Really,
I had a audit with the IRS in downtown Chicago.
With government jobs you get healthcare and other benefits.
If you work your whole adult life you get a pension.
The accountant doing my audit is concerned about losing his livelihood. He has worked very hard for that.
In his suitcase he has a picture of Ron Paul with stick pins in it. He smiled and told me not to vote for this madman....for the love of G@D DON’T vote for the bastard.
Then he showed me his picture of his large family and then he said, “I have to take care of my family...where will I find another job with good salary and healthcare? Many civil companies like to hire a younger accountants just out of college.
He’s at age where he is getting ready to retire in 14 years and older unemployed workforce are pushed to the margins.
“I am a unon steward for the NTEU of the IRS and I vote for Ron Paul. I hate the IRS and hate having to work there!!”
If you don’t like your employment you have the free will to quit. I’m sure G@d will take care of you.
No! Unless you have several years of work specialty experience before and or during working for the IRS, majority of employers will not consider you for employment. I thought this was just MY sorry ass problem, but it wasn’t.
I have spoken with about a dozen or more people in the last 6 months, who have quit the IRS and have suffered looking for work. Or others like myself who are going to school part-time, because we can’t get anywhere with our IRS Experience. Working for the government is not a skill code, doe not equal higher education and in fact majority of the departments in the IRS dumb down business profession, business etiquette and totally slash away at proper management organizing!
Most of you wouldn’t know what really goes on, if you knew how President Bush has been down sizing and outsourcing our IRS - putting out hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last 2-3 years, YOU would be disturbed.
Let me introduce you to some people I know that suffer working as a seasonal employee, or who were improperly let go from their jobs on just the testimony of one other employee and or manager without proper investigation first, let me find for you how many cases of discrimination, retaliation and unconstitutional treatment that goes on in at the IRS!
I know what that man feels, is probably 101% true for each employee. It scares me, cause my mother and a few other loved ones work at the IRS - they are older, worked hard all there lives, have some form of vocational education, but not enough to get them a good paying job outside the government? Folks even the local state government in our area pays better for some of the same work we do! They treat their organization like an actual business.
Every IRS employee knows what they would have to lose - I am not alone, I sit in my area with at least 6 other individuals from all areas of the Tristate, from all ages who totally agree they should do without the IRS - Are we crazy? NO - We hate it! As federal employees, we lose anywhere from 20-38% of our wages every month JUST TO FEDERAL Taxes! Not to forget, we have to have a Union to keep us safe from the BOSS and his inadequately trained and poorly run organization that costs us a little more money! Plus, we get a lot less health benefits for our money than many other corporations in the area. Other employees may pay more for health benefits - but they get fuller options.
I could tell you more.... like how about the security measures and how they treat their outsourced security/maintenance workers! How about there is higher security clearance working in the packing warehouse for Amazon.com than we have the IRS (which handles peoples money everyday!).
How about the fact that working for the IRS, who doesn’t offer us any type of emergency insurance for working in a facility that on the average of 4-6 times a year (per facility) will be LOCKED DOWN due to possible hazardous attacks in the mail or docking area!
As an IRS employee we are not allowed to contact the Fire Department, local Police, OSHA (spell?) without permission from our local Commissioner! We have to depend on our low staffed, badly treated security to contact the Fire Department for us... etc.
YOUR Government does not care about the people working at the IRS, it is a bad place! THE IRS is an agency that shouldn’t exist - the federal government knows this. Until you really know the big picture coming from within there, you do not know how good it will be to get rid of this monster.
The man with the big family, who is worried about losing his job - if he is a High Grade official and a permanent full-time worker - he will have a greater chance of moving out of the National Treasury and into another department with a similar position criteria - just like many of us at the lower grade levels are trying to do. We all want out! We just don’t know how to do it, without getting hurt.