Vendor Management Satire Cartoon: The Blame Cycle

The Scenario: This vendor management satire cartoon features a calm IT professional presenting the "Vendor Blame Cycle" to a skeptical executive.

The diagram shows a seamless loop passing through Infra, SaaS, API, Network, CDN, and Hardware.

The devastatingly honest punchline—"The blame is currently in transit. We'll fix it on a vendor soon"—perfectly captures the modern IT experience.

It mocks how resolution is often secondary to the "ping-pong" of support tickets between third-party providers.

The Observation: At Kaapi with Ravi, we identify "The Circular Defense."

This IT operations humor mocks how modern infrastructure strategy often relies on a high number of vendors to create a "responsibility vacuum."

By ensuring that every incident can be technically blamed on an external API or a CDN latency spike, the internal team achieves a state of perpetual innocence.

The humor lies in the phrase "fix it on a vendor"—suggesting that the real "fix" isn't a technical patch, but a successful transfer of liability.

In the modern corporate hierarchy, "Vendor Management" is the sophisticated art of paying someone else to be the person you point at during a crisis.

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Series: IT Ops Cartoons

Theme: Tech Cartoons