Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: May 27, 2013 01:23PM
A Mormon I know has a devout father. This guy is a convert of many decades. I've met him a couple of times. Real go getter, abrasive type A male patriarchal dude.
Well, last year this man lost his job because he got too old. It will probably happen to me. I think it totally sucks but whatever.
So this man (the father) was making a lot of money and went down to zero income. He sold his house and has been living on his retirement so his income has been drastically reduced. But he has networked with his Mormon buddies all these years. They found him a new job.
He is over a bunch of facilities (read churches.) If anyone knows where I live they probably can figure who this guy is but I hope I'm not too obvious. It is just hearsay from their child anyway. But I digress. So this man's job is to make sure the LDS churches are in proper shape - inside and out. He has to do inspections and such. Well this man is doing this job well from what I can tell in the one building I've been in and his predecessor sucked at it.
It isn't a hard job from what I hear. You have to check on the buildings making sure the yard work is being done and the inside is supplied as well as training others in the care of these buildings.
So the info I got from the child was that the old man's predecessor basically collected a check and checked out the buildings like once a year if that. He (the predecessor) was better connected than the guy who has the job right now and this predecessor apparently had this job for many years. I can attest to the neglect this guy (and it is always as man) perpetrated as this time period fell within the time I was up at the building more.
I don't know what happened to the other guy. But apparently it took this new guy the better part of this year to get things back into order.
My understanding is this position is filled by retired well-connected men as a source of income. And it seems like not that bad of a job if you actually do it. I could be wrong. It could such but I doubt it ever is even a 40hr/week gig but I could be wrong.