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blamestorming
What does blamestorming mean?
A group sit-down after something's gone properly wrong, where the stated agenda is 'lessons learned' but the actual agenda is pinning the blame on someone before management does. Big in hospitals after a serious adverse event, but the term's leaked into corporate life too.
"M&M meeting at eight, but let's be honest, it's a blamestorming session about the missed tamponade."
Origin
Pun on 'brainstorming'; popularised in late-90s office and medical slang.
Frequently asked questions
What does 'blamestorming' mean?
Blamestorming is a meeting held purely to work out whose fault a disaster was.
How do you use 'blamestorming' in a sentence?
You'd say, 'The launch flopped, so now we're stuck in a blamestorming session all afternoon.'
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