Dilbertian

English Etymology From en w:Dilbert -ian. Adjective Relating to, or reminiscent of, Dilbert, a satirical American comic strip about a micromanaged white-collar office worker surrounded by ineptitude and corruption. en Dilbertesque en 2000 Rick Fleeter The Logic of Microspace 291 Thus do the Dilbertian wars commence. Well-meaning engineers and project leaders try to bankrupt the company, while I try to sabotage their programs. en 2009 J. Scott Turner The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures 15 Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters. en eponyms