On 2/27/2023 4:43 PM, David Haldane wrote:
> On Thursday, August 10, 1995 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, Colin Campbell wrote:
>> San Jose Mercury News, August 9:
>> CREATOR OF SATIRICAL 'DILBERT' DISCONNECTED BY PAC BELL
>> Irreverent comic strip chronicles misadventures in workplace
>> BERKELEY (AP) Scott Adams, creator of the irreverent workplace comic
>> strip "Dilbert," has lost his day job.
>> Adams said Tuesday he and Pacific Bell parted company June 30.
>> "They asked me to leave, and I did," he said simply.
>> Pacific Bell officials did not return a call seeking comment.
>> The cartoonist said he was told that he was being let go because of
>> budget constraints. He does not know whether his strip satirizing
>> management idiosyncrasies--and idiocies--played a role.
>> "I can't read minds, so your guess is as good as mine--why would I doubt
>> them?" he said in a phone interview from his home in Dublin.
>> Still, he said his role as management gadfly can't be discounted as a
>> factor.
>> Adams' daily comic strip chronicles long-suffering Dilbert's
>> misadventures at the hands of witless supervisors, experiences that have
>> struck a chord with many a cubicle-dweller.
>> Adams, who communicates with readers via electronic mail, says he
>> receives hundreds of missives from disgruntled workers, many of which
>> provide fodder for the strip.
>> In December, Adams did an e-mail survey of "The Top Tenn Most Irritating
>> Business Trends of 1994." Working with and for dummies were the top two.
>> An applications engineer, Adams had worked for Pacific Bell for nine
>> years. "Dilbert" premiered in 1989.
>> Adams had worked for a boss who thought Dilbert was funny, but he
>> recently got a new supervisor, one who came in at a time when money was
>> tight.
>> Adams said losing the job won't close his window on the workplace.
>> "I really hadn't used Pacific Bell as a source for a couple of years," he
>> said. "I get almost all of my inspiration from the Internet."
>> But, even though he said Dilbert now appears in about 500
>> newspapers,there was some separation anxiety for a man who had earned a
>> regular paycheck "probably since I was 16."
>> So will Dilbert suffer the same corporate karma as his creator?
>> "I can't rule that out," Adams said.
>> Despite the awkwardness of being given the push, Adams said the parting
>> was civil.
>> "The only issue was that my boss pleaded with me not to introduce a
>> character with a beard," he said.
>> Fat chance.
>> "I'm working on it," Adams said.
>
>
> Per his tweet today, he was fired for being racist. https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1630186244327227393

Not the most necro reply that I have seen but, definitely up in the top ten.

Lynn