today I uncovered a pretty silly SOP required for reimbursement/ making purchases. All I wanted to do was to buy a few post-its that my dept admin inventory didn't already stock (they have yellow ones but i needed other colors). The officer in charge of stationery purchases shared with me (to my disbelief) that I had to put up an approval paper before I cld proceed with my (claimable) purchases. In fact, I was told, I had to get approval to buy just about anything. While the officer was nice enough to offer to put up the approval for me; I just thought this step of seeking approval for the most petty of purchases was just plain silly and a waste of time lah. D says it's some new SOP put in place after the SLA saga and not unique to HDB... Think this new procedure has been in place for a while alri, just that I didn't need to make out-of-pocket purchases until now... isn't it kind of an overkill.. why cannot just apply this SOP to bigger purchases. Maybe I shld find out more about this and try to "complain" when I am free ha. Meanwhile, perhaps I shld just stick with yellow post-its for my meeting to avoid creating unnecessary work for other ppl :(