Posted on 03/16/2012 8:32:28 AM PDT by relictele
Of course they would.
Doesn't it say right there, "Not to be used for identification purposes"?
ML/NJ
Very well written. And spot on.
Such a shame, the state of our country.
This is a brilliant rant. And very parallel to the experience I had in a Social Security office years ago trying to get my young daughter her SSN, which had not been provided when she was born.
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I had to go through two security checkpoints. Then, they killed me. Really....I’m dead now. I went back to try and claim “death” as a disability, but they said they couldn’t do that as dead people can work for the social security administration. I should’ve worn a diaper.
If Barack Obama walked into that Social Security office and asked for a duplicate of his SS card would their response correctly be “which one”?
I retired in February. I am receiving pensions from three Fortune 100 companies for whom I have worked over the 43 years I have been employed. I notified SS first and then the three employers. I got my first monthly payment(direct deposited to my checking account as I requested) from all three companies in March. My first SS payment is supposed to be deposited in April but, they may need to mail me a check if they can’t work out the enormous difficulties of direct deposit by then.
res ipsa loquitor
Had similar expieriences in CA only there war no caucasians anywhere in sight and the only words in english I heard came from the armed gaurd in there room. Of the other 6 or 7 languages being spoken, I did recognize spanish but the eastern european and asian languages were only vaguely familiar.
Very nice writing about a sad, scary situation.
I receive SS as of last year. No problem getting direct deposit, however when it is coming is anyone’s guess. From the 3-23 of the month.
You would think that these checks are just spit out by computer and wired on the same day each month.
oh, well
Hilarious relictele!
In line for hours viewing sluts in PJ bottoms and tube tops with babies, no baby daddy, looking for SSI, fat-asses in too-short T's and bermuda pants in a rented wheelchairs looking for SSDI.
Tons and tons of old parent foreigners accompanied presumably by their newly immigrated anchor-children looking to sign them up for SS (apparently there are reciprocal agreements wherein payment of 1 rial,rupee, or squashbug per week translates to a bonafide SS payment and full credit).
My number finally called. Met at the door by some woman who identified herself as Mr. TokenSSAJob's 'Facilitator'.... I was escorted behind the circus tent and introduced to Mr. TokenSSAJob himself. blind as a bat sitting at a keyboard and computer screen. Ms. Facilitator READ each line of the application to him as he magically typed everything and then a USA ADA representative danced out of a corner, shook some chicken bones and threw them on the table and blessed the accomplishment.
I never got the card...had to repeat the whole thing again. After much convincing of the incredulous lady I got to plead to, finally got another one a month later.
When I applied for my SS this time, thankfully I did it online and actually got hold of some dear lady somewhere in the country who actually knew what she was doing.
I suspect there's a huge variation in quality of service between various SS offices and their typical clientele.
The ones you see in person are mostly idiots and token hires. The smart ones who know about computers and actually know there job handle the online stuff.
Hate to say it, but, where I live, the Tax Office and DMV are models of efficiency.
I’m not using a bit of sarcasm here. They really are.
For instance, if they keep you waiting more than 15 minutes in the DMV, your license fee is waived. Really.
Forsyth County, Georgia DMV: fast, efficient, polite. Its like going to a Chick-fil-A!
My last couple of visits to the NJDMV were surprisingly quick and relatively painless. I was treated with courtesy by folks acting in a professional manner, and with no hint of hostility.
Of course, I had read all the requirements and come prepared with the pertinent items ready for processing. That might make a difference!
I purchased a vehicle out of state for which I received the title, sales receipt, safety inspection report, and insurance card. Since I had to work during the hours the DMV was open I sent a family member to drop off the forms I had mailed to me (You can't get the vehicle registration form on line even though you can get the application for a temporary dealer's license and the permit to operate a parking facility) And pick up the temporary plates so I can get the truck and drive it 60 miles to have the official state sniffer shoved up the tailpipe and go through the process all over again.
After three trips to the DMV in one day including one to get a copy of my license and an article of mail They said I had to appear in person and could not have a representative get the plates. I have to simply appear and then, and only then, will they hand over the plates. I also need to have the thing towed over the state line because I need to go through a state that does not recognize temporary plates.
I'm starting to think there is somebody behind a desk somewhere that just thinks up the most ridiculous hoops to make people jump through to comply with arcane and silly regulations.
Paging Mr. Orwell...
Sad but well done. I expected the whole affair would have been much worse.
Social Security, in their shining new offices here, is another gubment place I avoid like the plague. I did have a client in the same office building where the local IRS facilities are located. Between the smoking refugees out in the parking garage and the spectacle of lunch and quitting time, which seems to begin just about any time after lunch, you get a good view of the fine civil servants who are getting to look into the most private areas of your life and the keys to the security of your financial present and future. Chilling does not begin to come close to the fear it strikes in me to witness this spectacle, parade of miscreants and equal opportunity employment poster people.
I took my 18-year-old son in to the Minnesota DMV to get him a state ID card. Not a license, just a state ID so he could get a job. After an interminable wait, I was finally summoned to a window where a surly clerk GUARDED BY AN ARMED OFFICER demanded two forms of ID. I soon found out that the guard served another purpose: he acted as an interpreter. The clerk could not speak a word of English.
So there I stood, forced to prove the citizenship of my native-born son before a woman who was likely in the country illegally. Oh, and the "guard" was a Somali.
To top it off, my papers were not in order and my son was not able to get the ID card.
bfl
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