wherein Liz is annoyed at her seasonal job
Jan. 5th, 2020 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingToday is my first day back at Not the IRS, the tax prep company I do seasonal work for. It's a two-hour shift and absolutely nothing is going to happen, because nobody has their tax documents yet, but it's January so we're open just in case. (Very occasionally we do get somebody who's received a tax notice of some sort and wants advice, or somebody dropping by to schedule an appointment for February, but that's about it.)
Not the IRS has always blocked various websites on their office computers. Some of that is for electronic security reasons, but mostly it's to stop people from websurfing when we could be doing company-approved things instead.
This year, they have blocked Gmail. Not Google itself -- search engines are too necessary for research to block -- but all ancillary services associated with Google are unavailable.
They tried this a couple years ago but backed off when people screamed bloody murder about losing access to personal communications. I guess now they figure everyone has a smartphone so they can get away with it? In any case, this means I can't email writing projects to myself anymore, to pick at during my downtime. *sigh* I guess I can make private Dreamwidth posts and write in those, but that's such a pain.
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In other news, church went well! We have a new adding machine (to replace the one that broke last week) so I and my partner got the offering counted efficiently and I was back in the kitchen before too many dirty dishes had piled up. It was also a small service, which undoubtedly helped on that front. I brought banana bread, which was devoured appreciatively. :)
Now I am going to poke around some proprietary software to get a feel for this tax season's updates, after which I may try writing or I may just pull out my Kindle and see what I have stored on there that's currently unfinished.
Not the IRS has always blocked various websites on their office computers. Some of that is for electronic security reasons, but mostly it's to stop people from websurfing when we could be doing company-approved things instead.
This year, they have blocked Gmail. Not Google itself -- search engines are too necessary for research to block -- but all ancillary services associated with Google are unavailable.
They tried this a couple years ago but backed off when people screamed bloody murder about losing access to personal communications. I guess now they figure everyone has a smartphone so they can get away with it? In any case, this means I can't email writing projects to myself anymore, to pick at during my downtime. *sigh* I guess I can make private Dreamwidth posts and write in those, but that's such a pain.
...
In other news, church went well! We have a new adding machine (to replace the one that broke last week) so I and my partner got the offering counted efficiently and I was back in the kitchen before too many dirty dishes had piled up. It was also a small service, which undoubtedly helped on that front. I brought banana bread, which was devoured appreciatively. :)
Now I am going to poke around some proprietary software to get a feel for this tax season's updates, after which I may try writing or I may just pull out my Kindle and see what I have stored on there that's currently unfinished.
