Any Dilbert fans out there?

Just read the devastating news this morning that the Dilbert Desk Calendar 2024 is not being published . I believe it will be available digitally to subscribers on Scott Adams's X account. Not sure I will bother. All the usual sellers are saying "out of stock", both here and in the States.

I've been buying it myself or getting it as a Christmas present every year for over 20 years. After I retired from work I just carried on getting it - it's a brilliant bit of humour every day. I had no idea there was a problem with it but I read something about the Americans objecting to some "un-PC" comments made by the characters last year so it seems it is being pulled.

Not happy about that. I have often found the office situations in these stories reflected my own experience. It might be American but I have always related to Dilbert, and Wally and the Pointy Haired Boss.

 

Scott Adams has unfortunately fallen badly down the Trump rabbithole. Dilbert was dropped from most American newspapers last year after he released a video calling black people a hate group and advised whites to get away from blacks.

He also predicted the Biden administration would hunt down and kill republicans and various other rants along similar lines.

 

Gutted. It's been an essential addition to my desk for at least 15 years (see photo), and tearing off the previous day's page is pretty much the first thing I do on arrival at the office. The digital version won't be the same.

Hadn't been aware of any of the background mentioned in @Scoff's post, but none of it comes through in the cartoons. I'll miss Wally's attempts to avoid doing any work, in particular.

Pretty sure many of us have worked for someone like the pointy-haired boss in the past too.

 

First thing I do in the morning as well, well usually anyway. I was so used to having my own desk in my working life I couldn't not have one at home as well so this has been the situation for many years in my house. It's my personal corner in fact, almost like having a den. Desk, properly comfortable office chair, drawers for documents, shelves for various items, PC and printer and, OF COURSE, Dilbert in the corner making me smile every day.

Things will never be the same again....

 

I wasn't aware of any of that and you do wonder how much of it was true, and how much was "Trumped up". I've certainly never detected anything untoward in any of his daily cartoons on the desk calendar but who knows what he says in public in the American media?

 

It's definitely true! Don't think there's been any/much uproar about the comics (if there has then I missed it) - it's Adams himself who's become toxic.

The good news is that if you can find one from 1996 then that should work for 2024!

 

Ah that's a shame when people go off the rails like this. It was good while it lasted and I shall miss my daily page turner.

1996? Pretty sure that's long gone

 

As Sestren said, its not the comics, but the writer himself. He took the ending of the Dilbert TV series badly by all accounts and over Covid continued to get worse. Plenty of more info online if you want to take a look at it.

I too have read Dilbert on and off for the best part of 30 years.

 

He’s said some questionable things and so got cancelled. The more outrageous one is Graham Linehan - the writer of father ted and the IT crowd, he’s been cancelled for his support of women’s rights.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/heretics-andrew-gold/id1515932214?i=1000635194908

chilling stuff.

 

He’s been “cancelled” for being a hate filled, transphobic, bigoted arsehole.

hth

 

I don't have the calendar but do try to keep up with Daily Dilbert. It's a good bit of fun, and almost a true representation of office life at times.

 

You seem nice, not.

 

Have you actually seen what Linehan actually said? Not just once or twice, but repeatedly.

He is a bigoted transphobic arse who got sucked into the rabbithole quicker than you can say "Dyson". He's even worse than JK Rowling who has managed to systematically destroy her reputation among those that grew up with Harry Potter (many Jrs age hate her now). She got away with the dodgy racial stereotypes in the books, but is now just a rich bigot.

 

Think I'd consider it a great personal failure to seem nice to someone that thinks Graham Linehan has been hard done by, so I'll take that.

 

He has stated amongst many things that there is a trans ‘movement’ and suggested they are paedophiles - and publicly stood by the comments too.

I’m a fan of Linehan’s tv shows but there’s no excusing him - or JK Rowling.

 

There was an episode of the IT Crowd where the entire punchline of the episode was that someone was transgender.

A few years later some people said something along the lines of "I don't really think that's very funny anymore" and he took offence at that and started his crusade against trans people, calling them paedophiles, groomers etc.

 

Women's rights? That's a strange spin on it, even if you agree with him.

 

That’s how they all frame it. JK Rowling, Sharron Davies etc. It’s their go to excuse every time they get questioned on their transphobia. Seems it’s rubbed off on others too sadly.