Okay..But Management Looks at for Themselves - Tax Examining Technician IRS Employee Review

3.0
9 May 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The IRS provides all the necessary tools for a new employees (even temps) to learn and perform their jobs. Classroom training and on the job instructions was very helpful. Electronic manuals in order to continue to do your job is also a plus.

Cons

Top management stands behind department managers even when the department managers are wrong. The department managers can do no wrong. Employees that have been there a long time are lax and do not do as much work as the new employees and they will tell management what they will and will not do. Top management needs to stop standing up for their department managers and listen to the employees if they want to keep a good workforce. Department managers will also try to make good employees look bad. It is as if they feel a motivated, hard working new employee are trying to take their position. Department managers will also black ball you so that you can not move into another position or be hired permanently within the organization.

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Pros

-variety in industries worked, -Great work to life balance

Cons

-Administration can change entire job structure overnight.

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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