JT
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eye95 wrote:
1. Census worker shows up at my house and asks my son if he has the correct address (which is clearly posted on the mailbox he walked right past to get to the house). My son looks at the census form and tells the worker that he has the wrong address and the address is for somone on a different street over a half-mile away. The census worker tells my son that his records show that he has the correct address and that he has to take the form by law. Census worker leaves.
2. I get home and my son tells me what happened. I spend two hours on the phone tracking down the appropriate person to handle my complaint. I report the incident and with the manager's approval, agree to deliver the form to the correct address since I know the people involved. The conversation ends with a promise that a corrected form will be mailed or hand delivered to my address. I deliver the form to the correct address as promised.
3. Three months pass with no response from the census bureau. Late one evening I get a call from the neighbor who Idelivered the originalform to telling me that a census worker showed up at his door asking where I lived. I told him to send him to my house and I would meet him. Thinking he he is finally here to deliver the promised form I greet him and ask for the form. He informs me that because of my refusal to respond to the census in a timely manner he cannot give me the form.I must give him the answers to the questions. I am not allowed to even touch the form. Needless to say I am ticked.I bent over backwards to comply and was treated as if I were an offender. After a very tense 15 minutes I gave him what info I could off the top of my head, insisting he get out of his air-conditioned vehicle and stand in the heat, mosquitos and deer flieswith me. He wanted to sit in his car or come inside for the inquisition. I refused. We both left angry.
4. I call the regional office again and wastold, in affect, too bad, so sad he was just doing his job.
So consider this. While you talk about what is supposed to happen, realize what is happening. I can give you dozens of similar stories that I have been told. If my area is any indication the results of this one are not to be trusted and are a preparation for gerrymandering on a scale never seen before. It was co-opted by the whitehouse from the beginning for that very purpose.
eye95 wrote:
eye95, I know many of the folks who sign up as census workers are just trying to do a job but the story around here is one of rank incompetance. My Mother-in-law received her Census form, hand carried, that had the correct street address but the State and zip were for a town in Georgia. Then there is my experience.However, with each successive operation we become more dogged in getting the information from those from whom we were unable to acquire the information in the previous operation.
1. Census worker shows up at my house and asks my son if he has the correct address (which is clearly posted on the mailbox he walked right past to get to the house). My son looks at the census form and tells the worker that he has the wrong address and the address is for somone on a different street over a half-mile away. The census worker tells my son that his records show that he has the correct address and that he has to take the form by law. Census worker leaves.
2. I get home and my son tells me what happened. I spend two hours on the phone tracking down the appropriate person to handle my complaint. I report the incident and with the manager's approval, agree to deliver the form to the correct address since I know the people involved. The conversation ends with a promise that a corrected form will be mailed or hand delivered to my address. I deliver the form to the correct address as promised.
3. Three months pass with no response from the census bureau. Late one evening I get a call from the neighbor who Idelivered the originalform to telling me that a census worker showed up at his door asking where I lived. I told him to send him to my house and I would meet him. Thinking he he is finally here to deliver the promised form I greet him and ask for the form. He informs me that because of my refusal to respond to the census in a timely manner he cannot give me the form.I must give him the answers to the questions. I am not allowed to even touch the form. Needless to say I am ticked.I bent over backwards to comply and was treated as if I were an offender. After a very tense 15 minutes I gave him what info I could off the top of my head, insisting he get out of his air-conditioned vehicle and stand in the heat, mosquitos and deer flieswith me. He wanted to sit in his car or come inside for the inquisition. I refused. We both left angry.
4. I call the regional office again and wastold, in affect, too bad, so sad he was just doing his job.
So consider this. While you talk about what is supposed to happen, realize what is happening. I can give you dozens of similar stories that I have been told. If my area is any indication the results of this one are not to be trusted and are a preparation for gerrymandering on a scale never seen before. It was co-opted by the whitehouse from the beginning for that very purpose.