One time I wrote back to a client that the cd they dropped off was ok.
I wrote… “The dick was good…” instead of the disc was good.
So yea… don't do that.
This was back in the days when you had to burn a QB file to a CD to deliver it to your accountant if it was larger than 20mb.
One small S corp has a husband and wife owner, who both had W2 comp for the exact same amounts. I noticed the same dollar amount and same last name and just thought it was a duplicate, so I left one of the W2's off the return 10-15 years ago. They are still clients to this day.
Husband and wife business – husband was/is a vet. Wife was the “bookkeeper”
I suggested to the wife that she might want to get a real bookkeeper to help her clean the books up so we would not have to spend so much time/money fixing it every year.
I was trying to save them money in the long run, as she was a wife and certainly not a bookkeeper.
They are no longer clients, not sure if it was fees, or she took offense to my suggestion. So just watch whose toes you might be stepping on.
A lesson my boss taught me, never bad mouth a fellow accountant. The old saying if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Never happened to me but a lesson from college. “Never fish off the company pier.”
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