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  1. Supposedly available either yesterday or today, but I haven't tried yet.
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  2. We got ours last week (direct order).
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  3. I don't think "interesting" is the word you're looking for. Yeah, they're people too, but their circumstances are quite different from you and me. People here would kill for a government job, but you can't get one unless you "know" somebody or are related to them (it's pretty much closed to applicants without a connection). They have pay, benefits, insurance, and retirement that private sector people can only dream about. One low-level government worker's wages would hire three clerks in private business. Plus, as Catherine notes, about the only way to get fired is to pull a gun on somebody. I also have been laid off a few times and there was no pot of gold waiting at the end of my unemployment rainbow. As for the tear-jerking paycheck to paycheck angle; give me a break - many responsible private sector people (with notable exceptions) making much less than the fed group can weather the storm; why can't they?
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  4. That is EXACTLY my point. They have jobs that pay better than what most of us make. Those jobs come with benefits most of us can only dream of from afar. They can NOT be fired, under usual circumstances, even if they goof off all day surfing kiddie porn, very much UNlike you and me. But people are bemoaning their fate as if they are being made to walk the plank into shark-infested waters - when what they are facing is far LESS than a regular garden-variety lay-off. With NO guarantee of call-back, NO guarantee of back pay eventually, and no one publicly mourning their dire fate. Sorry; they got nothing from me. NOTHING. I've faced nasty lay-offs too many times, where I quite literally had NO idea where my next job was going to come from, or how I was going to survive until then, with no savings (used up in the last lay-off and just barely caught up to zero with no reserves yet) to help at all. In desperation taking crap jobs doing what I did to put myself through school, running a cash register at nights at a gas station ALONE (young and female), substitute teaching knowing I was working that day because of a phone call at 4AM, day-work bookkeeping via an agency running a paper-tape calculator. Quite a come-down from the supposedly well-paid engineering jobs I had spent years qualifying for. Work a high-school dropout could do. All for minimum wage but nowhere near 40 hrs/week - not just for lack of work, but also because I had to keep up the job search. Yeah, it sucks being out of work. It sucks worse when you don't have a call-back with pay waiting for you in a month or two. I got NOTHING.
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  5. We have not run into this issue (but I also think we have not filed any s-corp returns yet; just finished an 1120-H today that needs paper-filing anyway). I'd say hold on for the update Drake says is coming, ALL the software vendors are having issues with QBI-related items. Different specifics, but they're all having issues here or there.
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