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a comic strip that turned corporate absurdity into a mirror nobody at work wanted to look into.
means a syndicated comic strip by scott adams satirizing office life, incompetent management, and the soul-crushing nonsense of corporate culture through a hapless engineer protagonist.
from launched in 1989 by scott adams, a former pacific bell employee who mined his own cubicle miseries for material; it exploded in the 90s as workers taped strips to their cubicle walls in silent protest of their own bosses.
peak syndicationran in over 2000 newspapers worldwide
pointy-haired bossnever given a name, deliberately
cancellationdropped by papers in 2023 after adams racist remarks
office slanginspired real corporate buzzword mockery culture