Dilbert cartoon first published on Monday 15th July 2002

Dilbert//4839, first published 24 years ago on Monday 15th July 2002

Tags

30 thousand employees emails jokes per week file bankruptcy lost prodcutivity ten million holding employee responsible

Official transcript

Catbert says to Tina, "Tina, our records show that you forward an average of nineteen e-mail jokes per week."

Catbert continues, "Each joke goes to 30,000 employees, costing us ten million per year in lost productivity."

Catbert concludes, "We plan to blame you when we file for bankruptcy next week."

Tina is visibly worried.

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

TINA, OUR RECORDS SHOW THAT YOU FORWARD AN AVERAGE OF NINETEEN EMAIL JOKES PER WEEK.

EACH JOKE GOES TO 30,000 EMPLOYEES, COSTING US TEN MILLION PER YEAR IN LOST PRODUCTIVITY.

WE PLAN TO BLAME YOU WHEN WE FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY NEXT WEEK.

CLAD

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "The Cost of Humor"

Summary:

• The comic strip depicts Tina, the boss, reprimanding Dilbert for sending an average of 19 e-mail jokes per week.
• Each joke costs the company $10 million in lost productivity.
• Dilbert plans to blame Tina for filing for bankruptcy the following week.

Key Points:

• The comic highlights the absurdity of a company penalizing employees for humor.
• It satirizes the notion that humor can be a costly endeavor in a corporate setting.
• The strip showcases the creative and humorous approach of the "Dilbert" comic strip.

generated by llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

Accompanying textual content, such as title, tags and transcripts, is shown here if we have it. Not every comic has all of these, and they seem to be a bit hit and miss even on the official website.