What, you think going through 3 months of paid training and 2 months of afterhours training in order to file specific documents and send them around the country (paper only, no email), which then are re-assembled a salt mine (again paper-only, no emailing them) to be brought down a once-a-week elevator which is then, a week later, verified by another person, at which point, another week later, another third party comes in and files just that one paper set (other retirees need to wait) could POSSIBLY have ANY inefficiencies to it?
I remember working for the 2010 census and they were very excited to tell us that we were getting laptops with 56k modems to take home. But you needed a landline to update anything and it had to be the old style landline that didn't connect to a modem.
Thank you for summing it up better then I could have, another thing to mention is the long trip by buggy down in the mine which I think is about half an hour drive to reach the spot where new documents are added? I could be wrong on that though.
It genuinely is, fundamentally ridiculous.
Like, I do prefer backup paper copies of things, but...I do not think this system should be the primary system...it should be done as a backup and thus having a lag between "new data dumps" would be fine. It just doesnt work for something that requires more spontaneous and more immediate responses though, so it should never be a primary system.
What, you think going through 3 months of paid training and 2 months of afterhours training in order to file specific documents and send them around the country (paper only, no email), which then are re-assembled a salt mine (again paper-only, no emailing them) to be brought down a once-a-week elevator which is then, a week later, verified by another person, at which point, another week later, another third party comes in and files just that one paper set (other retirees need to wait) could POSSIBLY have ANY inefficiencies to it?
I remember working for the 2010 census and they were very excited to tell us that we were getting laptops with 56k modems to take home. But you needed a landline to update anything and it had to be the old style landline that didn't connect to a modem.
Thank you for summing it up better then I could have, another thing to mention is the long trip by buggy down in the mine which I think is about half an hour drive to reach the spot where new documents are added? I could be wrong on that though.
It genuinely is, fundamentally ridiculous.
Like, I do prefer backup paper copies of things, but...I do not think this system should be the primary system...it should be done as a backup and thus having a lag between "new data dumps" would be fine. It just doesnt work for something that requires more spontaneous and more immediate responses though, so it should never be a primary system.