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maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:26 PM Aug 2020

We've all had the "pleasure" of a Louis DeJoy in our lives

I'm so sick of fucking pricks like DeJoy.

We've all seen representations of this asshat in every shop, boardroom and business throughout the country.

He's the perfect epitome of the so-called "smartest people in the room". They are just fucking playing Monopoly with real people's lives.

DeJoy is the guy who comes in with no experience in the job, but he's "rich", so he's a fucking expert on everything. They come in and "Strategic Plan" you to fucking death. If they bankrupt your company and ruin your life, they just walk away and shake their heads that their "plan" wasn't supported, or the company was so broken that even "their big brain" wasn't enough to fix it. Then like locusts, they move on to the next place to devour.

We've all had some fuckstick who has never spent a fucking second doing our job, come in and spout their fucking Strategic Plan bullshit, and fuck things up.

I remember a fucking snot noised Academy Grad Lieutenant Junior Grade with a degree in business come in to Repair Division. He didn't even know which end of the hose you pointed at a fire.

My Master Chief sent him out to get us a bucket of steam.

I think he's still looking for it.

I'll give you one more. Here's what a "DeJoy type prick" did to one of Columbus Ohio's institutions.

http://www.tallgeorge.com/Big%20Bear%20Stores.htm

What's your own personal experience with jackass's like this.

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We've all had the "pleasure" of a Louis DeJoy in our lives (Original Post) maxrandb Aug 2020 OP
I'm still pissed off over what happened to Big Bear stores. nt luvs2sing Aug 2020 #1
That was my first job, other than my paper route maxrandb Aug 2020 #5
I loved those old wood floors at Lane Avenue. luvs2sing Aug 2020 #7
12.60 in 1980's bucks gay texan Aug 2020 #9
With the overtime we averaged maxrandb Aug 2020 #11
It hit me who he reminds me of. Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, DEA dude in Breaking Bad. CurtEastPoint Aug 2020 #2
Yeah but hank was decent soothsayer Aug 2020 #3
Yes, he was. Should have added that. NOTHING decent about DeJoyless CurtEastPoint Aug 2020 #4
True dat! soothsayer Aug 2020 #6
Been there, done that gay texan Aug 2020 #8
Many over the years! One of the most recent is the assistant counsel for a college ARPad95 Aug 2020 #10

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
1. I'm still pissed off over what happened to Big Bear stores. nt
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:29 PM
Aug 2020

But I do have to take exception to the article in your link that says no one under 80 shopped at the Graceland Big Bear. That was my store from the time I was in my mid-30s till it closed. I don’t remember it being disproportionately older customers.

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
5. That was my first job, other than my paper route
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:41 PM
Aug 2020

Started at Thurber Village and then got full time stock clerk at the 161 and Karl Rd Store.

Did my initial cashier and bagging training at the original Lane Ave store when it still had wooden floors.

Folks are sometimes reluctant to believe me, but in 1981, I was making $12.60 an hour, time and a half for over time, double time for Sundays and Holidays, and got 8 hours of Birthday Pay on my birthday.

Could you Imagine if we paid grocery store workers today the equivalent to 12.60 an hour in 1981?

And yes, they really did send you to training on how to bag groceries.

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
7. I loved those old wood floors at Lane Avenue.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:47 PM
Aug 2020

Today, I would love it if anyone knew how to bag a grocery..

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
11. With the overtime we averaged
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

the calculator I used said that would be around $80K a year in today's money.

Ask your local stock clerk if he's making $80K a year.

gay texan

(2,448 posts)
8. Been there, done that
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:22 PM
Aug 2020

Worked for a big company doing electronics work. New district manager comes in with a degree in music and proceeded to micromanage the fuck out of everyone and everything. Long time employees with knowledge and experience left, big time customers stopped doing business with us.

Evil little fuck wit. I lost my job because of it.

Many years later I saw him at an industry show and I got to call him a fucking piece of shit to his face.

The company isnt worth a shit now, yet they still keep that "DeJoy"

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
10. Many over the years! One of the most recent is the assistant counsel for a college
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 01:56 PM
Aug 2020

who stepped into a Student Financial Services office matter I had with my child's 2019 1098-T tax form. The college prepared the form incorrectly. It was going to result in my not being able to claim a $1,000+ educational expense credit and require me to add $16,000 to my taxable income on my tax return! Due to my expertise in tax reporting from a previous job, I knew exactly what I was talking about and even prepared an instruction manual for the college.

