A new City Council award

Every office girl should know the initials E&OE.  The letters stand for 'Errors and Omissions Excepted'.  Don't fall into he trap of reading the word 'excepted' as 'accepted'.  The two words are almost opposites.  The letters appear on most invoices, and have done so for many years.  It's a way of saying, "If  I make an error, it must be ignored".  How you are supposed to know that there is an error, is not explained.  I have yet to hear how the Courts treat that way of trying to avoid responsibility.  But Nottingham City Council should have put the letters on a Grant Approval Form.  Recently I received a Grant Approval form telling me that the body I am treasurer for, has been awarded the sum of £500 that we asked for.  Then a while later I got a payment advice telling me that £345.00 was being paid into the account held by this organisation.  I rang the lady concerned and was told that "I typed in the wrong figure".  I think making a fuss will not help anyone, as we are the beggars receiving Council largesse.  Where I hail from (Richmond on Thames), I cannot imagine that Council even considering making a grant to a body that is often critical of them; that is one up for Nottingham.  In fact, it was a Council employee who suggested in the first place that we apply for a grant.

I am going to suggest that the Council should instigate an award to suitable employees of a E&OE medal.  It would be on a par with the Ig-Nobel prizes awarded annually by a more august body than ours.  Having just looked at the internet, it seems that Ig-Nobel winners are called "Ignitaries"  ('dignitaries' less the 'D'). (They've been de-dignified).  Need I say more?