Been there...
I used to work as Mechanical Engineer (yes, I carried a large hammer as a Fix-it-All tool) and when some equipment failed, we had 30 running days to fill a report explaining the failure, in order to find out if any written procedure was not being followed (so we got properly shafted later on) or if the scheduled maintenance was not being executed (so the maintenance personnel got shafted later on), or anything else happened (so the Boss got shafted later on).
Well, it turned out that my Boss handed me down one of those TWO FREAKING DAYS before the expiration time, on a freaking FRIDAY, meaning I should deliver it on the following Monday. Since he didn't hand me down the report 28 days before, it was his fault (but he wouldn't get shafted for that).
When there is conflict, there is opportunity, OVERTIME BONUS!
So I grabbed a mechanic on Saturday (bonus for him too, he saved my hide a number of times with inside intel from the Head, like the janitor of the BOFH), we dismantled the gear, found the problem, I pulled the report out of my *rse and delivered it on Monday. It was a half-baked report (no accompanying mind-numbing Powerpoint with pictures of the failure, mind you, the report itself was spotless), but it was very accurate to the truth... I loved when I found out the machine died of natural causes (poor material choice...), no procedure was disregarded, and the Boss got shafted...
...or so I thought, but he rewrote it (revised... pfff) in such a way that everything I said was still there, but it didn't sound as his fault. Of course, I had to approve his 'revision', but what the hell... sigh... I still got my bonus!
That's why I love BOFH, he solves the matters at hand swiftly and without mercy...
And he never gets the shaft...