A counting time question

by carla 9 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  carla

  I was wondering, if a jw gets into a conversation say with 3 people for 30 minutes does the jw get to count an hour and half? or how does that work when it is not traditional fs?

  I was thinking back to a friend who worked with a jw and they worked with their hands so it allowed much conversation at work. They would argue and as usual the jw was not in the majority so they would often go on for quite some time. Suppose he got to count hours at his work station with the people around him? Would he be able to count all the people included in the conversation as time spent? if they went on for an hour with 4 people chiming in would he get to count 4 hours? or would it still only be counted as 1 hour?
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  Amha·’aret

  It should be counted just once (ie 30mins, or 1 hours in the scearios above) but many jws fluff their time sheets.
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  carla

  I know they fluff their time sheets I was just wondering what the norm was in those cases. (normal & jw's hehehehee)
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  rebel8

  Well I am going back 20 years, but even despite all the creative math they taught us at pio school, that time would only be counted once.

  The purpose is to disclose how much personal time you sacrificed (quantity), not outcomes (quality).
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  blondie

  Whether you talk to one or 40 during the same time interval, i.e., 1/2 hour, it is only officially counted as 1/2 hour.

  I did hear though of some pioneers that wrote a letter to be put in the doors of not-at-homes, which took 1 hour, photocpied 50 copies and counted 50 hours. The WTS was not amused.
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  White Dove

  I'd just remove the aligator from 1 aligator 2 aligator 3 and pad my time more efficiently.
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  civicsi00

  How it should be done and how it actually gets written down are two different things.

  You may have a zealous publisher who counts every minute or doesn't like to round up to the next hour when he has only done 45 minutes.

  On the other hand, you may have a lazy publisher who does 30 minutes of "witnessing" but rounds up to an hour (and this then depends on his conscience, because it may bother him that he lied).

  I guess what I'm trying to say is that it all depends on the individual on how they will be reporting their time.
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  WTWizard

  Why even bother? Just make up fictitious numbers and turn in a fake time slip. You can put whatever number you like on it, and you will save the gas and time needed to do real field circus.

  Or better yet, just drop out and don't even turn in a fake time slip. Then they will either have to turn in a fake time slip on your behalf, or there will be one less official witless.
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  aniron

  If one JW speaks to a non-JW for 30 mins , they can count 30 mins preaching time.

  If TWO JWs speak to a non-JW for 30 mins , they can count 30 mins each, therefore 1 hour of preaching done in 30 mins ??
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  sir82

  One thing for sure - the WTS absolutely doesn't care.

  With all the micromanagement in every aspect of life ("Did you touch her breast? Above or below the clothing? For more than a few seconds? How many seconds?"), the Society's guidelines for counting time are very liberal, and the few restrictions are rarely discussed and never enforced.

  So long as they can document with a paper trail that their "army of volunteers" spent a billion hours doing "volunteer" work, they really don't give a rat's patootie about what is done during that "reported" time.