Total win from the census team on this one, but now I have Kelis’ Milkshake in my head. How did you go with the online submission Tuesday night? Hopefully you weren’t one of the 670,000 households who used the web form but forgot to hit send. Good news: Submissions don’t close until September 5. [Failblog]
Flame
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:08 AMI didn’t forget to submit, but our eCensus broke when trying to submit (“internal application error”) and could not save. Tried to log back in and that also failed with “error 570″.
Tried again Wednesday evening and it all worked fine…
Stan V
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:09 AMhahaha this made my morning!
Andy Cronin
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:34 AMYep. They are human indeed! :-) Never in my wildest dreams was I expecting a response like that from them :-)
TSH
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 10:53 AMawesome
Mivilicious
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 11:13 AMlol this is classy, not as classy as just hearing the song AND reading at the same time :D
SaintSkeeta
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 12:10 PMPersonally, my favourite was when the Census Facebook page started bagging Melbourne Demons players after their huge loss to Geelong.
Matt
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 3:45 PMThis is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
misskrin
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 1:42 PMYep, we (the people who work in government jobs) are human :) This was a classic. Kudos to whoever came up with the idea AND to whoever signed off on it.
Often we’re not allowed to appear human because of concern of the media taking it the wrong way (big business can be the same). So, keep responding like this and we’ll be able to be more relaxed in our interactions outside our departments.
(special mention to Andy Crossin, whose tweet allowed this humour to be seen in the first place)
misskrin
Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 1:44 PMoops, Andy CRONIN. clearly my coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.