Bobbi - That is a horrible story! But I can totally picture it unfolding like that! Remember, in this organization.....legalism is #1.
quick build fun
by outsmartthesystem 33 Replies latest jw friends
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notjustyet
Used to go to a few in the Southern part of the USA and one night when we were getting ready to go to sleep on the floor on a blanket I hear a few of the key brothers in charge in the living room ( they were drinking) starting to get loud and start using the N word. I looked at the brother I rode with and asked if I could use his car to ride to a local Hotel to sleep instead of being in that house of prejudiced idiots. Of course the guys that used the N word were white and the hall we were working on was mostly black brothers and sisters.
They were the key people in charge of putting the building together!! Not administration.
Njy
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outsmartthesystem
Here's another. I was assigned one year (since I didn't have real good "building" skills) to be part of the administration crew. This particular KH was being built in the GHETTO of a city that is rather famous for being high crime. It is the only KH I've ever seen that has an 8 foot iron fence surrounding it and its parking lot. well....guess what my job consisted of? I was supposed to keep watch.....on all the brothers' cars that were parked 2 blocks away from the building site. Let's see.....did they give me a two way radio? nope. They just told me to "make sure nothing happens" as if this dumb white kid with no weapon or radio is going to stop anyone from doing anything. So.....I just sat there. In a chair. All day long......staring at cars and feeling very nervous when a large group of young men would stare me down as they walked by. So.....the sun is starting to set and a man walks by with his Rottweiler. He stops. He is carrying a baseball bat. He says to me "what the f*** are you doing?" I start to explain who JWs are and what a quick build is and blah blah blah. He cuts me off and says "yeah...but WTF are you doing over HERE?" I explain that I am assigned to make sure nothing happens to the cars. He looks dumbfounded (kinda like.....yeah.....and how are YOU by YOURSELF going to stop anything from happening?) He says "you know why I carry this bat? Cause it ain't safe here....especially when it gets dark. You better get out of here".
So that was it. I went back to the actual quickbuild site. I explained to the admin crew what the man with the bat told me. Were they thankful for my safety? Not exactly. They responded with "we didn't send anyone to relieve you. What if everyone just did what they wanted to do instead of following orders? The KH would never get built." Yep. I went to bed that night feeling guilty for taking care of myself.
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cedars
I worked on a few builds. The level of organization these things are supposed to have is waaayy exaggerated. It was basically a "first come first serve" pitched battle between different teams, all vying for position in sometimes impossibly small and dimy lit work areas. If you didn't stake your ground unequivocally you would quite often find someone else working in your spot by the time you returned. Then there was no guarantee that your work would be left untampered with once you'd left the site. Quite often inexperienced workers would be given the task of completing my team's work in our absence, meaning that when we returned a good amount of time was used up simply trying to fix someone else's mistakes.
It was an absolute nightmare. And to think I was doing it all for free!
Cedars
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Bobbi
"I like Bobbi found menial kitchen or sweeping up tasks then dropped them after half an hour and went for another walk . lol"
@Jemba
I never did this, when I was assigned to a task, I did it. I was never a "corridor cutie" at conventions or a "quick build quickie" only there to flirt with the boys. I worked my ass off and did a good job too. Maybe no one taught you that the Menial Tasks are just as important as all the others.
Bobbi
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keyser soze
Did you actually use the words 'fun' and 'quick build' in the same sentence?
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donuthole
- Smoking oregano in the kitchen.
- Destroying a basketball hoop at a hotel.
- Sliced open my hand while deboning chicken breasts -- kept going.
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puffthedragon
I used to like doing overnight security at the lot beore the hall was actually built. They had a trailer set up for us and it was supposed to be 2 brothers but lots of times some cancelled. At least I had that flashlight with dead batteries. We would play cards and sometimes watch movies on a laptop. Once when my partner cancelled I had my girlfriend bring me dinner, that was nice, she stayed awhile and we had lots of fun with GASP -no chaperone! Can't imagine the fallout if anyone had shown up, witnesses love to assume the worst.
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Sheep2slaughter
We would always go out drinking as a crew afterwards. One elder brother on our crew really likes to drink. So during the course of the evening we, including the elder, all had a little too much. He ends up tripping in the parking lot and sprains his wrist. The next day we are all completely worthless because of being hung over and terrified he or someone would confess what had happened. None of us ever ratted the others out and it remained our tradition to drink Friday night. never to the degree we did that time but still a fond memory of mine.
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konceptual99
Don't knock it. I'm finding QBs are a great way of legitimately not doing any door knocking.