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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  FEDUP JW:

  I can see how the first batch of bethelites who were let-go some years back were taken by surprise.

  But, I imagine this should have served as a warning to every other bethelite still there of all ages.. I forget how many layoffs bethel has had so far.

  It should also have been noted how these dismissals were done:.. a letter slipped under the door initially; was there any severance pay?🤣 I don’t think so; was there money for a train or bus? Not sure but I doubt it unless someone knows better... I even saw a You Tube of some young brother who was dismissed and who got a bill for the last lunch he had in the cafeteria! You can’t make this stuff up.

  Anybody still there should have had a list of numbers and people to contact and also stashed away money for a cab/commutation ticket when the fateful day came so they at least walk out dignified instead of feeling sucker punched.

  Of course, this does not solve the other big problems about making a living, etc.

  How this all drastically differs from the ‘worldly’ secular job that I was used to where people get severance pay and other things!
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  BETH SARIM:

  Yes, that’s it, Dan & Angela!

  In your post above that you are correct that the ‘Borg’ has created the present bad situation with the older bethelites that they have let go! First, they enticed them in when young (make it their career there), then they kick them out because Armageddon has not come and (surprise) these bethelites have gotten old!

  It is the religion who is responsible for these people - not anybody else. They housed them and employed them. Never mind what anybody says. And it makes me angry that more ex-bethelites don’t do anything about it and suffer in silence. I certainly would not be suffering in silence!

  If all the ex-bethelites are worried about is what the ‘friends’ in the congregation think about them - it’s hopeless.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  VIDIOT:

  “Controlled Demolition” might very well be what is happening there. The end goal being them being totally online - eventually. Meanwhile, they still need people there for the time being. But, they are being very callous in their letting the older ones go!

  I am in agreement with the YouTuber “Life After Religion” who feels this is the direction the JW religion is going.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  THOMAS MORE:

  Thanks. Even though you did not mean it, they most certainly DO and will expect handouts from the rank & file…Maybe brothers feel more pity for these kicked out bethelites (as you have described you have tried to ‘soften the landing’ of those let go).

  You certainly did not have MY experience in the Witness religion - and maybe not sympathetic to what I went through as a working person.

  From how I have described myself (treated like garbage in the congregation, and whose life would have been absolutely ruined if I had listened to the JW religion).. Do you really think that I would throw money at these people - many of whom scorned me for working??? You’ve got to be kidding.

  I will bet that many JWs don’t care what I went through and just want somebody ELSE to also contribute… Again, this is another reason why I am Glad to not be in the religion anymore.. You would be hit up for money every step of the way, like an ATM machine.

  Also, this is not 30 years ago in the congregations where you would get somebody a bag of groceries until they ‘got on their feet’. NO, with few exceptions these people are NOT getting on their feet again and will be literally expecting handouts until they die. That IS what is going on here!!!

  Again, I would not presume to tell other people what they should do. I just know what I will not do.
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  The Watchtower's Depiction of 'paradise'..

  by Ron.W. in

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  perhaps we could post the pictures the wt have presented in their literature that depict their version of paradise here for comment/discussion:.

  from: spirits of the dead​—can they help you or harm you?

  do they really exist?.

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  BIAHI:

  Thanks. You develop a thick skin when you are on a public forum because there are all types and some will not like what someone says.

  Doesn’t mean it’s wrong or untrue. They just don’t like it or can’t accept it.
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  The Watchtower's Depiction of 'paradise'..

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
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  perhaps we could post the pictures the wt have presented in their literature that depict their version of paradise here for comment/discussion:.

  from: spirits of the dead​—can they help you or harm you?

  do they really exist?.

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  JOURNEYMAN:

  You described something that was my pet peeve when I was in the JWs.

  They would look at a drawing in one of the books and say: “As the picture shows…”. JWs acted as if they had cameras and camcorders in the First century! You are also right that some Witnesses acted like what the religion portrayed was ‘real’.. Unless somebody went back in a Time Machine it is most certainly Not real but a product of their art department.

  The fact that we both have the same impression of this shows this feeling is pervasive in the religion. People there have to be seriously messed up to let themselves become so gullible.. No wonder there is so much mental illness there.

  I always felt there was an element of ‘playing pretend’ like as though the religion is a little village in ancient Israel - instead of the modern day high control group that it really is.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  BETH SARIM:

  You’ve got that right about cash-strapped families.

  They are in no position to have an older person dumped on them who has poor prospects for bringing in any money! Let’s face it: unless the person has connections they aren’t getting a job tomorrow. This is so awful.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  LongHairGal

  I just saw what seems to be a related thread on Reddit. The title: ‘What Happens to the Old Timers at Bethel’.

  So, I just thought I would mention it here instead of starting another thread because it’s so similar to this topic.

  The OP just clarifies to me that far too many Witnesses have heard urban legends and rumors that circulate in the religion..We all did.. In this case it’s somebody who was told that there is a ‘home’ to take care of old Witnesses and they were led to believe it’s free.. (If there is a residence to take care of anybody it might be old GB members.) Any other such ‘home’ you would have to pay for.

  The bottom line is that nobody should expect ANYMORE to be a ‘lifer’ at bethel reaching a ripe old age...This went out the window!.. Any young person who goes there now had better know their time there will be limited.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  LongHairGal

  3rdGEN:

  I had read somewhere that a couple let-go from bethel some years back had a case and received compensation.

  As the story went: it was a couple who were enticed to bethel because they had a ‘needed skill’. They were led to believe they would be there for life. Anyway, maybe after ten years they were let-go in a downsizing.. Well, apparently they did something about it.

  I would also think this couple wasn’t interested in how they were viewed by the religion or anybody else.
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  Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

  sad because these people expected to be lifers.

  now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

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  THOMAS MORE:

  I am glad for you and others who left bethel on your own. You are lucky, along with those who never went there in the first place.

  You say about some who were let-go that ‘they are hopeful the rank n file will carry them’,👎 Well, I take offense to this commonly held mistaken attitude.. My answer would be NO to anybody who came up to me with an envelope asking for money.

  This is one reason I’m Glad I’m Out of this religion…The very idiots who hated me for working - would hate me for not giving money.

  I was criticized/shunned for having a full time job back then. I would not be retired if I had listened to the religion and did the ‘approved’ housecleaning and pioneering.. So they don’t GET to come up to me asking for $$. Nope. It doesn’t work that way.. By the way, I make it a point to tell this to any older Witnesses I run into who knew me back when I was working and viewed negatively in the congregation!

  It is the religion who owes these ex-bethelites. That’s who they were working for!