Todays Theme Is: Your Idiocy Is Not My Fucking Problem.
(Note: The following is a rough compilation of approximately half a dozen calls received just this morning from not just myself but my co-workers)
Phone: Happy Tax Day! Hang on to your butts! *ring*
Me: Aw, shitcakes with fuck-you frosting.
FuckCake(s) O' the Day: I have not received my W2 forms! WAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
Me: Well, let me see something...we haven't gotten it back from the Post Office, so let me verify your address...is your address [this]?
FC(s)OtD: Yes, but I don't have my W2 and I have to file today!
Me: Well, okay. You can request a reprint, but we either need a written request with your name, SSN and the address to send it to along with a check or money order for $12.50, or, alternately, you can stop by with valid ID and $12.50 cash, check or money order.
FC(s)OtD: WHAT?! But it's not my fault I don't have my W2! It was, um...stolen! Yeah!
Me: I'm sorry to hear that, but we did send it to the correct address and we don't have it here, we have to request a reprint from the third party company that processes W2s for us, so those are your options.
FC(s)OtD: WWWAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! But, but, but...what am I supposed to do?!
Me: Send a written request with $12.50 or stop by with $12.50.
FC(s)OtD: WWWAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Me: ...
FC(s)OtD: WWWAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Me: ...
FC(s)OtD: WWWWWAAAAAAAAUUUGGGGHHH
OMGWTFLATEFILINGDEATHFROMABOVEBLACKHELICOPTERSPLAGUEOFBOILSDOOMDOOMDOOM
WWWWWAUUUUUUGGGGHHH!!!!
Me: ...
FC(s)OtD: You suck. *click*
Me: And have a nice day.
::makes popcorn::
seriously - these are the things that went into the mail and were supposed to arrive by Jan 31, yes? Because when I don't see a client's 1099 by mid february, I start feeling like something's off. One of my colleges missed a 1099 once and filed it later, earning me a nice visit from the Man. Luckily, I'd declared it without their help... earning me a grumbly refund from the Man.
still would very much like to let the Man tend to the bonsai or whatever instead.
Teppy, happy back surgery anniversary!
He waited until today to call about a missing tax form? Idiot.
Tonight TCG and I are going to see Eddie Izzard live!
Congrats, vw!
Aims, I don't even know what to say. I'm sorry this has been such a roller coaster.
Tonight TCG and I are going to see Eddie Izzard live!
I get to to that in a couple of months! Let me know how it is (not that he could be anything but brill).
seriously - these are the things that went into the mail and were supposed to arrive by Jan 31, yes?
And they did. That's our point.
Look, I sympathize to an extent with these folk, I really do. But, dude...they were sent in January, if you didn't receive them by March we offered free reprints... but it is APRIL 15th! You just now figured out that you need these or that you don't have them? Sorry. That is your problem and we do our best to help you out, but there are limits.
Thus the theme of the day.
Well, some people may have husbands like mine who dropped the bomb yesterday that his boss's father was not, in fact, doing the taxes, so could they pretty please go home hook up the old computer to the internets, update Turbo Tax and send them in by tonight?
Want. To. Smash. His. Head.
Tonight TCG and I are going to see Eddie Izzard live!
I get to to that in a couple of months!
We're going May 9th! Woot! sj, definitely give us a full report tomorrow!
Actually, Tep, isn't it you I have to thank for the pre-sale link? Or, was that Vortex. Ah well, whoever rocks!
Actually, ya'll all rock!
DJ and Teppy, there will be a full report tomorrow.
