It used to be stricter than that where I went. They wouldn't start their time until they actually knocked on a door, or talked to someone in street work. They also told us that, if we had something like 2 1/2 hours, to round it down to 2 hours. Or, if we had 24 1/2, that counted as 24. There were also rules that coffee breaks had to be kept down to 15 minutes or the time would have to stop, and that we couldn't count our time if we were taking a nap or doing other work.
What I did notice was counting time, once getting it started, while waiting for others to come out of the house. If I got out on a call and the other person was hung up for an hour and I had to wait, then I would count that time. This happened fairly often, as the group usually had calls to do after the first street of the territory and I used to like it when they got stuck on one. And that is especially so if it was raining and I could fog up the windows so they would have to waste time clearing them.
I also noticed that people would sometimes cheat on that 15 minute time limit. Coffee breaks would often be segued with other errands, and the time would keep going. Or, we would get the time started, then go on a coffee break, and then drive across town for a call (which I would hope was not home). There was the famous "pioneer drive" (back in the 1980s and 1990s, they would typically drive at 25 MPH). Good thing Ted Jaracz wasn't there or he would have us screeching around at 160 MPH in the city, sprinting to the doors and trying to stress us into taking the bare minimum of time to get the maximum of calls, with no coffee breaks.
Oh yes, there is the Warm Up Break. I liked it when it was freezing cold out and people needed to warm up. They would get in the car and spend half an hour warming up while our time was running. I liked to let the heat out of the car so it would take longer for people to warm up, wasting more time and getting that much less accomplished. Half the time, it worked (and the other half they would tell me that I should go to the doors alone if I was not cold).
What I did toward the end was "dummy service". I would take a walk, dressed up and with my service bag, and find a route where there was no one to place bulls*** with. Then I would count that as an hour of street work. I must have done that a dozen times (I was only going out once a month then, and I hoped for no one to show up so I could do this dummy service). At the very end, I planned to take the walk when no one was scheduled, so I could count an hour of time doing nothing useful.
By contrast, on this board I have a purpose. My post count is not that important, and neither is my rank, as long as I can help ruin the Watchtower Society by exposing their deception. And neither is the time spent posting. All I care is the amount of damage I am able to do to the organization that has caused so many people to suffer for nothing. Seems that when I was working for Ted Jaracz, I only punched the clock so I could say I did something. Now that I am working against this monster, I only care about doing something and not about the post count as much.
