My first day at work was spent:
- Waiting around in the lobby for an hour while various people tried to find the list of returning employees in my sub-section, along with our parking stickers and employee badges, because my manager was coming in late to work today, and apparently nobody thought about this problem last Friday, when something could have been done about it.
- Plodding through about nine hundred pages of the Internal Revenue Manual (my nine hundred pages make up Section 3.12.3 of the entire Manual), along with six hundred pages or so of ancillary manuals, corrections and changes to various misprints, and manuals for working on prior-year returns. This evening I have to make two hundred index tabs to be glued into the manuals tomorrow, and at that I’m going to have to go buy another hundred tomorrow because I cleaned out the Office Depot nearest my house.
Who knows what heart-stopping excitement tomorrow may bring? We’ve been promised actual lessons on working the 2002 returns, as well as refresher work to remind us of what we’ve managed to forget since last year.
Dracula takes his conquering bowling ball and moves to Cincinnati. Fnord.
