Vehicular Munchausen's by proxy

When you are sharing your vehicle with someone and it get damaged in someway (door ding, curb check, scratch, totaled) and you blame it on the person you share with, only to find out later that it was your own fault.

Dick: Great, now my wheel is all chewed up because you curb checked. And I know it was you because it wasn't like that last week, and I certainly didn't do that.
Jane: I haven't used the car in the last two weeks, Dick. I've been in the hospital, Dick.
Dick: Yeah, likely story
*LATER*
Dick: Huh, well, I guess I did that when I drove home drunk and ran over that stop sign.
Jane: Yeah, Dick, we call that vehicular Munchausen's by proxy. No one hurt your fucking BMW but you, Dick.

by lil nugget 360 December 6, 2012

Munchausen Syndrome by Technology

When an IT worker, usually in a leadership role, deliberately messes up something that works well to make their job seem irreplaceable (i.e., the hero). Symptoms include front line staff and vendors running around frantically in a "sky is falling" scenario only to discover after great detective work and duress one pulled wire or misconfigured group policy, which was not that way yesterday.

"Check the cable?"

"The desk hasn't moved from this spot in ten years."

"Check it anyway."

"Well I'll be .... printer's working fine now! Fourth time this week. Peter was just here yesterday.... you thinking what i'm thinking?
"Munchausen Syndrome by Technology."
"bingo."

by jj_702 October 17, 2019