wherein Liz does not actually do anyone's taxes (yet)
Today was my first shift at Not the IRS for the 2022 tax season, and predictably nothing happened. I was actually entirely on my own after the first fifteen minutes, but I was able to get the passcode to the doohickey where we keep the spare key so locking up was not an issue.
I didn't bother to close out the cash drawer because nobody used it all day.
My schedule had been fucked to hell and back for January peak (the back half of the month, when most people with simple returns get their W2s and are then ready to file) because corporate had overridden my self-reported availability and decided ON NO BASIS WHATSOEVER that I was available from 8am to 10pm seven days a week, and scheduled me accordingly, but I emailed Tax Boss and was able to get that fixed. I will have to do something similar for April, where corporate similarly overrode my availability and scheduled me willy-nilly, but we have a few months to get that worked out.
(Like. I have another job, you know? I have a proper FULL-TIME job. I don't actually need to do taxes at all, financially speaking. I just like to keep my hand in, and also working for a national company is fairly portable.)
Also I have apparently been signed up (without my knowledge or consent) to do some kind of internal resource tech thing??? My email forwarding got disconnected over the summer and I don't usually check my company email until January, so I had no idea that was going on and have missed all the training deadlines as well as a number of Microsoft Teams meetings. I dunno, I guess I'll try to finish the training anyway -- I don't have a huge client list so troubleshooting other people's nonsense might help fill shifts. But seriously, that is not how you organize and staff new programs! *headdesk*
This day has been a little weird all around, starting with the part where I attempted to reset my alarm by an hour and accidentally reset my actual clock instead and thus didn't get up until after noon. Obviously I needed the sleep! But waking to a clock that said 1:19 when I'd expected an alarm several hours earlier was a heck of an adrenaline shot, only slightly diminished when I checked my phone and it reported the time was really 12:19.
But I returned a library book, deposited a check and got quarters for laundry, sorted through my backlogged Not the IRS email, finished a work training task that I couldn't do out of office (...admittedly the program glitched on me partway through so I skipped the final two segments and bullshitted my way through the test because I have a knack for standardized tests, but whatever), bought groceries, and started reading a new library book about the Sahara Desert, so I think it's been a reasonably productive day. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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I didn't bother to close out the cash drawer because nobody used it all day.
My schedule had been fucked to hell and back for January peak (the back half of the month, when most people with simple returns get their W2s and are then ready to file) because corporate had overridden my self-reported availability and decided ON NO BASIS WHATSOEVER that I was available from 8am to 10pm seven days a week, and scheduled me accordingly, but I emailed Tax Boss and was able to get that fixed. I will have to do something similar for April, where corporate similarly overrode my availability and scheduled me willy-nilly, but we have a few months to get that worked out.
(Like. I have another job, you know? I have a proper FULL-TIME job. I don't actually need to do taxes at all, financially speaking. I just like to keep my hand in, and also working for a national company is fairly portable.)
Also I have apparently been signed up (without my knowledge or consent) to do some kind of internal resource tech thing??? My email forwarding got disconnected over the summer and I don't usually check my company email until January, so I had no idea that was going on and have missed all the training deadlines as well as a number of Microsoft Teams meetings. I dunno, I guess I'll try to finish the training anyway -- I don't have a huge client list so troubleshooting other people's nonsense might help fill shifts. But seriously, that is not how you organize and staff new programs! *headdesk*
This day has been a little weird all around, starting with the part where I attempted to reset my alarm by an hour and accidentally reset my actual clock instead and thus didn't get up until after noon. Obviously I needed the sleep! But waking to a clock that said 1:19 when I'd expected an alarm several hours earlier was a heck of an adrenaline shot, only slightly diminished when I checked my phone and it reported the time was really 12:19.
But I returned a library book, deposited a check and got quarters for laundry, sorted through my backlogged Not the IRS email, finished a work training task that I couldn't do out of office (...admittedly the program glitched on me partway through so I skipped the final two segments and bullshitted my way through the test because I have a knack for standardized tests, but whatever), bought groceries, and started reading a new library book about the Sahara Desert, so I think it's been a reasonably productive day. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)