census workers

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Norman MacLeod <gaelwolf () waypt com>
> Date: April 3, 2010 3:49:03 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: RE: [IP] census workers

> Looks like they need to hire “head workers” who can do basic  
> arithmetic and can figure out how to figure the mileage for two cars 
>  instead of eight.
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> Then, there’s the idea that perhaps the Census Bureau needs to provi 
> de out-sized clipboards to deal with the out-sized paper sheets.  (F 
> ollow me, here, I’m thinking like a bureaucrat with a budget and con 
> tracting authority for weird widgetry . . . )  This, of course, goes 
>  with the out-sized scanners needed to read the information on the o 
> ut-sized sheets of paper being fed into the one-off computer applica 
> tion that feeds the scanned information into the one-off database th 
> at is so proprietary that it cannot talk to any other government dat 
> abase.
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> Still with me?
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> They obviously missed the contracting opportunity to require  
> waterproof paper for the out-sized forms, accompanied by special  
> pens to write legibly on the special paper in the rain.  Heads will  
> roll in contracting for that faux pas!
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> . . . And then, there’s the omission of the opportunity to provide a 
> dequate care and feeding to the rainwear manufacturers . . . which w 
> ould have been the chief contracting officer’s golden opportunity to 
>  increase staffing at several in-house and FSA levels.  (The primary 
>  responsibility, and definition of success, of any bureaucrat in any 
>  supervisory role is, after all, to never, ever leave the office sma 
> ller than it was when one arrived in that role.)
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> This lack of situational awareness and capacity for capitalizing on  
> opportunity will surely be reflected in the next series of  
> efficiency reports!
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> What were they thinking?
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>             Norman MacLeod
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> From: Dave Farber [mailto:dfarber () me com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:58 AM
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] census workers
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Bradley Roberts <brad () macsuper com>
> Date: April 3, 2010 2:41:27 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Fwd: census workers
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> Inefficiencies of the US census, as observed directly by my mother  
> in small town northern CA.
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> A friend is a census worker.  He was scheduled yesterday to go to a
> small town, which is 80 miles away.  There were 8 workers from here,
> meeting ahead of time to discuss the day.  My friend said, well, let's
> carpool.  The head worker said:  no, it's not possible to figure out
> mileage for only two and not 8....  so 8 cars wasted .50 a mile (your
> tax dollars) and screwed up more of the environment with wear and tear
> on a car, more fumes, more impact on the roads, scaring more elk!
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> Then he said, that the form is a big piece of paper, which doesn't fit
> on a clipboard, but could have been designed to do so with the same
> number of questions to fit on a clipboard...  so, let's hit yet
> another tree.
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> Today they meet at 8:30 at Home Depot parking lot to see if it's
> raining (it's pouring out).  They get paid for one hour to show up -
> if it's raining, they cancel as they cannot get around by foot with
> the papers in the rain.
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> Such trivia, such a tiny drop in a huge flood.
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