Friday, August 15, 2008

What a Week

I have been in one long meeting this week reviewing our annual Federal Tax Workbook. If you know me, you know I am not in taxes, but yet I spend my time at this meeting each year acting as a referee for the enormous egos of author and instructor and general subject matter experts when they all get corraled to a small room over several days.

In case you don't get my pain, here are actual exerpts from my days:

Expert 1: We need to bold 5-year election in that last paragraph
Ecpert 2: That doesn't make any sense that is not the important part in this [tax] case. The emphasis should be that she didn't take distributions over the lifetime expectancy of the deceased.
Expert 1: But she took it in 5-years which would be fine if she elected to take it over 5-years, the point is she failed to file her ELECTION.
Expert 2: Oh, I see your point, I didn't get the penalty until I got to the last paragraph and found she didn't take the election. We should bold that.

[7 heads turn towards me]

Expert 3: Did you get that Tracy?

[me trying to discreetly wipe drool off face from having dozed for the last five minutes]: Let's see you want me to bold something?(usually a safe guess when you haven't been listening)

Other highlights of my week have been wondering who came up with "death gratuity" for the military. Does someone really show up at a widow's (or widower's) house and tell them they are getting a "death gratuity?" I am not fond of how we treat our military all ready, but seriously, "here's your tip for losing the most important person in your life?"

That is my soapbox. I will step off it now, and resume my happy fun blog.

6 comments:

HennHouse said...

You are hysterical!

Did you get all the changes or will this "meeting" have to go into round two?

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