Is It Really Possible To Be This Stupid?
You may recall from this post that my brief career with the Census Bureau didn’t work out exactly as planned. I thought I had witnessed the pinnacle of institutional incompetence during my one day tenure, but I was wrong. It gets worse.
I received a phone call yesterday from the same local Census office where I had resigned just a week earlier. A very pleasant woman introduced herself and asked me if I was still interested in a job. I was too shocked to respond at first, but after I picked my jaw up off the floor I asked her if she was aware that I had already been hired once and resigned. She seemed unfazed and said she had no record of that, and then proceeded to offer me another job as if there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary going on. She seemed genuinely surprised when I declined her offer.
The Census Bureau recruited and tested 5000 local applicants to fill 1000 temporary positions between now and the 2010 Census. Is it possible that they’ve already exhausted the entire pool of candidates with their stupidity and now have to start over again? If they can’t keep track of who they’ve hired, how can we trust them to manage the actual counting process?
In answer to your title question…uh, yes.
Is this for The Roanoke Valley? 1000 people to check on 250,000… that’s only 250 people per employee. Sounds like a lot of hard work if you have to survey only 250 people.
If they contacted you again for the job then they must be hard up for qualified people. I can hear the total IQ level of the Valley decreasing like a lobster screaming in boiling water. Hear it?