Whose fault is it when nobody books the hotel and it sells out?
The hotel sold out because nobody booked it. One friend assumed the other would handle it, but never actually asked. Whose fault is the missed reservation?
The one who assumed
I figured you were going to book the hotel like you usually handle that stuff, so I didn't worry about it. It's frustrating that it sold out before anyone reserved it.
The one nobody asked
You never actually asked me to book it and I never agreed to. You can't pin a missed task on me when it was never handed off in the first place.
The verdict
Who's at fault
The one who assumed is more in the wrong here. You can't blame someone for a job that was never actually handed to them. One friend assumed the other would book the hotel but never asked, and the other never agreed to take it on. That makes the missed booking the assumer's to own. The simple fix: whoever dropped the ball books the next trip's hotel, no reminders needed.
“You can't blame a job you never handed off.”
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