Has this dawned on the rest of you?
It probably has.
But for me I never gave it any thought until this moment.
Actually I hadn't thought about it that way, and it does make a lot of sense that it's definitely an Animal Farm situation where some are more equal than others.
In my twenties and early thirties as an overworked MS, and slaving daily to make ends meet, married and with a kid, whenever assemblies came up we'd use credit cards for hotels, meals, fuel, knowing that it would take us months of catching up to get them paid.
Not only for "District" Conventions, but also for Assemblies which the two hour drive was tough if you were an attendant of worked in the cleaning dept, as a cleaning Captain, which as most MS's find out is a privilege without much privilege.
It was always tough to get weekends when one of the pluses of being a JW worker is that you were willing to work part of the day on weekends and of course holidays. So asking your boss was always quite a discussion.
Then when you came home on Saturday night, totally spent, sometimes stressed out because there was always stress during the whole experience if you volunteered in any way, and thought about getting up early on Monday to go to work it felt like an enormous test of will not to call in sick or dredge through the day half exhausted.
Now my better judgement says take it easy don't volunteer for anything, be nice to everyone around and feel sorry for them. What's more, the venue we go to is only an hour away not two and a half, so it's a pleasant trip in the morning and afternoon if we take the back roads, shorter if we go the highway.
We used to volunteer to make food for lunch at the conventions and assemblies. Now we bring our own or go out. Things have definitely changed and today's Witnesses do have it easier, but it's still not as easy as what the hierarchs experience, not spending a dime and getting all their needs looked after, spending the convention in cushy administration rooms and best comfy hotels in the evening. What a racket!
