Did you record your hours in field service correctly? (page 2)

Cori

I always did. Even when I was regular pioneer, I fudged the reports....but then felt extremely guilty about it. Recently I havent gone out in about a year, and stopped reporting fudged numbers a few months ago. I dont give a crap anymore!!

thom

I learned that an hour or two on the report was better than nothing. It kept the elders away. So when I stopped going out at all, I'd turn in a little bit of time each month.
I did that for quite a while but then decided to stop and not turn anything in. Then they told me if I had no time to turn in a report with zero on it and for some reason that really irritated me so I made sure to never do that.
I hadn't been in service at all probably the last 3 years I was in. But I stopped turning in time only the last year.

Mastodon

Yeah suuuuuure. I preached EXACTLY 14 hours every month... I think it would have been easier for me to just fill out ONE time sheet in January, made 12 copies of it, leaving just the month field blank and use over and over :D

daniel-p

I have been botching my time reports for about 6 or 7 years now. Why? Because I'm too much of a schmuck to not be an "exemplary" brother. All my adult life and more I've been "exhorted" to reach out for priveleges and so forth... but I never felt any zeal for the ministry. I'm happy to run mikes and do the small stuff, in fact if I could just do that and nothing more I would be happy as a clam, but it's the Saturday mornings spent driving around town very slowly and stopping for coffee and doing calls which you know are NOT AT HOME, and all the while not really caring, that gets me.

Simply put, the ministry has become a sham for the majority of JW's. Everyone knows those hours published at the end of the year WT are completely fictitious, I mean hell, about 150 of those reported hours are mine and almost all of them were spent doing nothing or very little.

As of yet, I haven't got the gumption to just report my 3 hours or something... lying is an awful trap... I don't blame anyone else (including the WTS) for any of this... it's just a reflection of my own faith which I guess has been in shambles for much longer than I ever thought.

Finally-Free

Did you record your hours in field service correctly?

Yes, I believe in honesty, so I was honest when I entered all zeros on my reports during my last months as a JW.

W

Everlasting Gobstomper

Throw down your nets and I will make you fishers of men. BUT FIRST... answer these 80 questions and fill out this time card.

xjwms

It was hard to "pad time".

Way too honest.

NestleBoy

Beleive it or not, I will usually under report my time out in service. Why, you may ask?

My congregation is always asking for more ministerial servants. We are in short supply. That is last thing I want to be right now. I think what they do is look for all the brothers that have been averaging 10 or more hours in service over the past 6 or 12 months. Then they make their recomendations to the Circuit Overseer during his visit.

The thing that gets me is they don't even ask you. It's just anounced: "We are pleased to announce that brother so and so has been appointed as a ministerial servant." Afterwords I always hear how this brother is totally surprised he's been appointed. Also, I don't want them to keep pesturing me to keep my hours up. AND I don't want to give the bigger talks during the Service Meeting... bible readings & #4 talks are just fine.

And I like to go up & down in my service time from month to month. 10, 4, 6, 11, 3 and so on. I always report 6 or 7 hours.

NestleBoy

chachasmum

Towards the end NO

Cellist

I always counted only what I felt was "real" ministry work. I was rather stupid that way. I resisted all the methods of padding hours. Once I quit believing in it, I quit wasting my time.

Cellist

Did you record your hours in field service correctly?

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