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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums"Occupation" on your tax form.
I put down "Prole".
You?
(I'll just be waiting over here in the corner for the black helicopter.)
caraher
(6,279 posts)My wife speculates that maybe they use a mismatch between claimed occupation and reported income to potentially flag returns for audits...
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)For example if you are a server and fail to report tip income, then it will probably set off a red flag to them.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Kali
(55,025 posts)did you really?
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)I aspire to be Race Bannon.
I figured that they use the data to determine median wages for various occupations and as a verification versus W2 data. I'm bound and determined to prove that Adventurer is a valid career choice even if I have not figured-out how to monetize that opportunity yet.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)I figure they use them to compile erroneous occupational wage profiles for the Occupational Outlook fiction they publish annually. My hope is that if enough of us start putting down "prole", they'll have to include it in their index.
lastlib
(23,310 posts)("None Of Your Damn Business!"
"Phone Number where you can be reached to discuss your return?" "1-800-382-5968" (That's "1-800-FUCKYOU"!)
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)If I actually did that then I would have rick-rolled the IRS - and my extension? LOL.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)lastlib
(23,310 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)On there I put "A Cleaner at a Fortune 500 Company I won't name".
The job is not physically janitorial though. More digging around would reveal who I do actually work for.
GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)av8rdave
(10,573 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)av8rdave
(10,573 posts)I guess the truth comes out eventually.