As to the question -“Was it a ‘Cock-up’ or ‘Conspiracy’, M’lud?"
Looks very clear to me P2. I guess the question is, was it accidental or deliberate?
Two options here – ‘Cock-up’ or ‘Conspiracy’.
Shall we, in trust, examine the case for a ‘Cock-up’. A report must be prepared, for the Rev. Forsyth and his boys are coming for tea and biscuits. There exists a mountain of paperwork and some of it will be used as part of the exercise, so a junior is ‘tasked’ (as they like to say) to find some pretty pictures to add to the Rev’s file and a ‘wrong’ graph finds it’s way into the file pile. An error; which even in the best managed organization can occur. So, the ‘file’ is now compiled at low pay grade level and kicked up the food chain for editing and tweeking by the next level and the ‘error’ is not spotted – it happens – no doubt about it. Even so; by the time our ‘file’ has been through all the stages it must go through, having been ‘signed off’ (as they like to say) at each stage; it is ready for the Forsyth review panel. How many desks has this document crossed? How many of those sat at those desks spotted the ‘error’? Of those, how many were aware that there was an ‘error’ in the graphic data? Of those who did, who was the one who made a conscious decision to leave it stand? Who ‘signed off’ on the data to be presented to the Forsyth review?
Shirley; not everyone of these highly paid ‘experts’ failed to spot the ‘error’.
I say “If that is the truth M’lud, then there is a case of gross incompetence to be answered here; if not incompetence, then it is something much more sinister”. “I hesitate to use words like intent, fraud, conspiracy and cover up; although they do hover around the periphery of this ‘error’; furthermore, neither Forsyth or his team spotted the ‘error’ which is understandable, if not completely excusable”.
What it does prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, is that people don’t ‘read’ things; they skim through a glossy, carefully prepared brief and skip past the details. As we all know children; ‘tis in the detail the devil resides.
Aye well; too late now, and anyway; the ASRR has been consigned to the dusty archives; filed and forgotten, next to the SSC file; just flea bites, on the arse of the great elephant.
Toot toot.
Looks very clear to me P2. I guess the question is, was it accidental or deliberate?
Two options here – ‘Cock-up’ or ‘Conspiracy’.
Shall we, in trust, examine the case for a ‘Cock-up’. A report must be prepared, for the Rev. Forsyth and his boys are coming for tea and biscuits. There exists a mountain of paperwork and some of it will be used as part of the exercise, so a junior is ‘tasked’ (as they like to say) to find some pretty pictures to add to the Rev’s file and a ‘wrong’ graph finds it’s way into the file pile. An error; which even in the best managed organization can occur. So, the ‘file’ is now compiled at low pay grade level and kicked up the food chain for editing and tweeking by the next level and the ‘error’ is not spotted – it happens – no doubt about it. Even so; by the time our ‘file’ has been through all the stages it must go through, having been ‘signed off’ (as they like to say) at each stage; it is ready for the Forsyth review panel. How many desks has this document crossed? How many of those sat at those desks spotted the ‘error’? Of those, how many were aware that there was an ‘error’ in the graphic data? Of those who did, who was the one who made a conscious decision to leave it stand? Who ‘signed off’ on the data to be presented to the Forsyth review?
Shirley; not everyone of these highly paid ‘experts’ failed to spot the ‘error’.
I say “If that is the truth M’lud, then there is a case of gross incompetence to be answered here; if not incompetence, then it is something much more sinister”. “I hesitate to use words like intent, fraud, conspiracy and cover up; although they do hover around the periphery of this ‘error’; furthermore, neither Forsyth or his team spotted the ‘error’ which is understandable, if not completely excusable”.
What it does prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, is that people don’t ‘read’ things; they skim through a glossy, carefully prepared brief and skip past the details. As we all know children; ‘tis in the detail the devil resides.
Aye well; too late now, and anyway; the ASRR has been consigned to the dusty archives; filed and forgotten, next to the SSC file; just flea bites, on the arse of the great elephant.
Toot toot.