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Originally Posted by enjayell
As for stationery, can always draw from the General Office / Admin side. If you need additional stationery, good to budget and purchase early. I think this goes for whole of civil service and is not unique to MOE. Paperwork is inevitable since we are using taxpayer's money. Accountability is impt. |
Sometimes at a meeting a week before a high key event your SLs "suddenly thought of something" and you gotta scramble to get things implemented. It's not always so simple that you can foresee everything you need in September the year before.
Accountability is important, yes. But squandering all these man hours on extremely laborious paperwork is also an egregious waste of tax monies. The expenditure on man hours to get the paperwork done significantly decreases the value for money received from every single procurement exercise. Accountability should not be thrown away entirely, but at the same time we have taken the administrative processes too far.