On Company Time
It’s been a few days since I had a post about #2, so you may be wondering, “is it all OK, now?” The answer is no.
Last week I noticed a paper on the printer with a user name and password for Quickbooks (Intuit or whatever) for online tax preparation. “Hm,” I thought to myself, “#2 has signed up to file her taxes for free on the internet.”
The following day I noticed an envelope designed to hold W-2s lying on the floor next to the garbage can. I made the assumption that she had filed her taxes while being paid by the school district.
Yesterday, I noticed that she had a folder with her tax return sitting on her desk and in the afternoon I watched her log in and check the status of her electronic filing.
You know, it’s one thing if you browse a news web site from time to time, it’s another when you spend the amount of time that it takes to prepare a personal income tax return, print it out and check on it during the day. That’s aside from the amount of time that she spends surfing Craigslist for single men and headboards, checking the schedule for her other job, snacking every 30 minutes* and shuffling 3 inch piles of paper around to make herself look busy. I don’t have that kind of time at work.
*She claims - while wiping crumbs from her mouth leftover from her 10:30am “snack” - that when I get to work, 11:00am, is too early to eat lunch. Which is why she eats her lunch at her desk after 12:00pm when she returns from her lunch break. I guess before she comes to work is too early to eat breakfast too since she eats breakfast at her desk and then the aforementioned midmorning snack.
