Monday, January 09, 2006

What's with the Dilbert Land / Weasel world

With due credits to Scott Adams - I feel this is what exists in most organizations. What I admire of Dilbert is that it exaggerates common quirks and flaws that exist in corporate world. There is a beautiful piece about "Dealing with difficult people".
This is how it goes:
Scene - Dogbert's Seminar on "Dealing with difficult people"

Dogbert: Welcome to my seminar on dealing with difficult coworkers
Dogbert: Difficult coworkers fall into one of these sub groups (Lazy, Mean, Smart, Crazy)
Dogbert: The only way to deal with them is to quit your job and become a syndicated cartoonist
Dogbert: Thanks for coming ..

Funny! Also spiritual ... After trying to change things around you realize that you're one tiny speck in the milky way. You can't change things around unless youre placed high enough. Either you brace yourself and put up with all the shit till you reach the top or call it quits and do something better off.

Reminds what my professor of chemical reaction engineering (Dr. Krishnaiah if IITM) used to say about people - drawing analogy with particles in a fluidized bed (it's a column packed with small particles that behave like a fluid when fluid is passed from bottom at sufficient velocity). The particles have sharp edges (like people have preferences and opinions), but as time progresses with incessent bumping with other fellow particles during fluidization - they loose their sharp edges and become smooth and rounded (a.k.a. people without any preferences / orientation).

About myself - guess I am half done :o).

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