A Day in the Life of . . .

A recent change to state statutes required social security number of employees and former employees to be removed from the public record. This meant that social security numbers had to be removed from all paperwork in employee files and applications (because under law they are public records). Following the directions of attorneys the Personnel Department began busily masking and marking through social security number on all those documents in employee files only to be told by the Internal Auditor to STOP! Seems the Personnel Department was violating state statutes by defacing public records. The Attorney General will be issuing an opinion. Sometimes, don't you just love government?
An applicant checks with the EEO Office for the status of a hiring department's affirmative action goals each time before responding to a recruitment for a position. He selects his EEOC ethnic status based on the classification or group the department is most underutilizing. The result is that he frequently changes his ethnic status. (He hasn't changed his gender selection, at least not so far.) You don't know whether to applaud his ingenuity or strangle him for the mess he makes of the applicant tracking system.
Class and Comp writes the class specifications and sets the minimum qualification requirements. A new Class and Comp Analyst doesn't understand the consternation of the Examining Unit when he writes the MQ for a skilled trades position as "high school diploma or G.E.D. and some experience." When asked how much "some" was, he promptly responded "enough to do the job"!???!