After the one time where I prayed to know the truth and a couple of days later you know who shows up at my door, most of my experiences are anti ones. (Okay, now I know that that was an anti experience too, but at the time it fit the usual WTS drivel about Jah answering prayers...of course, the Mormons came by too, but they were a day late and I was more interested in learning to understand the Bible before I took on a whole new book. Who's answering these prayers by sending cults to your door anyhow? Almost makes a person believe in Satan.)
I had been cleaning houses part time (because that's what JW's do...and, really, where I lived it was the only sort of part time job that paid anything at all) when I got a call from an almost frantic sis from the KH. She and her husband owned a business and their office manager/secretary had taken an unexpected leave of absence (they thought she'd probably never return...or so they told me) and offered me a job. I thought this was Jehober directing good things my way because I was on the track to baptism, so I took the job. Big mistake #1. I got minimal training ...in fact I was just thrown into the position....and found that Sister Boss was pretty much of a self-centered bitch. Very demanding, made snide jokes at my expense and was generally not a nice person at all (how different from how she acted at the KH!).
The gal who'd taken a leave of absence (for medical reasons) came back after about four weeks (which I now found out she'd told them she was going to do!) and after a week of trying her out at a different position, they let me go in order to give her back her old job. What bothered me most was not that she got her old job back (they should have held it open for her like they said they would in the first place), it was that they had no concern for a fellow sister-to-be's life (quit all my cleaning jobs and now had nothing), used me until they didn't need me any more, and then tossed me aside. Their whole focus was on what they thought they needed in the moment, to hell with anybody else.
Big mistake #2: I got a call about a day later from an elder who owned a cleaning business. Being the gullible nitwit that I am, I took the part time receptionist job he offered (another sister who worked for the first set of witnoids had called him telling him of my plight). Again I thought that Jah was watching out for me. I spent the next three years watching this man half-lie, half-cheat, half-work and totally use and stumble many, many people. Working for him was much like being a JW...the deception and lies weren't visible immediately...it was something that you saw over time (and as he let his guard down).
I was naive and stupid for sure, but these people were also pretty much the opposite of what WT propaganda said they should be. What mystifies me is why I was so blind about the organization even after these experiences.
Like LouBell said...seems like an awful lot of JW's are users and takers, worse even than the worldly people they so despise.
