It is funny yet saddening how things like this can happen.
Which reminds me of an incident that happened a few days ago. My Supervisor received an order from a certain Dean that she had been elected to usher a certain Professor during the Prize Giving ceremony to be held a day before our convocation. The funny thing is that THAT certain Professor had already passed away half a decade ago!
After he passed away, my Supervisor single-handedly raised some money and placed them into a Tabung Amanah under the late Professor’s name, and a small sum of the money would be awarded to students who excel in the field of Aquaculture every year. And because of that, my Supervisor had been invited, every year, to give away the award on behalf of the late Professor. Until this year.
My Supervisor had not been asked to award the student. In fact, she was asked to usher the late Professor to hand over the award. What a joke! Another bigger joke is that it came from the Dean of a certain faculty on campus - the same faculty in which the late Professor would be in if he was still around.
This just shows that whoever signs the memos and letters just signed them without reading through them. How IRRESPONSIBLE. In this case, we could just laugh it off and the joke falls onto the Dean. But in the case where the Mother receives a letter which says that her “dead” son would be freed soon, it only reminded her of his death.
The thing is, shouldn’t we be very careful in everything we do? Can we just shrug our shoulders and blame everything on “technical errors”?!
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Maybe they hoped that the professor would somehow rise from the dead and do really funky stuff like Michael Jackson. Hehe
pelf: O.M.G.
50% technical error, 50% human error.
Takes two to clap
pelf: Minor error OK la, but this… *shakes head*
They say that ignorance is bliss.. but in this case..hmmmm
pelf: There are always 2 sides to everything
Well … let’s not be too hard on every mistake made. Really, because, no matter how careful we are, mistakes do happen. That’s why we’re all human.
To err is human, to forgive, devine.
pelf: I am ever forgiving.. I forgive spelling mistakes