My boss has been with Wells Fargo for over 20 years, the biggest thing he is capable of managing is a bunch of teenagers working as baggers and cart pushers at a local grocery mart. I work with lead engineers who couldn't lead a dehydrated donkey to the closest watering hole and their technical skills clearly do not exist.
If these type of people did not have access to Google or Bing or even the team works website to search for popular keywords they would not be able to produce analyst level admin documentation at best. Everything that they do produce requires another engineer to circle back and clean up and fix and do right.
If I don't clean up after these other adults then I get blamed for not looking out for the team and my manager starts on his soapbox saying I'm an insider threat and that in the best interest of Wells Fargo he needs to do everything he can to fire me.
My question is how can I fail upwards like this? Where I don't have to take accountability for anything, I can blame everyone else, and I can be rude and disrespectful to everyone else and not be held accountable.
I fear though that I will not be able to fail upwards because I have a strong ethical backbone I actually feel guilty when I leave something unfinished and I have a strong professional ethic and I think it takes a special type of dirt bag to fail upwards; however, if there is a possibility for a morally ethical individual with a strong teamwork building factor to fail upwards please let me know.