During problems, you often see the true nature of the people surrounding you. Some step up, take charge to help out. Others blame with anger, accelerating the severity of the problem. Fabricating problems is an effective strategy for character assassinations;
Often, those who are self-entitled, narcissistic and sociopathic, have little control over themselves when they see a problem. They act in ways that makes everything worse. This is especially true for those occupying authoritative positions.
Setting a trap through a problem, can often be used as a pretext to confront them (in front of others) on how poorly they handled the situation. Problem, reaction, solution.
It works better if you can set up a fall guy as the scapegoat, so the sociopath can focus their rage on the wrong person, as you confront them later, taking responsibility for the problem, while destroying their poor behaviour in front of others.
I’ve used this tactic too many times on other managers/supervisors. If you do it right, they end up leaving on their own accord. The sheer discontent from not being “loved” anymore by others motivates them to leave. Their reputation has been irreversibly damaged.
You have to be diligent when using this tactic. You must occupy a degree of authoritative position yourself, otherwise this can backfire badly.
The aim is to enable them to express their bad behaviour out in the open where they think it’s justified, when it’s not. Also works better when you’re not there on the day of the problem.
An example; A junior forgets to transmit the order. Supply chain becomes entirely disrupted. The sociopathic manager, finds out and yells at them. Tomorrow you come in, telling them that YOU didn’t transmit the order, shifting all responsibility on you.
You’ve opened them wide for character assassination of their poor distasteful behaviour that was wrongly unleashed, deeming them unfit for a manager. Make sure to unload in front of others. And go brutal. This is a true story scenario with details left out.