The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
Scott Adams'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott AdamsYou're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.
Scott AdamsI think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.
Scott Adams