Customer Service - Anonymous employee IRS Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2015
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Pros

Decent benefits. I enjoyed talking to the tax payers while working to resolve their issues or concerns and did this well. Working off two monitors helped a lot to multi-task situations.

Cons

Heavily micro-managed. If you like having to count for every second of your time spent in front of a PC its fine but you will always have to answer for every little thing with someone always looking over your shoulder. The training is grueling, dull, boring unless of course you are the type of person who likes to fill in numbers on lines and searching for the meanings of specific tax codes which unless you know what they are trying to find them in their library database takes an eternity when performing this work. Also, the training was the worst. The trainers are workers who have been their awhile but most of them have no teaching experience which made learning even more difficult. The pay does not equal the work and stress this position comes with. Also, throughout the entire training period of 3 months we were told over and over not to worry about the daily testing we were given, ït does not matter" the important thing was how to find the info in the database! Now if you don't know what your looking for, how do you know if you found the correct answer or not? Now if you already have tax experience and like tax things along with a good amount of computer experience this job might be for you. You must like heavy handed control and all your calls monitored as well. For me personally, I resigned.

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3.0
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Pros

-Got me started in my career as an auditor -thorough tax law training -many senior auditors helping you learn the profession

Cons

-communication from management is not always transparent -when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you get verbal abuse from not only POA and taxpayers (understandable, given this is the IRS), but also management/OJI's. They want to look good to their bosses and will throw you under the bus if they have to in order to save themselves. Even if they gave you instructions that got you in trouble. They SHOULD be supporting you in your function as an auditor, but they'll do whatever is easiest for themselves ultimately. -on job training can be disorganized -bureaucratic culture -like many other companies, a lot of things you're expected to learn by yourself. Such as how to avoid POA delays.

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