I had a hard day doing taxes yesterday. First I had a really sweet girl who gave lots to charity (as an act of faith in God), but she withdrew about $13k from her IRA and got a stiff penalty and owed nearly a thousand dollars to the IRS and state. And she had to pay me (the company) on top of that! I felt SO badly for her, and did what I could to make her bill better, but felt bad about that later - as in I hope I don't get in trouble for what I did!
Then I had another poor guy who needed money right away to pay his landlord by Sat, but I couldn't get him an instant approval (possibly because I had to put that he was unemployed). So I'm hoping he gets his money in the next few days, plus it occured to me later that I made a mistake on something. It comes out the same, but I feel like a dum dum.
So between feeling badly for people that need money and being worried that I did something wrong, I'm starting to not enjoy this job so much anymore. I was even thinking I should have said that the first girl was a relative of mine and only charged her $20, but I would have been scared that my boss would hear me and know it wasn't true.
Luckily she's pretty cool and there are worse people than me driving her crazy.
I've met some nice people and had some good experiences, tho. One young guy came in with a skateboard. He kept moving his shoulder, and said he'd fallen on his skateboard. I asked if he wanted an Advil or something, and he said he doesn't take anything like that, he just keeps moving it and it gets better. When he left I told him I hope he didn't get hurt anymore on his skateboard, and he said, "I'm pretty sure I will, but that's OK."
Then there was a girl who got 2k back last year, and when I finished with her return she was getting 6k! She had two kids and didn't make all that much money, and fell into a sweet spot for EIC, so that she actually got back more than she paid.
It's just more draining than I thought it would be, and after about 2 or 3 returns in a day I'm getting burned out. Please I have a feeling I'm not going to make much money here, especially if I keep printing out coupons for people.
I'm going to have to stop empathizing with everyone, or I'm going to get too upset to continue. As it is I'm stressing over whether or not this poor guy is going to pay his rent on time, and if not, what will happen to him? It's like you know there are people out of work and people on the edge, I just never met so many of them at one time.
As if I don't have money problems of my own...luckily mine are not that bad (yet).
Oh, I almost forgot another cool thing. I got asked out. To dinner, after doing his taxes. I told him it wasn't that I don't like dinner, but I think my husband would get mad. He said that yes, he had seen my ring. When I asked him at the end of his taxes if he was satisfied with the service he'd received, he said yes, except for that ring. Hah!
One thing I've noticed in the office that I'm in, that a LOT of people are married, but have different last names. I had no idea there were so many. Another thing is that people think they can write off gifts to charity. Well, you can, but it's on the Sched A. So unless you have a house or mega employee expenses (or horrible medical bills), it's not going to exceed the standard deduction.
That's all for now.
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