Working at H & R Block is terrible. - Tax Professional/Office Manager H&R Block Employee Review

1.0
Aug 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The friendships you make with other employees is nice.

Cons

The pay is awful. The company itself is too demanding and asks way too much of you. Example giving you no other choice but to extend your daily hours work from say 9-5 to 9-9. They spend millions a year on management companies to to tell us what to do and pays their staff minimum wage and charge their client huge prices. It's like the upper management in Kansas City is pocketing all huge bonuses and paying their employees horribly. The upper management micro manages to an extreme. The employees are supposed to market daily. It's very tacky like stand on the corner and hand out flyers, go to parades and hand out flyers, talk up taxes with all you encounter always. Every year tax pros come back they are paid less than the last year, 80% of lasts actual pay.

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Pros

Great coworkers in the office

Cons

Low volume of tax returns

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Pros

If you get in the right office you can have amazing coworkers and can learn so much. You can gain a ton of experience and knowledge if you are willing to work and collaborate with other preparers. Training is robust and is there for you to utilize and work your way up to higher salary. The potential to earn a full years salary working for half the year once trained up to a higher level and build your book of business.

Cons

Communication is often not the best and in the offseason you are off boarded or get reduced salary and only work a day or two a week

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