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An an average suburban neighborhood where the houses are somewhat close to each other, it was no problem to do about 35-40 addresses per hour once you learned how to quickly enter data into the computer. The census said that I should be doing about 12-15 per hour. My direct bosses told me that I should NOT be doing 35-40 because it was making them and other people look bad. So instead of walking at a snails pace, I just did my 35-40/hour and doubled my time when I submitted my hours.
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My first assignment is a [redacted] in which I have just learned there are no inhabitants who live there full-time or the majority of the time. After talking this over with my boss and feeling cheated that I’m losing hours since there’s nobody to distribute census forms to, I have been told to drive to this [place] (25 minutes from my house), confirm in person, and drive back. Credit me with half an hour there, half an hour back, and half an hour confirming, and I’m getting an 1.5 hours plus the mileage.
Обычная такая государственная работа - главное, не работать слишком быстро. Ну или записывать вдвое больше времени. А если случайно работы будет меньше - просто присочини немного, делов-то, не терять же деньги. Удивительно ли, что при такой эффективности многие хотят, чтобы государство управляло как можно большим количеством вещей?
Кстати, я получил от них 3 письма - первое, что они собираются послать мне форму. Второе - сама форма с объяснениями. Третье - напоминание, что форму надо отослать обратно. Последнее в 2 экземплярах, потому что наш почтальон (начинаю подозревать, что он употребляет вещества на работе) сунул мне заодно письмо, адресованное соседу. Эффективненько!
Update: Вот из Техаса докладывают:
I wanted to confirm the email regarding the census. I also participated in the address canvassing last summer. I am a retired engineer and thought this would be good for some coffee money and exercise. We were trained for a week with full pay. Then our team started the job. I am in Texas and our city was estimated to take six weeks. After one week we were past the halfway point and then the problems began. First we were told to slow down. Next we began having a one hour “progress” meeting each day. We were told to take at least five minutes per house. I could have drawn the map by hand faster. The last tactic was to start layoffs.