Dilbert

A long-running comic strip by Scott Adams satirizing the absurdities of corporate life: pointy-haired bosses, cubicle culture, management consultants, and bureaucratic dysfunction. Highly influential in corporate culture through the 1990s and 2000s. In February 2023, Adams made racist statements leading to mass newspaper cancellations, dramatically reshaping the strip's public legacy.

Created the defining satirical vocabulary for late 20th-century corporate dysfunction; 'Dilbert' became a cultural shorthand for the absurdity of bureaucratic management and the gap between corporate-speak and reality.