Did you record your hours in field service correctly?

free2beme

I always hated the shepherding call where they asked you to try and spend more time in field service, as they saw your hours turned in were low. At a young age, I learned how easy it was to just write down what ever felt right. I spent about 30 hours a month in field service as a Pioneer for two years and never had anyone say anything to me. I spent 10-15 hours in field service as a publisher the last few years and no one said anything to me. In reality, I recorded my 80-90 Pioneer hours, did no field service but once a month or less in the last view years and I actually got asked to do a convention part on maintaining regular service. So if I did this, I know others did and I know that percentage of fake hours has to be a percentage of that year count. So fess up, who faked it tell you made it? I freely admit I did!!!

PoppyR

I would never have done this when I was a full blown witness.. what if I was smote down!!! (smote? smited??) But towards the end, just to keep the elders away I used to turn in a report every month of a few hours even though I hadn't been out. Funny this drifting thing though, I haven't put in a report for about 3 months now.. well more solid than that, I used to email the service overseer my report, and I email him now to say I haven't been out, but nothing has been said. Maybe they've finally given up!

Poppy

free2beme

I might have been controled by demons back then, the devil made me do it. Actually, I just wanted to blend in and not stand out. I did not realize for a long time after comparing notes, that most people were doing 4-5 hours or less and my 10 was actually making me stand out. Live and learn!

vitty

I did fuzz it a little, rounding up hours and stuff. And I know my husband used to claim 4 hours a month for the family bible study and never did it. But I dont know how you got away with not going out when you were a pioneer, firstly why did you bother, and second we used to KNOW who was a slacker, the ones who disapeared to go on their friends territory or the ones that used to say they were going on RV. Most JWs know how to stretch the hours, its a trick you learn from an early age, it just proves its bull.

Goldminer

Yes I did. When my monthly average dropped to 5 hours,they decided I was no longer "exemplary" and my few privileges were removed.That's what got me really thinking about the hypocrisy of elders and the WTS. I was told of ways to pad my time and I saw people who rgularly did it and it never bothered them.I just felt it wasn't right and I eventually stopped going out in service because I hated it and I couldn't figure out why I would want to tell people to join this "happy religion of truth" when it definitely was not.

Goldminer

garybuss

My last few months associating with the Witnesses I went in "service" but I didn't report the time on a field service reporting form to the local Kingdom Hall. I didn't even keep track of the time. Then I quit offering the mass produced printed religious material at the doors. After I quit reporting "time" and I quit the "offer" I didn't see any purpose in going door to door at all. I was just bothering people on a sleep in morning.

googlemagoogle

i did but not in a big style. i wrote 2 hours when i didn't go. or 4 if i only had 2. so it was only to have something on the slip. and i know many others who did/do so.

i know that because one time all of us youngster were back in the hall writing our time-slips and i switched the sheet with another guy and we respectively wrote our numbers. we said, how much should we write this time? two or four? i think we wrote 4.

later i was in that "true christian" stream and i only went in service with my bible (not the NWT). i went to serivce but stopped turning in the time. that's when the elders got nervous... strange.

Sam the Man

Towards the end I just didnt give a shit, I was making up hours left right and center. I remember asking somebody to 'name a number between one and ten' and I wrote down whatever he said. I lied about everything...even the placement of books and current Bible studies.

Eyebrow2

noooo....I was extremely anal about reporting my time...I had it down to minutes even. the elder in charge of that stuff approached me one day and said it was fine to round up, so if I had 9 hours and 54 minutes to put it as 10. That was almost too much for my JW brain to handle. I made sure I got in the extra 6 minutes the next month hahaha.

JAVA

So fess up, who faked it tell you made it? I freely admit I did!!!

I believe most JWs would add a little to their reports, perhaps thinking they'll make it up next month or the month thereafter..........

While pioneering one summer, I rebuilt my car engine, and counted most of the time. Hey, if the folks in Brooklyn are considered full-time servants while doing factory jobs, I reasoned that a pioneer needed to keep the car running.

Many of us used to drop some old mags off at a nursing home first thing in the morning, have a long coffee break, make a few return visits, and 4 hours would show up for the effort. The fact is less than 15 minutes was spent taking to anyone. Great memories!

Did you record your hours in field service correctly?

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