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 | Friday, Oct 16, 2009, at 08:43 AM We Were Averaging About Three Times Per Year To Clean The Church Original Author(s): jax WARD CLEANING -Guid- | ↑ |
| Before our hasty exit from tssc, we were averaging about three times per year to clean the church. We were assigned a certain time and day of the week to do it on as well. There was an assignment board posted in the foyer and our names would appear about once every four months. This was not a branch either. It was a normal sized ward.
The worst part was the two widows that were routinely assigned the job; albeit with another family but really? Even an elderly widow is not beyond the grasp of the free labor force? Amd yes our Cubs had to do it as well. I drove 45 minutes one way to clean that stupid building, and then I had to drive my little boy back so he could spend his Scout time cleaning it too? If I could go back in time and give my own self a message it would be: /headsmack But the worst thing, ever, happened years ago in a branch we belonged to. We were very young and dh switched jobs, we had two small kids and the pay cycle for the new job meant that we wouldn't get a paycheck for a month. Young as we were, we failed to notice this little wrinkle in our plans and had to get a food order, a single, solitary food order to make it that month. Several months later we were summoned into a meeting with three other families and a member of the Branch Presidency. We all looked at each other wondering what we were doing there. Well, we were informed that since we had received help, it was now up to us to clean the building on rotating weeks. So the others in the room now knew we had gone to the church for help, as we now knew they had done. I felt beyond humiliated and degraded. I can't even say how low that made me feel. So we did it, like the good little followers we were. And my little children helped. We did it about once every three or four weeks for months and months. I can't even remember how long we did it. It wasn't real hard for the rest of the ward to figure out why we were doing it either. That little bit of groceries cost me more than any other in my entire life. What's worse? I actually beat myself up for the hard feelings I had from that. I felt so unworthy and ungrateful for having hard feelings over that. |
| | Friday, Oct 16, 2009, at 08:47 AM Ward Cleaning - When This Program Was First Announced, I Could Barely Believe The Audacity Original Author(s): Sophocles WARD CLEANING -Guid- | ↑ |
| The church has long taken advantage of the members' willingness to provide free labor, calling people to "service missions" as gardeners, cafeteria workers, and custodians for church owned buildings: all things they should be paying employees to do. I wonder how long the idea of firing all the ward meetinghouse custodians and asking the members to clean up after themselves was batted around before the GAs were finally able to convince themselves that the members wouldn't rise up and revolt. I'll bet half of them are still amazed that the members went for it, and the other half are wishing they had done this 20 years ago.
The whole program disgusts me whenever I think about it. |