Dilbert is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about office politics, and Tank McNamara often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter.

First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees ' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country in Dilbert.

" Xerox management had recognized what more gullible Dilbert readers did not: Dilbert is an offbeat sugary substance that helps the corporate medicine go down.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

The scene then cuts away to a parody of Dilbert, after which Peter remarks, " Well, sometimes the business world is funny.

Its coining is explained in Dilbert Newsletter # 6.

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

* The first corollary is that employees who are dedicated to their current jobs should not be promoted for their efforts ( as in The Dilbert Principle ), and instead should be rewarded with, say, a pay raise, while remaining in their current position.

Scott Raymond Adams ( born June 8, 1957 ) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

A second reference was made on the TV series, S1E7 " Little people ", in which Dilbert uses a Jefferies tube to get to the conference room where free food is waiting.

Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, is an MBA graduate ( U. C.

The Dilberito is a vegan microwave burrito produced by Scott Adams Foods, Inc. and named after the comic strip character Dilbert.

In the Dilbert strip of February 5, 1995 Dogbert says that " leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow ".

Adams then expanded his study of the Dilbert principle in a satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is required or recommended reading at some management and business programs.

In the book, Adams writes that, in terms of effectiveness, use of the Dilbert principle is akin to a band of gorillas choosing an alpha-squirrel to lead them.

The Dilbert principle is comparable to the Peter Principle.

The Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to " higher " positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder.

* June 8 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist ( Dilbert )

Long-running American comic strip Dilbert also frequently portrays sadistic HR policies through character Catbert, the " evil director of human resources ".

The comic strip originally revolved around Dilbert and his " pet " dog Dogbert in their home.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

In the late 1990s, an amateur cartoonist named Karl Hörnell began submitting a comic strip parodying both Dilbert and the Image Comics series The Savage Dragon to Dragon creator Erik Larsen.

The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of Adams ' cartooning style.

", commonly used in the IT industry, also originated in a Dilbert comic strip.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

In the Squiddy Awards, Dilbert was named the best daily strip of 1996 and 1997, and the best comic strip of 1998 and 2000.

The new Dilbert animations are animated versions of original comic strips produced by RingTales and animated by Powerhouse Animation Studios.

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

Alexander also voiced Catbert, the evil director of human resources, in the short-lived Dilbert animated series based on the popular comic strip.

Periodic attempts to win publication with Dilbert and non-Dilbert comic panels alike failed, including with The New Yorker and Playboy ( not necessarily with the same comics ).

After Griffith criticized Scott Adams ' comic Dilbert, Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.

Scott Adams has made references to Jefferies Tubes in his comic strip and animated television series Dilbert.

* Five Criteria for a successful business plan in biotech uses Dilbert comic strips to remind people of what not to do when researching and writing a business plan for a biotech start-up.

His book The Dilbert Principle – A Cubicle ’ s Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions discusses the foibles of management and their plans as depicted in the Dilbert comic strips by Scott Adams.

The Joy of Work ( 1998 ) by Scott Adams is a two-part book, the first offering recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second sharing Adams ' formula for creating humor, based on his experience penning the Dilbert comic strip.

* Confusopoly Pricing – Companies Intentionally Trick Consumers Instead of Competing with examples of Dilbert comic strips that exemplify the meaning of the word

* Topper, a minor character in the comic strip Dilbert

Some, such as Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, include an email address in each strip.

This dates from a strip from September 1992, in which Dilbert responds by saying " You had zeros?

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

An employee of seven years, David Steward then posted on an office bulletin board the October 26, 2007, Dilbert strip that compared management decisions to those of " drunken lemurs ".