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No, they are the biggest aśśholes to work with
Coach
Hi all, I’m in IT for the record. No particular event prompted me to post this but I’ve noticed that a good number of my colleagues tend to talk down on other tax service lines and have the impression that our work is more complex/superior. I know plenty of others in other service lines, none of which display this kind of behavior. Just find it a little toxic is all. Am curious why my service line is like this though.
Coach
Oh hi everyone. M&A aren’t bad people.
Perhaps check yourselves. The number of times I get requests to do things in 24 hours that I have no contact with gets tiring. I have my own clients - I’m not sitting around waiting for whatever it is that you need.
Just one person who doesn’t feel at all superior. If you need our help, come to us on reasonable timelines - you are not our priority.
I’m in ITS focusing on M&A have a JD, and I agree with all the above 😂😂 we are terrible
A lot, but not all - there are a few of us out there who are normal people 😉
In my experience they have it rough. It can be challenging to get their requests and someone who can answer their follow ups.
I’m in ITS but mainly do compliance. Everyone on my team is super nice. But when we go to training, all my peers from other offices have the biggest ego. I can’t stand training for that reason.
Lmaoo, who hurt you?
Coach
We found one
Mentor
I feel like this topic comes up once every 3-4 months.
Please share your story that makes you think this. I’m sure it’s great.
I’ve maybe experienced it a slight amount from local office people, but I’m in our national office international tax and everybody is super nice. Or maybe I just have an ego as big as them so I don’t notice.
Now that you bring it up it makes sense
The itax team for my clients is hella nice
I'm in international tax now coming from a compliance background. In my experience both CPAs and JDs have been pretty chill. However, when the JDs gets a question from the fed side, they want to go through everything with a fine comb through the regs. Coming from compliance I know that usually we want a simple answer. So I can see how it can come across how ITS comes back trying to come back all smart or with extra questions that the fed team isn't really looking for. I can see where they can see us in that way.
I agree. I'm in international tax now and I always do my research and due diligence. But when I first started out in compliance we were always swamped with work and deadlines so when we reached out to ITS I always felt like they were doing extra work when all I wanted was a simple answer. Being on the other side of it I totally get why so I try to bridge the gap between the two.
I mean…if you put a fancy title in front of anything…