Census Test

This morning I took the test to be a Census worker. The test was given in the basement of the old court house, here in Jerome. When I got there at 5 to 10 there were 8 other people there and they had started to fill out the application and the I-9. Please let me share some of the rare moments we had this morning.

• One of the questions is Where were you born? Someone called their mother to ask.
• 3 cell phones rang after we were asked to turn them off.
• An entire conversation about the legalities of concealed weapons.
• The test proctor showed us his concealed weapon license.
• He also showed us his scuba diving card
• It took him 5 minutes to fill out his portion of the I-9, which I figure could be done in 90 seconds
• A women swore that they did not tell her to bring 2 ids.
• The test proctor excused himself to use the rest room- we waited to start the test.

We got out of there with at 5 to 12. It was a 30 minute timed test. I know that you may not need to be efficient to work for the government, but this was ridiculous.