This is a performance in bureaucratic-related frustration. It is both actual and hyperbolized. Warning: Language.
I sent an updated W9 to a school district that I worked for last year. I was asked to do so by a close friend who teaches in the district. Apparently, the HR office contacted him and asked him to contact me because they misplaced my W9, and they needed a new one. So he sent me an email, to which I replied, “they can contact me if they’d like; no need to go through you.” It irritated me that they would task him with this job rather than just contact me directly. Seemed lazy. As though high school teachers have the time to do this type of work. It’s like asking the HR office to step in and sub a class, it will just take 45 minutes, I have to be somewhere. Divide and conquer only works if you divide.
Thing is: the already sent me a 1099, so from my end, what’s the incentive of going through the hassle of filling out a new W9 and sending it to them? I have no future plans to work for this district.
Well the incentive is, according to the HR rep who eventually contacted me, that if I don’t send the an updated W9, the district will be fined.
I could count on zero hands the number of fucks I give.
But, I sent them their damn replacement W9, and hopefully they’ll pick up on all the shade I’m throwing them as well.
