And yet... and yet Hawaiian Electric Company thinks everyone will eagerly take out this 11 page pamphlet and answer questions like: How many cfls do you have in every room of the house? How many tubular fluorescents do you have in each room of the house? What is the size of your water heater? How old is your refrigerator? What is the income level of your household? What is the square footage of your house?I repeat, are they crazy?
Art just smiled and said, "Well, you just completed it."
I replied, "I also voted."
Do you know that in Hilo, the police actually arrested a census taker?
Good grief!
So I'm wondering how many of these surveys were sent out, how much it cost, how many they get back, what the information was worth and how many trees were destroyed to do this in a supposedly apathetic state.
Are they crazy?
POSTSCRIPT: Oops! I just read the part in the cover letter that said we were randomly chosen, so not everybody will get it. Gosh! I won something else! How do you like that?
I guess you filled out the form AFTER you read about that census taker. Pretty scary.
ReplyDeleteBoy, if they get 10% of their long-winded surverys back, they'll be lucky.
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ReplyDeletereally dumb-maybe someone needs to tell them this?
ReplyDeleteI sometimes think that these things are devised just so that people can keep themselves in a job. A bit like the huge amount of road alterations that get done here in the UK, whilst road mending seems to get left behind. But that's just me and my pet annoyance.
ReplyDeleteOh ick. I might have tossed that one but the good girl in me would probably have to fill it out.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing and disgusting at the same time!! Why do they spend that much money on a form like that when surely they know most of them will end up in the garbage can???
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, I think they're crazy!
Hope your day goes well, Kay!
Sylvia
They should have people go on-line and save the paper...
ReplyDeleteI have not received that HECO form, and if I do, I will not complete it. What I have in my home is none of their business.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I never agree to participate in telephone surveys. If companies want my opinion, they will have to pay me for my time.
They have huge budgets for research ans should PAY us as we OVERpay for their product!
ReplyDeleteAloha from Waikiki :)
Comfort Spiral
good for you, Kay, 12 pages! I hope it does some good.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a big waste of money - and they'll probably only manipulate the statistics to suit themselves anyhow. My guess is they got some kind of funding that stipulated they do it, so it got done.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at the libraries we'd send out surveys asking people about their needs and issues with library service -- NOBODY would send the freaking things back, after a huge cost in resources to set it up. Total waste.
What a waste of money! I would fill one out on-line happily but would take a stand on this one. As for the census taker, I hope he stands TALL all the way to the end!!
ReplyDeleteOh, lucky you! I vote, but I'm not sure I would have made it through 11 pages of that survey!
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