ANY ts icicle M Volume 24, #5 Jf IRS Center, Ogden, Utah February 28, 1992 Wilder earns community award OSC employee, Ken Wilder, has been honored with the 1992 Up’n Comer Award sponsored by Zions Bank. The purpose of the annual award is to recognize younger community leaders for career achievement and community involvement as recognized by their peers and competitors. Wilder was nominated and subsequently honored in the category of Government. This category not only encompasses federal employees but also local, military, and state government nominees. The awardee, a Quality Review Unit manager in the Document Perfection Branch, has been employed at OSC for eleven years. He began his career as a Mail Clerk and has advanced through increasingly responsible positions. Tingle Tables Ken’s nomination reads in part," manages 15 employees who review rhe work of approximately 600 branch employees. His commitment to doing a quality job, his pleasant attitude, and his “meet and deal’ skills led to his selection | as manager of the unit." In addition to his regular assignments, Ken has many collateral duties. Among these is his position as Black Employment | Program Manager at OSC. This position entails monitoring the recruitment and progress of the Center’s black employees and seeking avenues for increasing the diversity of the workforce. He also conducts individual and group career counseling sessions and serves as liaison . One of the first steps in returns processing The "Tingle Table" is one of the first steps in the returns processing at the Ogden Service Center. It is here that returns are removed from envelopes, sorted and sent on their way to the next step in the individual form’s processing. The "Tingle Table" is reported to have been invented by James Tingle, a Management Analyst from Southeast Region in Atlanta. During the 1960 filing season, returns were being hand sorted into boxes lined up on desks. He built the first table in his home workshop. It was approved for testing in the Atlanta District during the 1961 filing season. As production doubled, 40 more tables were ordered for 1962. Three years later "Tingle Tables" were installed nationwide. As of February 21, more than 4.4 million returns have been received at the Ogden Service Center. That’s a whole grundle of activity at the "Tingle Tables”. However, nearly 1.6 million are returns filed through the Electronic Filing process. (See Ken Wilder, Page 2) |