subjected to results-free sensitivity training, questionable employee surveys, and freelance consultants that seem to offer little more than exorbitant invoices, then chances are you find the corporate cubicle culture philosophy represented inside How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? alive and well inside your own work environment--and that's exactly what makes Dilbert one of the most successful and popular comic strips of all time.

From Dogbert's invention of a beheading app to Dilbert's PowerPoint presentation that proves two monkeys could lead better than current management, How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? chronicles corporate cubicle culture questionable training seminars and employee satisfaction surveys, along with made-up consultancies one Dilbert strip at a time.

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It's a fun compilation to (re-)read..., December 24, 2011

Thomas Duff "Duffbert" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? (Dilbert) (Paperback)

There's really not a whole lot you can say about a Dilbert compilation. The latest installment, How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? by Scott Adams covers the comic strips from May 3rd, 2010 through February 12th, 2011. If you're used to seeing the strip in the newspaper, it's a bonus to get the full-color versions here. As a regular reader, I've seen the material before, but it's fun to re-read as various strips take on different meanings based on your day-to-day work experiences. For example, January 17th's strip has the pointy-haired boss say "I have a GREAT idea! Why don't we make our product social?" Dilbert responds with "Because when YOU start to understand a concept, it marks the beginning of its decline." Given the latest emphasis on vendors trying to rebrand everything as "social", this strip is funnier now than it probably was to me back then. :)

Nothing much more to add here. You know what you're getting with a compilation, and if you like them,...Read more

gift for father, April 26, 2012

Jeremy Moss - See all my reviews

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i love dilbert, he has an amazing ability to inject humor into the mundane. This was a great buy and arrived on time and in great condition.

Struck me as unusually entertaining, January 19, 2012

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Five stars within category of "collection of daily newspaper comics". Not to be confused with great literature stars!

Two reasons:

1. Unlike many comic collections this gives us the daily (non-Sunday) strips in color. It does add to the enjoyment! (Of course the Sunday strips are there, too.)

2. For some reason I found this collection to be unusually relevant, consistently funny, with occasional bust-a-gut laughs.