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    Points:5

    Never blame other people for your problems

    Being in a hard core production job I meet people who always give an excuse for not performing their work properly or not able to achieve their target. We have proper infrastructure only excuse they give for it, is blaming others.

    Many of my colleagues find it easy to escape by blaming others. And one of my colleague is so rude he is always after me or the other person. And the boss seems to be blind folded as he always believe him for such lame excuses.

    I find it hard to handle the situation but that's fine as I know it's office politics and we find all sorts of people in offices.

    But the thing is why do these people have this habit? Why can't they find out the root causes for the betterment of the organisation ? Don't they know they are not going to do anything good to the organisation by this behaviour.

    Can anyone tell how can such people be handled?
  • #778230

    Points:5
    Many people have a habit of making excuses and putting blame on something else for every failure even if they were a party to that activity leading to such mishaps or bad workmanship.
    The question why they do so is related to the basic human nature. We all are afraid of punishments and fines levied on us whenever we fail to do a task for which we were responsible. This fear is the main cause that drives us for taking some proactive action to save ourselves from that action. It is happening in the political circles day and night where many culprits are making fake attacks on the administration and trying to get sympathy from the public and other employees in their organisations.
    We cannot tackle such people at our level but a strong administration can take strict action on them giving them a lesson so that they never repeat such things in future.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #778233

    Points:5
    There are many people of such nature in organisations. Mainly such people flourish when the boss is also not a straightforward person. I know a person who is very close to his boss. He does some favours to the boss in this personal life. So, the boss used to support him a lot whenever results were encouraging this person used to project as if it was his effort. Suppose the results were not encouraging he used to project as if some of his colleagues were responsible and the boss used to punish him. I used to keep everything in black and white. All my communications to this person were in emails, and a copy was always marked to the top boss. So my work reports were going to his boss also in the form of emails. So he never tried to play with me.
    So one way of facing such people is making all communication black and white and keeping our super boss in the loop. But whatever we do, as long as the bosses are not result-oriented we may be facing some problems with such people I feel.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #778235

    Points:4
    Blame game and throwing the ball in other courts are very old tools of the people who want to shift the responsibilities on other people's head. In every organisations these types of people are there and take advantages and convince the management that it was not their fault.
    I fully agree with the view of Dr Rao that where the head of the department is not a clear and strict person in one's judgement and administration there such people flourish and create problems for the simple people. If the boss or manager is a straight forward person taking decisions without getting biased with the excuses made by these people then such problems will not recur.
    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

  • #778236

    Points:4
    The blame game is not a new thing in an organisation. It is a way to cover up the mistakes committed by a manager of a department. If some reasonable officer hears the plea, he might be convinced but this is a part of clever interpretation concealing the facts. Such managers can change their version every moment to suit their statements before the higher authorities.
    There is always a risk of being punished to the junior officer reporting under such a senior officer.
    The best part is to take caution by the junior colleague requesting his boss to provide a written instruction so that such a risk of punishment is minimised.

  • #778237

    Points:5
    The author is one way correct. But it is not possible to over shoulder the blame on others always as our problem created because of others we are forced to blame the other concerned person only. It is happening in my case only recently. Based on the information received from another department person, I submitted one report by believing his one found correct. But since he served a wrong report to me the fault fall on me. In such case I am forced to unshoulder though the problem is created by me.
    Always it is not correct to blame others for our problems unless the problem is based on others. But blaming others for the problems is human. The same was told in a joke in the year 1995 itself. A computer seller explains the buyer that he is selling 'Human Computer'. The buyer astonished and ask how. Seller told, 'when an error comes in the computer it simply shows other computer for fault.'

  • #778265

    Points:3
    Long back, I wrote a post on the famous /infamous ABC (Avoid-Blame-Confuse) technique. The link is given below:
    ABC technique
    At that time, all members who responded (except Partha K.) solemnly declared that they had never used this technique.
    However, the members may find that old post relevant in the present context.
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

  • #778283

    Points:4
    Blaming others for your problems is a natural human way to avoid criticism. People use this to get away with their mistakes because they don't have any other choice. Whenever someone is in trouble he/she starts looking for scapegoats, who can help them get out of the hole. In my view you can't tell anyone to stop blaming others because most of the people never accept their mistakes. Accepting mistakes in professional life can draw a lot of criticism that people usually avoid. Hence, in my view it is a human tendency behind such behaviour and everyone doesn't have the guts to accept their mistakes.
    Humble yourself or life will do it for you!


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