by Gary1914 29 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The announcement was made as if an exciting new development was taking place.
Then the speaker posed a rhetorical question: What will this mean for Alaska and the rest of the United States?
No real answer to the question, but thunderous applause nonetheless.
Gary, if you put yourself on the map, I'll mail you a postcard.
I promised to send a postcard to anyone living farther north than me.
I think it was maybe 15-20 years ago that the WTS made a similar announcement and dissolved the branch office in Newfoundland and absorbed the numbers into the Canadian statistics.
By the way, when I opened up the WT CD ROM to look for this change, the Tip of the Day was this one:
The announcement was made as if an exciting new development was taking place.Then the speaker posed a rhetorical question: What will this mean for Alaska and the rest of the United States?
No real answer to the question, but thunderous applause nonetheless
thanks for this info - the idea gives me the shudders. I remember inanely clapping even though I hadnt the foggiest why I was - mainly for exercise and entertainment!
thanks for this info - the idea gives me the shudders. I remember inanely clapping even though I hadnt the foggiest why I was - mainly for exercise and entertainment!
Ditto!
"adjustments to our understanding" - so Orwellian....
Isn't this just another downsizing ploy? With computers and the internet, why do they need to maintain a branch office in Alaska. It is just another state of the US, same language, same customs etc.
belbab
Why did they have an Alaskan branch anyway?
Alaska did not become a State until 1959. Maybe they felt the end was "so close" there was no need to change the alphabetical listing on the report. Then, recently, someone "noticed" the oversight and said, "Hey, it's been almost 50 years...." The discovery process was probably akin to the belated realization that there was no "zero year." These guys are really slow to change anything; their first instinct is to defend the status quo.
The Alaskan branch used to exist to monitor islands and perhaps parts of northern Canada (too far from Ontario. It could be that these places either are a branch on their own or are under other branches.
I see a step in reducing costs as well.
I wonder if Hawaii is going to cease being a branch?
Blondie
Isn't there a thread somewhere about a private plane that the Borg owns and something about a fishing lodge in Alaska? If they disolve the branch then they lose their claim that all those trips to Alaska are business realated because they won't have "legitimate" business anymore. Or are they just absorbing the numbers and keeping the branch?
