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by nemesisj 4658 days ago
This is great, reminds me of a story from when I was an intern.

In 2002 I was working at Freddie Mac for an internal business unit as a summer intern. I was tasked to create our internal group's website. After a week or two of my boss not producing a mission statement, I went online to the Dilbert mission statement generator, downloaded about 50 randomly generated ones, then slapped them into a script that would randomly display one every time the page loaded. My boss never really caught on, other programmers in the unit loved it, and I'm pretty sure nobody ever realised that our mission statement was both randomly generated AND changing with every page load.

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This sounds like it should be the subject of a Dilbert article!
Sadly, they took down the random mission statement generator from Dilbert.com, so you can't find any examples, but they were hilariously great.