by stillAwitness 32 Replies latest jw friends
Yeah but come on, three ladies in one week stepping down for family reasons? I'm with Stilla - years of time in cosy cars together, sharing return visits and gossiping... it was all going to get to them eventually. :D
Or maybe the two whose family has been d'd have decided to stay in touch with their family member, and the other was the one who got them d'd!
Ah slander. It's just too easy.
Sometimes resigning from Pioneering is a statement of discontent.
In one affluent congregation there were four Pioneers including me. There was a pecking order based on wealth, pioneers were at the bottom of the heap. We received no encouragement or support from the full time workers. On summer bank holiday weekends they would be off on holiday while we carried on trying to get our hours in.
We were flat broke, hungry and disillusioned. We decided we had had enough and all four of us resigned as pioneers in one go.
The announcement was duly made. We had hoped that we would be asked for our reasons and our protest would have some impact but not one elder asked. I moved away to a much friendlier congregation. Over the next few years many members left of moved away. A few years later the congregation had halved in size.
My guess is they did something that got them in troubble. I've never heard of it being announced that people where no longer Pioneers.
4. Maybe the sister was caught "padding" her field service time slip. If padding the hours would be grounds for removing a pioneers then there would not be any regular publishers. everyone counted their donut break, traveling to and from territory. Reading into a removal starts rumors and ruin peoples reputations. With that said I"d just say theu are sick and tired of the BS that comes with the position, gas prices, cheat ass Brothers and Sisters that go out with them that don't chip in 25 cents don't put mucg gas in the tank.
What reasons are there that a sister would be announced "no longer a regular pioneer?"
Hmmmm.........lots of reasons:
When I've heard it announced (the last one I heard was years ago) it's always worded, "Brother So-and-So has been removed from the pioneer list" and it sounded awful! But then you'd find out it was for not-awful reasons. The announcement is (or was) unnecessarily harsh-sounding.
3 such announcements together is suspicious, but who knows? Did they all work for the same place and get downsized?
Dave
Is this common? I didn't even know that they made announcments like this... to announce that someone is no longer a regular pioneer. How often does that happen?
When I was announced as 'NLRP' it was because I missed my yearly time target by less than ten hours.
I know I could have fudged it and no one would have known, but I wanted to be honest.
Ken McCarthy and I can't remember who else, couldn't WAIT to make that announcment.
Maybe they just got tired of the drudgery.
Well, I guess it varies from cong. to cong., I just thought you wern't supposed to announce it when a pioneer went off the list. I went off the list like 4 different times and they never pulled that with me. Regardless, they must of did something 'really bad' to get removed like that! I wonder if they just went round to tanning salons out in service and ate smoothies.
