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by GODLOVESME 16 Replies latest jw friends
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ex-nj-jw
Welcome to JWD!!! look forward to hearing more on your story.
nj
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needproof
Hi Godlovesme, thanks for stopping by. Interesting stuff about all the misery at Bethel - those people are just robots and pawns in a game they know nothing about. Long hours with little pay paves the way for workforce dismay.
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needproof
Could you elaborate on the paradise being a state of mind comment? I find that interesting, what makes you believe that?
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moshe
Welcome to JWD.
Not too long ago many of the Bethel workers in NYC got transfered upstate. I guess they don't like being in the boondocks and they sure have limited opportunities for a social life outside of NYC. I know I would be depressed with that kind of move.
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SnakesInTheTower
GODLOVESME: Welcome to the board... look forward to hearing your back story.
As for bethel.. I was there twice as a temporary worker. Once for 3 weeks at Brooklyn, once for 4 weeks at the Farm. The farm stay was in October of the year and it was absolutely perfect weather.
Too bad it was doing something stupid like helping build another dormitory. One day I will share some personal stories from those trips.
But for now, let me just share these observations from when I was there. I seen so much misery and hypocricy there it made me sick. It also caused me to withdraw my permanent application on both occasions (The two stays were nearly a decade apart). I heard a couple of young brothers use the F word. At the time, I told them if they continued to use it I would report him to his overseer... which at the time would have been the right thing to do. (now, I say none of my business). I think he was asked to leave Bethel shortly after for similar things.
Yet, I seen older Bethel vets saying things inappropriate (at least by JW standards), yet they were overseers? These are the so-called "happy" Bethelites? PUULEESE!
And they were soooo deprived up there.... sad and depressed was a good way of describing them. I remember working in (a certain) department at WT Farm for a month. They had this tiny 2 cup coffee maker for a crew of 15 in their storage area. At the time I was addicted to coffee and bethel coffee at the time was awful and weak. I was frustrated because "officially" there were no breaks....but if we had to go back to the department storage area for something, we could brew a quick pot. I felt so bad for them (and me of coure) that I went to Wal-Mart and bought a new 12-cup pot and some really good coffee (surprisingly at the Bethel Commissary). The next morning, the crew seen the new coffee maker with a full pot of coffee...no one knew at first who brought it in... (I wanted it to stay that way)... but someone had seen me set it up, so they busted me. You would have thought I had brought a million dollars they were so happy. They assumed I was taking it with me at the end of my month long stay..I said, no, I have one...this one is yours....man that was one happy bunch over a silly coffee maker.... deprived, so sad indeed
(Now I hear that they are releasing literally hundreds of "happy" bethelites, ostensibly for the purpose of "assisting the congos in the field with their experience". the reality is it is "corporate downsizing". Buy new presses that need less people.... less people on the presses mean less housekeeping, less laundry, less food for those people....meaning less people doing those jobs, meaning they are let go or reassigned....less of those people, mean even more support people going home..... its like a domino falling into the next one...... what are those "happy" bethelites going to do for work after decades working for the Borg? They just let them go.....?????
oh well, if I dont watch it, the thread hijacking is about to commence...maybe I should continue this on a different thread.... )
SnakesInTheTower (of the "thank god i did not stay at Bethel" Sheep Class)
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nvrgnbk
The coldness, anxiety, and sad depressed look of the majority( certainly not all) of Bethelites was what I first noticed when I "served" there. I found it very confusing.
Now, I get it.