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Pet peeve----Surveys

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Soapweed

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The wind is howling today, and I've already been bogged down with a telephone call cattle survey this morning. I have another written survey that is staring me in the face and making me mad. It is a sixteen-page very involved "nosy" survey put out by the USDA. They realize it is a hassle to fill out, because they sent $20 to "compensate" for the intrusion on my privacy. If they only knew it, I would pay them $20 if I didn't have to fill the bloomin' thing out.

Another survey cluttering up the desk is put out by Marketing Horizons, Inc. They wrote me a $10 check to fill it out. I feel like a male prostitute. I just feel violated. :mad:

Does a person legally have to fill out these things, or can I just plumb forget them? I hate paperwork, bureaucracies, bureaucrats, and everything that goes with them. :mad:

I should go kick the dog, but I guess I won't. :wink: :-)
 
Send them their $10 and $20 dollar checks back. Then legally they haven't paid you to fill out anything........then along with their postage paid envelope........go ahead and stuff in some of the other junk mail you recieve......when they hafta pay the postage on the envelope.....more than it shoulda been if it was just the survey...maybe they'll get the idea. LOL

It's almost fun to do that with junk mail anyway......open it all up......shuffle it....then restuff the envelopes.....and drop em in the mail. Them credit card applications are the worlds worst....I get 4 or 5 every time I get my mail.
 
Soapweed said:
. They wrote me a $10 check to fill it out. I feel like a male prostitute. I just feel violated. :mad:
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Well at least you've risen above the two-bit rating.... :wink: :lol:
 
Oldtimer said:
Soapweed said:
. They wrote me a $10 check to fill it out. I feel like a male prostitute. I just feel violated. :mad:
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Well at least you've risen above the two-bit rating.... :wink: :lol:
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"hello, officer....I'd like to report a crime!!" :wink:
 
You should see the USDA grain crop survey...They have listed 150 varieties of wheat - 150 varieties of barley- 100 varieties of oats--etc. etc.

You can't just tell them you planted none of any--or all of one variety-- you have to fill in the blanks of the number of acres of each you seeded...

Absolute bureaucratic stupidity.......
 
Soap, send me $50 and I give you permission to not fill out anything, and will drop off a bunch of dogs for you to kick at your leisure......



as for male prostitution......... I guess I was not so far off on the pic I posted in the political session huh?? :wink:
 
It's almost fun to do that with junk mail anyway......open it all up......shuffle it....then restuff the envelopes.....and drop em in the mail. Them credit card applications are the worlds worst....I get 4 or 5 every time I get my mail.[/quote]

There is a number you can call to stop all those credit card applications. I will try to post it tomorrow.
 
You have to be more politically correct Oldtimer. The old remark of calling someone a two bit wh--e is no longer acceptable. The 'two bit' part will now be referred to as 'low cost providers' and the last offensive term will from now on be referred as 'horizontally accessible'! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Aw heck, after teleponing Soapweed about my opinion on what he should do, I've decided to go ahead and post it.

I'd keep the money and if they're paying for the postage, return the blank forms with perhaps a note asking them to not send them again. If there is not a postage paid envelope, I'd pitch them. I don't think you are legally committed to anyone who has sent you an unsolicited gift.

I've yet to run on to anyone willing to do work for me without charging me plenty for it. If they want my "expert" advice or information, they'd better be willing to pay me $100 per hour for my time, then I'll decide if I want to mess with it. $10-20 may have been fair compensation 30 years ago, but not in this day & age. It's insulting to think they expect us to donate our time like that. It's no different than telemarketers who barge into our homes and occupy our time.

I'm with you Lilly, I would sometimes get a half dozen credit card applications a day in the mail. I started returning it all back to them including the original envelope with a note saying, "Don't send these anymore" and I've nearly quit getting them. I get more fun out of that approach than calling some "do not call/send list"!
 
With the phone calls, all ya gotta do is ask if they are getting paid for the information, if they will pay you for your information, if the answer is no, then hang up. It's not right for them to sell information they got for nothing and turn a profit.

I guess it's just like cattle now, cept' its all backwards, get it for nothign and sell it for nothing :P:P:P:P
 
When I get those phone surveys from Stats Canada I answer them but when they ask if they can share with the province I say NO. They usualy ask again and I say NO. Then they ask why I say NO and I tell them because I can. They tell me it will keep the Province from calling me and I tell them if this is as confidential as they tell me no one will know it was me that said NO.
 
The really fun part of those return postage paid envelopes is that just like regular mail, the postage is charged out by weight. So, the more stuff you pack into one of them things, the more the receiver gets nailed for at the Post Office!!! :lol:
 
Part of the system of Government is to create jobs. Think of how much work goes into sending you all that bull manure. :lol: Since we burn paper and wood for heat I really appreciate the free fuel. Some bull manure I look at, add a little more bull manure to it and send it back. :lol:
I might even be creating a job for someone. I'll sign off now before it gets too deep. :lol:
 
If I have time, I enjoy filling them out.

Example.

Chickens. Yup I run about a million head on 2 acres.

Cows. 200,000 head on 5 acres.

Grain bins. 1 Great big one that hold 2 million bushels. Etc.

It's kind of fun to mess with their figures. :wink:
 

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