GEORGETOWN, GA-- Toward mid-October a heavily drunk guy who lived in the woods told a census worker who was interviewing him that all of his coworkers were invited to a pig, duck, turkey, brisket and rib cookout.
That sparked a text message chain that resulted in a party in the middle of nowhere with 25-50 census employees who were on their 30-minute lunch/dinner break. Census workers came from all over.
The Census Bureau had approved countless enumerators, including myself, to travel 50 or so miles each way to another region just to knock out one or two cases each, because that area had no enumerators whatsoever. So I traveled 120 miles total that day and worked 6 hours just to do one case. I was able to meet enumerators from as far away as Birmingham, AL. and Tallahassee, FL.
Plus, keep in mind this was a Sunday so I got one and one-quarter time base pay and a reimbursement of 55 cents per mile.
It was a great day.
But I’ve also had a lot of ''Don’t Come Back or Else''. My favorite of them all was a Southern man in Columbus, GA., that consistently throughout the interview proclaimed his love for Trump and the second amendment.
And while I was conducting my interview at his side porch he was openly carrying his friend “Glock” on his waistband.
--Georgia Anonymous
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