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this is the most recent 'census' thread I could find, so I'm replying here.
Census worker came to my door today. He had his logo-ed bag and his data collection app was on his smartphone, which I would think would be hard to read in the sun. He did state that on a previous day, his smartphone became so hot it shutdown.
I was convinced of his ID, so I answered his questions. Overall, his list of questions was very short, centered around age, race/ethnicity, how many people in the household, do you own or rent, have you lived here all year...
We both wore masks and stayed separated by 8+ feet.
I was very suspicious and on alert for any questions that I would deem as "too personal" or if he's just part of an elaborate case-your-place-gonna-rob-you-later scenario. But no such questions. Two or three of the questions I refused to answer, citing the California constitutional amendment's Explicit Right to Privacy.
He was done in minutes. I offered him a bottle of water since he was standing in the direct sunlight the whole time, and in full view of my surveillance camera.
Here is my experience with a Census worker. Everyday this week I have had the Census guy banging on my door. I'm not answering the door for anybody unless I'm expecting them. Everyday he leaves another note telling me that I have to respond to the Census, which I already did months ago. So yesterday I went online to the Census website and entered the Census ID number on the note. First question: Are you completing the 2020 Census questionnaire for the address below? It's not even my address. It's for an apartment in another building. My apartment number is on my door. The guy must be legally blind or something. I have no intention of talking to him about it, but it is temping to go ahead and answer the door the next time and ask him to read back the address, and then ask him if that matches the number on my door.
Here is my experience with a Census worker. Everyday this week I have had the Census guy banging on my door. I'm not answering the door for anybody unless I'm expecting them. Everyday he leaves another note telling me that I have to respond to the Census, which I already did months ago. So yesterday I went online to the Census website and entered the Census ID number on the note. First question: Are you completing the 2020 Census questionnaire for the address below? It's not even my address. It's for an apartment in another building. My apartment number is on my door. The guy must be legally blind or something. I have no intention of talking to him about it, but it is temping to go ahead and answer the door the next time and ask him to read back the address, and then ask him if that matches the number on my door.
Lol. I mean, by now you should be expecting him, ergo by your own logic, you should be answering the door. In all seriousness, if this was the pattern of behavior I'd been experiencing, I'd basically treat him like a telemarketer who's called 4 times in a row and answer the door in a 'gfy' manner, inviting him to...make up whatever information he'd like about me, much as he's apparently already made up my address.
Regarding his perceived blindness, I'm probably chalking that up to either laziness or confusion. I often buy beer from a large local grocery store chain that mandates an ID check regardless of the age of the would-be purchaser of alcohol. I'm typically quietly astonished at the number of times I'll see a worker look at my ID for 10 seconds or so (10 seconds, not half a second), then punch in the wrong birthdate. Intro psych classes in college taught me that people tend to only have short-term memory capacity for seven digits (hence the length of the 'merican phone number, minus the area code), and this exercise seems to prove that conventional wisdom correct, given that the MM/DD/YYYY format requires recollection of all of 8 digits out of them (although in a practical sense, only 4-6, given that the mental shortcut is M[M]/D[D]/YY).
People are irksome and stupid and so I understand your commitment to avoidance here, but I think at this point you're better off answering and engaging for as short of a period of time as possible.
Lol. I mean, by now you should be expecting him, ergo by your own logic, you should be answering the door. In all seriousness, if this was the pattern of behavior I'd been experiencing, I'd basically treat him like a telemarketer who's called 4 times in a row and answer the door in a 'gfy' manner, inviting him to...make up whatever information he'd like about me, much as he's apparently already made up my address.
Regarding his perceived blindness, I'm probably chalking that up to either laziness or confusion. I often buy beer from a large local grocery store chain that mandates an ID check regardless of the age of the would-be purchaser of alcohol. I'm typically quietly astonished at the number of times I'll see a worker look at my ID for 10 seconds or so (10 seconds, not half a second), then punch in the wrong birthdate. Intro psych classes in college taught me that people tend to only have short-term memory capacity for seven digits (hence the length of the 'merican phone number, minus the area code), and this exercise seems to prove that conventional wisdom correct, given that the MM/DD/YYYY format requires recollection of all of 8 digits out of them (although in a practical sense, only 4-6, given that the mental shortcut is M[M]/D[D]/YY).
People are irksome and stupid and so I understand your commitment to avoidance here, but I think at this point you're better off answering and engaging for as short of a period of time as possible.
LOL, he hasn't come back. After a week of trying I guess he either gave up, or got a clue that it wasn't the address he was looking for.
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