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[alanahikarichan]

I think this goes here, since I don't actually work for the bureau yet.So, early this morning, I made a post to my journal that was simply "Brb, job training~". This is exciting! I love job training with the US Census Bureau, it pays well and isn't hard work (or at least, wasn't last time I did it, early this summer

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[paisley80]

I'm guessing that because you put part of this text in quotes, it's an e-mail from your would-be supervisor? But because it's so sarcastic, it's not actually a quote?

Or... something?

[paisley80]

Oh wait, I see the cut text now. I generally ignore it, sorry.

[alanahikarichan]

Hahaha, s'okay. And yes, that is far too sarcastic to be an actual government e-mail. XD

[lightsdarkangel]

That's ... nuts. I once had a job training like that. They kept giving a lot of us the run around, turns out that they had other people they hired that were friends or something, and figured if they gave us the run around enough, we'd stop trying.

That being said, how would one go about working for the Census Bureau

[alanahikarichan]

Ugh, I hope that's not it. >: I've worked this job before, and it was absolutely lovely, with friendly co-workers and helpful leaders... nepotism seems less likely in a government job, but IDK. >:

In my case, they had testing about... this time last year? I got a callback in the late spring to be a Canvasing Lister, which pretty much means I walk around neighborhoods and make sure all the address lists are correct. (If they weren't, I added addresses that were missing or deleted addresses that didn't exist.) My area finished up early, so the let everyone go with "no more work" notes on their final paperwork, but I got a callback about a month ago to ask me if I'd like to be rehired, and that training was on the 14th in such-and-such a place, can you make it?

And then the training wasn't. Ugh. *facepalm*

[honey_bitch]

check with your local employment agency....the bureau usually posts thru them. I worked as an enumerator one year. (the person who went door-to-door handing out the actual census forms) It was a good job, good pay, no supervision, got to drive around and talk to people. There were a few drawbacks, but overall I liked it. It's all usually temp work though...it's rare for them to hire for permanent help. The temp work doesnt get any benefits, just a decent hourly wage, and if I remember right, a bit of a mileage reimbursement because you use your own car.

[alanahikarichan]

I was told that your pay depended on how high the population concentration was where you were working-- so city got more than suburbia got more than rural-- though I was a canvassing lister, not an enumerator, so I don't know if they both scale like that.

You do get $0.50/mile driven, though.

[catchingspirit]

Isn't this closer to coworker suck than bad service, as it's referring to job training?

[alanahikarichan]

I thought about that, but considering that Miss A (the woman who had apparently called us all twice) told me that she couldn't reimburse anyone for milage because they had no files on any of us yet (when half of us are rehires?!), no, not even next week when we're learning how to fill out our payroll forms with our mileage so we can be reimbursed for travel time to our job training (and some of us had come from Raytown or Blue Springs)...

In essence, since I am apparently not an employee yet, I can't rightly call Miss A a coworker.

However, if a mod wishes for me to delete and relocate (... are you a mod?), I'd be happy to do so.