Trick Bag

Two or more courses of action, presented as options, that all lead to failure.

Supervisors or managers will resort to this in order to deliberately cause a subordinate to fail. When the employee fails, he or she is counseled or terminated for failing the task.

Last Monday my supervisor gave me a choice of cleaning the entire assembly line in one day or inventorying everything in the warehouse in one day. I chose the inventory and could not complete it in one day so I got fired. My supervisor put me in a trick bag.