An experience at Bethel (page 2)

hoser

If you're using slave labour pennies can count. In the real business world it most likely would be a negative return on investment of labour to save stamps.

talesin

I was thinking exactly the same thing, hoser.

Awake at last

Wouldn't it cost more to feed and pay an allowance to that woman at Bethel than what they would save by re-using the stamps. Just saying.

joe134cd

Awake at last- this sister was on the front desk reception. So the stamp thing was just something to do in the interim.

freemindfade

My bethelite friends (hardcover dubs) said there was a couple there thay washed and reused condoms! Barf! They'd be hanging in the shower drying. How sick is that?

KateWild

Sorry I don't believe the reusing condom story freemind......that's going too far lol xx

Kate xx

NewYork44M

I was just about to make the point about slave labor, but a few beat me to it.

Where there is no cost of labor an organization can do stupid non-productive things like this. It also shows that they have no idea how to use the skills and intellect of their employees (i.e. slaves). What a waste of human capital.

paulmolark

What they do is make sure that they ask these people in visible areas to do things like this so that when tours come through and people see them they will obviously ask why they are doing. This gives the brothers the impression that they are not squandering money and everything is going to good use.

However they levels of wastefulness are extreme.

For instance every meal has literally tons and tons of food that never gets eaten. When I worked in recycling the amount of untouched food from just one dining hall was enough to feed over 1000 people at each meal. They would not give any to the homeless because they were afraid of the possible lawsuits.

When brothers donated clothes over 50% of said clothes were thrown into the garbage because they were unfit for bethel wear. They may have had a logo on the t-shirt etc...

The list goes on and on with how easily they waste money yet you have people donating their last pennies in order to send it to these people

freemindfade

Katewild not an urban legend. It's true. I don't like spreading anything that I am not sure is true. My friend she was in house keeping and saw it with her own eyes. I wish it weren't true.

stuckinarut2

THE SOAP THING IS TRUE! Oh my goodness...I thought it was just asked of me!

I was made to do that also when I worked in housekeeping!

And the wasted donated clothing was insane! I repeatedly saw sincere brothers and sisters donate clothes thinking they would somehow help the "kingdom work". 90% was thrown away! I suggested that we at least bag it up and donate it to a charity. It was slammed, because that would be "helping Christendom"

An experience at Bethel

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