discussion You've got to be joking

[Guest]

All that is depressing but a little bit of humanity.


My youngest son, a film editor, working in Jersey for a character who produced travel films for Television Broadcast let him down. He was eventually owed £22000.


Crackers but my son is a lovely person and naive. Due to that he owed for Social Security approx £3500 which we paid as there was a court order despite the Social Security knowing the reasons. Plus the person in charge had not bothered to pursue the matter and look at it in depth. His name was cleared in the court annals.


So then we found out the income tax dept in Jersey were after tax. about £4000..


So after a short discussion Pauline and I decided that we must pay it to ensure to ensure there were no further court proceedings. So I wrote to the Income Tax Office explaining the situation and saying that we would pay the outstanding amount. But as OAPs we would like to pay the sum over a period. My son had left Jersey to obtain work in the UK as there was little work in his line within the Island.


Well blow me down. We had a letter back from the Income Tax Office. It s very nice of you to suggest this arrangement. However we do not want you to get into difficulties with your finances over this matter. We have therefore placed the matter in the archives to be considered again if you son returns to the Island to work. Now can you believe that.


Laurie

 

[Guest]

Just occasionally you meet a "proper" human in a tax office. When I retired, my income tax code shot up, so I phoned my "local" office in Bristol. We worked out that head office had (without bothering to ask) decided that I would be continuing to work, so they added my wages and pensions together, putting me into another tax band.


A short while ago, a friend told me how his mother-in-law went to work in the tax office, but left after only a month, because she couldn't stand it; apparently staff, there, were openly boasting how they had cheated taxpayers into paying too much, and (worse) they were being applauded for it.


I am now left with the nasty suspicion that the business, at my retirement, might have been deliberate.

 

[Guest]

One of the problems I believe Edgar is that some of these people forget they are supposed to be working for each person those in the land that they come across. Plus they are actually, in the main, being paid their salaries by those people they are supposed to be serving.


In fact it is I have decided it is the power thing. They really do think of them selves as god (no capital) yet they are in fact little devils. When , as I mentioned above, I sorted my son's social security problem the most helpful lady was first class and laid out all matters and the position and how to progress. Then we were ushered into the supervisor's office. A women task force commander extraordinare with lipstick and all the other trimmings who laid down the law. That was until I had finished and the attitude had changed as I had suggested that the Jersey Politician (small community and matters are sorted in quick time) in charge should be consulted over the matter.


Laurie

 

[grumpa]

Very much WOW! ........ They just said that I must have been earning something for nine months as I wasn't claiming unemployment benefits ............. They wouldn't accept that I was living off the money I had in the bank........ Nor would they accept that not taking the money for the monthly payments was their fault ......... They just stuck to the line that I hadn't kept to the agreement ........... I so wanted to reach over that desk and punch that blokes face .

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Very much WOW! ........ They just said that I must have been earning something for nine months as I wasn't claiming unemployment benefits ............. They wouldn't accept that I was living off the money I had in the bank........ Nor would they accept that not taking the money for the monthly payments was their fault ......... They just stuck to the line that I hadn't kept to the agreement ........... I so wanted to reach over that desk and punch that blokes face .

Here's the deal, take a person whom has never done a damn thing worthwhile in their life, nor would they ever be capable of real accomplishment and put them in a position of power and that's what you get. When I left the military and came home I could not find a job killing people and breaking things so I became an electricians apprentice. I worked at the trade and became a "journeyman mechanic" {5 years} a few years later I took the civil service exam, passed and started working for the New York City School Construction Authority. When I first started working there as a "newbie" another mechanic came to me and wanted to know just what the hell I thought I was doing!. I of course replied that I was doing so and so and just what the hell was HIS problem? His answer was that I was working way too fast and that I was making the rest look bad. I said that in my opinion I was working at my normal pace as I had done for years, he proceeded to explain to me that I was no longer on the "outside" but was now on the "inside" and that I better slow way down or else! Well, I am NOT the type to be bullied and after a bit of shoving {me shoving him out of my face} I was very much taken aback by such a notion but with a young son and a bun in the oven I basically had to submit. To make a very long story short I did my "20" and got out as a supervisor over 30 men. what I'm basically trying to say is that once entrenched these "civil maggots" as I called them lose all perspective of what it means to be a decent person and couldn't care less about those on the "outside" now don't get me started on the unions