I will echo your comments about the Census Bureau being a total disaster. I am retired, and I thought a good way to serve my country and also pick up a (very little) bit of extra cash would be by assisting with the Census. As important as the census is in determining local needs and even a state's representation in the House of Representatives, one would think it would be run by competent managers. I went through all the basic classes and felt like I could be an asset to them based on my business experience. The on-line training was pretty good, but the introductory classroom orientation was a big joke, run by incompetents that were not qualified to teach a Kindergarten class. And that class was actually pretty good compared to the absolute idiot I ended up reporting to that knew nothing about anything. That was my first experience with the public sector as an employee, and the first job I ever quit in my life. If that is typical of our federal agencies I understand why this country has gotten itself into such a financial and infrastructural mess.
I have already received every thing I need to do my taxes, and I am waiting only for their W-2 showing the paltry sum I earned, which I hoped to retrieve via Turbotax on-line, if I could learn the EIN.
