As a security guard at the Office of Education in L. A. County, I once allowed a con artist/burglar to make off with a couple of computers (he exchanged old typewriters for them)–but I got off scot-free because I called my supervisor–who himself spoke to this guy on the phone and let him in. (The supervisor knew he couldn’t pass the blame on to me; my company–this was a contract job–would raise hell if he did.)
Post here some blunder you made on the job but didn’t get blamed for–especially if a higher-up accepted the real blame!
Quite the opposite…
I readily accept the blame from outside the division for screw-ups my folks have committed. Part of a chief’s job is to watch and protect his folks.
Of course they do answer to me when we get behind closed doors.
I was going to actually respond to the OP but then ChiefScott’s closing remark made my brain lock up with totally unrealted subject matter…
I have to admit, I thought the same thing:
Chief: “On all fours, boy! You’re MINE!”
But that’s just my sick brain at work.
Anyhoo, I regularly blame share any mistakes- I call it CYA (cover your ass). I never make major decisions without written approval from management, so if something blows up I can say “Hey, you approved it!”
The CYA method helps avoid the unpleasant effects of the “Shit Rolls Downhill” theory, I find.
Zette
PS Chief: I meant you would order someone “on all fours” to do pushups. 
Yours is not as bad as mine! I have these images involving…um… nevermind.
Chief? How big is your desk?
Propounds Zette
Less’n o’course that person was you or Arden.
Or even better, both you and Arden.
[Orders] Positions, ladies!! [/Orders]
Enthuses Arden
Being a real man, probably 3 inches shorter than what I’d tell you…
Needless to say, no one’s ever going back to the OP.
OP? There was an OP?
I must have missed that with the thought of Chief and Arden and Zette all three positioning themselves around (and on and under) Chief’s desk.
Why is it that I always seem to come late to the good parties?
At least you’re coming…
And you’re not? Poor man. Let’s see if there’s any way I can rectify that for you…
Or rectal-fy it for me?
That’s certainly another way to put it…
Or another place to put it…
Oh, there’s many places to put it… you just need to decide where…
Actually, where first. Decisions, decisions…
And, you need to decide just what to start with… I believe you have as many objects to insert as I have places to put them…
Or something like that.