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What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker (A Dilbert Treasury)

 
 
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What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker (A Dilbert Treasury)

"Once every decade, America is gifted with an angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-universe everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet. Charlie Chaplin. Dagwood Bumstead. Charlie Brown. Cathy. Now, Dilbert." --The Miami Herald

The former occupant of cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell seems to have made a go of this cartoon strip thing. What began as a doodling diversion that Scott Adams shared with his officemates has exploded into one of the most read cartoon strips worldwide.

This Dilbert treasury, What Do You Call a Sociopath in a Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker, brings together all of the office psychos who have annoyed Dilbert and entertained millions. This compilation pays homage to some of the most annoying and outrageous characters Adams' has ever drawn-characters he likes to call office "sociopaths."

* Edfred the two-faced man

* Anne L. Retentive

* Nervous Ted

* Loud Howard

* Alice and her fist of death

This full-color treasury reinforces everything that makes the strip great by lampooning the people and processes of business. Adams homes in on all the quirky coworkers that drive us crazy in the corporate world. He has fun at the expense of office oafs found in workplaces everywhere--creatures like the Office Sociopath, who listens to voice mail on his speaker phone, and the Exactly Man, who punctuates everything with a finger point, exclaiming "Exactly!" The result is a book that leaves readers knowingly rolling their eyes and, of course, laughing uproariously.

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Product Details:
Author: Scott Adams
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date: August 30, 2002
Language: English
ISBN: 0740726633
Package Length: 10.55 inches
Package Width: 8.5 inches
Package Height: 0.63 inches
Package Weight: 1.41 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 16 reviews
 
 

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3Funny, but no new material.  Jan 01, 2008
If you've been a fan of "Dilbert" from the beginning, (or have tracked down the old collections) there is nothing here that you haven't seen before (except that some of them may not have been color strips originally); this is a collection of reprints of old Dilbert strips; personally, I don't find an entire book of reruns worth paying for. On the other hand, for people who enjoy Dilbert, but AREN'T familiar with all the old strips, this should be a delightful way to catch up on the history of the strip.

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5What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? - A Coworker  Sep 14, 2005
Highly entertaining. Everyday frustrating events reduced to their truly accurate, but sad, essence. Drives home that everyone in the corporate world are in the same boat being guided by the unchallenging and inept.

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1Don't waste your money  Aug 01, 2005
Let me start off by saying that I love Dilbert and Scott Adams' work has made me laugh so hard that I have been reduced me to tears on occasion. That said, the only tears Dilbert fans will shed with this collection are tears of frustration. This book is an insult to Dilbert fans. All of this material has been published before. What's more it seems like they couldn't even bother to get an editor to look over this collection before sending it to the printer: some strips get printed twice in this volume. Scott Adams needs to apologize for foisting this collection on his fans.

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1This recycling is getting tiresome  Jan 21, 2004
Let's start this off by saying that I have always been a fan of Dilbert and it is one of the few comic strips I'll buy in collected form. That being said, the constant recycling of of material has hit a new low with this collection. Once again using previously collected material from 1989-2001, this collection does not even give the reader accompanying text from Adams, just a short intro that adds nothing to the reader's enjoyment. Are the "cubical sociopaths" separated from one another by anything other than chronological order? No! If you are a Dilbert fan and own the other collections, save your money. It's almost like this one was designed by the marketing department and put together at the last minute by Wally.

4Dilbert deja vu encore again part III  Jan 18, 2004
Scott Adams has been producing his hilarious Dilbert cartoons for 15 years now, long enough for many of us to go from cubicle dweller to VP. This is very funny stuff, centered around the themes of co-workers from hell, such as the Office Sociopath and Mr. Goodenrich, the company president, and dysfunctional departments such as Sales. Unfortunately, there is nothing new here, it is all recycled from previously books. For the most part it is also a random collection of strips, with story lines from the go-go days of the 90's now seeming hopelessly out of date.

Let me summarize here. Like all Dilbert cartoons, this is funny stuff. Adams was a phone company engineer and knows better than anyone the lunacy of the workplace and he very competently translates it onto the strips. If you have never read Dilbert, do not start here. Go for the earlier books like Willy the Mailboy or Clues for the Clueless.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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