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The '''Pointy Haired Boss''' (or '''PHB''') is an [[archetype]] character invented by Scott Adams in his Dilbert comic. He is famous enough to [[w:Pointy Haired Boss|warrant his own article in Wikipedia | The '''Pointy Haired Boss''' (or '''PHB''') is an [[archetype]] character invented by Scott Adams in his Dilbert comic. He is famous enough to [[w:Pointy Haired Boss|warrant his own article in Wikipedia, detailing his characteristics as]: | ||
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He is an icon of [[stupidity]] and of [[management]], which in Adams' work are always presented as the same thing. That is, there are no good managers, and the best one can do with these people is avoid them. | He is an icon of [[stupidity]] and of [[management]], which in Adams' work are always presented as the same thing. That is, there are no good managers, and the best one can do with these people is avoid them. | ||
Such people | Such people use [[PowerPoint]], and are sometimes called '''powerpointy''' or to possess the '''power of pointy'''. These phrases emphasize that only a PHB would use Microsoft products to try to persuade people that bad ideas are good. Indeed that is why presentation products exist, and why they have been banned from all serious companies. | ||
It has become popular among [[trolls]] to attach ", PHB" to someone's name as if it were an academic [[credential]] like ", PhD", when describing their stupidity | It has become popular among [[trolls]] to attach ", PHB" to someone's name as if it were an academic [[credential]] like ", PhD", when describing their stupidity. |