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YOG Committee Apologises for 45,000 Cert Error

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Vulcann

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Just when we are still congratulating ourselves for a job well done for the inaugural YOG & this has to happen.

 

Hope the total costs, which would include the re-printing plus postage/courier services to local & ovesea folks, of rectifying the 45,000 certificates will not exceed S$1m.

 

Else, it will really exceed the previous record of S$388m "Honest Mistake" taxpayer money...

 

No more please.... :o

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1082993/1/.html

 

YOG committee apologises for error in certificates

 

By Evelyn Choo | Posted: 23 September 2010 1954 hrs

 

SINGAPORE: The organising committee of the Youth Olympic Games (SYOGOC) has admitted to an error in the certificates issued to participants and volunteers.

 

Approximately 45,000 certificates bore sample signatures of the committee chairman and International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge instead of the actual ones.

 

The samples were used as place holders during the design process, and were sent to the printing firm by mistake.

 

The committee says there was an oversight in the checking process and has apologised for the incident.

 

It will be contacting the respective organisations, participants and volunteers to send them the new certificates by December.

 

They can also contact the organising committee at [email protected].

 

- CNA/fa

 

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Sosaria

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Well, don't blame the rank-and-file workers who handled the certs and made the mistake. Either they are volunteers themselves or contracted. I think it's a classic case of pay peanuts, get monkeys.

 

The high-paid members of this entire entreprise already off somewhere else, or probably still patting each other on the back.

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Well, don't blame the rank-and-file workers who handled the certs and made the mistake. Either they are volunteers themselves or contracted. I think it's a classic case of pay peanuts, get monkeys.

 

The high-paid members of this entire entreprise already off somewhere else, or probably still patting each other on the back.

 

 

agree. for yog most of the work is run by volunteer.

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Celicar

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Well, don't blame the rank-and-file workers who handled the certs and made the mistake. Either they are volunteers themselves or contracted. I think it's a classic case of pay peanuts, get monkeys.

 

The high-paid members of this entire entreprise already off somewhere else, or probably still patting each other on the back.

 

Don't pay peanuts sometimes also still get monkeys.

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RadX

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Let's put it in perspective...agree it is shameful...but look at the current problems of the commonwealth games...jialat

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Let's put it in perspective...agree it is shameful...but look at the current problems of the commonwealth games...jialat

Commonwealth Games ?

More like CommonPoor Games to me.

Quote : Your acceptable standards of Hygiene is not the same as mine. WTF !

Glad that India as a country is still low on efficiency... If they are so efficient... You and I will be out of a job and our wives will be maids in India instead.

Count your blessings.

 

 

 

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