I was part of the Towers remodeling crew and we had a saying. "If there is a harder way to do the job, we'll find it."
On being sick at Bethel...."If you don't work, you don't eat". That's what the Home Servant told us. So during a major Flu epidemic in the mid-seventies, I can clearly remember the Bethel nurse ordering many of us to the kitchen to do food prep. Too sick to do our regular job, but at least we could prep food? ...Uh??!!
You would think they knew about how sickness is spread, no? Or did the Bethel doctors miss that class in school?
Outlaw's slavery pictures? - We wish we had it that good. Physical abuse is nothing compared to the emotional and 'humiliating' figurative beating you recieved daily from incompetent, self-righteous overseers.
Back to the Towers...We were tearing apart walls, creating severe dust situations. Seldom were we given proper gear for protection. "Masks? You want more masks? What's wrong with the one's we gave you last week? Can't you just...shake it out and reuse it?" (actual quote)
But this is the type of mentality Bethel loves. After firmly rebuking my 'overseer' while at WT Farms. (If I had killed him, the police would have called it 'justifiable homicide') I was re-assigned to a new, more humbling job. Detail cleanning of the hog house. The work wasn't EVEN needed, just a busy job. After two weeks, I was thinking of leaving Jehovah's Hog House of God. But a friend in the Bethel office told me I was being tested or punished (depends how you look at things) for my 'insolence'. I was doing well, and soon would be rewarded for my good-uncomplaining-attiude. I stayed and did get a better job AND more importantly, an arm around my shoulder by the farm overseer, Bob Lang, saying how proud he was of how I handled the situation. They would not forget this.***
*** For more information on how Bethel humbles you see Ray Franz COC on how Ed Dunlap was treated (punished) for complaining (mentioning) how he was sick.
