budejovice: We works hard, we plays hard. Well, this time of year, we works hard, we works hard. :)
We lost a bunch of staff since last year. The majority of them (3 of 5 lost) were actual sociopaths, though, so I'll take the long hours and pleasant company over the alternative.
EDIT: I made the mistake of sorting the Individual Do List by "in" tonight. About 20% of our returns are in the office right now, and that's not counting the corps or trusts... Yikes~!
CarrionCrow: Yeah, more work and less people is a lot better than less work and really annoying people.
So, if I read that correctly, you've got 20 percent of your workload to do right now, and not only is that a huge amount of work, it doesn't even amount to 20 percent overall since you have other categories to deal with as well?
If I'm processing correctly, my advice would be to grab a shovel since they're trying to bury you. ;)
Well I was thinking in terms of numbers but typing percentages, so it's not quite like that. I imagine we have 50% of our corps in (c-corps & s-corps due 3/15, not 4/15) and maybe 20% of the trusts. We'll extend a bunch, so that cuts a lot of stress right there. Some unknown number are certainly no longer clients of ours but haven't bothered telling us yet.
There are some other factors. The few days around month end are always rough. Plus stuff. So it'll mellow for a week by Tuesday, then on to the 3/15 rush...
But yeah, I'll be around here less. :)
EDIT: The worst part is I won't be able to participate in
Insomnia to quite the extent as last time. But then, I need a lot less games than I did a year ago.