IRS Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Paying union dues didn't save you from a manager who was hot-tempered. He would threaten me by inviting me to the parking lot and duking it out. He would get red whenever he was frustrated at his employees. He would ask you personal questions like, "Do you have any tattoos?" Another question would be, "Are you a lover or a fighter?" He would take out his frustrations on the employees whenever upper management would reprimand him. The job wasn't rewarding enough."

"It's a job. That's good enough for right now. Don't count on being trained on how to do your job. The training is epically bad."

"Not the best but you can really benefit from moving up in the ranks of this government facility."

"Good experience"

"This was a great experience on many levels. Not only are you learning the process for filing taxes, but you are given the chance to help those from a lower-income community. who runs the Child's Park YMCA location, is a great leader and has no problem giving instruction. He also put's you right in the middle so you have no other choice but to figure things out. Great experience."

"The irs I.T. department is the most unorganized place i have worked. In order to do something you have to jump through a bunch of hoops or wait several days for another team to get back to you."

"Great volunteer experience here."

"A large bureaucracy which can stifle your ability to get your job done."

"The San Francisco office is a terrible office to work for, full of racist white managers and unethical leaders that discriminate against minorities. Unethical and by far the worst organization to work for in the SF area."

"What do you expect? It's the federal government. Pluses: It's pretty stable, you probably won't get laid off, and you have to screw up pretty badly to get fired. They don't seem to expect much actual work, and rightly so. The dress code is pretty casual; I wear jeans, sneakers, T shirts, and have an earring and visible tattoos, and nobody's said anything. Minuses: Almost everything is proprietary, so even if you have years of experience, you will have to be trained, probably by someone who can't really be bothered. The many bureaucratic regulations and procedures and so on will often make it nearly impossible to get anything done, hence all the downtime. This may not be the case if you're a permanent employee, but contractors don't get those choice government benefits, nor get paid all that well."