H&R Block screws up their own taxes

Irony at its best.

I went to H & R Block one year that my taxes were especially complicated. The following year, I was audited and owed a substantial amount on account of them not doing my taxes correctly. I don't recommend them. Been doing my own ever since.

Here's the article link:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11528461/

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Marathon Mondays and a Few Rants...

Anybody else feel like they hit the ground running on Mondays and hardly get a moment to catch your breath? It's been a stressful few weeks at the office. Many changes going on and I feel buried in paperwork. I'm just about having anxiety attacks over daily sounds that remotely resemble my Outlook task manager. "Bing: Do this." "Bing: Do that." "Bing :Don't forget that is due in an hour." "Bing: Probably forgot about this, huh? Well, it still needs to happen."
Yes, there is little rest for the admin assistant, and even less for the executive assistant. It's the kind of job that beckons, "Please, ride me hard, 'cause that's the way I like it." If it weren't for great peeps I work with, and some good product perks, I might have phoned it in, especially lately.

I am hoping that my stress at least gives me a license to bitch about a few things that struck me throughout my day. They are random rants, but I think I will feel better to share, so here goes...

#1) I can understand at the very least, the temptation to converse via cell phone on the el or a restaurant, even if it isn't the best idea. But, the ladies room stall of a public restroom while you're doing your business? Today I witnessed this for the third time in the last two months- three different offenders. Ladies, have we no dignity?

#2) Punxsutawney Phil: If the idea is that there is more winter if he SEEs his shadow, then why hasn't anybody blindfolded the bastard?

#3) Does anyone know when America's Most Wanted comes on? I'm afraid I missed the episode featuring my landlord.

#4) I discovered the eight wonder of the world: The wonder that your mail gets anywhere on time. I have been to at least seven different u.s. post offices in Chicago and everytime I am standing in line I start imagining the outcomes of various scenarios like: What is this group's record evacuation time in a fire drill? 1 hour,twenty minutes and fifty six seconds? Or what if they took a cue from Wendy's and placed someone at the halfway point in line to ask what services they needed? That way they could get all the 'ripping a new one' in (how they didn't wrap the package right or didn't complete the correct documetation for the service they want) BEFORE the customer gets to the clerk.

#5) Who in the f*ck decided that raspberry iced tea is the new regular iced tea? I'm sure there's another reason in there somewhere to impeach Bush.

Thanks. I feel better now. :)

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