Comments on: O'Reilly and Beck: ACORN Alert http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/07/06/acorn-and-the-u-s-census/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: JD Reed http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/07/06/acorn-and-the-u-s-census/#comment-3373 JD Reed Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:57:30 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=2084#comment-3373 Get a grip,folks: There's too much misinformation in the above to respond to at this point. But it's silly to postulate that temporary Census employees are being laid off to accommodate ACORN hires. Anyone familiar with the address verifcation process KNOWS that the Census temps were just that -- temporary. There's no work for the bulk of them (us, actually, I was one.) I knew going in that I'd be working for a few weeks and then would be terminated -- that's the term -- because the address verification phase was OVER and they had no need for the bulk of the 140,000. I was invited to, but didn't, apply for a managerial level position. Next year, the Census will need up to 1.4 million temps, so I've read, so most of the 140,000 who worked this year can expact a job offer next year. No way an organization such as ACORN can supply more than a small fraction of the army needed next year. The speculation that laying off temps was a precursor of hiring ACORN folks is simply scaremongering. Sincerely, JD Reed Get a grip,folks: There’s too much misinformation in the above to respond to at this point. But it’s silly to postulate that temporary Census employees are being laid off to accommodate ACORN hires. Anyone familiar with the address verifcation process KNOWS that the Census temps were just that — temporary. There’s no work for the bulk of them (us, actually, I was one.) I knew going in that I’d be working for a few weeks and then would be terminated — that’s the term — because the address verification phase was OVER and they had no need for the bulk of the 140,000. I was invited to, but didn’t, apply for a managerial level position. Next year, the Census will need up to 1.4 million temps, so I’ve read, so most of the 140,000 who worked this year can expact a job offer next year. No way an organization such as ACORN can supply more than a small fraction of the army needed next year.
The speculation that laying off temps was a precursor of hiring ACORN folks is simply scaremongering.
Sincerely,
JD Reed

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