I worked for IRS between 84-90. I knew the system better than everyone except one guy at my service center. Everything said here is correct except the unpostables are supposed to return in 2 weeks. One week for pending unpostable another to post the unpostable. Yeah, archaic.
I used to collect $50 awards for handbook changes by finding wrong procedures and even mispelled words. One was 'take the form to the Form unit where the girl will...'. I got $50 for changing girl to person.HAHA.
I knew they printed reports on the weekend so to keep my old case percentage down I would sign out about 300 pieces of work on Friday and sign them back on Monday. The limit for old case percentage was 20%, mine was.05%. My manager would ask me how I did this and I would just shrug my shoulders thinking 'look if you cannot figure it out I am not telling', in any case I racked up another extra $300 a quarter for having high production and low old case work. I started teaching classes there after 6 months on the job. Why? The average intelligence level was so low. This was before PC's, do you think these people could work a computer made by Ross Perot? Big red and blue buttons and a black and white screen, please.
Anyway, if you try and have these people retype all that data without errors we could have every person in the country working in Data Entry and Error Correction. Listen all the Service Center was was a big error correction factory. Hire people 'off the street' for $4.25 an hour, have them type in stuff at a 30% error rate and have it 'fixed' by people making $5 an hour. The attitude of the place was 'it will get fixed later'. My advice, do not trust the government to do anything right. It is amazing that anything gets done.
I got $50 bucks once because the Entity Unit that kept a file of every taxpayer on those old library cards with the drawers had to rearrange the drawers and the had pulled out about 50% of them and put them on the floor. Someone called me because they thought I was smart but I just had a little common sense. Anyway they asked what do we do? It is a mess and we can't fix it?
I looked, thought for 5 seconds and said 'put them in alphabetical order first'. They thought I was a genius. God I am glad I am out of the hellhole!
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I worked for IRS between 84-90. I knew the system better than everyone except one guy at my service center. Everything said here is correct except the unpostables are supposed to return in 2 weeks. One week for pending unpostable another to post the unpostable. Yeah, archaic. I used to collect $50 awards for handbook changes by finding wrong procedures and even mispelled words. One was 'take the form to the Form unit where the girl will...'. I got $50 for changing girl to person.HAHA. I knew they printed reports on the weekend so to keep my old case percentage down I would sign out about 300 pieces of work on Friday and sign them back on Monday. The limit for old case percentage was 20%, mine was .05%. My manager would ask me how I did this and I would just shrug my shoulders thinking 'look if you cannot figure it out I am not telling', in any case I racked up another extra $300 a quarter for having high production and low old case work. I started teaching classes there after 6 months on the job. Why? The average intelligence level was so low. This was before PC's, do you think these people could work a computer made by Ross Perot? Big red and blue buttons and a black and white screen, please.
Anyway, if you try and have these people retype all that data without errors we could have every person in the country working in Data Entry and Error Correction. Listen all the Service Center was was a big error correction factory. Hire people 'off the street' for $4.25 an hour, have them type in stuff at a 30% error rate and have it 'fixed' by people making $5 an hour. The attitude of the place was 'it will get fixed later'. My advice, do not trust the government to do anything right. It is amazing that anything gets done.
I got $50 bucks once because the Entity Unit that kept a file of every taxpayer on those old library cards with the drawers had to rearrange the drawers and the had pulled out about 50% of them and put them on the floor. Someone called me because they thought I was smart but I just had a little common sense. Anyway they asked what do we do? It is a mess and we can't fix it?
I looked, thought for 5 seconds and said 'put them in alphabetical order first'. They thought I was a genius. God I am glad I am out of the hellhole!