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I love the CEO blaming the economy. When times are good, these weasels take home bonuses for their managerial success. But the moment things go wrong, they are

I love the CEO blaming the economy. When times are good, these weasels take home bonuses for their managerial success. But the moment things go wrong, they are right there blamestorming everyone and everything else. Schmucks.

edw519 18y ago
Sometimes I wonder if this is a chicken and egg scenario. Are they blaming everyone else because they failed or did they fail because they were too busy blaming to act?
- Tamerlin 18y ago
  My theory: Yes. When things start going poorly, they cast blame. Since they were busy casting blame rather than doing their jobs, things got worse.
  - endtime 18y ago
    Mutual recursion is pretty but it isn't always the case. In this case it sounds like they just stocked crappy products and sucked at customer service.
    - Tamerlin 18y ago
      Agreed, but then they could have been putting their efforts into fixing both of those problems, rather than playing the blame game. That may have been too little too late, though. It takes quite a bit of effort and time to overcome the reputation you get when you provide bad service and crappy products, even if you're really aggressive about fixing both of those flaws.
dugmartin 18y ago
"blamestorming" - my new favorite word of the day.
- raganwald 18y ago
  My understanding is that the word describes a particular kind of group behaviour where everyone is blaming everyone and everything except themselves. So I misused it to describe a CEO blaming other people, it would be more accurate to think of a management meeting where the CEO, PResident, and various VPs are all weaseling out of responsibility by trying to pin it on something else. Vehemently! A colleague introduced the phrase to me in conjunction with Hurricane factors. So walking into a meeting to discuss why a particualr release was late, he would whisper to me, "Stand by for a Force Three Blamestorm!"
- adnam 18y ago
  And "aggressively unknowledgeable" is the phrase of the day.
Tamerlin 18y ago
It sounds a bit like my management here, though it's not as severe; the dev manager picks a date out of his ass, and if we hit it, he takes credit for being a great manager, and if we don't, we get blamed for not working hard enough.
djahng 18y ago
Yup, and it happens all the time. Take credit when things go right, spread the blame when they don't.

edw519 18y ago

Sometimes I wonder if this is a chicken and egg scenario. Are they blaming everyone else because they failed or did they fail because they were too busy blaming to act?

Tamerlin 18y ago
My theory: Yes. When things start going poorly, they cast blame. Since they were busy casting blame rather than doing their jobs, things got worse.
- endtime 18y ago
  Mutual recursion is pretty but it isn't always the case. In this case it sounds like they just stocked crappy products and sucked at customer service.
  - Tamerlin 18y ago
    Agreed, but then they could have been putting their efforts into fixing both of those problems, rather than playing the blame game. That may have been too little too late, though. It takes quite a bit of effort and time to overcome the reputation you get when you provide bad service and crappy products, even if you're really aggressive about fixing both of those flaws.

dugmartin 18y ago

"blamestorming" - my new favorite word of the day.

raganwald 18y ago
My understanding is that the word describes a particular kind of group behaviour where everyone is blaming everyone and everything except themselves. So I misused it to describe a CEO blaming other people, it would be more accurate to think of a management meeting where the CEO, PResident, and various VPs are all weaseling out of responsibility by trying to pin it on something else. Vehemently! A colleague introduced the phrase to me in conjunction with Hurricane factors. So walking into a meeting to discuss why a particualr release was late, he would whisper to me, "Stand by for a Force Three Blamestorm!"
adnam 18y ago
And "aggressively unknowledgeable" is the phrase of the day.

Tamerlin 18y ago

It sounds a bit like my management here, though it's not as severe; the dev manager picks a date out of his ass, and if we hit it, he takes credit for being a great manager, and if we don't, we get blamed for not working hard enough.

djahng 18y ago

Yup, and it happens all the time. Take credit when things go right, spread the blame when they don't.