I am a horrible planner with no impulse control February 5, 2006 1:12 PM   Subscribe

OH Man this STINKS! I have an important QUESTION for AskMefi, but my big mouth used up my weekly question......Can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask this for me on AskMefi??? (pretty please?)

I've been self employed for 12 years. I made a decent living in the music business and with property investments. NOW, at 39 yrs old, I want to grow up and get a REAL JOB. But over the years I kept lousy track of my TAX RECORDS and some years I was lazy and didn't make much. QUESTION IS: What would happen if I used fake tax returns to show a decade of organized self employment for the sole purpose of applying for jobs?
posted by SwingingJohnson1968 to Feature Requests at 1:12 PM (12 comments total)

This question is not time sensitive- you can wait.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:14 PM on February 5, 2006 [1 favorite]


What TPS said. Chill.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:16 PM on February 5, 2006


Plus, your last question was posted 1/30, so you won't have to wait too much longer.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:17 PM on February 5, 2006 [1 favorite]


It is very time sensitive! I'm in the middle of my job search and tomorrow I have several interviews. I need to know if I should offer to furnish tax returns to anyone who asks or just sit there and stutter like an idiot.
posted by SwingingJohnson1968 at 1:18 PM on February 5, 2006


YOU'VE been a MEMBER for all of TWO WEEKS and you're whining about having to WAIT a couple days to ask a QUESTION?

Answer to your question: Don't fake tax returns. Sit there and stutter like an idiot. After all, you seem to be quite good at it.
posted by googly at 1:24 PM on February 5, 2006


It's usually better to e-mail people you know (or people who you think might be nice) and ask them to post a thread on your behalf.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:24 PM on February 5, 2006 [1 favorite]


Y'know, I thought some pretty retarded posts had been made to MeTa before, but this bit of asswipery really proves that stupidity knows no bounds.

SW1968, F.O.A.D.
posted by five fresh fish at 1:28 PM on February 5, 2006


YOU'VE been a MEMBER for all of TWO WEEKS and you're whining about having to WAIT a couple days to ask a QUESTION?

I know... I'm a noob and a horrible person for asking this. Sorry.

I'm just in a tight spot to know about this ASAP. I even called my Tax Lady and she wasn't sure either about a situation like this.
posted by SwingingJohnson1968 at 1:30 PM on February 5, 2006


If your real name is the one that is on your userpage, you better hope that your potential employer is not a competent Googler. Seriously, you have two days to wait. You can take questions like this to Ask Yahoo, Google Answers, MetaChat, MonkeyFilter. the MeFi chatroom on the jabber server, or go to the public library. I'm not psychic but I can bet that almost all of them will say some variant of "Faking tax returns is a bad way to go about getting a new job." as well as "What sort of jobs are you applying for that require tax returns?"
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:31 PM on February 5, 2006


OK...forget I asked. I had no idea this would get any kind of negative responce.
posted by SwingingJohnson1968 at 1:32 PM on February 5, 2006


You can take questions like this to...MonkeyFilter.

Oh no, please don't.
posted by tracicle at 1:34 PM on February 5, 2006


sorry tracicle, my bad. I'll be closing this now.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:35 PM on February 5, 2006


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