And I thought tax accountants were bad.

My Mother was a tax accountant and she took out withholding on my allowance when I was a kid. What she did with it I don't know.

Tax accountants are only bad if you are the government trying to maximize revenue streams or some such. Otherwise they are a necessity to the monied classes. (not me)

Thankfully, I'm a private accountant and only have to do quarterly employment taxes and state excise taxes. Anytime I read something written by the IRS, my brain doesn't translate. Until I've read it three or four times.

ProKnight is a cinch for a job at the IRS.

Occasionally, I have to have housing subsidy recipients sign HUD notices about how they will be held responsible for defrauding the Federal Gov't, so in order to explain it to them, I have to read it first.

Pursuant to Chapter...of Section .... of the Housing Act of 1935 et seq...

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Cheater Tudor remains on the winners list but Ben_Dover gets the stick.

Man. I guess they can't be trusted to read it for themselves?

Why am I even asking? How many people actually read contracts they sign, I wonder? The hoops the government makes us jump through to show they have read the contracts are pretty amazing. I still don't think people read them, regardless of all the safeguards.

Some people try to bug me by wasting my time pretending that they are actually reading it. I know they aren't, so I just sit there staring at them.

And why isn't Allan Two-door not in the innermost circle of Hell's hall of shame? OUT WITH HIM!!!

The difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road is there are skid marks all the way up to the dog.

Do you put letters behind your name on all company correspondence like the accountants where work? Also, if we're expected to read contracts, why is the print so small that it can only be read with the assistance of a microscope?

No, it seems pretentious, so I don't do it.

As for small print, the ones I've seen lately are giant print, with portions in big bold print/highlighted. So it's rather hard to miss. But still, I think people don't read them. In my opinion, they are un-stupid-proofable.

People are un-stupid-proofable. We have to deal with that on paint labels. You can't fit enough instruction on them to guarantee proper application, especially multi-lingual labels.

The paint won't stick. It all comes off as I paint the second coat! I demand my money back.

Next?   

Nice one, Joseph

We may have left it off the label, but you have to let the first coat dry before you apply the second coat.

Au contraire Blackadder. Nothing will get one deported quicker than failing to pay one's dues, tax accountants save us gypsy expats from such ignominy!

Wait, I'm confused. Are tax lawyers or tax accountants worse?

I guess Ben_Dover gets the short end of the stick.  He went as far as he could, but it just wasn't enough.