Had my second day of training today. The class has about 14 people in it, with only four guys. Only three folks in the class are 24 or younger, with the rest being married folks between 40-65. Kinda disappointing that I won't be working with any babes, but our supervisor is pretty hot. Too bad she has a kid and smokes
In these two days I've learned...well, government is very inefficient, and we get paid for it. In March, the census had people go around and canvas addresses for the various blocks that would be targeted by the census in April. April came and about 60% of people sent theirs back in the mail. We're supposed to be targeting the 40%, but apparently the census is not going to use any the address data received in March initially. Therefore we'll be going door to door for everyone instead of going directly to the 40% of non-responders for the first few weeks as we target college students. Then we get to use the address data. This has to all be processed by like June or July, so you'd think they would pull out the data much earlier lol
Today is another great example. Training is supposed to last 8 hours, then we fill out our time sheets and call it a day. Yesterday someone from the census office stopped by to pick up the paperwork we signed earlier that day. He spent about 30 minutes scrubbing the paperwork for mistakes before leaving. Well today I was informed that I forgot to sign a part of my paperwork, as did two other people. The office called and said they were sending another scrubber to bring the paperwork back so we could sign it, and that he'd arrive before the end of class. Class ended at 4:20pm and everyone left except the supervisor, me, and the two other people with paperwork issues. An hour later and the dude still wasn't there. Finally our supervisor called and said if he didn't get here soon, she'd have to give us overtime due to the wait. The office person basically said "fine, whatever they'll sign the stuff tomorrow" and let us go. So I got paid overtime just for waiting for the dude to come and do the job he should have done yesterday
