In Quite a State

State taxes are a completely different animal! The employees who work with state taxation cannot, under any circumstances, speak in human language. If you read the pamphlets they send out, or read the websites they provide, you will hear it parroted. Go ahead, I dare you to ask these people a question! I challenge you to try to get them to speak in their own words.

You will hear "In paragraph number... section number... revised date... amendment to..." It really is the most amazing thing. It's nice to know that robotics has achieved this level of advancement. But, when I ask a question, I need help. I need help beyond what the booklets and websites are telling me.

The problem I needed to sort out was that a tax was paid that we don't owe (not the right kind of business for that tax), the tax we owe was not paid, one tax went to the wrong department and they kept it... It was a confusing mess. And again there was 4 years of this confusing mess to sort out.

It would have been far less painful for me to bash my head against a brick wall than to try to sort out the mixed up taxes with the state. The saddest part of the entire experience is that I know someone who works at the state revenue department. Even when he had me talk to the people he recommended, I still couldn't get anywhere.

Hindsight is 20/20. The more I analyze this situation, the more I realize that my friend has only the bare minimum requirement of human personality (only enough for survival). He's been assimilated! Either that or one of the prerequisites for the job with the state revenue dept is to have no personality.

I'm still holding to the belief that state tax employees are just very advanced robots.

After arguing and battling with these robots for over a year, my boss told me to just give up and pay it. So I followed his orders, like a nice little girl (and, I have to admit, I was very relieved). I have made sure that anyone who may come in and take my job in the future will understand which tax to pay to the state and how to do it. I've also left notes warning them about the Borg.