My daughter just received her HSC (NSW high school leaving certificate) in the post this week. Couldn't believe it had the wrong year printed on it, saying 2017, not 2018. Apparently all 70,000 certificates were wrong and have to be reprinted and sent out again. How does that happen!?

Bwahahaha ...................... Gold!

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^Been policy for a while...

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Harrow said..
My daughter just received her HSC (NSW high school leaving certificate) in the post this week. Couldn't believe it had the wrong year printed on it, saying 2017, not 2018. Apparently all 70,000 certificates were wrong and have to be reprinted and sent out again. How does that happen!?

This saying comes to mind.

To err is human, but to really **** up you need a computer.

Definitely not a "computer error". To all intents and purposes there is no such thing.

The real problem is outsourcing. Systems are outsourced to the lowest bidder. Those bids have almost no resources for software testing.

Managers try to shift all the risk to the outsource provider and dedicate none of their own people to doing testing. When things go wrong they point to the other guy and duck.

I don't think even God could get through without the occasional typo?

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Gorgo said..
Definitely not a "computer error". To all intents and purposes there is no such thing.

The real problem is outsourcing. Systems are outsourced to the lowest bidder. Those bids have almost no resources for software testing.

Managers try to shift all the risk to the outsource provider and dedicate none of their own people to doing testing. When things go wrong they point to the other guy and duck.

Who said anything about a computer error, I can probably send out bugger all handwritten letters a day with the wrong date but 70,000 with a computer would be easy, discounting AI computers only work with the information put into them.

My guess is that a quick cut and paste was done to last years template and someone forgot to change the date and it probably never got proof read by a human because we don't need to do that anymore, the program does it for us.

That's why anything important I get my wife to proof read it, if I make a mistake she is sure to point it out for me

If you right click on almost any file on your computer and then click on "properties" the pop up box will give you the date it was created and the last date it was modified.

Does that info help anybody resolve this issue??

I have found this "date stamping" of computer files particularly useful when needing to prove to the Rental Tenancy Authority that I have issued notices to tenants on specified dates when the tenant claims otherwise.

The same company that did the sign for new years eve on the Sydney harbour bridge!