Making Light:  Talk, don't spin ::: September 07, 2007, 04:15 PM

Ursula L (#109) says "'Someone screwed up' may not be grammatically
passive, but it can be functionally passive when used in a
crisis-management public announcement."

Which is why banks, as described in P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith in the
City,* employ firing-clerks, whose job is to be called on the carpet
and summarily dismissed in front of irate customers.  If the dressing-
down is particularly vehement, the clerk may ask for a rise in pay.

Which is just to say that telling us who screwed up may not be as
valuable as we might hope.
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*or possibly Psmith, Journalist or some short story.  But certainly
Wodehouse's Psmith.