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Cubes and Punishment: A Dilbert Book
By Scott Adams
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A laugh-out-loud collection of Dilbert comics on the theme of unusual workplace cruelty—the thirtieth volume from the author of Positive Attitude.
“My cube is sucking the life force out of me.” —Dilbert
In Cubes and Punishment: A Dilbert Book, Dilbert sardonically skewers the Dostoyevskian sense of despair and anxiety that corporate life breeds. And nowhere is this sense more alive than in the desolation of the cubicle. In Dilbert’s world, cubicle dwellers are relegated to everything from the half-size intern cubicle to the patented head cubicle and are even sentenced to adopt and decorate empty cubicles.
Dilbert continues to be the voice for the embattled cubicle-dwelling Everyman. With best-friend Dogbert, and a veritable who’s who in accompanying office characters ranging from the Boss and Wally to Alice and Catbert, Dilbert offers a welcome dose of laughter in response to the inanity of corporate culture and middle-management mores.
“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
“My cube is sucking the life force out of me.” —Dilbert
In Cubes and Punishment: A Dilbert Book, Dilbert sardonically skewers the Dostoyevskian sense of despair and anxiety that corporate life breeds. And nowhere is this sense more alive than in the desolation of the cubicle. In Dilbert’s world, cubicle dwellers are relegated to everything from the half-size intern cubicle to the patented head cubicle and are even sentenced to adopt and decorate empty cubicles.
Dilbert continues to be the voice for the embattled cubicle-dwelling Everyman. With best-friend Dogbert, and a veritable who’s who in accompanying office characters ranging from the Boss and Wally to Alice and Catbert, Dilbert offers a welcome dose of laughter in response to the inanity of corporate culture and middle-management mores.
“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
Author
Scott Adams
Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, the comic strip that now appears in 1,550 newspapers worldwide. His first two hardcover business books, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, have sold more than two million copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a combined total of sixty weeks.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another Dilbert collection. This one collects strips related to working in a cube farm. As a 23 year veteran of the cube farms at a large electronics company, a lot of these strips hit close to home. Very little exaggeration is necessary, given all the absurdities of cube life.
Book preview
Cubes and Punishment - Scott Adams
Other DILBERT® books from Andrews McMeel Publishing
Positive Attitude
ISBN: 0-7407-6379-2
Try Rebooting Yourself
ISBN: 0-7407-6190-0
What Would Wally Do?
ISBN: 0-7407-5769-5
Thriving on Vague Objectives
ISBN: 0-7407-5533-1
The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head
ISBN: 0-7407-5113-1
It’s Not Funny If I Have to Explain It
ISBN: 0-7407-4658-8
Don’t Stand Where the Comet Is Assumed to Strike Oil
ISBN: 0-7407-4539-5
Words You Don’t Want to Hear During Your Annual
Performance Review
ISBN: 0-7407-3805-4
When Body Language Goes Bad
ISBN: 0-7407-3298-6
What Do You Call a Sociopath in a Cubicle?
Answer: A Coworker
ISBN: 0-7407-2663-3
Another Day in Cubicle Paradise
ISBN: 0-7407-2194-1
When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?
ISBN: 0-7407-1839-8
Excuse Me While I Wag
ISBN: 0-7407-1390-6
Dilbert—A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00
ISBN: 0-7407-0531-8
Random Acts of Management
ISBN: 0-7407-0453-2
Dilbert Gives You the Business
ISBN: 0-7407-0338-2 hardcover
ISBN: 0-7407-0003-0 paperback
Don’t Step in the Leadership
ISBN: 0-8362-7844-5
Journey to Cubeville
ISBN: 0-8362-7175-0 hardcover
ISBN: 0-8362-6745-1 paperback
I’m Not Anti-Business, I’m Anti-Idiot
ISBN: 0-8362-5182-2
Seven Years of Highly Defective People
ISBN: 0-8362-5129-6 hardcover
ISBN: 0-8362-3668-8 paperback
Casual Day Has Gone Too Far
ISBN: 0-8362-2899-5
Fugitive from the Cubicle Police
ISBN: 0-8362-2119-2
It’s Obvious You Won’t Survive by Your Wits Alone
ISBN: 0-8362-0415-8
Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
ISBN: 0-8362-1026-3
Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy!
ISBN: 0-8362-1779-9
Shave the Whales
ISBN: 0-8362-1740-3
Dogbert’s Clues for the Clueless
ISBN: 0-8362-1737-3
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons
ISBN: 0-8362-1758-6
Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies
ISBN: 0-8362-1757-8
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