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This is my Interview of a Former Census Supervisor. Due to the fact the former employee did not want to be identified we will call them Mr. X

ME: Tell us a little about your position with the Census Bureau.

Mr. X: I was employed as a supervisor with the U.S. Census Bureau for four different operations and worked for or with two different Census Offices. I supervised an average of eighteen employees per day, ensuring they performed the duties they were hired to do.

ME: What kind of duties exactly were the people you supervised hired to do?

Mr. X: The operations consisted of following up with households or addresses that had not responded to the mailed census form they should have received previously and mailed in and also following up on addresses or properties I should say that in previous operations were marked as vacant on census day or did not exist, what the census bureau classifies as a delete. Let me just say many man hours were wasted in the last operation, vacant delete verification, especially in the most rural of areas.

ME: How so? Weren't you just simply having to verify whether the info was correct or not?

Mr. X: Well, the thing is for one area I was assigned to for the vacant delete operation, the supervisor for the previous operation in that area was fired for poor performance and it turned out that 70-80% of the caseload was previously recorded incorrectly. It wasn't all their fault either as the majority of these places had no address listed on the form and often times had no map spot just a lame description of what the house or trailer looked like, so an employee would have to drive around aimlessly sometimes for hours on end just so they might possibly find at least someone who could verify not only if the place existed or not, but also whether it was occupied on census day. The worst part about that was they decided to fire at least two employees and threatened to fire hundreds more for having excessive mileage.

ME: Why would someone get in trouble for excessive mileage?

MR. X: No one should have been in trouble. What it came down to is someone higher up was sitting on their ass in the air conditioned office or regional office and became upset and went on a power trip when they saw some of these field employees were making the same as them, in some cases making in two days more than they probably made in a week. Field operation employees were paid 50 cents per mile on top of their hourly wage so when they had to work rural areas with no specific addresses or directions they very well could get 300 plus miles in a day. The office wasn't having that and decided to fire at least two incredible employees who gave 100% in their work performances day in and day out and claimed they were committing fraud, even though we were trained in the supervisor training never to question someones timesheet and mileage unless we were present with that person during their entire shift. That was just one of the dumb things I saw people get fired, or as the Census Bureau does to manipulate federal employment numbers, place them in "Non-Work Status."

ME: Would you mind giving some examples?

MR. X: Okay, early on one person I supervised was fired for a crime they committed as a minor- I think it was grafitti and they completed their sentence or punishment for the crime, even though your minor record is not supposed to be held against you as an adult. That was the decision of theHeadquarters in Washington, D.C.

ME: Sounds like a lawsuit there.

MR. X: You would think so but with the federal government it is never cut and dry.

ME: Were you ever yourself asked or told to do anything illegal such as manipulate or falsify data?

MR. X: Absolutely. I was told to even train the people I supervised that if anyone refused to complete the QUESTIONNAIRE to let the person know they were in violation of the United States Constituion and federal law and that they could be arrested by a United States Marshal and fined $5,000. I told the people I supervised not to do this and that we would never want anyone to go to jail let alone over a form that the government uses to trace us with. I was also told to tell my employees to use the internet to do reverse lookup on addresses to get leads on hard to reach households who would not respond to us. It got to a point where they wanted the questionnaires filled out no questions asked whether made up or through a knowledgeable respondent because the whistle was already blown on the office once for falsifying and manipulating data because their computer software required certain information to be present in order to enter the forms, even though that information was often times not available.

ME: Let me get this straight, they wanted you guys to use threats and intimidation against the same people who's tax money is used for such an operation, and on top of that wanted data falsified to "get the job done?"

MR. X: Just as I had to swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I swear to you that is what they wanted. During my training they said everything had to be done by the book aka the manuals that we were given to train and follow and that I had to train all employees to follow them verbatim as well. When work actually began however, they had us go against almost everything that was in the manuals- which was supposed to be the actual operating procedures.

ME: Was there any truth to the arrest by a U.S Marshal and $5,000 fine to people who refused to cooperate?

MR. X: Well, at the time I believed it to be true because that is what my supervisor had told me and he seemed credible and had been involved with the federal government since the 1970s. It turned out not to be true though. I mean someone can be fined I believe $100 for not cooperating, don't know if anyone ever has or not though, but you won't be arrested by a Marshal.

ME: Wow, government manipulation at its best.

MR. X: The whole operation is about manipulation (laughs out loud). Even the fingerprinting of employees was a big lie. Everyone physically working had a replacement waiting in the wings in case they became unavailable or quit, or were let go or made a scape-goat.

ME: So there were people hired that never worked?

MR. X: Absolutely. Like I said there was a replacement available for everyone. They were trained and then waited for work that was to never come so as long as the other people continued working.

ME: Sounds like manipulation of national employment numbers at its finest to me. Could you explain your fingerprinting comment?

MR. X: We, the supervisors, had to fingerprint and train the employees we would supervise and were told the fingerprints had to go to the FBI immediately like the same day be dropped in the mail. An employee I supervised had to work in the office for a few days to help them catch up on work and told me thousands of fingerprint cards sat in the office for weeks without being sent to the FBI and probably never were.

ME: Wow. So it may have been possible people who should not have been employed by the Census were employed?

MR. X: I can't say for sure but yes it is possible.

ME: Thanks for your time Mr. X, we covered quite a bit.

MR. X: No problem, not speaking is why this country is so screwed up.

ME: Indeed.
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