Must be similar to a Catch 22 situation.
Nah, in defence of Joseph Heller’s original concept, a Catch-22 situation would be where there was a rule that anyone who asked a question would be denied an answer because they’d had the temerity to ask a question.
If you recall, in Catch-22 airmen who applied to be repatriated on grounds of insanity were refused because asking to go home was a perfectly sane thing to do.
What you’ve describe is the Dance of the Too-Hard Baskets (aka “Ask Your Mother/Father”).