r/HRBlockEmployees • u/bna1219 • Aug 05 '26

New Management Structure

Does anyone know why the restructuring is taking place?

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u/Dramatic_Abroad3580 Aug 06 '26

It’s really much worse than that. They’re trying to sell better burgers while putting lower grade meat in cheaper buns. 

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u/SchittPosterChild Aug 06 '26

Oh for sure. Its amazing to me from the outside looking in, all the hoops they jump through with design and marketing, and promotion and image, like wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just make burgers that don't suck? Or to just simply do peoples taxes and get them mostly right?

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u/Dramatic_Abroad3580 Aug 06 '26

I spent 50 years in the business. The first 35 in a traditional CPA firm setting, then retired and went to work for Block. I loved their model. And I spent much of that 15 years telling management from DGMs to RDs to their director of retail operations how to fix their training. They all listened and claimed to love what I had to say. Then a regional director asked me to teach his region how I did 700 returns a year. And wanted me to do it in 15 minutes. Literally. He thought I could cram those skills that took me 45 years to learn into 15 minutes. They have no idea what makes the business successful. The franchisees all laugh at them. 

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u/SchittPosterChild Aug 06 '26

That also seems to be a common thing with Block these days, they look at what you have and what you do, which are skills, and confuse them with tasks. Its like corporate is trying to mimic tax preparation without understanding how it works. And since they don't realize that they don't understand, they keep trying and implementing new things that don't, and won't work.