Circle of Blame

The group of individuals collectively responsible for the failure of a project despite the limited control, if any, the individuals have on its outcome. The group often includes individuals that were not assigned to work on the project, but were given official notice of the projects existence during a meeting, memo, or e-mail.

Commonly, such doomed projects are leaderless or have an ill-suited leader from the start. Ultimately, Executive Management hears of the failure and criticizes the entire group for their incompetence.

"Man, I hate getting cc:ed on an email. Now I am in the circle of blame!"

by Superdragout February 11, 2010

blame artist

A person who is so adept at blaming others for their own behavior or reality that those who are blamed have no awareness of it at all.

She is a well-practiced blame artist who impugns as easily as she breathes.

by Dr Bunnygirl June 12, 2020

Don't blame a clown

Don't blame a clown for acting clownish, if you keep going to the circus!

Don't blame a clown for being a clown.

by I, Wreckerrr April 28, 2021

blamestorm

A meeting, usually corporate or governmental, to decide who should be blamed for the incompetence of the organization itself.

The idiots in Marketing got together to blamestorm over the failure of the new product launch.

by RadioBoy January 1, 2005

Blamestorming

(noun)

1. A meeting intended to determine why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

I just got out of a three hour blamestorming session with IT about the server failure last week; Someone's going to end up in unemployment over this.

by naz_ghul March 14, 2003

blameology

The science of not accepting personal responsibility by blaming others for own faults.

Stop with this blameology!

by Narcissistic Notes Fb page April 16, 2014

Blamestorming

Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and identifying a scapegoat.

After a second customer refused to sign their newly-and-incompetently-redesigned "three-tier" support agreement, the VP of Support and the COO held a blamestorming session and decided to pin the problem on the customer rep, who was subsequently fired.

by Best Served Cold May 7, 2010