The guy who directs you to your seat at the meetings

JimmyPage

You know the man. He comes to you with a warm cheesy smile because he knows you're going to have to sit up front. You're late and the back rows are all taken. However there is still room if you take that long walk up close to the podium. You know your children are going to be acting up and you're going to be making that same long walk to the back with them as the meeting progresses. Thank you very much, Mr. Seat Finder. You jackass.

Honesty

The JW's with families in my last hall took care of MR. SeatFinder.

They ignored his stupid ass.

Amha·aret

Our hall announced that the back 2 rows were for families with young kids but all the old sick ones sat there and no one would move them! So the kids still wound up at the front, everyone shooting dirty looks at the parents.

WTWizard

They can't direct me to a seat if I blow off the boasting sessions.

blondie

There were a few brothers who had power trips. But most over the last 50 years, just let us sit where we wished. They did try roping off the back for latecomers and families, but the other "obedient" jws just moved the ropes or stepped over them. I was in one congregation where no one sat in the first 5 rows. A visiting speaker asked if he had bad breath and asked the 6th through 10th rows to move up 2 rows.

Witness 007

My wife made sure we were always late......and seat Brother made sure we had to walk up the front and "parade" our lateness....we started sitting on the signs that say reserved for Parents with children.

besty

we had a weirdo elder that was in charge of 'attendants' - he had a whole suite of stupid ideas on customer service, one of which was physically removing the back three rows of seating so there was a huge empty space at the back of the hall.

No, he didn;t grasp that all he did was move the problem three rows forward and ye, he was a minicab driver...

Tired of the Hypocrisy

Hey! I resemble that remark!

I hated having to do that crap to people. we also had a mini hitler wannabe elder in charge of us attendants. He also removed the back three rows of seats and wanted us to harrass the EARLYBIRDS and FORCE them to go up to the front. I finally had enough of his crap and told him to do that part of the job himself.

Quirky1

Seats...ummmm yeah, I vaguely remember them. The last three years I was there I always ran sound and sat in the back away from the family.

LouBelle

We never had those, we could choose where we sat, well bar for the 2 back rows - that was for mums.

The guy who directs you to your seat at the meetings

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