My father's only employer was the U.S. Gov't. Out of college and into the army, WWII, and from the army to the IRS as a TAX MAN, now called Collections Officer so I grew up with the IRS. My dad worked a lot at home. In fact our dinning room table was his office and he use to keep U.S. Gov't ballpoint pens in the buffet table, hundreds of them. When I was growing up my brother & I would ask to use one of those pens for homework or playing cards and he would tell us NO WAY, the're the property of the U.S. Gov't. When he died 2 years ago he still had those pens in the dining room drawer. I kept one as a souvenir but I still won't use it. He also prepared my income tax returns until he thought I was able to do them by myself.