The tables turn for Dilbert's creator

Scott Adams
Truth be told, this saddens me. Years ago I emailed Scott Adams and he was very kind to reply in detail. We exchanged a couple more emails after that. I forwarded his emails to everyone I knew. I was a demi-celebrity because I'd been emailed by a legend.

Well, in all my computer melt-downs and moving around, I lost those emails. Shit! Probably could have sold copies on eBay for big bucks.

This is yet another story about a clueless but obtrusive bossthe [sic] kind of meddlesome manager you might laugh at in the panels of "Dilbert," the daily comic strip.

The boss in question operates an upscale restaurant serving California cuisine about an hour's drive east of San Francisco. The restaurant, Stacey's at Waterford, is in trouble — two decades of rapid population growth in the region has prompted an influx of national competitors like P. F. Chang's China Bistro and the Cheesecake Factory.

While the chains have 30-minute waits for tables on weeknights, Stacey's at Waterford has more jewel-tone microfiber chairs than diners, and is slowly but steadily losing money. To make matters worse, this befuddled manager has never run a restaurant before or even supervised another person's work in more than 20 years. His greatest qualification for the job, one might say, is 17 years spent satirizing cubicle culture.

In other words, Scott Adams, the "Dilbert" creator and the progenitor of the multimillion-dollar Dilbert empire, is now a pointy-haired boss himself.

Hey, what pointy-hair? He's practically getting bald.

Restaurants can be very lucrative. They can also sink like someone swimming in lead shorts.

I hope Scott comes out of this OK. He's a good guy.

Via IHT.