I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern

Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern by FireBeyond on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:01PM (#27635535)

And an actual tax preparer, not a script reader like H&R Block.

The first year I moved to the US, I had a whole bunch of things going on. Buying a house, working from home, buying a hybrid car etc., getting married. I had no real idea about the tax system, so saved all our receipts etc., and went to H&R Block.

"So what do you want to claim?"

"What can I claim?"

"What do you mean?"

"Here's a bunch of receipts and I can tell you all the details."

[vaguely confused look] "Let's go through the app."

And I watched as basically she transcribed our most basic information into their in house version of something akin to TurboTax.

I could have done that myself.

I complained. And did, eventually, get someone there who knew how to not be a glorified transcriptionist.

And then the next year found someone who had knowledge of their own.

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Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern by chubot on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:33PM (#27637083)

Yup, that happened to me. I paid something like $250 for a tax preparer who just entered the info into TurboTax.

It hit a weird case and she didn't know what to do. Eventually I looked up the actual tax code and told her what to do. As far as I remember it was about splitting the cost basis over multiple years. I owned some weird stock where that came up.

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Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern by eropple on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:07PM (#27635608)

AFAIK, TurboTax does sell access to a version of their software for the script reader, too. ;)

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