The current study examines a framework of predictor, process, and moderating variables that contribute to protégé perceptions of negative mentoring experiences within workplace mentoring relationships. Drawing from Victim Precipitation Theory (Aquino & Bradfield, 2000), I test two mediated moderation models in which various protégé characteristics are proposed to predict negative mentor appraisals of the relationship, which in turn, are proposed to predict protégé perceptions of negative mentoring experiences. Further, an interaction effect was proposed in which mentor perceptions of accountability for mentoring were said to moderate the relationship between mentor appraisals of the relationship and protégé perceptions of negative mentoring experiences. The models were largely unsupported. While the framework was unsupported, this study has implications for the future use of Victim Precipitation Theory in the organizational sciences and proposes an agenda for future research for the negative mentoring literature.