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34 Million Yen To Clean Up Sewage Bureau Mess

Postby Mulboyne » Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:28 pm

[floatl]Image[/floatl]Yomiuri: Design blunder costs 34 mil. yen
Tokyo metropolitan government's Sewage Bureau spent about 34 million yen having a new set of badges made for staff uniforms after a problem was found with the logo on an original batch of 20,000, it has been learned. The 20,000 badges featured the name of the organization with a five-centimeter blue wavelike line underneath it. The design was judged to contravene metropolitan government design rules relating to its logos, prompting the bureau to have a new set of badges made. The metropolitan government reportedly attributed responsibility for the mistake to two senior officials in charge of having the badges made, and punished them. The metropolitan government's reaction over the badges is likely to be criticized for being too inflexible and unnecessarily bureaucratic, sources said...About 20,000 badges were made and some of them were sewn on uniforms in November. However, during a meeting held in November, the issue of the badge's design was queried as it was thought it might contravene design rules stipulated in a basic design manual. The internal design rule specifies where the ginkgo symbol should be placed and the size ratio between the symbol and letters. The rule stipulates that other elements should not be added to a badge. The bureau interpreted the internal rule in the strictest possible way, the sources said. Although the internal rule also provides exceptions, the bureau decided to take out the line and have another batch of badges made. The initial budget for making the uniforms was about 213 million yen. But the metropolitan government had to pay an additional 34 million yen to have the new badges made and sewn on the uniforms, they said...more...
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Postby Gilligan » Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:35 pm

Welcome to the Land of the Rising Beaurocracy.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:39 pm

Gilligan wrote:Welcome to the Land of the Rising Beaurocracy.

Yeah no shit. A normal company would have some kind of design review before going mass production. Not after you finished producing.

Personally, I like the design with the blue wave though...

spent about 34 million yen ... on an original batch of 20,000,

Fuckin Christ. That comes out to 1700 yen each! Whichever company that was contracted to do that job deserves to burn down to the ground. Most likely an amakudari job.

The metropolitan government reportedly attributed responsibility for the mistake to two senior officials in charge of having the badges made, and punished them.

A punishment by means of paid suspension.
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Postby Gilligan » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:48 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:Yeah no shit. A normal company would have some kind of design review before going mass production. Not after you finished producing.


That's the difference between a private institution that needs to justify spending to its stockholders/owners and a public institution that can just scapegoat a couple of unpopular employees and move on to spending more public money.

Personally, I like the design with the blue wave though...


Agreed. Isn't it ironic that the government feels the need to spend excessively in order to do away with the more attractive logo.

Fuckin Christ. That comes out to 1700 yen each! Whichever company that was contracted to do that job deserves to burn down to the ground. Most likely an amakudari job.


Well, that could be, but if not, I won't condemn the private institution for charging what the government is willing to pay. That's why the good Lord created open public bidding for government contracts. Blame the government employees (and the welfare-mentality under which they operate) for not having taken 30 minutes to do some research and figure out what a reasonable price would be.
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Postby kusai Jijii » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:30 pm

So go on Gill, do tell. Who do you vote for? Dems or Reps? The suspense is killing me.:p
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Postby Gilligan » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:58 pm

kusai Jijii wrote:So go on Gill, do tell. Who do you vote for? Dems or Reps? The suspense is killing me.:p


As has been well documented on these boards, neither. But, after my above comments, that would have been obvious to the intelligent man ;)
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Postby Greji » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:15 pm

[quote="Gilligan"]As has been well documented on these boards, neither. But, after my above comments, that would have been obvious to the intelligent man ]

I was gonna answer for you Gil, but I'll need another stimulus sewed to my shorts....
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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:06 pm

kusai Jijii wrote:So go on Gill, do tell. Who do you vote for? Dems or Reps? The suspense is killing me.:p

What do you care? You're Australian.
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Postby kusai Jijii » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:11 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:What do you care? You're Australian.


What do I care? Fuck all. Its just that watching you yanks have your (small d) 'democratic' orgy is better than watching TV. I mean, who woulda thought 'W' would get a second term? You couldnt script it, ne...:lol:
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:41 pm

The Gesuidokyoku better ante up another thirty four mil to clean up the sewage mess I'm about to leave.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:13 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:What do you care? You're Australian.

Think the US policies of the last eight years might have had some influence over the state of the entire world is in recently...
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Postby Doctor Stop » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:14 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:A normal company would have some kind of design review before going mass production.
It probably went through the same steps as it would have in a company: the paperwork received ten different hanko stamps by ten different people, all of whom didn't completely read over what they were hanko-ing.
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Postby Mulboyne » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:55 am

Yomiuri: Tokyo sewage chief faces pay cut over badge fiasco
The chief of the Tokyo metropolitan government's Sewerage Bureau is to receive a 20 percent salary cut for three months after squandering 34 million yen on reordering badges for staff uniforms after rejecting new ones because they featured an unauthorized design, the Tokyo metropolitan government announced Friday. Though it is highly unusual to discipline an official for wasteful spending, the metropolitan government decided to mete out a strong punishment in light of the large sum involved, a metropolitan government spokesman said. According to the metropolitan government and other sources, the bureau last year ordered about 20,000 badges featuring a ginkgo leaf. However, the design was considered to violate internal rules because it included an about five-centimeter blue wavy line.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:49 pm

Serves him right.
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