If the census were personified as The Cutest Puppy Ever Who Is Also A Holocaust Survivor I would punch it in the face forever.
Every day they complain that we need to go back out on completed cases and get "better" information. Then they complain that we're spending too much time in the field.
Every case someone turns in we (I have another Crew Leader working with me. She's basically beyond checked out at this point but knows what a completed EQ should look like so she's still good for that) go over, make sure it provides the information needed, from a good source, and has notes explaining every detail. Even the obviously basic ones. Inevitably despite all this we will get these back and be told to get better info. If we got a household member who refused but gave the basic info we need, hey get a proxy to give you the rest. If we get the best proxy available to give everything they know, hey, why are you going to a proxy? Get a resident's info!
All other bullshit aside, just EQ reassignments finally took me past a boiling point today. Generally with every group of kickbacks we get at least half we just added a post-it note saying (in kinder words) "look at the notes you fucking retards". After that they don't come back again. They found a way around it though! If it's an especially special (that's twice the special) case, we send the cases in with INFO-COMMs. That's just a fancy word for "piece of notepaper that has a bunch of shit you don't need". We got about 20 cases back today, that's high for our district, despite the fact that we send in about 200 every day. At least five of those cases I know definitively had INFO-COMMs explaining the exact situation. They came back with nothing but post-its asking why we would handle a case like that and why there were no notes.
The real kicker is that the guy in charge right now spent about half our training for this operation explaining how we're "the best-of-the-best from NRFU". Really? Then take our word that the work is good or get your own ass out in the field.