Here is the company that will be in charge of dealing with your Tax Document archives. And they're in good hands, trust me. Dan Quayle is on the board of directors, so you know it'll be just fine.

Its interesting to note that almost everyone listed in the Leadership page is or was connected to the government in some form.

Charles E. Dominy, the "Vice President of Government Affairs" proudly lists Halliburton in his resume.

I read on the consumerist that somebody was concerned that his private documents would be in the hands of the "lowest bidder" and actually, thats very true.

But, take this into account: Your tax documents already are in the hands of the lowest bidder. The people currently working in the building im in are the IRS's last attempt to outbid AIP. We're all temps, except for the managers, there are no perms or semiperms working there. The director made that very clear when she gave her little speech the other day. We're all very expendable. And they did that on purpose, just in case they lost the bid. Temps, you see, don't have any expectations of having a job waiting for them if the place they're currently working gets "riffed." There are several "service centers" all over the united states, and they are all currently staffed with temporary employees who have been working there for, at the most, almost a year. Many of us have less time than that, and nearly all of us are inexperienced. Of course, now all of those "service centers" will be staffed by IAP personel instead. Probably also temps.

More food for thought: during her speech the director let slip the IRS' plan for our future if they HAD won the bid. Once we got them all caught up, they were going to cut must of us and reduce the rest down to "as needed" status. So you may or may not have a job next week, depending on the work load. "Call ahead and ask if there is work for you" she joked.

This is not the way to reduce federal spending.

Ah well, it doesn't matter now in any case. It was just good to know what the other outcome would have been.

On the subject of security, Im told that the IAP must maintain a specific level of efficiency in getting the job done, or the IRS will be able to lodge a protest and rebid or something of that nature. There are definate numbers there, but they would be meaningless to you if you don't know what im talking about. Lets just say that X number of units must be "processed" or IAP may have to defend its proceedures. But nobody has said anything so far about security. I assume that not just anyone will be able to handle your documents, we all had to go through a fairly rigorous background check from the FBI and they even went so far as to require names of people who could verify my residence five years ago, who they did call, I found out later. As to the IAP, I really can't say. It will maybe be worthwhile to find out....

There is still no information. They told us that more specific information would be posted on the intranet, but as of yet, there has been no change. I did see today that the "daily news" bulletin that is normally updated every day hasn't been updated since the news hit. I don't know why.

skimming the internal job postings is even more depressing. A good portion of them for the countrywide search have giant "canceled" graphics attatched now.

More to follow...