The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 23, 2023

Hair-splitting Rancid.

With his brain, micromanaging is all that Rancid can do.

Who still uses handwriting at work?

If Thornapple had a cup of tea, Vebblefester would make sure that he crossed it,

“Move the mouse over! Over! Up! Now CLICK IT!! NOOO!!! YOU IDIOT!!!” (From a Dilbert mug I have…)

let’s have that Long-hand contract in triplicate

He wouldn’t have to if you didn’t need it.

My real name has two "i"s (as does my GoComics name). My signature is a total scribble, and yet, the two "i"s are dotted.

Brutus is left-handed. I wonder which hand such persons use with toilet paper.

One of the many things I enjoyed about my job: We were left alone to do it. A fifty page report would go straight to the client. The only advice I recall from my first boss was, “Don’t give them ropes to beat us.”

At my age I dot my tees and cross my eyes.

You should try it in Swedish: å ä ö and let’s not forget i and j.

just be grateful he’s not controlling you through your DNA. Just a puppet in the workplace. :J

Another fine day at The Veeblefester Tea Cozy Company .

Obviously it would seem. He must have been beaten an awful lot as a child. He’s his own wordt enemy. Got to feel sorry for him…..

Almost finished, but we still have to dot the i’s and cross the t’s and slash the zeros and boot the ones. (Military Air Force)

If that is what the Chief does all day……good luck!

I hate micromanagers!!!

Brutus didn’t dot an “i”!? Why, that’s practically sacrilege. Bossman’s micromanaging is the least of Brutus’ problems.

It’s worse when a micromanaging boss criticizes how you dot your i’s. That means your boss doesn’t have enough work to do, so they spend their time being nitpicky with their employees about every. little. thing.

To make it worse, the skinflint Rancid will dock his pay for that egregious omission.

Just tell him it’s a rough draft, you dot the ’i’s and cross the ’t’s when you’re done.

Can’t miss one jot or tittle without falling short!

I’ll bet Veeblefester is very strict when it comes to periods.

“Veeblefester is bored” Brutus goes on, “I better watch my step today”…

But did Brutus remember to cross all the T’s?

Sometimes when I want to emphasize the importance of paying attention to detail, I tell people to make sure they dot their t’s and cross their i’s. Helps you find out who’s really listening.