Furlough Grand Central - Anonymous employee IRS Employee Review

3.0
18 Feb 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are a housewife or you live with your parents, it is great ( assuming that the other mate pays all the bills). I mean, some people consider a Furlough a grant vacation from work, and the layoffs are then construed as a good thing. The good thing is the Annual Leave and the Sick leave, they are very generous with this (probably because of Union pressure). The 401k (called Thrift Savings Plan) is very good too, I think that they match the first 3% of your allotted deduction.

Cons

Furlough Grand Central; lay offs is almost every department constantly if you are Seasonal. I think this does not apply to the perms.

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Cons

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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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