I feel relieved. Feels like I'm recovering from a physical and mental battle.

Yesterday I spent two hours on the phone getting the runaround. "Who do I call to resign from my job?" I don't know. Try this department. Asked fourteen Admin. staff members. Also got stuck on answering machine gerbil tracks with no option to speak to someone.

Guess people don't often quit government jobs.

"Ask your supervisor" is in every Census email. Only spoke to my supervisor once before she retired in December. Didn't get a new supervisor. It was frustrating to have no one to answer my questions.

Gave up calling and sent multiple emails. "Please forward this email to someone who can help me resign and cancel my training early next week in Burbank, California." Summarized my reasons for quitting.

At day's end, I got a call from Diane, Western Region supervisor in Los Angeles. Love Diane. She listened, empathized, and checked to make sure I entered all of my hours on the payroll website. She asked me to work for the Census again.

On Monday Diane will mail a prepaid shipping label to return the Census computer. I hated that computer. Although it was touch screen, we were warned to NEVER touch the screen. Constant crashing and restarting. Glad to see it go.

Officially Reported the Abusive Male Trainer

As a retired human resources director, I knew exactly how to write the report.

Last week, I reported the abusive male trainer and sent it to the Harassment and Intimidation department. The director asked me to copy and paste my email onto an official report document. I did and electronically signed. There were ten witnesses in the class. The director thanked me.

I wrote a post about the trainer's inappropriate behavior last week:

Dreadful last four days. The male trainer was abusive.