When the executives discover that the engineers know there are other jobs available, they decide to promote Dilbert and show the employees that they really can have a “career” at the company.  The problem is that Dilbert doesn’t want to be a manager, so they give him an assistant instead.  Alice is peeved to learn that Dilbert has an assistant and she doesn’t, so she gets Catbert to appoint Asok her assistant.  This leads to a duel between the two assistants, who are both fired in the end while Dilbert goes back to being an engineer.