census workers

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> 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

> Inefficiencies of the US census, as observed directly by my mother in small town northern CA.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > 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!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Such trivia, such a tiny drop in a huge flood.



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