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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dilbert</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dike.html" title="dike"/><link rel="next" href="ding.html" title="ding"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dilbert</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dike.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ding.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dilbert"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dilbert"><b>Dilbert</b></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> Name and title character of a
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comic strip nationally syndicated in the U.S. and enormously popular among
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hackers. Dilbert is an archetypical engineer-nerd who works at an
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anonymous high-technology company; the strips present a lacerating satire
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of insane working conditions and idiotic <a href="../M/management.html"><i class="glossterm">management</i></a>
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practices all too readily recognized by hackers. Adams, who spent nine
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years in <a href="../C/cube.html"><i class="glossterm">cube</i></a> 4S700R at Pacific Bell (not
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<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> as often reported), often remarks that he has
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never been able to come up with a fictional management blunder that his
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correspondents didn't quickly either report to have actually happened or
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top with a similar but even more bizarre incident. In 1996 Adams distilled
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his insights into the collective psychology of businesses into an even
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funnier book, <i class="citetitle">The Dilbert Principle</i> (HarperCollins,
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ISBN 0-887-30787-6). See also <a href="../P/pointy-haired.html"><i class="glossterm">pointy-haired</i></a>,
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<a href="../R/rat-dance.html"><i class="glossterm">rat dance</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dike.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ding.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dike </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ding</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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