LOL'ing here after reading all the responses. I'm officially 100% "disabled", Vietnam Veteran, wheel chair after VC got me once too many times (L-3 Lumbar Vertebrae and an AK-47 round for my 2d PH). Anyway, when the Census Bureau was hiring, on a lark, I applied for one of their "Information Management" positions (I'm a Certified Linux Systems manager, etc., yada yad yada). I made sure my application indicated my Disabled Combat Veteran status. I got called in for an interview a few weeks later and rolled into the room with --- you guessed it --- a landwhale sheboon who was the "HR interview person".
I answered all of her silly questions appropriately and politely, even though I was hoping my colostomy bag was full so I could drop it on her desk. Long story short, I got a job for a 12 week period at a local Census Bureau Processing Center. My job? I was supposed to review the results of the on-line examinations which the novice census employees were taking to achieve competence at their jobs. "IT Management" indeed. Then I got my first paycheck.
Would you believe that although the job supposedly paid $32 per hour, my net check was $9.86 per hour; deductions included taxes, more taxes, insurance, and American Federal of Government Employees Union dues.. I rolled into the Sheeboon's office and axed it what be up wid dat? It told me that "I ain't doing dat money thing, you done gotsta fill out a pay dispute form." I axed about the Union thing and it tole me dat everbody done be in de union here in dis office.
After that 2-week period I never came back, sent the head nigger an email and told him/her/zer/zim/they that I had the Covid.
Never heard another thing after that.
I'm thinking, maybe, now just maybe, they checked MY census form which I mailed in and indicated my race in the "Other" line as Aryan.
Fuck'em all.
Well, I was a Black Woman the last census, os maybe I did have a chance.
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