And What Was the Right Hand Thinking?
Bureaucrat: Why are you calling today?
Me: I received a card from your office.
Bureaucrat: Who sent the card?
Me: Your office sent the card.
Bureaucrat: But who is on the card?
Me: The only name on the card is mine.
Bureaucrat: No one’s name is on the card?
Me: Just your agency.
Bureaucrat: What does it say?
Me: I read her the card.
Bureaucrat: What does it say for a blah blah blah number?
Me: It does not have a number.
Bureaucrat: There’s no number?
Me: It justs says update.
Bureaucrat: OK. What’s your name?
Me: Simple American
Bureaucrat: Give me your SSN.
Me: 123456789
Bureaucrat: Lets update the computer.
Me: (I give her the info she needs for an update.)
Bureaucrat: Have a good day and get luck on your job hunt.
What job hunt? A little innocuous card like this can be a little frightening as government has ways it can hammer you. So you call ‘em back and they don’t have a clue why you are calling. This is the second one of these I have received since being employed by the college last year. The return address is in my county, but the postmark is Austin. Do these people talk to each other?
Where’s the Queen of Hearts when you need her? Oh Alice! Little help down here.
September 29th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
they’ve all gone to the tea party..
September 29th, 2005 at 9:02 pm
They gave ‘em some bitchin’ hats to wear. And glass slippers too.
September 29th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Hmm, so if I send you a card w/ my phone number, but I make it look official, will you tell me your name and ssn???
HAHA! I don’t need it, fool! I already have it! 123456789. You’re so CRAZY to post that!
Lol, sorry, I’m in an offbeat wierd mood. Need pills…
September 30th, 2005 at 5:49 am
Yikes. That’s rather creepy.
September 30th, 2005 at 7:16 am
Man, sure it’s not some kinda fraud? There’s been alot going around, esp SSN fraud, better be careful!
September 30th, 2005 at 8:07 am
It was just the aliens trying to find out your info and exact location so they can come take you back to their home planet for scientific studies.
September 30th, 2005 at 9:11 am
@Justin Do you want my address or will just use the SSN I already published?
@Alisa Annoying is another word I used.
@lynne Its the real deal. The number was still in my phone from when I was unemployed a couple years ago. Plus I had to call twice because they were too busy the first time I called.
@etchen Thats fine. Just make sure they pick me up after I watch Serenity this weekend.
September 30th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Kafka.
September 30th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
Oh my? Where’s the dictionary?
lol. I know he’s an author. I guess I should read him sometime.
September 30th, 2005 at 8:12 pm
i thought it sounded like food. hehe. i’m too lazy to get a dictionary.
September 30th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
You know it does. Something made with sour cream and chives. Maybe caviar or calimari thrown in for substance.
October 1st, 2005 at 10:12 am
Well at least they sent to you at the right address!! in Thailand…I still get someone’s letters…that I never known!!! and most of them are important letters!!!
October 1st, 2005 at 12:06 pm
You should become friends with them then.