Author Topic: What is SDBA doing?????  (Read 3525 times)

Offline hard10

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What is SDBA doing?????
« on: June 20, 2009, 09:24 »
The much talk-about or rather debated-about category - Intercorporate. SDBA had already made it very clear that ONLY FULL TIME employees of a corporate can take part in the Intercorporate category. A meeting was even held 2 weeks before the 2008 River Regatta to solve the issue of teams having non full time employees. Solutions have been put in place and that is to have participants furnish their CPF statement (erasing out their monthly contribution for privacy issues) to prove they are indeed full time employees of the corporate they are representing. Has this even been done for this upcoming Singapore Dragonboat Festival?!

If so, why is there a team that used to take part in Inter-Business Houses and Clubs category (this team is not even a company to begin with) taking part in Intercorporate category in the upcoming Singapore Dragon Boat Festival?

I question the integrity of SDBA and about wanting to be fair and just. 
« Last Edit: June 20, 2009, 09:28 by hard10 »

Offline mortarman

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2009, 10:51 »

what team r u referring to?

Offline rowrow

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2009, 16:05 »
o is it?!?!?!   which team is it?!?!?!  better highlight it to sdba as the race is just a week away

Offline Rocket

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2009, 20:21 »
yes i suggest highlighting this matter to SDBA, they reserve the right to reject applications.

Offline faz_55

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2009, 23:45 »
If the claim is true, shld make official complaints to SDBA rather than just highlighting in the forum.  Even the police needs people feedback and cooperation, let alone SDBA.

Offline hard10

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2009, 10:06 »

what team r u referring to?

If you take a look at the list of corporate taking part this year. Clearly one look you can tell which team is a NON-Corporate team. Furthermore, this team has taken part in SOOO many of SDBA organized races for the past 4-5 years and have always been in the Inter-business and clubs category. It does not take a genius to point out which team it is. I am just surprised an organization who has organized dragonboat events for more than a decade cannot detect which team it is.

I have to say I am utterly disappointed in how the organizers have wasted so many corporate team managers time to meet and discuss about resolving this issue, coming up with solutions and yet this is happening AGAIN in this upcoming race. So what is the point of setting up rules (submitting CPF statements) and not adhering to them.

PS: To the non-corporate team who is registered in this Intercorporate category... I do not have anything against your team. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you have initially registered for this category because Inter-Business and Clubs category were not in this race. I assumed you have registered for this category because you had no other categories to take part in.

If SDBA is reading this, please look into this and adhere to whatever decisions you have come up with during the meeting in Nov 2008.

Listings of Corporate teams from SDBA website:
1   CareGiver Counselling Welfare Association            
2   DSO National Laboratories            
3   Exxonmobil            
4   Far East Organization            
5   Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Pte) Ltd - Team A            
6   Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Pte) Ltd - Team B            
7   HSBC            
8   Manulife            
9   NTUC Club            
10   OCBC Bank            
11   Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore            
12   Singapore Airlines Ltd - Team A            
13   Singapore Airlines Ltd - Team B            
14   Singapore Shell Club            
15   Soxal Sports & Recreational Club            
16   Standard Chartered Bank Recreational Club         
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Offline DBter

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2009, 22:48 »
Dear fellow paddlers,

SDBA has verified & 'both CCWA & NTUC Club have withdrawn' from the inter-corp category.

Thank you, SDBA, for your prompt action!

Offline rowrow

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2009, 08:36 »
good job SDBA!

all thanks to hard10 for highlighting this issue!

all the best to all rowers on the coming race!

Offline long-pull

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2010, 17:14 »
For this weekend, any Corp team trying his luck to  " import " " talent " of outside the company?
Do not be suprise

Offline hard10

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Re: What is SDBA doing?????
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2010, 19:53 »
For this weekend, any Corp team trying his luck to  " import " " talent " of outside the company?
Do not be suprise

well, even if they do, its not a category to look out for now... looks like its just HP and OCBC and possibly SIA (if they don't miss their flight again) fighting for the trophy...