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.
Boy, talk about sour grapes and you want to vote for Ron Paul. He will do MORE downsizing and giving all the jobs to independent contractors and let the market place dictate policies. Ron Paul want to dramatically reduce government and return it to late 1800’s....very limited federal government.
“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.”
Honey, the government been downsizing since the Soviet Union collasped and it didn’t start on GW Bush’s watch. Many federal jobs have been outsourced. My husband use to have a federal job on the base but the government thought they could save money by outsourcing it to Goodwill Industries.
It does save money for the taxpayers because they don’t have to pay union wages. All the regular jobs go to the disabled who need job training and experience.
They also closed many military bases because they were obsolete and we didn’t have the Soviet threat anymore. Most of the Department of Defense has been outsourced too...except for certain specialities.
This is what you wanted right...stop the Government bloat. When the government cuts and trims...you complain how unfair life treated you.
My husband retired in the military in 1995 because they wanted to downsize the military personnel but his job speciality in the Navy didn’t transfered to the civilian workforce.
But we manage.
We don’t blame the government.
We just make adjustments.
c’est la vie!
At least we have our retirement check coming in each month but we do have to pay for our healthcare on the base.
He works for Goodwill now. He has no Union representative because Goodwill is a non-for profit organization.
The Federal Employees Union tried to orgnaize a Union with Goodwill employees but can’t....due to the non-for-profit status. They claim the employees are under training.
And the Union on the base don’t like that.
“.... 20-38% of our wages every month JUST TO FEDERAL Taxes!”
Break down what you have on your Federal Taxes.
Where do you live?
And how many exemptions are you taking?
My husband pays 15% towards Federal Income Tax, Employee Medicare and Social Security.
For a family of four.
You have a good paying job that you don’t like so your solution to your troubles is to back Ron Paul because he promises to shut down your employer and put you on the unemployment line?
How will being let go from your job improve your situation?
I don’t suppose you realize that unemployment compensation is not in the consitution.