Today I was in my last day of training at the census and we were out doing some actual interviews with people when our crew leader called us and told us to come in an hour early.  When we got back he informed me that I was terminated……. really confused I got a phone number to call to main office and I just quietly  walked out.  As I left I immediately called the office and of course was left with nothing but a voicemail for some guy named Kelly.  I left my message and was still sitting there really confused and racking my brain thinking of all the reasons I could have been the only one terminated in my group.  I then got home and received a call back from Kelly, he tried his best to explain to me that somehow they couldn’t read either set of fingerprints I had taken so that meant I was basically put on a non working status (or in other terms was terminated) until further notice.  He also mentioned that this has never happened before and that was why he wasn’t really sure how to explain it to me.  Now I had been very warned that all these census people apparently can’t make up their mind and anything can change at any moment several times.  I said to the man “ok well that sounds interesting, I guess I’ll just wait around to see if I’ll be on a working status later”  Seriously not even 10 minutes later the man called me back and told me they didn’t like the policy the way it was currently and that I was put back on a working status.  So I immediately left my house and when back up to the training site to keep working.  So now I just feel like every unknown call on my phone is them telling me again that I cannot work.  I bet it was my pesky thumbs that caused all these problems!!!

Enjoy!

-erika