Life Imitating Art, or the Other Way 'Round?

Not sure how many have the Dilbert daily calendar thing, but for the past several weeks, there has been something in it that has me wondering "who stacked the deck"?

Several weeks ago, one of our team had a baby. After 3 days off and a full weekend, he showed up on Monday, late, and looking like he had been hit by a stampeding herd of elephants.
The cartoon from Monday, August 1st was more than accurate and very appropriate.

We were testing some fun little bits in the software code, and we were having troubles with just about everything. That day the cartoon was themed correctly, as the developers (Dogbert's Tech Support) said, "It works fine on my machine."

One of our number was promoted to Team Lead, and made an FTE. That day the Dilbert cartoon went on about how the Promotion was really for the best, even if the pay was the same while the workload increased.

We have had several of our number leave because of iminent changes to our structure as things move to Illinois. The Cartoon for the previous Sunday was about Catbert removing all job specific knowledge from an employee leaving the company.

We recently got a new DBA, and "breaking him in" has been a real chore. Sometimes we feel like the cartoon from Thursday, the 28th of July.

We put together an elaborate plan to get the correct data into our systems for testing. We set up everything and even did an impact study. We recommended it be done one way, and why it was so efficient, and good...
The next thing we know, from upper management, comes another plan. One that will not work, costs more money, and makes our life a living hell for a week.
Guess which one got chosen. See Sunday the 7th of August's cartoon...

(If I can get my scanner going, I will post these cartoons for your viewing pleasure)

So all this made me wonder, is Dilbert causing life to be this strange, or is my life just that strange and Dilbert is my Prophet?

Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

So, like any day, I am reading along in Slashdot, and I come across this article:

"Is Your Boss a Psychopath?"

This was very interesting to me, as I happen to like my boss. SO I read on, and realized, this isn't so much talking about my boss, but about the new head of our department.
Dude is a real nutball.

1) We are located in Utah, the main company is located in Illinois, and he believes there is nothing we (in Utah) can do that those in Illinois cannot do better
2) He always has that stupidly smug look on his face, always smiling, but it is all show
3) Makes everyone uncomfortable
4) Lies through his teeth about company direction and future of our little group
5) Doesn't care about anyone but himself
6) etc.

So, check out the link, and see if your boss is a Psychopath...