by The_Bad_Seed 45 Replies latest jw friends
Shame on you all!!
I have to say I worked my butt off to get my hours in. I doubt it was love of God though - more a fear, guilt and a tendency toward compulsive obsessional behaviour.
The worst I did was borrow an hour from the following month, which I always made up, but suffered terribly for guilt wise.
Really must do something about the 'G' word, anyone got any ideas???????????
Oh, I was an expert at that!
My main problem was that my dad was the secretary so I had to be very clever about it.. I would go out on FS, do the mandatory hour, then clear off round the shops for a few hours to kill time. I would then stroll back home and announce how tired I was for spending 4 hours on FS!!
it was easier to lie about placements and RV's though..
What!
I never cease to be amazed at you lot! There was me feeling terrified of ever miscalculating my field service report!
There was a particular brother that used to often quote some obscure-to-me-now proverb, that spoke about a false weight.... that scared thesh it out of me!
I was always accurate, very accurate!
what an excellent post - and when you think about it, the borganisation ought to think again about any apparent increase in the activity, is the increase merely a more inspired degree of lying ?
For sure!
Never lied about my time - usually I was between 8 and 12 hours a month. I now know when the elders sometimes asked me to boost my hours a little and set an example it was because a bunch of dubs like you guys were artificially raising the congregation average!
That said, I've wondered if I could concoct a plan to "go back" and get reinstated, put in lots of field service hours (on paper of course), THEN fade without falling for the trick question. Anyone actually ever tried this?
I never out-and-out lied on my Field Service report ... BUT ... I used Watchtower style TRVTH and rounded-off a lot ... so, 1.75 hours became 2 hours, 3.6 hours became 4 hours ... etc. If I was careful to not keep good track, then I could rely on my memory ..." was that 8 or 12 magazines I placed? ... mmmm well let's round off to 15 magazine." ... That bos of literature I dropped off at the laundry-mat, mmm ... must have been 50 to 100 magazines, and 5 to 10 books ... okay, I report 100 magazines and 10 books, as I would not want to be in danger of underreporting. See how it works ... and once you learn the game, you can be an Elder! Generally, I was pretty honest, and did not consciously lie or stretch things because my Field Service, literature placements, and Bible Studies were always at levels that would please even the most inane and idiotic banal rectal-orface-face Circuit Overseer.
I was of the round-it-up class. And towards the end I was of the put-the-minimal-down-to-keep-the-elders-away class.
I love this topic - always wondered, although I saw enough of it while out in fs, especially while aux.pioneering. Gotta love those creative ways of stretching the minutes!
Mimilly
I was so bad about lying on my field service report I would go see a spiritually-themed movie like Stigmata with a couple of my same age Dub friends (hey, we were all bad) then count that as 3 hours on my time slip.
Hey! 1 hour for commute back and forth between the theatre and waiting during previews, and 2 hours for the film.
If you saw one movie a weekend over the course of a month, you would exceed the national average for a publisher with 12 hours.
Well I did guess a lot, and I know I always guessed on the high side.
