The "last guy" is the scapegoat. In toxic companies, deadlines are the date at which you get a new deadline. The effect is that people hustle to make the deadli

The "last guy" is the scapegoat. In toxic companies, deadlines are the date at which you get a new deadline. The effect is that people hustle to make the deadline, constantly having the rug pulled out from under them by the deadline, only to realize, they have to hustle for another month... and another month... Because the project managers are cowards. Unwilling to tell management they have repeatedly set unrealistic expectations for them and of the staff. Of course they blame the staff for be lazy or slacking. The reality is, they were never able to properly define and estimate the scope. They are folks who never take accountability for their responsibilities. They blame others. Even after they did their best to fix the problems and then got blamed for them all after they left.