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).
