My favorite variant of this phenomenon is the time-honored tradition in consulting of the new guy throwing the old guy under the bus. "I've had a chance to loo

My favorite variant of this phenomenon is the time-honored tradition in consulting of the new guy throwing the old guy under the bus. "I've had a chance to look through the existing codebase, and I'm sad to report that it's in pretty bad shape. I'm afraid we're going to need to rewrite a bunch of it before we can even move forward."