Way to employ incompetent people to hire competent ones.

I've officially thrown in the towel for the census gig. I applied, aced a timed test in a roomful of fellow applicants, and then heard nothing for months. I contacted the downtown office in the meantime to take another test (to work in a local office/ be a supervisor). Unfortunately, I got the run-around and due to office workers misinformation, missed the sign-up window for that second test. It went something like:

"Call back Monday." Ok, I called on Monday.
"Call back on Thursday." Ok, I called back Thursday.
"Oh, the list is full, sorry." "But I was specifically told to call back on Thursday".
"That other worker didn't know what she was talking about. *lol*" Called again the next day in case there were cancelations.
"Oh, that test was canceled." Called back again the next week.
"Someone will get in touch with you." Never got a call.

I applied for this back in February figuring I'd know whether I was hired within a month. Maybe three, max. This is a pretty long time to wait, but I expected as much since I'd held a gov. job before this one. I recently received a mass e-mail out of the blue... with yet another generic application attached. I had no words and deleted the email.
 
Unless it comes w/ a pension or health benefits, this 8-10 hour/week temporary gov. job is not worth more than six months of my life spent on a dumb wild-goose chase hiring process. I've stopped and moved on to bigger and better things.