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[Beat Bandit]

Try being the one reading all that stuff...

the week after spending a week listening to it.

Actually, I haven't had to promote anyone yet either, because no one in a position above me knows what the fuck is going on. Originally the position was going to go to two people, then maybe one, now maybe no one. I haven't been asking about it at all, and I'm hoping if I continue to not I can see people in the field before deciding, which will make it 100 times more of a non-issue deciding.

[Defenestration]

Yeah, I sort of got the impression that's how it went for my leader-person. There was a question about if we should leave our numbers on the notes if noone's around, but MAYBE they might get a specific phone for the CLA SO they don't call us but no one's sure yet because they're still talking about it and etc. I'm not exactly suprised, since I'm pretty sure there's next to no year round staff at the Census Bureau since they only do this every ten years.

Curiously, apparently she has a CLA already that took the class with her and only has to pick one more. But yea

[R^2]

It's not my job, but we don't have a thread for things I do in class so I'm putting it here. It sure doesn't deserve its own thread.

One of our projects in my Computer Apps class is to put together a business proposal for a fictional catering company.

And on each Word document must be a picture watermark of our choosing.

Well, it's a catering company, so delicious food is going to be the theme. My watermark? The Sandvich.

[teg]

I am beginning to resent the movie store I work for. Avatar was just released, as many of you probably know. I've been promoting the heck out of presales for the last month because if I don't, I basically don't get to eat. But it turns out that not only is the product itself a total rip-off (just the movie. No special features), it is priced ten dollars more at our store than anywhere else in town -a mark-up that I won't see one penny of.
I had been at least hoping we would drop the price in the system to the usual release day pricing (which is usually okay) when it came out. The price in the system was the release day pricing. Eeeeeeeesh.

This puts me in an awkward spot (at least in my head). The two I would consider most qualified based off what I've seen so far are guys, and I feel like giving them both the position may make the women in training assume I chose them based off that, and since everyone seemed to want as many hours as they could get, I don't even have the "well, he was available more" cushion to fall back on.

Just so you don't feel so bad about this if it's still relevant: Not promoting them because you didn't have them in mind for the position isn't sexist. Promoting them to make the gender split more favourable even though you didn't have them in mind would be.

[Spaco]

Well this is surreal. Everyone I tell this says that this sounds like a news story, so maybe it should be. I'm currently the third-generation in my family training to work for the Census in NC, FL and TN. My mother is training in FL and my 93 year-old grandpa is training in TN.

Also, I found out today my Crew Leader chose me to be one of the two Crew Leader Assistants for my area. I guess that's good for something, even though the pay is the same. I'm thinking maybe that means they'll more likely keep me on longer towards the end of the assignment, since it's looking like it's only going to take about four weeks to finish and they'll probably start cutting people near the end.

[Torgo]

After months of being in the dark and pestering, I finally have a hard transfer date: June 6th.

Only two or three months later then what they were originally "looking at", but hey!

[Mongrel]

God knows The Stallion is an awesome guy, but man I wish he'd write down our fax number somewhere. No joke, he asks me for it like 3 times a day. EVERY DAY.

[Defenestration]

I go to meet with my Crew Leader today, only to find Mike, her Crew Leader Assistant. This would be because she was fired for taking overtime after learning for the first time on Friday that she had to make time to see how her crew leaders operated in the field for 2 hours each, so they could watch us perform in the field for 2 hours each before the deadline on Monday.

So we're without a boss, or a person to do payroll, paper work, or even a person to give our completed questionnaires to. This is becoming quite the shitstorm.

[inyandep]

I go to meet with my Crew Leader today, only to find Mike, her Crew Leader Assistant. This would be because she was fired for taking overtime after learning for the first time on Friday that she had to make time to see how her crew leaders operated in the field for 2 hours each, so they could watch us perform in the field for 2 hours each before the deadline on Monday.

So we're without a boss, or a person to do payroll, paper work, or even a person to give our completed questionnaires to. This is becoming quite the shitstorm.

Yeah, sounds like it. They definitely didn't teach her right, since we were told at least once a day during training that they'll just pay you and ask you to not come back if you declare overtime on a stub. You have your Field Operations Supervisor's number? Might be a good idea to give a call.

[Mongrel]

There's one customer we have, a Laboratory head at a large hospital in Québec. She's not necessarily a bad customer, but she is, shall we say incredibly high-maintenance*

It never ceases to amaze me when random people all across north america have heard of her, have her phone number memorized, and know EXACTLY who is being talked about when someone they seldom talk to says "your favourite customer".

_{*(I differentiate the two with the simple question of "Are you afraid to call this person?")}

[Lottel]

Oh. The dEcatur gamers club came intonight. DnD, munchin, catan gamers. Not video.
I jumped over a counter and shit so I could wait on them.
Covinced them to get a super deluxe package with a lot of addons ($380 tab by tge end of the night) and convinced them to get the banquet room on wednesdays. As long as they vbuy at least $50 worth of food they can have it. Of course, I'll be there. I'll work off the clock to help them and when not helping I'll play games and shit.

So yeah. roughty $400 sale instead of about $200 and got them to keep going here once a week. not a bad night for work.

[Thad]

So today one of my coworkers decided that the chemical packs that turn into packing foam were a good subject for horseplay.

I will be picking little yellow bits of foam out of my hair for fucking days.

[Thad]

Shirt's been soaking in detergent and color-safe bleach for several hours.  Quite a few little dots of hardened packing foam have detached themselves and floated to the surface but there have to be a few hundred still on the thing.

Pretty much going to tell my boss tomorrow that I'm going to expense the fucker.

[teg]

This is a long weekend here in Canadaland, and Sundays are always dead anyway, so there were next to no customers last night.

...Up until closing. We had fourteen customers come in in the ten minutes before closing, when everything had already been cleaned and there was only one cash register working.

[Lottel]

   I am usually the guy who leaves the door open so stuff like that happens at my job.
Sure recleaning sucks, but the the thrill of getting 14 people taken care of in as short of an amount of time is more than worth it. Right?

[Büge]

[Defenestration]

It's amazing to witness the lengths that people will avoid having to orally answer a ten minute questionnaire. One house I went to, I saw lights on in the second floor, a TV playing Jurassic Park 2 through the semi-frosted window on the door, and when I rang the doorbell a little girl's voice asked "Who is it?"

"Census Bureau!" I replied. Immediately there was a flash of movement while the child was picked up, the television was shut off, and then the lights upstairs blinked off as well a scant second later. I shrug and leave a notice with my phone number on it (that no one ever calls) like if they weren't home. I went back to my car to organize and do a bit of paperwork, and I saw the door open and a man pick up the notice five minutes after I sat down in my car. He looked at me, a look of terror on his face and nearly slammed the door as I got out of my car and waved hi, but opted to just sheepishly complete the interview.

This would be an understandable reaction for a hispanic household. I could really be immigration. But how I am able to induce such horror into the hearts of an all white family with an accent fresh from Alabama, I'm not sure.

[Ziiro]

Fresh from Alabama you say?

[Defenestration]

I think you may be right about that, Ziiro. That's an amazing bit of news. I can't believe there are actual politicians going on about how the Census shares its data with other government entities when it *doesn't.* There was a situation in 1980s where the FBI was turned away when trying to get information for an ongoing investigation or something like that that I'm too lazy to look up.

[McDohl]

So, leaving your resume on Monster and just sort of forgetting that it exists can still get nibbles.

A contractor company just called me today to inquire about my 9 month-old resume on Monster with a job possibility back in Maryland.

Do I really want to move back across the country?

Maybe.