Post #1562420
2026-01-13 19:36 UTC
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@ridetheory@mastodon.social 2026-01-13 20:13
(OOPS: I wrote this on LibreOffice, and missed a paragraph when cutting/pasting to Mastodon... here it is...) If anyone had ever pinned up a Mutts strip or Zippy the Pinhead or Nancy, I would have wanted to hang out with them in the lunchroom. Even Tumbleweeds might have been a welcome change. Sadly, it was almost always fuckin’ #Dilbert, all the way down. 10/9
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@BillySmith@social.coop 2026-01-13 20:07
@ridetheory I remember reading Dilbert when I was at Uni in the late 1990's. After I did one internship, I realised how true-to-life some of his observations were, and decided that corporate life was not for me. :D I stopped reading Adams after he outed himself, but this Chrimbo, my partner gave me a Dilbert calendar, as it had been recommended by Amazon as a gift for me. The latest cartoons were even worse than I had realised. Just right-wing talking points raised as humour... :|
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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2026-01-13 22:43
@ridetheory This is not quite the same (and I enjoyed your story) but I work in libraries; one of the questions I would always ask at a job interview or before a consulting gig was "How does your library get along with IT?" Innocuous, but it was a often shortcut to figuring out if a library was tech-backwards or not. Like if they said "UGH THEY MADE US GET WINDOWS 11" (in 2025) that was a signal. Obvs some IT folks might be rude/bad but mostly they're trying to get work done, same as librarians