Like the author I was fortunate enough to be exposed to Dilbert as a teenager, before I got caught up in the rush of the university-professional-yuppie-industrial-complex.

I found the Dilbert principle book in my parents downstairs cloakroom (wedged between magazines and other generic bathroom reading material).

At a superficial level I just read the comic strips in the book and laughed, I thought to myself - haha look at those poor corporate workers, that won't happen to me.

In a way it didn't happen to me vis-a-vis cubicles, suits and water cooler gossip, TPS reports etc.

However, in other ways it did happen to me, the frustrations of working with incompetent people, working in teams who brainwash themselves that they are making something useful or being productive, hilarious executive decisions made without any scientific or rational thought. (startup - https://youtu.be/iwan0xJ_irU)

I still like to add Dilbert comic strips to closing slides in presentations, my go to one is this, when we are discussing new technologies to use.

https://tenor.com/nJfQSXLP8am.gif

We are in the Dilbert universe, it just keeps changing

p.s. if anyone is looking for Saturday TV binge material, all of the Dilbert TV show is on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7dgUq5Qe4