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Dilbert
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n. Name and title character of a comic strip nationally syndicated in the
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U.S. and enormously popular among hackers. is an archetypical engineer-nerd
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who works at an anonymous high-technology company; the strips present a
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lacerating satire of insane working conditions and idiotic management
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practices all too readily recognized by hackers. Adams, who spent nine years
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in cube 4S700R at Pacific Bell (not DEC as often reported), often remarks
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that he has never been able to come up with a fictional management blunder
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that his correspondents didn't quickly either report to have actually
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happened or top with a similar but even more bizarre incident. In 1996 Adams
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distilled his insights into the collective psychology of businesses into an
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even funnier book, The Principle (HarperCollins, ISBN 0-887-30787-6). See
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also pointy-haired , rat dance.
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