DC- The Internal Revenue Service continues to hire employees with conduct and performance problems, despite the agency’s pledge to improve hiring practices.
According to a report released on Thursday by the Treasury Department inspector general, more than 200 of 2,000 former IRS employees who were rehired between Jan. 2015 and March 2016 were previously “terminated from the IRS or separated while under investigation for a substantiated conduct or performance issue.”
Four of those 200 had previously been terminated or resigned for willful failure to file their tax returns; 15 had other tax issues; four were terminated for unauthorized access to taxpayer information; 13 had falsified documents, and another 86 were fired for various workplace infractions, such as absences, workplace disruption, or failure to follow instructions. more
SNIP: I’ll tell you what. We’ll stop paying taxes and getting in your way until you guys can catch up and fix your problems. Fair?
And yet Koskinen is still there. Why, PDT?!
I mean, could you please give Koskinen just half the shit you’re giving Sessions?
Just an average sampling of government workers.
At my workplace, we’ve had 60 new people quit over the past 2-3 months. Reason? They didn’t realize they actually had to work. (Travel Industry) Mostly the younger folks, surely not a surprise to many of you here.
So I actually had to deal with the IRS last month.
I was filing tax forms for someone who died.
The IRS said they needed another form.
I sent in the form.
They told me they now need another form.
If I submitted a response by mail, it wouldn’t be reviewed for 6 weeks.
So I thought I’d shortcut the process by going into an office.
You cannot see an IRS rep without an appointment – no exceptions.
Ten days later I finally have my appointment.
The appointment took 2 minutes.
The reps next appointment was 30 minutes after mine.
She had 28 minutes of wasted time.
Multiply that by the thousands of times a day this happens across the country.
Lot and lots of inefficiency.