Office Scapegoating Cartoon: No Credit, All Blame
- Ravi
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
In corporate life, success is a team effort — but failure is always personal.
Deals don’t collapse overnight. They unravel slowly, quietly, and usually with far too many people involved. Yet when the dust settles, the blame rarely spreads evenly. It concentrates — conveniently — on the one person who never claimed the spotlight.
This office scapegoating cartoon captures a familiar workplace ritual: credit is shared generously, but blame is assigned very selectively.
If you’ve ever watched a room full of executives silently agree on who should pay for the mess, this will feel uncomfortably familiar.
Why Scapegoating Thrives in Corporate Culture
Scapegoating isn’t accidental — it’s efficient.
When accountability is vague and ownership is shared, organizations instinctively look for:
the quiet contributor
the cautious professional
the person who didn’t self-promote
In moments of failure, the absence of claimed credit becomes evidence of guilt.
This is how workplace blame culture survives:
credit flows upward and outward
blame flows downward and inward
If This Feels Familiar…
You’re not alone.
This cartoon resonates with:
professionals in high-stakes deal teams
employees in matrix organizations
anyone who’s watched credit multiply while responsibility vanished
It’s not about incompetence.It’s about narrative control.
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