[932] in Humor
HUMOR NEWS: Dilbert creator ousted from Pac Bell...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Jun 15 15:29:17 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:24:59 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 22:01:24 -0700
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
>From: "Jim Pellmann" <jgp@Rational.COM>
>From: nmaclean@news.holonet.net (Neil MacLean)
>Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
>Subject: Dilbert: No longer working
>Date: 13 Jun 1995 06:47:19 GMT
>
>Today was Scott Adams's last day at Pacific Bell. As many of you know,
>Scott Adams - the creator and author of the popular Dilbert cartoon - had
>a regular job like the rest of us in the ISDN lab at Pacific Bell as well as
>maintaining their bulletin board (or used to). It seems the management
>types at Pacific Bell decided to deliver an ultimatum that Mr. Adams pay
>more attention to his work at Pacific Bell or make a decision between it
>and the art work. Good for Mr. Adams that he took the "or else" route.
>Good for him, unfortunate for us.
>
>For those of us in the business, it is great fun to open up the comics and
>draw a smirk from some ludicrous situation that we have dealt with in our
>professional lives in the communication business or more generally
>corporate life itself. My personal favorite was when Dilbert was
>explaining what he did at a really big company, troubleshooting a TCP/IP
>user connecting via ISDN and his mother saying something to the effect of,
>"Oh, you mean you hook up a protocol analyzer and look for bad packets?"
>
>It would seem that Pacific Bell realized tremendous publicity from the
>fact that such a visible character in the modern office environment drew
>inspiration from a regular office. It might also have been too much that
>it was so widely associated with Pacific Bell.
>
>I wish Mr. Adams the best of luck, though he hardly needs to work for the
>Phone Company at this point. I'm sure there are many stories stored in
>the backlog to draw from, not to mention the hundreds of E-Mail messages
>he must receive.
>
>Good Luck!!!
>
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