Calling All Former Census Employees

My sources inside the census informed me that the Census Bureau is not reporting the wages of census employees to the various state unemployment bureaus. Consequently laid off census employees are not receiving unemployment benefits or are receiving less benefits than those to which they are entitled.

The company which was contracted to report the wages of census employees to state unemployment bureaus, TALX UC Express, claims that the census failed to report wages to it. The census, conversely, claims that it reported wages to TALX UC Express. If this were true then the census should be compelling TALX UC Express to do the work for which it was contracted. In reality the census has done nothing and TALX UC Express is collecting its money as usual from the US Treasury. Federal contracting as usual it would appear.

What is most baffling is why the affected census employees are remaining quiet rather than screaming to their representatives and the media about this inexcusable situation that is hurting them financially. So I must ask census employees: are you afraid that if you speak up you won’t be called back to work in future phases? If that is the case why would you want to return to work for an employer that cares nothing about you?

From my inside sources I’ve learned that the Census Bureau is anything but employee-centric. Employees were compelled to work uncompensated overtime to meet ever changing priorities under threat of termination, verbally abused by management as well as by the tinfoil hat and black helicopter crowd they encountered, threatened at gunpoint by paranoid meth cookers and pot growers in the sticks. Worse one census employee was murdered in Kentucky the facts of which the Census Bureau, through the FBI, tried to squelch by actually suggesting it was possibly a suicide. The facts of the last example remain obfuscated and buried by a paranoid Census Bureau that resorts to ludicrous assertions to protect itself.

To Robert M. Groves, Director of the Bureau of the Census: you, sir, have failed miserably in your duties. It would seem that you view this position as just that – a “position” with no responsibilities and a staff whose sole purpose is to avoid, evade and dodge responsibility and accountability to protect you and themselves. I am in possession of a letter from a concerned former census employee to you and your agency’s response. To even the most mentally vacuous reading the correspondence to and from you it is painfully obvious that, in the bluntest terms, covering your ass is paramount.

Mr. Groves, you can either do what is right, moral, decent, lawful and proper or face public ridicule though the media as THIS correspondent, unlike you, takes his duties VERY seriously.

21-50. Out.