So instead of being detailed to another department.....we got laid off this last Friday. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE. The IRS works in mysterious ways. I will go back around the 9th of October so its just a couple weeks and I have unemployment but its just the principal of the thing. Hopefully when those jobs go on the board to bid on i will be among those who will get one of the perm positions...but i won't count those chickens till they start to lay eggs.
It was good to see Amanda last weekend. She came down Saturday and i BBQ'd some chicken on the grill and we had a good lunch. I went to our small group which met early and was home by around 8:30 and we watched some tv together-well she slept most of it....LOL- and then we went to church Sunday and she went to Andrews football game. So i got to spend a little time with her.
I went to a cool home party last night. It was a Lemongrass Spa party. It's kinda like the Arbonne stuff but cheaper. Kinda on the price line of Bath and Body Works. Its lotions, body creams and foot and hand scrubs...mostly organic cept for the scents put in them. We soaked our feet in some stuff and then used a walnut shell sea salt scrub and then a spearmint foot lotion.....ooooohhhh...felt sooooooooooo good. And we used a hand scrub with sea salt in it and my hands felt sooooo smooooth. It was wonderful. I will have a party if any of you would like to come???? Let me know and i will book one.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
So much for that detail
They told us today that the job they asked us to volunteer for was only for the Perms. We were like...why did you even bother to ask us to volunteer??? AND they didn't even bother to come tell us we weren't gonna get to do it...we had to go ask. BUT the jobs are still gonna be posted to bid on so we still have a chance to get the job offers. I was kinda ticked but there is still a chance. I am still hopeful to get out of the department i am in. It would be nice. So instead of working till December...it will be more like getting laid off in November after the mini peak. Like i said before...this is a very strange year at the IRS!!!
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Very Strange Season at IRS
This season has proven to be very different than seasons before. I am still working which is a huge plus and we were told we would be kept on till after the October mini peak. They finally got tired of laying people off and then having to call them back at the end of the same week they layed them off. So there are still about 60 seasonal people still working right now where usually there are none. We suspect that it is because they are closing down the Philadelphia office and we are getting all their work shipped in. However it is not coming in as fast as they hoped so we get sporadic work loads. Thus the feeling they need to lay off but call back. So instead of laying off they are offering us liberal leave (this is where we can take a vacation day or leave without pay day and not be questioned or penalized for it) on a daily basis from day to day depending on the work load. They will have to call back more people once the Mini Peak in October gets here but for now...they are keeping who they have on board now. And they lay us off after about the first of November.
Well Thursday we had a unit meeting and they are bringing back a department that they had fazed out about 8 years ago. It's called the Under-reporters department. They will be opening the applications for it in October and they are going to hire 150 to 200 people for this new position. Also they have another department that will be opening up also and its called something like RAIVES department (not sure what those letters stand for). This is good news for us. It will be perm positions in both departments i think. This department is the one that needs people to volunteer to be detailed to on October 1 that will last to the end of December. And yes I did volunteer for this job. It will be different than what i do all day now. And change is always good. I will let you know if i got the detail or not and what all i have to do when i find out. AND they will offer OVERTIME in this new position because its stuff shipped to us from Philly and there is a lot of it and it has to be done now. I would suppose that they will put job openings on the board for this job also. OH...and these jobs are a grade 5-6-7- and possibly an 8 also. Which means that it would be a raise for me cuz i am a grade 4 and when you go into a position that has several grades attached to it you have the potential to go through ALL the steps and keep getting raises up to the top grade. Things are really changing at the IRS for sure.
When they first talked about moving us downtown we were all not wanting to do the drive. Now that i have done it....it's not really all that bad when the traffic is not too bad. I just wish i knew a few different routes to take when 71 is at a stand still. And it's much better when you have someone to change off driving with. I am hoping that if i get the detail and when Marcia gets called back to work (she volunteered for the last layoff and then didn't answer her phone when they tried to call her back cuz she had lots of stuff to do around her house) that we both have the same hours so we can still ride together. I would be really bummed if not.
Anyway, thats the news from the good old IRS. Its kinda strange to still be working at this time of year for sure but its also kinda nice. And hopefully maybe i can get one of the positions that will open up soon in one of the two new departments.
Say a few prayers for me that i can get one of these jobs.
Well Thursday we had a unit meeting and they are bringing back a department that they had fazed out about 8 years ago. It's called the Under-reporters department. They will be opening the applications for it in October and they are going to hire 150 to 200 people for this new position. Also they have another department that will be opening up also and its called something like RAIVES department (not sure what those letters stand for). This is good news for us. It will be perm positions in both departments i think. This department is the one that needs people to volunteer to be detailed to on October 1 that will last to the end of December. And yes I did volunteer for this job. It will be different than what i do all day now. And change is always good. I will let you know if i got the detail or not and what all i have to do when i find out. AND they will offer OVERTIME in this new position because its stuff shipped to us from Philly and there is a lot of it and it has to be done now. I would suppose that they will put job openings on the board for this job also. OH...and these jobs are a grade 5-6-7- and possibly an 8 also. Which means that it would be a raise for me cuz i am a grade 4 and when you go into a position that has several grades attached to it you have the potential to go through ALL the steps and keep getting raises up to the top grade. Things are really changing at the IRS for sure.
When they first talked about moving us downtown we were all not wanting to do the drive. Now that i have done it....it's not really all that bad when the traffic is not too bad. I just wish i knew a few different routes to take when 71 is at a stand still. And it's much better when you have someone to change off driving with. I am hoping that if i get the detail and when Marcia gets called back to work (she volunteered for the last layoff and then didn't answer her phone when they tried to call her back cuz she had lots of stuff to do around her house) that we both have the same hours so we can still ride together. I would be really bummed if not.
Anyway, thats the news from the good old IRS. Its kinda strange to still be working at this time of year for sure but its also kinda nice. And hopefully maybe i can get one of the positions that will open up soon in one of the two new departments.
Say a few prayers for me that i can get one of these jobs.
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