Category: Tech

Anything and everything I write that has something to do with tech. Maybe it’s a post about the time I blew up that server in 2003 because I didn’t know what bridged networking really meant. Sorry Roger!

Dilbert Aligns His Goals

Dilbert: I’m concerned that my personal goals do not align with our corporate strategy. For example, I would like to be happy. What does the company want? Boss: Well, nothing along those lines.

 

Wow… how much more true-to-life can a comic get? It’s not that the company doesn’t want you to be happy, but it’s simply not what they are paying you for. This reminds me of one of my favorite Despair posters:

Demotivation Poster from Despair.com - Somtimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.
Demotivation Poster from Despair.com

 

Ouch. Thanks Dilbert.

 

Really this should be taken as all other things that remind you

$WORK != LIFE

I had a work friend recently pass away. He might have been in his mid to late forties, not much older. Left three kids and a loving wife. Absolute tragedy and an absolute terrible thing for everyone affected by it. The world is worse off without him.

His passing is a terrible tragedy for the people most close to him, but for the people on the periphery of his life, it’s a good reminder that

$LIFE == SHORT

This guy would answer emails at 7pm at night, he would be on the phone with his customers all day and all night. He manually trawled through giant Excel sheets trying to help pick out discrepancies for his customers. All WAY above and beyond what could be expected from any employee.

I miss him, but I can thank him one last time for his help. This time he helped me recognize those things I put off in life, talking more to my Mom, forgiving my sister, playing with my kid. That previous time is worth more than all the money in the world.

 

Source: Dilbert Aligns His Goals

Wally Engineers Something – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-10-09 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

Dilbert: Did you design our robot’s 3-D pill printer? Wally: Yup. Dilbert: The design is brilliant, except for the part where the pill drops out of the robot’s butt. Why are you suddenly brilliant? Wally: Never had a reason before.

Source: Wally Engineers Something – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-10-09 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

 

Was it the pill that made Dilbert realize that Wally was brilliant, or did he have an epiphany regarding how brilliant the joke is.

 

The series over the last few days referenced IBM’s Watson prescribing a new set of medications for a human, and a comment was made about robots programming humans.

Mr. Smith was right when he said when machines started thinking for us it really became their civilization.

I’m a big fan of the Future Of Life‘s interest in preventing unforeseen negative consequences of the rush for Artificial Intelligence.