It’s astounding how differently auditors go about their jobs.
We have a business, so we have a worker’s compensation insurance policy. Each year, you guess what your payroll will be. The insurance costs so much per $100. Your payments are determined, and then spread out over the year. At the end of the insurance term, an auditor comes to determine if you have underpaid, or overpaid.
Normally you receive a letter requesting payroll information, and certificates of insurance for sub-contractors. They will also look at quarterly reports to the feds to see if the material you are giving them adds up.
Sooooooo…..the last auditor was just a bit different. I’m used to one of the more experienced auditors, who breezes in, enters the bottom line from the four quarterly reports, makes the necessary deductions, hit’s enter, slams the lid on her laptop and is out the door in ten or fifteen minutes.
This year we got a junior Big Bird look-alike who was new to the job. I had pulled reports off the computer as requested, but he was not satisfied. He made me kill a tree so that he could have the annual report BY EMPLOYEE! What a jerk. At least he didn’t keep me for ages.
Last year….or maybe it was two years ago, we got hit with audits from the union, the state revenue department and insurance I had become the PRO at preparing for audits. The worst was the Revenue auditor. He looked through three years of job folders. It took him all day. I gave him the uncomfortable chair. It was the least I could do to express my opinion about being audited.
I hope next year they send the speedy auditor!
Daily Archives: July 7, 2004
Birds!
We have two bird feeders outside the kitchen windows. Yesterday we discovered that there is an albino bird who visits the larger feeder. I suspect that he is a red-winged blackbird, and I think from his behavior that he is in his late teens….not quite an adult, but on his own.
His feathers are almost a light cream color. He has the size and shape and beak of a blackbird, and the area on his shoulders where we would normally see the red and yellow bands seem to be slightly ridged. He is more gentle than the mature birds. I’d say he plays well with others. *G*
This is our first experience with an albino bird. I took pictures with an instant camera today, and I’ll see if I can get my stepson to catch the bird with his digital camera. Perhaps we will have something to share with you in a bit.