For the first time in years, the Internal Revenue Service is making an attempt to recruit new employees from college campuses or other 'real world' locations.  The private sector has known for years that recruitment of new employees and retention of old ones is a concept which requires continual effort and investment.  The IRS believes it can accomplish its goals with all the planning and effort you would make to turn on a faucet.  We'll see how well they do with people who haven't been brainwashed for 25 years.  So far, we can say that the IRS is not off to a rousing start.  After boring them for three weeks at an inflated "orientation," the poor bastards are to be sent to classroom training in Dallas.   Texas.   In July.   Rumor has it that Rossotti wanted to find someplace hotter but the Devil said that all the hotel rooms in Hell were booked.

Chapter 53 cannot  miss such a glorious opportunity to tweak management's nose.  After all, the union wins either way. If the new blood does hang around, the union gets to recruit new members.  If they bail out faster than a company of paratroopers on a burning transport, at least that means that management will have to have a little more respect for those of us who are dumb enough to still work for them.

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Sending 1200 trainees and an unknown number of instructors, managers, coaches, personnel leeches, do-nothing executives, and TIGTA Inspectors to Dallas certainly taxed the resources of the IRS.  Getting them to the rail road terminal was tough and only the IRS executives rode "First-Class" (inside the train.)

The Mayor of Dallas came by to say "howdy"
and deliver a pitch for Dallas Tourism.

The Mayor was honored to introduce a fellow Texan
to the astounded crowd of IRS workers.
Yes, none other than George Dubya Bush showed up, although, when he realized it was an IRS crowd, he
made a quick exit, claiming he had a lot of reading to do.

A Presidential spokesman
explained that Bush had to
deal with important matters
of National Security.

Commissioner Rossotti welcomed the recruits, gave them the usual line of IRS bullshit, and outlined his plans for increased tax compliance.

Rossotti introduced a delegation from the fabulously mis-named IRS Human Resources Division.  These two gave a short speech on the payroll system.

A video was shown which stressed that the IRS valued teamwork above all.

IRS officials recommended that students not leave the hotel as Dallas has a serious problem with mosquitos.
Aside from mosquitos, students were warned about possible hostile reactions from local residents.

SBSE's Joe Kehoe and Dale Hart (in pointy helmet) showed up to bring the recruits down to earth after so many officials were fawning on them.


The first hint of trouble came when a CIA spy satellite took this picture of an IRS trainee scrawling a message on a rock.