I had already interacted by phone and in writing with the lowest to the highest ranking staff in the SFS office and they wouldn't budge on their willful ignorance nor respond to my requests for a corrected 1098-T. However, the stuff they put in writing was extremely helpful for me to dig into how tax reporting was done and what outside entities were involved (it appears nothing is done in-house even for a simple tax form like the 1098-T). The lawyer only got involved when I had my child provide the college version of Freedom of Information form for parents to force them to explain how they calculated a wack-a-doodle amount on the 1098-T. The lawyer very stupidly sent me a letter documenting how very little he knew. Plus the tone of it was condescending and meant to intimidate me to shut up and go away because he's a lawyer.

Below is my equally condescending response back to him. The best part is that I now have everything documented so when the IRS comes to audit my tax return, it will conclude there's a whole lot of $$$$ in penalties it'll be able to assess on colleges and universities around the country for years of failure to file and furnish correct 1098-Ts! My child's college opened a big ol' can of worms when it chose to dismiss me.

Dear Mr. ______,

Seriously? This is the official response from _____ College? All it proves is you, too, are unqualified to communicate with me regarding IRS Form 1098-T reporting requirements. Selectively quoting from IRS Publication 970 to bolster your cohorts' delusional take on Form 1098-T reporting is laughable, albeit a stunning example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in an institutional setting.

_____ College is the FILER, not the recipient, of Form 1098-T. As such, the only instructions you should be quoting and following to the letter are the ones in the attached IRS publications: 2019 General Instructions for Certain Information Returns and 2019 Instructions for Forms 1098-E and 1098-T. (I have also attached my colorful, easy-to-understand 2019 Form 1098-T Instruction Manual if you find the IRS publications too daunting.)

I realize the Student Financial Services staff is dependent on [outside tax form prep company] and, in turn, [outside tax form prep company] receives its Form 1098-T reporting instructions (more like, interpretations) from the National Association of College and University [ ]. However, it is the IRS that is the ultimate authority here and the only authority to be consulted when serious problems with the way Form 1098-T reporting is being done (past and present) are brought to _____ College's attention.

In my expert analysis, the NACU[ ] has made a mess out of the transition from Box 2 to Box 1 reporting (and it has been vigorously resisting the IRS's enforcement of the Box 1 method for years). In its October 15, 2018 advisement to member colleges and universities, NACU[ ] Provides Customizable 1098-T Letter (to students and families), the NACU[ ] included blatantly false Box 1 reporting information, "...we will report in Box 1 the amount of QTRE you paid during the year." It should have stated "...we will report in Box 1 the amount of QTRE we received from all sources during the year." Even the blank sample 2018 Form 1098-T included with the NACU[ ]'s sample letter states, "Payments received for QTRE," in Box 1!

There is absolutely no excuse for the NACU[ ] to get it so wrong in its various publications. On top of that, it promotes a very dismissive attitude toward the IRS among its membership and with [outside tax form prep company]. The NACU[ ] is the source of the Box 1 confusion, not the IRS. The only change the IRS wanted colleges and universities to make is to report on a calendar year basis (Spring Term to Fall Term) instead of on an academic year basis (Fall Term to Spring Term) to avoid crossing two tax years and the resultant confusion that method created.

Instead of spending your time crafting letters that make you look foolish (e.g., it is impossible for my [child]'s 2019 Form 1098-T Box 1 amount to be correct because it does not include the scholarships and grants reported in Box 5 and using "semesters billed" in your table heading when "billed" applies only to the Box 2 reporting method), I suggest you will better serve _____ College by vetting the NACU[ ]'s Form 1098-T Information Reporting "guidance" and customizable letters to students for accuracy and compliance with IRS tax reporting requirements. After all, it is not the NACU[ ] nor [outside tax form prep company] that are subject to the penalties assessable under IRC 6721 and IRC 6722. https://www.irs.gov/irm/part20/irm_20-001-007r

I have attached a listing of the correct amounts (in green) that _____ College should have reported on my [child]'s 2015, 2016, 2017 (2 options), 2018 (2 options based on option selected for 2017) and 2019 Form 1098-Ts. I expect _____ College to furnish CORRECTED Form 1098-Ts for all five tax years immediately. My [child]'s mailing address through December 31, 2019 was ______.

In case you still doubt my vastly superior tax reporting knowledge and expertise, I have attached two sets of my work memos detailing direct communications I had with the IRS. In both cases, the IRS representatives were more than willing to be helpful. ____ College would do well to follow suit and straighten out the mess the NACU[ ] and [outside tax form prep company] have put it in.
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