I work for an accounting firm and last year we had to ask everyone if they received EIP #3 (stimulus payment that was $1,400/person).
95% could not remember and most of them said no, they never got it. After a couple returns were rejected we started asking people to go check their bank accounts from March 2020 to verify & 0 clients out of about 500 didn't receive the money.
One guy said he didn't get it, return rejected so we had him check on irs.gov & they said they'd sent it. Dude found his $1,400 check in his BATHROOM of all places and cashed it in April of 2022.
I've even had clients call & ask if they filed last year....like they forgot whether or not they filed a tax return....
I hear you, live in bizarro world for sure! I'd thought we were red out here but believe half the clients are jabbed. My boss and his wife have been jabbed 4 times and he was a brilliant man with a masters degree in accounting and financial planning. These days it's a miracle if he can make it through 1 item on his to-do list which gets bigger but never smaller.
It's a shitshow and the dumbing down of Americans was a rapid success from my POV.
Demoralization and stress. It's actually probably a major factor in all of this.
I'm down to blame the vax for a lot of shit, but even a lot of non-vaxxed are having a struggle of a time with some stuff.
Stress, demoralization, fear. Lack of sleep, or lack of good sleep. Junk food and too much processed foods because they don't feel up to cooking or they fell into bad habits.
So much of this comes from all of that too. We must be careful to avoid ascribing too much to just the vaccination, lest we place too little blame on the machinations of every authority in the world working together to put us through this whole farce.
It is quite literally up to us to save the world from itself. Blind positivity also doesn't get us there. Asking hard questions in an appropriate way will push the cause significantly forward. But we have to reclaim the reins of the next generation as well, and ensure that they understand that this is not normal and not acceptable.
It's impacted me quite a lot as well. I have no drive anymore, no excitement, no happiness, and the recent sudden passing of my Fiance's Father doesn't help matters either. 3 years down the toilet is what I say.
Agreed. It's worse now for me than before. I spent COVID really improving myself but I got sick and never really recovered mentally. Every time I try, I end up injuring myself. But I think I end up injuring myself because I don't take as much care as I used to to avoid injuring myself.
There are times where the beckoning of submission invites you in. When nothing really good is happening, it's really hard to keep giving it the middle finger.
Sometimes you just want to sleep, but you find that you can't. Night after night.
It’s as bad as it ever has been these days. Socially isolated. Everyone thinks I am crazy. Wife running around telling lies to everyone that I am crazy. Can’t even show my face at any family events because I don’t want to deal with them anymore.
We must be careful to avoid ascribing too much to just the vaccination, lest we place too little blame on the machinations of every authority in the world working together to put us through this whole farce.
And stress and grief. When I lost my first wife in 2016, she was 38, my memory went to shit. All the stress and grief clouds your brain and puts you in a fog. Still has not returned to it's prior splendor, but it's gotten better. The whole world has been demoralized and put in extremely stressful situations with the Covid Plandemic.
Absolutely! It's crazy to me that people with FOUR kids don't remember getting a $8,400 deposit that wasn't a paycheck. How can a person forget that? MOST of our clients did and you make a great point, most of them are demoralized.
Right there with you. I own a tax prep firm. Looking forward to not having to reconcile the EIP payments and the ridiculous pre-payments of the child tax credits.
I work for an accounting firm and last year we had to ask everyone if they received EIP #3 (stimulus payment that was $1,400/person).
95% could not remember and most of them said no, they never got it. After a couple returns were rejected we started asking people to go check their bank accounts from March 2020 to verify & 0 clients out of about 500 didn't receive the money.
One guy said he didn't get it, return rejected so we had him check on irs.gov & they said they'd sent it. Dude found his $1,400 check in his BATHROOM of all places and cashed it in April of 2022.
I've even had clients call & ask if they filed last year....like they forgot whether or not they filed a tax return....
I hear you, live in bizarro world for sure! I'd thought we were red out here but believe half the clients are jabbed. My boss and his wife have been jabbed 4 times and he was a brilliant man with a masters degree in accounting and financial planning. These days it's a miracle if he can make it through 1 item on his to-do list which gets bigger but never smaller.
It's a shitshow and the dumbing down of Americans was a rapid success from my POV.
Demoralization has an impact on memory too.
Demoralization and stress. It's actually probably a major factor in all of this.
I'm down to blame the vax for a lot of shit, but even a lot of non-vaxxed are having a struggle of a time with some stuff.
Stress, demoralization, fear. Lack of sleep, or lack of good sleep. Junk food and too much processed foods because they don't feel up to cooking or they fell into bad habits.
So much of this comes from all of that too. We must be careful to avoid ascribing too much to just the vaccination, lest we place too little blame on the machinations of every authority in the world working together to put us through this whole farce.
It is quite literally up to us to save the world from itself. Blind positivity also doesn't get us there. Asking hard questions in an appropriate way will push the cause significantly forward. But we have to reclaim the reins of the next generation as well, and ensure that they understand that this is not normal and not acceptable.
It's impacted me quite a lot as well. I have no drive anymore, no excitement, no happiness, and the recent sudden passing of my Fiance's Father doesn't help matters either. 3 years down the toilet is what I say.
Agreed. It's worse now for me than before. I spent COVID really improving myself but I got sick and never really recovered mentally. Every time I try, I end up injuring myself. But I think I end up injuring myself because I don't take as much care as I used to to avoid injuring myself.
There are times where the beckoning of submission invites you in. When nothing really good is happening, it's really hard to keep giving it the middle finger.
Sometimes you just want to sleep, but you find that you can't. Night after night.
But I persist in spite of that.
It’s as bad as it ever has been these days. Socially isolated. Everyone thinks I am crazy. Wife running around telling lies to everyone that I am crazy. Can’t even show my face at any family events because I don’t want to deal with them anymore.
So nice, needed to be said twice..
And stress and grief. When I lost my first wife in 2016, she was 38, my memory went to shit. All the stress and grief clouds your brain and puts you in a fog. Still has not returned to it's prior splendor, but it's gotten better. The whole world has been demoralized and put in extremely stressful situations with the Covid Plandemic.
Yep, I know the fog of loss well and this is very similar to that. I had not made that connection but glad you pointed it out!
Absolutely! It's crazy to me that people with FOUR kids don't remember getting a $8,400 deposit that wasn't a paycheck. How can a person forget that? MOST of our clients did and you make a great point, most of them are demoralized.
Right there with you. I own a tax prep firm. Looking forward to not having to reconcile the EIP payments and the ridiculous pre-payments of the child tax credits.
Our intake sheet is half the size it was last year!
Are you experiencing the same brain fog in your clients?
Probably because they spent it all so quickly in a drunken stupor.
Some for sure, but those that don't drink are having the same memory issues.