It sounds like they are phasing out those time wasters. Get to the Kingdumb Hell at 9:00 AM, and get into the territory before 9:15 (and 9:05 would be optimal). Then run from door to door at top speed. Everyone needs to be knocking hard enough to be heard. If one group gets in for a long time, they need to have everyone else doing something else all the while. No more warming up when it is -40 and windy out.
That is also trying to knock out the going in after one hour excuse. Gone will be the days when you will be going in at 11:30 instead of noon. They want people that normally go in at noon to stay out until 12:30 PM, or 2, or 3, 4... Only in the event of a real emergency, of which the number of permissible excuses is dwindling, is a person actually allowed to go in early. It is also not to disrupt others who could stay out longer but might not want to.
I bet this is to be the beginning of the end of people showing up late or straggling. Also, the going to pick someone up and having to waste another half hour will be done away with, as they will expect everyone to get cars (even those who cannot or will not get a license or spend the money on a car that they do not otherwise need). For a while, it will be ignored by many as even the hounders themselves waste a lot of time. Incidents of hounders wasting time are even posted here on this thread. Then the hounder-hounder will put a stop to it, threatening to remove hounders that do not adopt a zero tolerance for stragglers, late time, coffee breaks, warming up and cooling off, and having people sit in the car while it's raining and the other group is at a call. Before long, it will be drudgery non stop.
That is something I would not be looking forward to if I was still in or if I ever get forced and dragged back. Aside the first few months when the promises were still coming out, I could not tolerate going out in field circus non stop for hours at a time without a break. Not that I would be tired. I just wanted to stall. There were calls that made me want to puke just thinking about going to. And now they want me to race toward such events. 