They seem to use 'I'm cooked' as a way of deflecting blame - and just giving up.
That somehow its not their fault, 'its the system'. and beyond their control, and therefore its poor-little-me.
When actually it because they are a lazy little a..e, haven't done the work, and think that I, or 'someone else' can make-it-all-better and dig them out of a position that is entirely of their own making.