Is Rural Living a Hobby?

[hosspuller]

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My guess was record retention or destruction…

It was actually both ... After I saved the imaged documents into the system with references, the documents were destroyed.

 

[California]

The scanner and I had quite a relationship. I figured out how to keep it feeding well. The staff had no patience for it, nor machinery feel.

That stirred up PTSD!

Several times during 20 years in the Inspector General branch of a large public agency, I spent the better part of a week standing in front of a scanner feeding mountains of original documents. Of course, almost all with staples. I soon learned to rip out staples with a fingernail and that anything over 20 pages can just be ripped into top/bottom components without tearing the paper, so the staple will come out of the top half easier. I thought I had forgotten that part of my life! By age 54 I had accumulated savings that let me retire from that life. Best decision I ever made! Been playing Gentleman Farmer ever since.

California government is generally clean. Here's the one instance where things had gone massively astray, where I had a peripheral role. I was reviewing a different district and was suddenly told to dig in to find any evidence that this district had a similar problem, turn the place inside out. After weeks of digging, no significant problems found. Worst I found was the scrap metal dealer's weigh slips were accepted without a government representative witnessing the weighing, and public auction buyers of used equipment sometimes had inside information on the condition of what they bid on. Both of these issues NBD. But I had to write a lengthy audit report detailing every aspect I had dug into, sufficient to confirm there was no coverup in this district.