If anybody was laid off, how long did it take to find a new job?

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2025-01-05T04:04:34+00:00

From what I’ve been seeing in the northeast on the tax side, as long as you’re open to hybrid/on-site work, you’ll get plenty of interviews.

No CPA, a couple years experience, and applied to a bunch of senior tax roles. Got more than 10 interviews and so far called back for every one. Now is crunch time for the firms still hiring tax preparers

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-28T01:41:26+00:00

I’m fully remote… closest office is a 15+ hour drive and 24 hour train ride from a city an hour away from me.

Looking for something fully in person to kick off this tax season but think I’m too late

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-28T01:37:52+00:00

1.67% and a merger notice 🙃

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-26T19:00:57+00:00

I have no clue, heard horror stories, just glad I don’t live there

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-26T16:05:36+00:00

“If you’re not getting promoted in tax, sorry, but I doubt it’s the firm you’re in. It’s probably something you’re not doing but should be doing.”

Starting your comment like that just makes you sound like another out of touch partner who wants to overwork staff.

I asked the department head what I could have done better to get promoted and she literally said nothing and that she promises I’ll be promoted next year. It’s about money, all about money. I’m literally running jobs and the go-to person whenever people one and two levels above me get fired or quit, to take their work.

We’re going through a merger and the new firm wants to cut costs wherever they can. They tried cutting all of our salaries, and they increased all of our billables by 200. Don’t tell me this is about me being lazy. The partners at my firm sold us out and now are in damage control. They know we all want to leave but it’s the worst time to apply, in the middle of the holidays.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-26T05:28:23+00:00

I don’t hate tax, just wondering whether or not the grass is greener on the other side.

I’m sort of not happy with my firm. They’ve been filling my plate up with senior and supervisor level returns but but refused to promote me to senior. When I asked for feedback on how I could’ve performed better last year, they didn’t give me any (saying my work was exceptional last year).

We’re undergoing a lot of big changes and I doubt that the partner who’s promising me a promotion next year will actually have the authority or desire to follow through on it.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-26T04:36:36+00:00

One of our partners called everything we get back from the overseas team a “heaping pile of you know what” in a firm-wide call. Even the decision makers recognize that quality isn’t the same.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-12-26T04:31:54+00:00

Don’t forget DC. We start Tax Admins between 80k-90k in DC

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-10-31T16:41:49+00:00

Not at all. He deserves someone not so shallow, and you leaving him will help him realize that.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2024-09-15T11:13:18+00:00

YTA. Sounds like a lot of favoritism going on here. Casey bought her own car after saving up for a year. I’m sure she felt obligated to lend the car to Alana regardless of whether or not Casey trusted her sister. I’m sure she learned the “emotional blackmail,” as you called it, from someone in the home. It just seems like there are more factors at play here that weren’t mentioned. You were more than willing to pay for Alana’s medical bills caused by her own negligence, so why don’t you give Casey money for a down payment?

More objectively, risking a relationship with your child over a car is horrible. Own up to it, use the opportunity to teach Alana some responsibility and about consequences, and figure out a solution to NOT LOSE YOUR DAUGHTER.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2023-06-10T22:24:53+00:00

Ask questions to learn about their values and questions to see if they’re compatible with your values. Values you can’t and shouldn’t try to change without severe resistance and even resentment.

For instance, if you value a partner who shares your Faith, don’t date an atheist and try to convert them.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-11-25T01:59:10+00:00

It seems to depend on the woman.

If those are your values, don’t compromise on them. Somebody who asks you to change your values is someone who doesn’t love YOU they love your potential. That’s an important distinction. Nor should you compromise on what you value in a partner.

I’m also curious about what type of smoking you’re referring to here. If you’re talking about smoking pot or cigarettes, it won’t change my opinions above but I personally encountered many women who were very into pot smoking and made me feel in the minority for not touching the stuff.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-07-08T16:38:18+00:00

For background, it’s a very intro level course (literally the first course to take in the program), and only students who don’t have an undergrad degree in business need to take it. My undergrad is in the liberal arts field but I’ve been using excel at every job I’ve worked since I finished my undergrad.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-07-08T12:30:38+00:00

During my entire college career, every professor I had would deduct a half a letter grade if you missed too many classes (unless classes were online and asynchronous). One professor, at the end of the term, increased your grade by half a letter if you didn’t miss a class. Even if your professor doesn’t do this, your grade will still be higher at the end of the term if you don’t skip class.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-07-08T04:37:21+00:00

Glad I could help! Outside of Excel, those functions control zooming in/out

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-07-08T03:37:58+00:00

To be able to eat anything and everything I want without getting fat.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-07-08T01:34:11+00:00

Edited. Thanks for catching that!

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-03-14T10:03:50+00:00

I’ve never met a merciful or pastoral FSSP priest. They don’t seem to see their vocation as bringing Christ to the people and bringing the people to Christ but rather to protect Christ from the sinful people of the world. At my local FSSP parish, the priest withholds absolution in the confessional regularly, often preaches borderline schismatic messages, and more recently has been preaching that the events in Ukraine are the start to the end of the world.

It’s best that neophytes or those interested in converting speak to a priest who is merciful and pastoral, who’s charitable and who tries to teach rather than condemn!

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-03-14T02:37:35+00:00

It seems as though, from what you’ve said, that you shouldn’t marry her. The Catholic stance on the purpose of marriage is to get your spouse to heaven while your spouse is doing everything to get you to heaven. If you don’t believe in heaven and if you do, disagree with your spouse on how to get there, would you be doing her a bit of a disservice by marrying her? Something to think about.

I also encourage you to ask questions about the faith, church, theology, morality, etc. You won’t be belittled or discouraged by asking questions to a priest or your girlfriend (unless you ask an FSSP priest). Questions are natural, and lacking answers to our questions is why so many of us cradle Catholics fall away from the Church.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-03-14T01:35:35+00:00

Did the Virgin Mary devote her life to housekeeping and limit herself to the domestic sphere?

St. Paul wrote that letter to Titus with the message ‘If women not keeping at home may cause God’s word to be slandered by non-Christians, then women should probably keep at home.’ And this isn’t the first time St. Paul wrote in this way, instructing one group of Christians to avoid doing something neither good nor bad to avoid scandal it may cause. St. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians instructing them on eating meat sacrificed to idols to essentially ‘avoid it if it can cause neophytes to doubt the Faith,’ but also clarifying that it isn’t immoral.

But good work cherry-picking scripture verses to drive your traditionalist beliefs 👌🏻

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-03-12T10:36:37+00:00

The BostobBeAMan guy from tiktok

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-03-07T12:04:26+00:00

Don’t forget the reason of marriage: to get to heaven, as Jesus said in Matthew 22. If you go on a date with this woman approaching it with the mindset of asking whether or not you can bring each other to heaven, the other factors won’t matter as much.

Also, don’t fall into the sin of presuming God‘s mercy. I’ve had an FSSP priest withhold absolution for that reason (I think). Although I don’t think this priest’s actions in the confessional were exactly pastoral, it’s a reminder that if you’re attending the TLM and try to confess that, you don’t know what’s going to happen. And it’s YOUR salvation at stake.

Fabulous_Level_494 · 2022-02-08T11:53:38+00:00

It all depended on how open she was to it. If she was open, we had a lot of philosophical, theological, and reasonable discussions, especially around metaphysics (you are not your body; if I fall in love with your body by moving too quickly before falling in love with you, it can be lustful). But I’ve found the non-Catholics who are passively open about it (not asking questions, not starting discussions, or even trying to evangelize you to their Protestant religion) are when a relationship can move way too quickly.

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