Scott Adams designed Dilbert in the 90s, based off of his experience managing engineers at AT&T through the 80s. The Dilbert comic was a big hit, with most readers relating to the absurdity of life as an engineer at that time. However, Scott Adams had never actually been an engineer, and Dilbert was just one of his many product ideas. More @Wikipedia
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