{"id":1903,"date":"2010-01-27T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:43:51","slug":"important-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Important things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;about W-2s<\/p>\n<p>(Groan!)<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, this is the time of year where I talk about nothing but W-2s but at least I&#8217;m not talking about babies, so shut up).<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s say that you are shocked (!) that only $9 was deducted in federal tax all year long. Don&#8217;t go crying to your employer&#8217;s payroll clerk, as if she deducted another $100 and is spending it on beer and cashews or something. You claimed Married and 4 and all of your paychecks were for $300. Did you not notice each pay period that the federal tax YTD was $0?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t ask the payroll clerk &#8220;What SHOULD I claim?&#8221; Ummm&#8230; I have a grand total of 6 days training in payroll and 0 days training in taxes. Don&#8217;t ask me. What&#8217;s next? Asking me what religion to choose? (ha ha hahaha) Most of the time I refer the person to a CPA, accountant or H&amp;R Block, although I am considering no longer mentioning that last one because I spoke to one of their crack tax preparers and frankly they sounded like perhaps they used crack.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, here is a thought: If you moved three years ago and then quit your job with my company, maybe you should have called me with your new address sometime in the last 3 years. Mo-ron. Your f&#8217;ing address was on each of your payroll checks, so the fact that it was wrong is not a surprise. Neither is the fact that W-2s come out every f&#8217;ing year. (Trust me on this &#8211; I am on my 10th W-2 &#8220;Season&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of W-2 Season, I told a co-worker today that W-2s are like politics. You spend all this time working to get everything done and then all you can do is sit around and wait for the returns. (For example, I have received a half dozen back in the mail already. The rest of the week will be mayhem-a-riffic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;about W-2s (Groan!) (Yes, this is the time of year where I talk about nothing but W-2s but at least I&#8217;m not talking about babies, so shut up). So, let&#8217;s say that you are shocked (!) that only $9 was deducted in federal tax all year long. Don&#8217;t go crying to your employer&#8217;s payroll clerk,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahjobiscrappis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}