ENUMERATORS!

[Brickbat]

Without disclosing any PII under Title 13, how did your NRFU assignments go today?

[icymist]

1. The NRFU was SNAFU

Friggin map spot with two addresses!

[Brickbat]

2. I had a map spot with no address!

Seriously, how is that even allowed anymore?

[Orrex]

7. My group had three of those on Friday

Two were hovels that we declared "open to the elements."

The other was an abandoned, one-unit trailer plot.

All within about a half a mile of one another.

[Brickbat]

15. Mine was a full-on lakeshore house.

:wtf:

[Deep13]

18. Sometimes there are new units not on the official map.

Ten years ago I found that to be the case when I was doing census work.

[Brickbat]

20. Yeah, this house has been there awhile.

I think the team that did the map spots had just gotten fed up with the area they were at.

[Orrex]

30. The mapping process was supposed to have been completed pretty recently, though

I'd be surprised if they could have whipped up a house in the meantime!

[Brickbat]

3. Also, I always yell "ENUMERATORS!" because it reminds me of "REGULATORS!"

[proteus_lives]

9. "Mount Up!"

[burrfoot]

14. ahahahahahahahahhahah

love it!

[foxfeet]

35. Do they require the Enumerators in Arizona to yell "Immigracion" instead?

[Kat45]

4. Not starting 'til tomorrow.

I'm a bit annoyed because the group they put me in is does not include the street on which I live. I was hoping to get to do my own street, particularly since my friend and neighbor never turned in his form; I've been giving him shit about it all month and was hoping I'd get to interview him. :-)

[Brickbat]

5. Ha! That would have been hilarious.

I'm out in the boonies and had to drive to my locations; I put on 60 miles today.

[krispos42]

13. Heh, we're in the same state.

I'm in the northern suburbs... how about you?

[Brickbat]

16. North Shore.

[krispos42]

17. Ah, you're way the heck up there, then.

:hi:

[Brickbat]

19. Kinda, yeah.

:hi:

Most of my NRFUs are seasonal homes or weekend cabins, which makes it pretty easy.

[Orrex]

6. I tried to test this one guy

But I left in a hurry when he reached for the fava beans and a nice chianti.

[Brickbat]

21. I did have a bad feeling about one house I was at.

The guy said he didn't have time, so I left an NV and booked right the hell out of there; he had his brother and a friend with him. I just had a Bad Feeling.

[Orrex]

24. You should have gone inside to wait until he had time

I'm sure that they'd have loved to have you for dinner.

[icymist]

25. You did the right thing, Go with your gut with some of these people.

If the people look threatening back away and talk to your CL about it with an INFO-COMM. This is an important job we're doing but, not worth becoming a martyr for IMHO.

[proteus_lives]

8. Pretty well!

I had to work at my other job so I could only put a couple of hours in.

5 CIs, 4 NV and 2 OTs.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Did somebody yell...

.
. WOLVERINES ?!?!?
.

[Inchworm]

11. I gotcha in a pocket of mine

how does ir smell?

:P

[krispos42]

12. Not bad.

Found a long-abandoned house whose garage smalled like a herd of buffalo had been pissing in there for a year. Not getting many callbacks on the phone. But at least I've only had one outright refusal and zero gun-brandishing yahoos.

[Dr. Strange]

22. You can't use zero as your endenominator.

I do know that.

[peekaloo]

23. An entire neighborhood of

ASSHOLES!

Really sucked on Saturday but on Sunday I had another street that couldn't have been kinder and more cooperative.

p.s. heat index nearing 100 both days.

[XemaSab]

26. I'm so glad I quit the census

:D

[Brickbat]

27. *Shrug*

It's easy money, for me.

[XemaSab]

28. I was a clerk for three months

making $8 an hour for 40 hours a week. It would have been better if the managers weren't assholes.

[Brickbat]

29. I hear that.

At first I was hoping to get an office job, but now I'm glad I didn't...I'm out in the woods in the spring, instead of being stuck in an office.

[Kat45]

31. I went out today. They gave me 2 huge condo buildings.

You can't go in the buildings, and when nobody answers their doorbells, there is nowhere to leave an NV. And that was just the first building. The second building doesn't even have doorbells. It has an intercom-type thing where you have to know the person's extension or type in the name to be able to reach them. Since I don't know anybody's name, I'm SOL on that one. There was a phone number on the door to arrange for deliveries, so I think I'll call it tomorrow and see if I can get any help there. Needless to say, I am none too happy about my assignment.

[Brickbat]

33. What a pain!

My in-laws live in a building like that; no on-site caretaker or anything.

[last_texas_dem]

32. For my first day in the field this round, better than I expected

I worked for a couple of months last year recording map spots on the handheld, but today was my first day of this more socially interactive round.

Started out with an area that is likely to be one of the closest to my own 'hood as I'm likely to get. (My own neighborhood isn't even included in the entire bunch of assignment areas, oddly enough.)

Realizing how hard it's going to be to catch people during particular times of the day. When I worked the earlier round, the point was more to record map spots than to try to catch people, as there generally wasn't a need to talk to them, so going out when few people were home wasn't a problem. That aspect's going to be quite a bit more complicated this round, as talking to people is a necessity.

The people I did catch have been pretty pleasant, though. Even the ones that started out seeming like they might be difficult ended up being not bad to deal with at all.

The heat is another thing entirely. We're hitting record highs in my area, and I figure it's only going to get worse from here!

[Brickbat]

34. It's 45 and sunny here!

Perfect for walking through the woods. I would hate it if this were being done in August!

[icymist]

36. My CL just told me today that we need to close out more spots faster.

What do you make of that? I have a spot that I left a NV on 4/30 and 5/4 and now have been instructed to close it out as soon as possible. Another I left a NV on 5/1 and he wants it closed out by 5/6? I thought we were supposed to visit these places three times before we closed them out!?

[peekaloo]

37. Same here.

Plus our hours have been reduced. :-(

If I'm understanding my CL the whole "close out" is to do the three visits but not waste any further time on non-responders in order to move onto another AA.

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

38. Crew leader checking in

You all should be getting your asses back to work :P

[Brickbat]

40. Hee! Mine is going to take forever.

I wish I could go straight to proxy; most cabins are still closed up for the season.

[arcadian]

39. Checking in

Out in the country, going prety well.