Posts by Alleymom

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Anyone heard from MERRY MAGDALENE?

by freedomlover in

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friends

hey everyone, .

just wondering if anyone knows how merry is doing with her mom.

i have sent a few emails and haven't heard back from her.

Alleymom

Freedomlover ---

Please tell her we are thinking of her!

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Blondie and Leo ---

I'm ready to log off for the evening, but I wanted to say "thank you" again for all your help tonight.

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Some, by overlooking the turning in of their reports, are now counted as irregular publishers,

So what happens to an "irregular publisher"?

I keep reading about how people here manage to fade away quietly, and I wonder how that is possible, when such close tabs are being kept on everyone.

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

I googled "Jehovah" and "field service report" and found the following article in the MBA Jungle magazine. It's interesting to see how the writer admires the JW's record keeping.

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MBA Jungle magazine, March 15, 2004

"Business Lessons from Jehovah's Witnesses: God's Sales Team "

By Dan McGinn

Their product: salvation. Their mission: conversion. Why Jehovah's Witnesses are the world's scrappiest, most dedicated sales force -- and what you can learn from them.

[ …]

LESSON ONE
PLAN YOUR ATTACK--AND LEAVE A PAPER TRAIL

If you’ve ever observed Witnesses wandering from block to block, you’d think they’re no more organized than a Girl Scouts troop pushing Thin Mints. You’d be wrong. As Collier and his wife Susan begin an afternoon’s work, they consult a laminated map showing Territory No. 39--three blocks of well-maintained homes in this Boston neighborhood. The map shows that this area was visited by Jehovah’s Witnesses the previous December, May, and August (the group tries to cover most neighborhoods four times a year). The Witnesses have proprietary maps like this for just about every neighborhood in the country. Their records contain details that census takers wouldn’t dream of noting and that marketers wouldn’t know how to compile unless they wore out lots of shoe leather themselves. The Witnesses track homes where residents work the late shift, so the pioneers don’t wake them up by visiting too early. On their maps, they mark the homes where residents seemed receptive during previous visits, as well as those where people reacted so negatively that the Witnesses should avoid calling on them in the future. Although the federal government only recently instituted a Do Not Call registry, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have kept one of their own for years.

As the Colliers progress down the block, they fill in a "House-to-House Record" card, noting the gender, age, and name of everyone who answers the door. The goal is to turn today’s "cold call" into tomorrow’s "warm call": "Hi, Jason, we spoke a few months ago about the Bible and your search for a new job. Has God helped you with that?"

Back at Kingdom Hall, the Witnesses’ house of worship, each pioneer fills out monthly field service reports, detailing how many brochures they distributed, how many hours they spent visiting homes, and how many repeat visits they made to people who seemed interested.

Good record-keeping is central to the Jehovah’s Witnesses goals--and it’s how the group charts its progress. At the group’s world headquarters in Brooklyn, statisticians can tell you its U.S. members spent exactly 184,842,031 hours preaching in 2002, and that they conducted 463,249 Bible studies. As a supervisor, Collier uses the documents the same way a retail manager uses a daily sales report. "I might notice that [one pioneer] is putting out a lot of literature, but making very few return visits," Collier says. "That signals to me that they need some help learning how to go back and cultivate the interest they’ve created."

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Thanks, Leo. I will make a copy of those scans.

An Orthodox Jewish acquaintance in the thread is wondering why on earth the JW's come into her neigborhood in the first place, when everyone has a mezzuzah on the door, showing that these are Jewish households.

http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=21&tid=155367&webtag=ws-religion

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

It makes me feel sad reading about this .

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Blondie ---

Thanks for the details on the field service report. There is a disabled JW woman who has just started posting on a Compuserve forum I've belonged to for years. You mentioned 15-minute publishers, and I wonder if she is perhaps one of these. I assume she is counting her time on the board.

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Thanks, Blondie! That's a terrific quote.

Do you have anything on the actual procedure of keeping hours and turning in a timesheet?
Is this done monthly?

Is it broken down according to the type of witnessing?

I'd be interested in seeing a scan of a timesheet if anyone has one.

Marjorie

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Question about monthly hours, timesheets, etc.

by Alleymom in

can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc?

a friend has some questions, and since i was never a jw myself i am a little hazy on the actual procedure.

i figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, i would appreciate it.. does anyone have a scan of a timesheet?

Alleymom

Hi --

Can anyone think offhand if there has been a thread about keeping hours, the timesheet, etc? A friend has some questions, and since I was never a JW myself I am a little hazy on the actual procedure. I figured this has probably been discussed many times before, so if anyone has a link to a previous thread, I would appreciate it.

Does anyone have a scan of a timesheet? How often is it turned in?
What happens if you don't turn one in, of if your hours start to drop?

Is it correct to say that it is a "requirement" for JW's to go out in service? Can you be a member in good standing if you don't go at all? You can count hours in other ways, right?

Thanks,
Marjorie

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Operation Tomorrow

by Sunspot in

jw
friends

just to let you all know why i won't be able to post for some time...i am finally getting in to the hospital for a much-needed operation that kept being postponed.

i have been back and forth to three different hospitals and various doctor's offices for tests, x-rays, consults and then more pre-op tests and x-rays.

(i have never heard of "nuclear testing before now...i wondered if they were going to send me to nasa!

Alleymom

Annie --

Praying that all will go well tomorrow!

I'm going to add a link to this thread onto tonight's Vigil thread.

Love and blessings,
Marjorie