Frankly, if that works and you get fired, you didn't lose much to start with. Sorry, but keeping your job is a different skill set than doing your job.

I've had to opposite experience twice - I got drop-shipped into projects where somebody had gone rogue and I cleaned it up, and then they were let go. It's most unpleasant, and had they been more perceptive they'd have known that's what was going on. In both cases, I believe they were ready to go ( and I lost any trust in the management that used this gambit and left myself shortly).

Valuable advice, said individual has indeed already tried this approach with my immediate managers and my peers. Luckily I've been here long enough to have a reputation that can't easily be besmirched