This coworker has a bad habit of refusing to take any of the blame when projects run late, and unsurprisingly, his coworkers are growing tired of this habit.
No one wants to get on the boss's bad side, and a lot of workers will stay late, eating dinner at their desks and working until the wee hours of the night just to finish an important project or two. If you don't set good enough work-life boundaries, a boss can push you into madness trying to get done all that work! Of course, if you have a strong team of coworkers with whom you can tackle the challenges head-on, that's a real benefit. You or your boss can try to assign people to parts of the tasks that they excel at — and that makes everyone look good.
They say you should try and make your boss look good to their boss, so when you are consistently not hitting your deadlines, and that manager is breathing down your neck, it's only natural to worry. Luckily for this person, they're well-versed with the CYA method of covering themselves to ensure that they can't be wrongly blamed for anything.
Their coworker also really pushed the limits here, and what he's doing is bad for his own relationship-building. He probably lost all of his coworkers' trust the first time he threw someone under the bus. And yes, he didn't lose the trust of just the person he blamed, but also every worker around him who noticed exactly what he did. In the moment, he made himself look good, but I would argue that pulling this kind of stunt even one time is enough to make all of your coworkers look at you sideways. Check out this excellent story below — see who you side with!
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