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One of the well known design patterns in the object-oriented software world is named “Chain Of Responsibility“. The UML sequence diagram below shows an example of how the software objects in the pattern collaborate with each other in order to ensure that a user initiated help request is handled somewhere in the GUI of an application.

As you might surmise, the world of hierarchical superiority has an analogous pattern, err anti-pattern, named “Chain Of Irresponsibility“. Do ya think I need to add words to explain the inter-object collaborations for this pattern as shown in the UML sequence diagram that follows?

In case you were wondering, S = Senior, BM = Bozo Manager, and DIC = Dweeb In the Cellar.