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muck_a_luckWe have a form we have to fill out that goes to the Virginia Department of Health for every divorce. It includes a place to list the race of each spouse.
We request this information from our clients on our intake form. Boss's policy is to put into the boxes whatever the client puts. If they say white or black or Caucasian or African-American or Asian or Chinese or whatever they put, it's what I put.
So, this one SUPER ANNOYING client never returned the questionnaire, so filling in every form has been an annoyance. This particular form has been like PULLING NAILS, because I SENT the form to her and asked her to fill in the pieces I didn't know, and she responded with three of the nine missing pieces. I wasn't paying attention. So I took my three new facts, went back to the form, STILL CAN'T COMPLETE IT. So I asked her for the two more facts I hadn't realized were missing. Went back to the form. STILL CAN'T COMPLETE IT. JHC. I really only have myself to blame for my annoyance. When I saw she had not completely answered it the first time, I should have checked the whole thing, not stopped when I saw the two things. Whatever. I will now tell myself that if more people could correctly fill out forms with things like THEIR BIRTH NAME and THEIR PLACE OF BIRTH, I would be out of a job.
Anyway, one question was her husband's race. Apparently, he lists himself as white but she's "not sure" about that, because both of his parents are from a country in the Middle East.
I guess that's not white enough for her.
We request this information from our clients on our intake form. Boss's policy is to put into the boxes whatever the client puts. If they say white or black or Caucasian or African-American or Asian or Chinese or whatever they put, it's what I put.
So, this one SUPER ANNOYING client never returned the questionnaire, so filling in every form has been an annoyance. This particular form has been like PULLING NAILS, because I SENT the form to her and asked her to fill in the pieces I didn't know, and she responded with three of the nine missing pieces. I wasn't paying attention. So I took my three new facts, went back to the form, STILL CAN'T COMPLETE IT. So I asked her for the two more facts I hadn't realized were missing. Went back to the form. STILL CAN'T COMPLETE IT. JHC. I really only have myself to blame for my annoyance. When I saw she had not completely answered it the first time, I should have checked the whole thing, not stopped when I saw the two things. Whatever. I will now tell myself that if more people could correctly fill out forms with things like THEIR BIRTH NAME and THEIR PLACE OF BIRTH, I would be out of a job.
Anyway, one question was her husband's race. Apparently, he lists himself as white but she's "not sure" about that, because both of his parents are from a country in the Middle East.
I guess that's not white enough for her.
