Scott "Dilbert" Adams is now the Scott "Chachi" Baio of comic strips, presents alternate Trump facts

[Miles Archer]

9. I actually worked for Pacific Bell in Dublin, CA...the source of his "insight."

I can tell you from personal experience that he missed about 80% of what actually went on inside those four walls.

When I was there it was intensely political. My boss was one of those "one in a million" guys. The Web was just becoming a part of the mainstream. I knew immediately that I wanted to be a part of it (I have been a self-employed Web Designer since 2001). When I worked for him, I had minimal knowledge of Web Design and no hands-on skills. I was on a contract position for about a year, so I networked heavily with the programmers on my team, and they loaned me HTML books. I bought a computer and my boss GAVE ME my first copy of Photoshop (it was version 4.0). And as I neared the end of my assignment he told me "I know this is what you really want to do. If you go out and learn the skills and I have an opening in the future, I'll hire you."

And time and time and time again I watched him get screwed over by HIS boss, and I watched the positioning and jockeying for power and he never allowed himself to become poisoned by it.

One day he had planned an "appreciation" lunch for our department. And on that morning, his boss held a meeting...which he was not invited to...in which she handed him a MAJOR screwing in front of his peers. EVERY ONE OF US told him "Look, we hate this, it pisses us off, we understand if you want to cancel lunch." And he said "NO, we're GOING," and he rose above it, and was in good spirits the whole time.

THAT was Pacific Bell, not some effing unfunny "Dilbert" strip.