Working here is worse than being in prison.
I work in what is called a Kiosk Office. Customers come to the office, ideally do their application online and then we call them on a phone in their kiosk and do their interview. We are in the same building and a common question is “where are you?”
I usually just tell them that I’m on the other side of the building but this time we were making idle conversation because the comp had frozen up. “I’m all the way at the end of the building. If you look at the windows, I work under the last window.” Him: That’s cool, you have a view. Me: Well, not really, that window is about 3 feet over my head and about a foot in front of me. When I look up, I mostly see the bottom on the awning. I can see the side of it, so I know when its raining, water drops off. I can see a little slice of sky which gives me an idea of the weather. I like it, its much better than my last cube.
He was silent for a minute then said “Damn Girl! I’ve had nicer prison cells!”
We are from the government and we WILL help you, gosh darnit!
A stray cat showed up at the break area begging for scratches and food. We spend our days giving people food, of course we fed the cat.
In my other life, I have been doing cat rescue since food stamps were made of paper. (Yes, we did have paper back then.) I have all of the cat rescue accruements, including a trap and contacts to get kitty into rescue. I made plans to nab kitty and told everyone.
Suddenly someone tells me that she wants to adopt kitty herself. Wonderful! I told her that I would trap kitty and that she could take kitty home in the trap and return it later. When she told me that she had a carrier, I told her to NOT try to move kitty from the trap because he was going to be upset. I also told her that if she couldn’t carry the trap and kitty herself, I would do it.
I set the trap and the next morning kitty was caught. And not happy. When I got all the way to that side of the building, everyone was distressed because the new kitty mom had tried to get kitty out of the trap and into a carrier. Of course kitty got loose and ran away.
(Other accruements include leather gauntlets, thick canvas overalls and a trap stick in my trunk.)
I grabbed my gear and stood in my boss’s office and told him that I was going to be late to work while I put it on. While he “didn’t” know that we were doing this, he just nodded his head and said that he had heard something about a traffic back up in my area.
I went out and sat in a grassy area with some kibble, lured kitty out, grabbed him and ran over to the carrier and stuffed him in.
Kitty got his balls cut off 2 days later.
We are here to help, but you have to help us do that.
I understand that if you have never been here before, you don’t know what you need. If this is your 4th renewal, you KNOW what we need. Please don’t waste your time or ours by coming to interview for a renewal without bringing the things we ask you for every 6 months. This hurts us both, I get dinged for every case I have to pend and you will have to come back with that information. (And wait in line again if you want to be sure that your case is completed.)
I am a “Prudent Person”.
There are many things that I can take your word for because I know how much people here pay for rent and utilities. I won’t question them as long as they are within the range of what other people pay. Tell me that your electricity bill is $450 a month and that you are a single person, living alone with $450 rent? Yeah, I’m going to question that. I’m also going to do an OSI report to get someone out to inspect because I think that you have unreported income.
Dude, I have no problem with weed. I voted for 205. However, your reported income just barely covers your expenses if I subtract the electricity. I asked you several times in several ways about other income. You seem to be lying to me about other income and we are the government. When you agree to do business on our terms, we have the right to do this.
If I’m wrong, do something about your insulation. Paying that much for electricity is a sign that something is wrong. If I’m right, I’m sorry. The OSI investigator might report you to the police. I have no control over that.
I work in what is called a Kiosk Office. Customers come to the office, ideally do their application online and then we call them on a phone in their kiosk and do their interview. We are in the same building and a common question is “where are you?”
I usually just tell them that I’m on the other side of the building but this time we were making idle conversation because the comp had frozen up. “I’m all the way at the end of the building. If you look at the windows, I work under the last window.” Him: That’s cool, you have a view. Me: Well, not really, that window is about 3 feet over my head and about a foot in front of me. When I look up, I mostly see the bottom on the awning. I can see the side of it, so I know when its raining, water drops off. I can see a little slice of sky which gives me an idea of the weather. I like it, its much better than my last cube.
He was silent for a minute then said “Damn Girl! I’ve had nicer prison cells!”
We are from the government and we WILL help you, gosh darnit!
A stray cat showed up at the break area begging for scratches and food. We spend our days giving people food, of course we fed the cat.
In my other life, I have been doing cat rescue since food stamps were made of paper. (Yes, we did have paper back then.) I have all of the cat rescue accruements, including a trap and contacts to get kitty into rescue. I made plans to nab kitty and told everyone.
Suddenly someone tells me that she wants to adopt kitty herself. Wonderful! I told her that I would trap kitty and that she could take kitty home in the trap and return it later. When she told me that she had a carrier, I told her to NOT try to move kitty from the trap because he was going to be upset. I also told her that if she couldn’t carry the trap and kitty herself, I would do it.
I set the trap and the next morning kitty was caught. And not happy. When I got all the way to that side of the building, everyone was distressed because the new kitty mom had tried to get kitty out of the trap and into a carrier. Of course kitty got loose and ran away.
(Other accruements include leather gauntlets, thick canvas overalls and a trap stick in my trunk.)
I grabbed my gear and stood in my boss’s office and told him that I was going to be late to work while I put it on. While he “didn’t” know that we were doing this, he just nodded his head and said that he had heard something about a traffic back up in my area.
I went out and sat in a grassy area with some kibble, lured kitty out, grabbed him and ran over to the carrier and stuffed him in.
Kitty got his balls cut off 2 days later.
We are here to help, but you have to help us do that.
I understand that if you have never been here before, you don’t know what you need. If this is your 4th renewal, you KNOW what we need. Please don’t waste your time or ours by coming to interview for a renewal without bringing the things we ask you for every 6 months. This hurts us both, I get dinged for every case I have to pend and you will have to come back with that information. (And wait in line again if you want to be sure that your case is completed.)
I am a “Prudent Person”.
There are many things that I can take your word for because I know how much people here pay for rent and utilities. I won’t question them as long as they are within the range of what other people pay. Tell me that your electricity bill is $450 a month and that you are a single person, living alone with $450 rent? Yeah, I’m going to question that. I’m also going to do an OSI report to get someone out to inspect because I think that you have unreported income.
Dude, I have no problem with weed. I voted for 205. However, your reported income just barely covers your expenses if I subtract the electricity. I asked you several times in several ways about other income. You seem to be lying to me about other income and we are the government. When you agree to do business on our terms, we have the right to do this.
If I’m wrong, do something about your insulation. Paying that much for electricity is a sign that something is wrong. If I’m right, I’m sorry. The OSI investigator might report you to the police. I have no control over that.
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