Has anyone else seen the Jdubs at the shopping mall ?? They sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from Pottery Barn and Macy's. I did a double take when I saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what I observed is that NO ONE stops at the table except what appear to be fellow Jdubs.
I wonder if they count this as time? which then leads me to wonder if some of the other creative ways of putting in time are still being practiced? for example:
on Halloween night there were several in my kh that would count the evening as time because they opened the door to trick or treaters and treated them to an old wt or awake.
knew one woman who literally hand wrote hundreds of letters and then mailed them out to random people in the phone book -- she raked in the hours with that scam.
knew someone else who drove around with wt's and awake's plastered to the car windows and counted it as time.
I was always short on time -- if I could manage 3 hours a month it was a miracle -- I usually padded the report to at least 5 hours to ensure that I didn't get the "lecture" from the elders. I wonder if the org has actuaries or statisticians who looked at the annual report of worldwide time put in preaching and then adjust it accordingly for people like me. prob'ly not as that would be far too intelligent.
