British operation as farcical as our own should be exiled to Bloem
At the London Olympics in 2012, I was stopped at the security point I used every day to get into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and, for the first time, asked to unpack my bag. It contained an object of concern.
The soldier who searched me said he was sorry, but I could not take it in. I understood and we had a quick chat about what it was like to be working at the Games. He was having a blast. They got to be part of the event and got tickets to the odd event when any were spare. Can anyone guess the name of the company? If you said G4S, then you go to the top of the class, although it was hardly the biggest leap after the Thabo Bester farce in the Free State. If only someone, I don’t know, had done a background check on the company before, perhaps a little research on the interweb, they would have found the London 2012 situation called a “chaotic farce”.
One G4S trainee, a former policeman, told the Guardian in 2012 that the recruiting was “an utter farce ... There were people who couldn’t spell their own names. The staff were having to help them. Most people hadn’t filled in their application forms correctly. Some didn’t know what references were and others said they didn’t have anyone who could act as a referee.
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