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TYPE_FASTERtoday at 3:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

There was a super weird alignment at a previous job where the appearances, personalities, and seniority/rank of some of my co-workers matched characters in Dilbert to the T. It was really funny and almost eerie, like Scott Adams was hiding in a cube taking notes.


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aleccotoday at 6:49 PM

Once, for a whole week, every Dilbert cartoon matched something that happened in our office of ~50 people the day before. People started getting freaked out like we were in the Matrix or someone was feeding it to Adams.

ghafftoday at 4:22 PM

The VP who "raises issues" reminded me perfectly of someone at a prior workplace.

kristianbrigmantoday at 3:58 PM

IIRC he did get a lot of ideas from fans talking about their own workplaces …