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Team Building Scapegoat Cartoon - When Blame Becomes Teamwork

  • Writer: Ravi
    Ravi
  • Dec 17, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 12

Scapegoating at work cartoon showing a team blaming one employee during root cause analysis

The Scenario: This team building scapegoat cartoon highlights the most ironic form of office collaboration.


A team that is usually bickering and unproductive suddenly finds a beautiful, harmonious "flow"—but only because they have collectively identified a single person to take the fall for a project’s failure.


It parodies the dark reality that nothing brings a group of people together faster than the opportunity to destroy someone else’s reputation to save their own.


The Observation: This narrative identifies "Negative Team Synergy."


At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that the strongest "team-building exercise" in a toxic office isn't a trust fall; it's a shared lie.


This post shows that scapegoating isn't just a management tool—it's a social glue that dysfunctional peers use to bond with one another.


It reminds us that "unity" isn't always a positive sign if it's built on a foundation of professional sacrifice.


There’s no "I" in team, but there’s definitely a "U" in the sentence "It was all your fault.

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