As an adult have you ever put someone in the frame for something you did?

r3nu4l

So have you?

In an old job a friend of mine placed the blame for a very serious offence on the shoulders of someone who had just recently left the job.

My friend had not been noting the amount of radioactive substance he had been using in experiments and when the aliquot was finished there was a large discrepancy in the records of amounts used. Now under law, that's a serious offence and my mate breezily blamed it on the other guy. I eventually persuaded him to tell the truth and he was disciplined as a result (oops!) but it stopped a very sersious investigation.

So have you done this to a colleague? How did you feel afterwards? Regret it or glad to have done it?

Personally I couldn't live with the guilt but that's just me, what about you?

Black Swan

r3nu4l wrote:

So have you done this to a colleague?

Never!

Splinter

got a phone call from the old job last week about a certain thing...turns out im being blamed on loads of things that apparently went missing/got confused in filing and now they are in the middle of stocktake its all getting thrown at me. most of them (including managment) know i aint responsible but i still get the blame cause i dont work there anymore.

bullrunner

this always happens in every job...its too easy for people to blame the person whos just left (knowing nothings gonna happen) than to take the blame themselves.

connundrum

I constantly blame the postman for important documents going missing. Of course I just haven't sent the document in the first place, but its easier to blame a faceless person.

Sorry Pat

User45701

If someone did they probbley wouldent do it what with IP's and the amount of users on boards

Terry

only minor stuff, like throwing a beermat at someone when they are ont looking and then blaming hte person beside me. nothing serious really.

r3nu4l

julep wrote:

only minor stuff, like throwing a beermat at someone when they are ont looking and then blaming hte person beside me. nothing serious really.

Yep, that and blaming my farts on someone else are completely harmless

Red Hand

I never make mistakes, so no. (that and the fact that would I look like a guilty puppy)

Ruu_Old

Used to do it in primary school all the time to get a mate sent up to the master's office, everyone done it. Let out a big roar and when teacher asks what happened, tell her your mate gave you a thump. As an adult, no, unless it was something harmless but can't think of a situation right now.

Collie D

Sounds like a pretty shabby thing to do. We've all done the beermats and fart thing, no harm in that. But not properly recording radiocative substances sounds pretty seriouos and it's bad form to pass the blame to someoone else (although suppose there is a comparison to the toxicity of some people's bums ).

If you're lazy enough not to bother doing something right or intentionally break a rule, you should at least have the balls to take the rap for it. I'm no angel and have cut the odd corner or bent the occasional law/rule but have always felt I was a big enough person to accept the consequences if caught.

Poor form on your mate there!

Feral Mutant

If something goes wrong, just blame the guy who can't speak english. Ah Zutroy, how many times have you saved my ass?

r3nu4l

Collie D wrote:

Poor form on your mate there!

Absolutely, and my convincing him to tell the truth was nothing to do with taking the heat off our old colleague or being the right thing to do.

He did it when I reminded him that the nature of the work he was doing meant that for those two months he could have been the only person using that particular isotope and would be caught out that way anyway. Properly disciplined and lucky not to be sacked!

Rb

Nope, I'm not the type to f*ck people over.

Or at least not in serious matters, including the workplace. I'd rather take the blame for something I had done than watch some innocent person get shafted.

andrew163

"All in favour?"
"AYE!"
"All opposed?"
"nay"
"Who keeps saying that..."
"It was him, lets gettim fellas.."

nesf

Nah, I'd feel too guilty about it.

randylonghorn

In jest, yes, sure ... not for serious things, generally ... though the postman, yeah, probably!

Only time I can remember was fingering my kid cousin for something fairly minor (clumsiness really) I was actually responsible for ... but only because I knew damn well that not a word would be said to him, while I would have got loads of grief about being old enough to know better / take more care, etc.

Terry

that's just sick, dude. really sick.
You don't finger your cousin, no matter how horny you are.

Heisenberg.

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randylonghorn

And a male cousin at that ... what have I become?! :eek: :eek: :eek:



Ah, feck it, he's nearly 16, and he didn't complain at the time.

Sangre

Ahh Tebor, where would I be without him?

Skellington

Yeah, a few times. And have never felt guilty about it, but I like to live on shakey moral grounds. Blamed some fairly seriously things that cost a good bit of time and money to sort on a couple of lads that had quit. I knew that they weren't going to ask for, or get a reference so I didn't see a problem. I'd never screw over any one that still works there though.

KTRIC

randylonghorn wrote:

And a male cousin at that ... what have I become?! :eek: :eek: :eek:



Ah, feck it, he's nearly 16, and he didn't complain at the time.

So, him being nearly 16 makes him a child when you fingered him. You stated you were old enough to know better, therefore you were probably an adult. If my presumptions are correct then what you did was sexually molest a minor and we all know what that makes you.

zuutroy

Feral Mutant wrote:

. Ah Zutroy, how many times have you saved my ass?

I know nothing about your ass!.....and it's two u's BTW!