See also: Dilbert (homonymy)
Dilbert is a American Cartoon satirical (a Comic ) which puts in scene the world of the Entreprise through the main character, Dilbert, an engineer data processing specialist.
This cartoon, created by Scott Adams, appears in the newspapers since 1989. In also rise several books, a televised series and many derivative products.
Principle
The success of Dilbert is due to its precise description of the world of the company, depicts by the author like a bureaucratic world kafkaïen. The chief has the capacity, but not competences and the employees are qualified, but do not have any capacity. This famous world, the Principle of Dilbert, worsened version of the principle of Peter, who states himself as follows: “The most inefficient people are systematically assigned to the stations where they are likely to cause less damage: those of managers. ”
The chiefs (the Boss with Head of Pickaxe, without name, like Catbert, personnel manager) are despotic, permanently employ a vocabulary which they do not control (inter alia the word Paradigm ), naively try to hide it or cynically do not do anything to hide it. The advisers (Dogbert) are machiavelic and interested. The colleagues are lazy (Richard), naive (Asok) or not very co-operative (Alice). The trainees and frees-lance are exploited under the amused glance of the regular employees. The people receiving benefits are very far and completely inefficient (Zalbanais).
Very employed of a large company finds with recreation and consternation of many aspects of its life of office in the series Dilbert.
The environment of Dilbert is the narrow framework of an open-plan office to American, decorated memorandums, of stressed egg cranium having lost any contact with reality, of whims of chiefs, skidding projects completely, even being able to go until seriously threatening the physical integrity of the final customers.
The observation and the analysis are so fine that one could go until using the drawings of Dilbert to illustrate true courses of management. It is besides under this angle of managerial handbook that arise the majority of the albums. Moreover, they are presented like drawn from actual facts, resulting from a vast spontaneous correspondence, sent by e-mail by many fans in the world.
The style of Scott Adams is a humor cold, elliptic, very characterized by a great saving in means at the graphic level and words. Understatement, Implied and Private joke, which makes laugh only initiates, is at the base of this very special form of humor, which can take difficult and a long time to explain to whoever does not know well the universe of the clerical work.
Cousins
A caustic precursor and more débonnaire had preceded it in the kind: the British draftsman Frank Dickens and its employee resigned Bristow . A picturesque French alternative is that of the Cybériens of François Cointe in Le Monde Informatique . Also let us quote the Boss of Bercovici, as inefficient as a boss dilbertien, even if technology has there a role more restricted.
See too
Related article
- Dilbert : televised series of animation
External bond
- Official site of Dilbert
- Homage of Google to Dilbert
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