Man refuses to defend his brother’s bad business decisions at their dad’s formal hearing after years of cleaning up every overpromise he made: ‘I am not going in there to help him turn his choices into bad luck’ – FAIL Blog

The issue here is that every time the handshaker oversells and the detail person quietly fixes it, the lesson learned is that overselling is fine. The cleanup is someone else’s department. That arrangement works beautifully until it does not, and when it stops working the detail person is somehow still the one expected to mop it up, this time with a straight face in front of a board.