What's your worst story of you or someone you know being "thrown under this bus"?

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This one time the CD was pissed at a Jr Designer for speaking up during a pitch and saying complete nonsense, so on our way out of the building, he grabbed him by the collar and threw him under an oncoming bus.

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A few times my team was thrown under the bus is when my associate director named a co worker or any of us below her as the reason of the errors that she herself produced just so she can mask her incompetence/lack of knowledge.

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We had an Art Director blame a Junior Designer for a project coming in 3 weeks late, despite the designer being on the project only 1 day. The day it was delivered. Needless to say that Art Director "Chose Poorly".

I was working a shaky project and had a 2 week Europe trip right in the middle. My boss covered, it went south, instead of reaching out to me he blamed the issues on me and took me off the project. I found out the whole thing only when I got back!

Be nice to everyone but limit those you trust in this industry. It's real life GOT.

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