Have you tried to reach the IRS?

[Mick]

This article says more than 2/3rds of all callers can’t get through to the IRS.

Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don’t Reach Anyone. – WSJ

I couldn’t get through, finally did. Tried to set an appointment in San Jose, they had none available. Had none available in SF. Had to get one two months out in Oakland. I received a confirmation notice that my appointment was from “9:15 to 10:45”. I thought “what are we going to talk about for an hour and a half?”

I arrived at 8:55. They didn’t call my number until 11:05. I walked into the IRS agent’s cubicle. He asked that I wear a mask — frankly, I was grateful to put one on, since he smelled of alcohol so strongly. I said, “I hate to tell you this, but I’ve been waiting over two hours…I have a crated animal at my home, a 90 minute drive away…I need to get back and let her out.” He said “we’ll call this a hardship reschedule.”

He had the good grace to apologize for the 2+ hour wait.

[Legend]

I have no interest in talking to the IRS, but this brings up a conversation I had earlier today with a client of ours.  He was lamenting some poor manufacturing performance with a lot of it attributable to poor labor productivity and turnover.

We discussed that the whole “COVID hangover” has really been a “COVID re-set” to the values and motivations of the work force.  This is in the private sector, mind you.  The work force has become less effective and more entitled than possibly ever.

If that’s in the private sector, I can’t even begin to imagine how the government is doing.

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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)

[Mick]

That’s one thing I don’t miss about managing people. The Millenials are…a different group, to say the least.  They want praise, and a raise, and promotions long before they’re entitled. I used to manage a group of millenials in Detroit…snarky, bitchy and the single laziest group of people I’ve ever run across, before or since.

Interesting firm, that one. When I led them, we were the fastest growing firm amongst the American Lawyer Second Hundred, about 12% annually. The first year after I left, their growth rate dropped to 4.2%, then 2.3% the year after that. Last year, they grew just less than 1%. My old manager told me that it probably cost them over $50 million collectively when I left.

[Beeg_Dawg]

Millenials are hanging around waiting for their inheritance. If you think they acted like entitled little shits up to now, just wait.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/economy/millennials-richest-generation-in-history/index.html

 

 

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