The last straw for me was when an attendant grabbed 22 yr. old me at a cnvention and told me to come inside it was time for it to start. I said no, and he got in my face. Anyone else get told what to do as an adult?
Attendant ever treat you like a child at convention?
by avishai 40 Replies latest jw friends
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Lehaa
yep all the time.
One told me off for feeding my baby during the sessions. Told him that my child was asleep during lunch and had missed it. ( he was on solids at the trime), If he wanted to feed him he was quite welcome too.
Next one put a please be seated sign right in front of my face while I was chatting to friends. I told him he was being rude and very unchristian.
I hatted them, they were worse than natzis at times.
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zugzwang
No, but I have a funny story about a time when I was an attendant at an assembly. The morning session had already started and it was my assignment to help anyone who came in late to find a seat. Well this one brother came in and was looking rather nervous and unsure of himself, so I approached him and asked him if he needed any help finding a seat. He said, "I'm disfellowshipped." I said that is okay I could still help him find a seat if he would like. He said that would be fine. (A side note, I never really understood the function of helping people find seats, as if they can't use their eyes just like I am using mine to find the seats.) Well after a few moments I found a few open chairs and I had this young brother follow me. I pointed him in the direction of the seats and assumed that he would go ahead and take the spot. However, he turned to me and said something like, "Excuse me brother but I can't sit there." I said, "Well why not?" Not that it really mattered to me it's just I had never got that response from someone before. So he looked up towards the area where the available seats were and he said, "See that girl up there in the red dress? That is the reason I'm disfellowshipped." It took everything in me not to start bursting out laughing. I can just imagine what an uncomfortable situation I inadvertently created. He was embarrassed, the girl was embarrassed, no doubt anyone from their congo who knew them were watching and their elders were probably watching. At the time of course being a good MS I immediately found a spot for him on the other side of the arena, but looking back on it now brings me quite a bit of laughter. It was a lot funnier in person. One of those, you had to be there, type moments.
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Lehaa
zug.
That's funny but sad. The poor guy, must have been so hard for him and her.
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Angharad
The last assembly we went to, I was very very pregnant and had very swollen feet because of the heat (baby was born a week later) and we also had a ratty, hot, bored two year old Liam -so you can imagine the fun eh?
The air conditioning seemed to be turned off and it was too hot in the arena, we took Liam for a walk on the circle that goes around the arena. We were immediately stopped and told that we shouldn't be walking around during the sessions. We carried on, Simon was playing with Liam, I decided to sit in a seat that was against the wall, little attendant appears out of nowhere are tells me I can't sit there as its for attendents only- Simon stepped in a taught him a new phrase Then a while later we decided to take the lift, rather than me having to walk up the stairs to the top of the stand and then right down again to the front to get underneath the seating area where they the mother's room was - little attendent stops the doors closing and tells us to get out of the lift its for attendents only ! Simon taught him an even more colourful phrase We went home early shorty after that !
The assembly before that when Liam was about a year old, was fun too. Again the air conditioning didn't seem to work again and Liam was getting very very overheated, we took him outside to the circle and stripped him off down to his nappy, because we were worried as he was so overheated, and again were told by an attentant that we should be sitting down listening !
A lot of these attendents had absolutely no idea what it was like to have young kids at these assemblies.
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TonyT
Control the sheep.
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95stormfront
The air conditioning seemed to be turned off and it was too hot in the arena...............Again the air conditioning didn't seem to work
What is it with the JW leadership and their seemingly wanton disregard for the comfort of those they expect to sit through all that mind numbing drudgery through heat. Is there something in the contract they sign with these people that stipulates a kick back or discount based upon how much power they'll use. Never have I heard of an assembly where it was too cold, or the sound being even halfway adequate...it's always hot hot hot and snap crackle pop.
At every assembly I've been to, people sitting in cramped seats not meant for use more than a few hours at a time, forced to bring in lunch in coolers and packed together like sardines in a can while whole areas are roped off with a menacing MS standing guard. All the while those in the leadership positions sitting in control boxes, with the AC running keeping them cool as a cucumber and a MS or elder wanna-be whose only function is to run around the arenaserving their every need.
Hell, they're probably even able to, in the bathroom, look in an actual mirror and use more than a few squares of paper to wipe their lard asses with.
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Quotes
On one occassion, as a teen, I went to "the other disctict" convention, one week after my own, with a couple of my friends -- TO LOOK FOR GIRLS, of course! ;)
So there I was, with my friends, and with some "new friends", chatting them up and having the best time I had ever had at a convention (not a hard thing to accomplish).
The session starts, things quiet down, but our little group is still standing and quietly chatting..... and the Attendant comes over and asks... no, make that "instructs" us to either "please have a seat in the main auditorium, or leave".
So.... we glanced at each other, and in a millisecond knew what to do. We said "OK" and then headed for the nearest exit.
The look on the Attendant's face was priceless, I don't think he expected to have his bluff called.
~Quotes, of the "Never did get that girl's number, though" class -
Dismembered
They take those attending jobs to harrass people & it frees them from the torture/bunk coming off the platform.
Dismembered
"Cripes"
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avishai
The air conditioning seemed to be turned off and it was too hot in the arena, we took Liam for a walk on the circle that goes around the arena. We were immediately stopped and told that we shouldn't be walking around during the sessions
because we were worried as he was so overheated, and again were told by an attentant that we should be sitting down listening !
make that "instructs" us to either "please have a seat in the main auditorium, or leave".
I'd love to go back now. Have thes guys tell me what to do. It's so funny these pipsqueaks telling ADULTS what to do!