Chris Farley, comedy legend. And with people like David Spade and Christina Applegate there at same time, it was a golden age of SNL.
The skit in question, for those who don’t know it:
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Morning peoples!
eFiling has started!
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I leave that until a week before. No point in giving money to SARS now.
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It has? I am hoping to be auto assessed, have not heard anything yet.
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FTFY 
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Be careful with the auto assessment, it might miss a bunch of items that are deductable.
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The nice thing is that this year you can view your auto assessment. I viewed mine and it looked fine. Getting some much needed money back.
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I’m glad to hear that, that’s a great step in the right direction!
@Shrike: I revise my statement. Be careful with the auto assessment. View it before accepting! 
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You have quite a lot of medical aid usage. Shouldn’t you expect to get back? I thought auto assessment was for uncomplicated cases.
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The R148k I spent over the last year over and above what the medical aid paid for was taken into account. I accepted the auto assessment since it included all those expenses automagically.
Saw the same last year, SARS gets data directly from medical aids, you don’t have to actually enter anything into the efiling form, it is there already. Since 2020 tax year I have been very explicit in my instructions to medical accounts: please claim it from medical aid so that there is a record of it, even if they turn it down.
That certainly has paid off. In 2019 I had to go through an arduous process of submitting all the invoices for things I paid for myself.
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SARS really made the whole experience so much better. Hats off to them.
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Haha, the best run government agency is the one that collects money.
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Haha my wife and I also joked about it this morning.
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Proper use of machine learning.
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These POPI emails from everyone are getting annoying. The people that break the law will still break it after?
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Something I find interesting/funny/cool on MEW is that if any of us post a picture of our setups or devices there’s an unwritten rule that at least one of the displays of those devices should have MEW open on it.
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Just got an email from my boss, and an excerpt from it got my back up a bit and wondering if I should respond to it.
Just wondering if you are managing to keep XXXX busy? Like all of us, she’s in a bit of a no-mans-land, and considering she is contracted we need to try and maximise ROI.
I do not agree with something like this, keeping people busy for the sake of keeping them busy. Sure, I get where he is coming from but if there was better direction or planning it wouldn’t be an issue.
Bah… perhaps it’s just different styles of leadership, more like management in this case.
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That is definitely a his issue not yours
Nah. My opinion: it’s a manager’s job to help ensure that everyone is working effectively and to remove roadblocks. Sometimes that means giving someone from team A a bit of team B’s work, but you need to know what everyone’s workload is like to do that. Perhaps the roadblock they need to remove is with effectively using this team member so as to free someone else in the team up that’s been burning it at both ends. I think there’s a myriad of great reasons to ask a question like that, without implying busy work.
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Managing a company and several teams doing exactly this for clients, I can appreciate your boss’ email. Clients pay a premium to get contractors in and they absolutely want the best value for the money they’re paying. They pay in the region of 1.5 - 2.0 times what the salary cost would’ve been to avoid having to deal with recruitment, HR, leave and termination costs, but in return expect the contractor to deliver value for each hour they’re paying.
So your boss is wondering whether they’re getting enough value from the contractor or not. It’s easier to cancel a contract than to terminate employment. I would take a long, hard look at XXXX’s utilisation and decide whether they’re adding the relevant value and, if not, be mature and direct enough to suggest cancelling the contract.
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