by metatron 16 Replies latest jw friends
The WST does 'play' with the numbers a lot. This creative accounting actually does not help them in the long run. Each Cong. Secretary learns to be a shade dishonest in working up the figures because he knows the Corporate Inspector, (CO), will hammer the Elders if the figures drop or are vastly different from the 'norm' as outlined by the J-dud Masters. And this just spirals the fiction on and up.
But why should this suprise any of us. The whole WTS is based on fakery and deceit! Maverick
I remember one of those "hammer time" meetings with elders. We thought we were getting an extra blessing by having the CO and DO at one of the mid-year CO visits. Well, as soon as the MS were dismissed....then the hammer came out and each of us had our turn in the hot seat. One of the hot items talked about was elders being with elders in service and driving from one end of town to the other for RV's.No one said a word after the meeting. No one ate even one smidgen of little elderette supplied buffet. Then at the final talk the CO praised how well things were going. I wanted to puke.
I think they do want to keep the pressure on to keep individual publisher's hours up. Think about it... if you are guilted into reporting the hours, wouldn't you also be guilted into donating $$ to cover the cost of all those magazines you threw in the garbage and reported as placements?
How did I do this for so long? Looking at the Sacred Service from the outside in, I am amazed that I did this for so many years without waking up and saying, hey, what's the point?
Nina
It was an unspoken understanding among many pioneers and publishers I knew. "I won't say anything if you don't", waste all the time you want attitude. One girl did ALL of her college homework while riding around in the back of the car. It would actually annoy her to have to close up her books to go knock on a door and flip out a magazine. She'd come right back and pick up where she left off.
I think it's great. It's basically a further evidence that the R&F are taking what the Borg says with 'a grain of salt' - "yeah, yeah, yeah, more meetings, more study, less fun, less complaining (whatever)" . Boy that must drive the control freaks in Brooklyn crazy!
I have a cousin who wrote witnessing letters to people while laying in the back seat on her way to a rap/metal concert, and counted it as service time. Ridiculous.
Integ.
We had a PO who put a tract in a phone booth to start the group's time, then he'd drive about one hour away to the territory.....we'd do the territory, stop for lunch, start our time again at an RV then drive back the hour, put a tract in another phone booth and call it a day. Oh, an 8 hour day.
Actually, I had fun going out in service. Especially the days spent with that PO...he was a lovely man who loved us dearly and we all treasured our special territory. He had bad knees so between the 4 of us in that car, one of us always had that territory. On rainy days or super cold ones, we'd head for the Ocean.
