I started my stupid Census Enumerator job. Training was awful and boring, obviously.
The only good things about this job are: (a) I'm getting paid way more than I'm worth; (b) I'm on my own the whole day so I don't have some idiot youth telling me what to do all the time and I don't have to fake smile throughout my entire shift; and, (c) my area is the street I live on, so I can come home and eat whenever I'm hungry.
However. Everyone who answers the door instantly hates me. They have no reason to, I am purely nice, I am crazy fast at asking them the questions I have to ask, and it is their own fault I'm there since they didn't mail back their Census form.
People try to tell me they don't have time to answer the questions (which seriously takes less than five minutes). I then tell them I will have to keep coming back until I get my form filled out, and I live across the street so I can seriously come back at ANY time. Then, they refuse to tell me a time to come back and just say to come back "later." Annoyings.
If they don't say they have no time, they act like the fact I am asking them these questions is the most horrible thing one person could ever even think of doing to another person. They are in pure torture. It's not like it's fun for me either. Jerks.
All I need to find out is how many people lived at these places on April 1. Then, I need the names, sexes, ages, and races of each person. That's it.
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they are probably just mad that they were too stupid to fill out the form in the first place. you should tell them that you will just sit out in front of their house until they have time and then set up a lawn chair.
ReplyDeleteUGH--I too just started my annoying Census Enumerator job. First house I went to, the dude was WAY annoyed by my presence. I got the info—but decided to call it a day after that first house. I guess I’ll have to harass more people tomorrow. This job is not NEARLY as fun as I hoped! ughhhh
ReplyDeleteI like Adam's idea. Take your lawn chair and your iPod radio - maybe a picnic too. Set up shop until they "find" some time.
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