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?
definition #1)
Dilbert's boss, a clueless manager who likes to have
pointless meetings, harass workers. He really doesn't
have a clue.
definition #2)
A specific form of a very common creature, he is one of
those people that are too stupid to get any real work done
and are therefore transferred into management. Commonly
seen carry his etch-a-scetch into endless meetings, he is
the product of Scott Adams' Dilbert comic
[further elucidation]:
How a PHB eats a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
First, the PHB (or Pointy-Haired Boss) asks Alice to
expense the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and she of course
files it under [idiot expenses, like everything else the
PHB asks for. After the Peanut Butter Cups arrive in a
mangled cardboard box, shipped UPS (pronounced "oops") of
course, the PHB retires to his office to ostensibly
consume his sugar-filled morsels. He finally manages to
remove the two peanut-buttery cups from the packaging,
and places them on the table. He examines them, but is
unable to decide what to do next with them. The PHB then
reaches for his phone and calls up Dogbert for his expert
advice.
Dogbert assures the PHB that he is desperately in need of
a "Peanut-Butter Cup Consumption Device". The PHB
expenses this as well, and upon receiving the PB-CC,
which looks exactly like a spork, he finally consumes the
peanut butter cups, and, unwittingly, their papers.
"..and remember.. there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's"
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http://www.suslik.org/Writings/bofh.html
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PHBs
An associated character is the PHB (Pointy-Haired Boss) as
espoused in the "Dilbert" cartoons of Scott Adams. Adam's PHB is
clueless to the point of clinical brain death, yet retains his
elevated position in the company. BOFHen draw the appropriate
lesson, and see analogies in much of their companies' managers.
Adams remarked [8] that virtually all of the events depicted in
"Dilbert" have been claimed to have occurred in Real Life. The
BOFHen are not surprised.
Microsoft
The general BOFH attitude towards large firms (VBCs) is one of
contempt; their credo (hard to fault in terms of accuracy) is that
VBCs promote stupid people who then produce stupid corporate
policy. "Corporate" is a dirty word to most BOFHen. Microsoft
notably comes in for an exceptionally high level of abuse. Much of
this must be put down to job-related frustration; rare is the BOFH
who is not required to support MS products, and these products
have a long-established reputation for being a pig to maintain and
support. The Microsoft policy of global domination by marketing
may also raise the hackles of the BOFH hackers, being the opposite
of all they stand for. The BOFH view of MS was summarised well by
HK:
I trust Microsoft.
I trust them to be spectacularly unable to get anything
right, including and especially hard things like
industrial espionage. Sure, they'll make clownish,
clumsy stabs at it and fail in predictable, amusing
and embarrassing ways, and then do it all over again.
And their victi^H^H users will not only forgive them
but spend a lot of energy making up excuses for them.
Having said that, grudging praise of very limited aspects of MS
apps is not unknown among BOFHen. It is however very, very rare.
Linux
BOFHen do not generally share the unbounded joy that Linux seems
to bring many hackers. Their concern is that a new generation of
sysadmin wannabees is about to rise, who like to tell BOFHen their
jobs but don't know their /dev/arse from their elbow. The BOFH
creed on operating systems is summed up in the a.s.r. FAQ:
Q3.1: Are there any OSs which don't suck?
A: No. See the hall of shame and OSes that suck
and GA was more specific:
Eh? Linux is luserproof? What kind of "proper" set up
is that, ripping out all removable media devices and
ethernet, freezing the hard drive spindle, encasing it
in concrete and dropping it off a pier?
Darwination
An interesting offshoot of the BOFH attitude has been appreciation
of Darwin's theory of evolution. The BOFHen generally believe (and
the facts appear to be on their side) that they are among the more
clued and adaptable of Earth's inhabitants, and that any upwards
evolution of the human race is only possible if the herds of
lusers are thinned out a little.
...
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On 7 May 2001, at 8:50, Koivu, Lisa scribbled with alacrity and cogency:
...
> However, the real question is, what's PHB?
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