OK it’s like this. Unincorporated businesses have to file some bullshit called a 1099 at the end of the year. Actually they file it at the beginning of the next year but that is not exactly the point is it? What this actually means is that a non-unincorporated business (like the one that I work for) has to keep track of everything they pay to the aforementioned un-non-unincorporated businesses. Why? Because the Infernal Revenue Service fucking well says so. It’s like this business A does business with businesses B through J. By “do business with” in this case we mean “sell stuff to”. By stuff we of course mean the traditional ECON 101 “Goods and Services”. SO. Businesses B through J all pay money to business A.

La la

End of year (actually the beginning of next year) rolls around. Business A has to report it’s income. Here’s the nasty part. Businesses B through J also have to report company A’s income (meaning they all have to send off to the Internal Rending (as in limb from limb) Service a report of how much money they paid to company A.

Sneaky bastards no?

Why do they make us do all this? Let me list the reasons:
1. It affords numerous opportunities to nail your (nonspecific) ass to the wall with a fucking railroad spike
2. It saves them about 250 metric assloads of paperwork (by shifting it to us)
3. see above reference to type of bastard
4. To piss me off

What this amounts to from my point of view is a lot of paperwork and annoying phone calls. Oh yeah.

And a trip to staples. You’ll all remember that this was about the 1099 bullshit. Naturally we need the appropriate forms. So they sent me to staples to pick them up. $15.99 for a pack of 50. We needed 130.

Ga-fang woo-pow!

Upon returning to the office I was reimbursed from petty cash $51.47

And I think I’ll just leave it there