An elder worked for me once at the post office. When the vacation schedule circulated for the coming year, he'd pick his weeks. After everybody picked, he'd say, "Oh wait a minute, I've got assembly days I need to add on. The dates were already spoken for, so he'd throw a fit about religious accommodation. The Labor dept. Said we had to give it to him. This gave us too many employees off on the same week and it was hard to cover. He was all smirky because he put one over. He called in quite a bit too and I'd find out there was a weekend assembly. Not to mention how often we'd hear his mail truck was way off his route, parked at his house. I didn't feel he was very honest and many of his coworkers didn't respect him because he played the religious accommodation card and was a crybaby. The way he acted and gave me, as a supervisor, a hard time, made me sure I never wanted to go back. He was lazy, dishonest and manipulative, and he was an elder.
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Not on jw.org - comments regarding bad Jehovah's Witness employees
by jwfacts ini used to be very impressed with convention experiences regarding how worldly employers would hire jws because they were known as the most honest workers.
i was too indoctrinated to realise these were selective experiences, and there are plenty of experiences of jws being dishonest in the workforce.
i have received a couple recently by email.. i have cut quite a bit out of the following email i received so that the person and company cannot be indentified, but you will get the message.. .
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Are Jdubs going to put the elderly out to pasture with JW.org?
by Coffee House Girl init will be interesting to see how things play out...but one example which got me to thinking about this is my mother.
my mom is a 76 year old regular pioneer (she is one of those who believes that you are "nothing" if you are not a pioneer...the position is everything)-.
i am moving in two weeks to go to grad school, so i have been trying to go out to visit...say goodbye...do things for her before i leave.
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Virgochik
My mom's in her late 70's too, and she sighed that she really has little interest in getting a tablet, but she supposes she will have to buckle down and get one pretty soon. She sounded kind of stressed about it. It sounded like she's being pressured. She too is a pioneer.
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Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.
by oppostate ina big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.
don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.
however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .
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Virgochik
When I was a teen, I was telling the car group a story about my beloved cat. The obnoxious elder who was driving turned around and told me, that cat doesn't really love you. In the great tribulation, it would eat your flesh off your bones if it got hungry. I was devastated. Then I thought about it, how I just did not believe that, and I hated that guy from that day on. Unbelievable.
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BORN-INS! What Were The Most Annoying Quotes Your Parents Would Say?
by OneStepOut93 inregarding worldly people, shows or toys?
etc...what quotes annoyed you the most?.
for me it was "well, you have to remember, they're worldly"... "don't trust anyone who isn't in the truth" "they may be nice but they are not friends of jehovah"... just a few to name.
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Virgochik
Which question will you be commenting on today? Underline it so you're ready when the brother calls on you!
It would make your dear old father proud if you raised your hand at the Watchtower study.
You have so little interest in the truth! Weeps into hankie.
We give presents all year.
That skirt isn't modest.
We can't get you those meeting shoes until your father makes sure they won't stumble anyone.
Why don't you cultivate some studies?
Don't you want to pioneer during school vacation and please Jehovah?
If you don't change your rebellious attitude, you'll never get a Christian husband. (I was a tomboy.)
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Resurrection talk at convention
by innerpeace ini didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.
and apparently a video was shown too on it.
we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.
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Virgochik
So that's what's got my mother going. She was at her International convention last week, which she gushed was a lovely, encouraging week. She snapped, if I have any faith AT ALL I would know that we'll see him (my deceased father) again! She came back pretty wound up.
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80 Year old COBE Layoff Conspiracy
by XBEHERE inwho else thinks something is afoot with this?
is the gb deciding to go back to pre-1971 times with perhaps the cobe as the man in charge and the rest just ministerial servants.
so for this reason they want younger men in those postitions?
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Virgochik
I remember only five or six years ago when I tried to buy my mother a laptop and get her online so we could email photos and stay in touch, my dad gave me a stern look and the hairy eye. Man, what a dirty look he gave me for mentioning how I booked vacations online and encouraging mother to learn to surf the web. If I'd chirped I was smoking and hosting swingers parties, I wouldn't have got a filthier glare. Now, they push tablets and JW.org and mother doesn't even remember how frowned opon this used to be. It's just amazing.
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LIVE from Ford Field international DO
by darth frosty injust wanted to show the activity in downtown detroit from the convention.
trafic is on jam!.
lots of people .
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Paco, thanx for your observations. Maybe you could post some more over the weekend? And that's a really cute dog!
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Why the Clean out of top Management
by Poztate init has been commented here that "soon" the do's will be history.
the co level will be "retired" at age 70 and the latest development was that the cobe can not serve after age 80. it would seem that there is a "cull" of top management.
in secular companys that would signal a radical change of directions ???.
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Virgochik
At my company, (Postal Service), they want to shed us older long time employees because we're disgusted and jaded with all the changes, and we're simply not buying it. So we need to go, to make room for younger ones who are relatively enthused and haven't heard it all before. Could it be similar?
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Taking care of aging parents
by skeeter1 ini hear that a recent talk was about taking care of one's aging parents.
i agree.
generally, kids should take care of aging parents.
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Isn't it ironic that we weren't supposed to go to college, but now we're supposed to be able to help our aging parents financially? I was giving my elderly widowed mother money but recently stopped when I learned she was putting it in the contribution box instead of buying food. I'm really losing patience with that.
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my story slowly
by venting ini remember studying the truth book.
the blood issue never sat well with me.
in fact it's my biggest complant.
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My grandmother died because she refused a blood transfusion. I barely remember her because I was only five. Now my mother carries her new blood card showing she might consider fractions. She never questions why her mother had to die. It makes me so angry. She should be angry too but oddly enough, she doesn't get it.