This reminds me of a 50 year old Peanuts strip, where Lucy is annoyed, because she's miserable, but Snoopy is happy dancing in the yard.
Lucy (yelling at Snoopy):
"Floods, fire and famine!"
"Doom, defeat and despair!"
(Snoopy continues dancing)
"I guess it's no use...sigh...nothing seems to disturb him! "
The PHB having an epic fail attempting to use The Force on Dilbert. Had no idea wearing headphones and listening to music would protect you from it, though....
If PHB didn't have to contend with Alice's "Fist of Death" and Wally's magnificent Zen passive-aggressive work-avoidance techniques, he could pull off a Ryan Tate-style "prayer meeting":