Sabrina necro’d this 2020 tweet of hers today and it’s such a good idea we’re signal boosting it further:
When you call the Paid Practitioner line with the IRS and they put you on hold, you should be able to talk to the other practitioners on hold.
— Sabrina the SALTy CPA (@IraGilligan) November 24, 2020
I realize some of you reading this weren’t alive for the good old days so let me, an old person who was, explain. In the ancient era before the internet we had only two options for human contact: going outside or the phone. The party line was a local or 800/900 number that you would call to get in a chat room of sorts with a bunch of people.
Much like current day, you’d get a wide range of people in the chat from weirdo proto-gooners to straight up lonely people just wanting to shoot the breeze with randos. Then your mom would eventually get the phone bill and yank your see-through neon phone right out of the wall. Good times.
I wasn’t alive for the “party lines” that existed before these so those of you older than me are encouraged to school these children in the comments.
$20 per phone call for 20 mins of chat. Wow. That would be like $100 in todays monday.