210% Shook AF: Have to Reapply to my Job

[Writer The Wolf]

So, the franchise that owned the store I work at was bought out/merged with another company. Now everyone has to reapply to their jobs.

As if that wasn't enough of a pain, after reapplying, we have to do the prerequisite forms online.

I hate tax forms. Most of the time, they're poorly explained, and very little help is given. So naturally, when I got to the W-4 form, I had a mental breakdown, followed immediately by the site the system is hosted on going down for maintenance, leaving me unable to even try to complete it.

May the over-complicated Amarican bureaucracy burn in hell for all eternity.

[Ad Bot]

[Mr.Noßody]

Can you mention what company this was? Or is it all hush hush?

[Writer The Wolf]

Can you mention what company this was? Or is it all hush hush?

I'm not going to give the exact company names, but I haven't exactly made it a secret that I work a stuffty job at a Taco Bell.

[Aide33]

I'm not going to give the exact company names, but I haven't exactly made it a secret that I work a stuffty job at a Taco Bell.

gotem

[phflack]

i thought the tax forms always had instructions to do them step by step?
or is that only the w2

[Vigil]

i thought the tax forms always had instructions to do them step by step?
or is that only the w2

Most people use Turbo Tax lmfao

[Writer The Wolf]

i thought the tax forms always had instructions to do them step by step?
or is that only the w2

The W-4 is the tax withholding form. No, there are no real instructions. Just a description of what is is/does.

[TomTheGeek²]

The W-4 is the tax withholding form. No, there are no real instructions. Just a description of what is is/does.

i mean there's different tax forms. normal jobs that require you to punch in and show up are usually form-1040. form-1099 is the dumbass one where you have to post 20% of your earnings to the IRS when it's tax time.

[carolcat]

i thought the tax forms always had instructions to do them step by step?
or is that only the w2

the tax forms i had to fill out for my job were really confusing tbh, but it was also my first time doing government paperwork like that/getting a job in general so it may have partially been confusing because i didn't know what i was doing

[Writer The Wolf]

i mean there's different tax forms. normal jobs that require you to punch in and show up are usually form-1040. form-1099 is the dumbass one where you have to post 20% of your earnings to the IRS when it's tax time.

It's not explicitly 20% anymore. That's what the W-4 is for.

Unfortunately they  just give you the digital form with no guidance on what to put.

[phflack]

amusing how there's no guidance in any except the w2, while the w2 is extremely well guided