Did Anyone Have Fun With Their Field Service Reports?

by NotFormer 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gorb

  I turned the last report in 2008 in with the text "This is my last report". No reaction at al!

  Gorby
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  MeanMrMustard

  I often wondered what would happen if you started turning in reports for other people. You know, just make stuff up. Like turn in a real detailed report for one of the elders, but do it before the end of the month so that the secretary would get the fake report first. Then when the real one came in, it would look sparse and pitiful compared to the real detailed one.

  Or report "eleventy seven" for someone not even in the congregation.
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  stan livedeath

  i know some jw mothers who filled in a report for their kids who had no interest or involvement at all. Nisan kids--just turned up once a year.
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  Ding

  Now, we all know that JWs eagerly desire to serve Jehovah by going door to door their whole lives.

  That's one of the key things that distinguishes them from the do nothings of Christendom.
  

  At least that's what my study conductor told me.

  I actually believed him.
  
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  NotFormer

  Would someone have words with you if you turned in a report with something written down the bottom like "I'm claiming 123 XYZ Street for after Armageddon"?
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  NotFormer

  "Now, we all know that JWs eagerly desire to serve Jehovah by going door to door their whole lives.

  "That's one of the key things that distinguishes them from the do nothings of Christendom."

  And yet they dropped their dogma of a hundred years like a hot potato when the Covid mandates went out. I was genuinely shocked when I found that out, probably on here. That the GB had so quickly dropped such a mainstay of the JWism. And I gave the first JWs back in field service both barrels over it. Saying something like*: "Your cowardly governing body folded like a seven high hand of poker in the face of a government mandate", also pointing out that the JWs had fearlessly resisted government mandates before.

  * Something like that; I've only been using the poker hand analogy since after this encounter, but it does capture the spirit of what I said.
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  Anony Mous

  Nobody ever asked me questions about it, so yes, at some points, I just said whatever they wanted me to write. I felt bad towards the end of my pioneering, so at some points, service was just sitting by myself in a parking lot staring wondering why I was doing this, it was okay when you had a good group with a pretty girl in the morning, or the old guy that paid for a 1h sit-down breakfast and put down a tract for the server to count it as service, but nobody wanted more than 2 hours in the weekend or less than that during the week, when you have to weave in 40-50 hours and a full time job and ‘actually go’ by yourself because nobody ‘wants’ to do 6-8 hours on Saturday and then Sunday you have the meeting ‘interrupting’. That’s when I realized, nobody cares, so I just reported whatever, tracked the last few months and varied the averages and adjusted up and down by a few, took out magazines just to dump them in the garbage.

  Eventually, after I left, I found a different use for my briefcase, it was a nice leather hardcase attaché that cost me a bit over $100 back then. It is still great for fitting and discreetly transporting certain toys, and the first aid kit…
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  Ugot2bekiddingme1

  I never went out but sure turned in time.
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  greenhornet

  Eventually, after I left, I found a different use for my briefcase, it was a nice leather hardcase attaché that cost me a bit over $100 back then. It is still great for fitting and discreetly transporting certain toys, and the first aid kit…

  Yep I got one also, for the sbr