Another Day in Cubicle Paradise: A Dilbert Book
Author: Scott Adams
Date: 2002-03-02 05:00:00+00:00
Keywords: Humor; Comics; Fiction; Comic Strips; Comedy; Graphic Novels; Graphic Novels Comics; Sequential Art; Cartoon; Business
Description: When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar. Since then, Dilbert has become more than a cartoon character. He's become an office icon. In Another Day in Cubicle Paradise, Dilbert and his cohorts, Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, and the pointy-haired boss, once again entertain with their cubicle humor. From bizarre personnel decisions to meetings gone bad, from schizoid secretaries to consultants
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Rights: 123

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Introduction

Someone wise once said (Okay, it was me, about a minute ago), "Never sit for eight hours a day in a fabric-covered box that someone else paid for." And then it hit me. I finally figured out what's wrong with the whole cubicle concept: Communism.

That's right; cubicles are a form of communism. Think about it. You don't own your cubicle—the "state" does. Well, technically your stockholders own the cubicle, not the state, but it's the same problem. Because the people who pay for your cubicle don't have to sit in it, there's no incentive for cubicles to be all that they can be. It's no wonder they're bleak and dingy.

Maybe it's time to lift the yoke of communism from the oppressed cubicle masses. I say every employee should own his or her cubicle and take it along to every new assignment. The cubicle of the future would be modular so you can easily relocate it and customize it to taste. Sure, this new system would introduce some annoying eccentricities into the system. Every person would have a different idea of what the perfect cubicle should be. Your neighbors might have low-rider cubicles and Barbie-themed cubicles and maybe the clothing-optional, disco cubicles. But that's a small price to pay for the freedom to customize your own workspace.

I would decorate my cubicle like the inside of a womb, except with better electronic gadgetry. I wouldn't need a chair. I'd just curl up in a fetal position near my keyboard. When you're in a womb, it feels as if your life is full of possibilities and all of them are ahead of you. You feel warm and fed and loved. And I think I'd put censors at the doorway (the design of which I shall not describe), so that when I left my womb-cube a motherly voice would scream as if giving birth. It might annoy my cubicle neighbors, but we can take that up at the next meeting of the Cube-Owners Association.

Scott Adams

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ISBN: 0-8362-2899-5

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ISBN: 0-8362-2119-2

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Another Day in Cubicle Paradise copyright © 2002 by Scott Adams, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may beused or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.For information write Andrews McMeel Publishing, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City,Missouri 64106.

E-ISBN: 978-1-4494-2428-2

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001096361

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Table of Contents

- Title
- Introduction
- Another Day in Cubicle Paradise
- Copyright