Wally

Wally is a character from the Dilbert comic strip, a lazy employee always trying to work the system. Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell. In Seven Years of Highly Defective People and What Would Wally Do, Adams explained that his co-worker at Pacific Bell wanted to leave the company, but also wanted to leave with generous severance packages being offered by the company during a period of downsizing. Since the p... more

Wally is a character from the Dilbert comic strip, a lazy employee always trying to work the system. Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell. In Seven Years of Highly Defective People and What Would Wally Do, Adams explained that his co-worker at Pacific Bell wanted to leave the company, but also wanted to leave with generous severance packages being offered by the company during a period of downsizing. Since the packages were only offered the lowest ten percent performers, the co-worker was given an incentive to become a low performing worker. Adams was inspired by this co-worker's serious dedication toward this goal, and the concept of a completely shameless employee with no sense of loyalty became Wally. In early strips, there were characters who resembled Wally in appearance and had bit parts. The true Wally did not appear until October 21, 1991, when Adams wrote in the co-worker's story of attempting to get fired. The animated series portrays Wally... less