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NEED HELP! Pledge Smart!

Yes. Its easy - report the organization for hazing and you got it.

I'd rather not tho, i care very much about the organization and we will be crossing in the next week or so. my pledge brothers and i assume its part of hell week but if we can think of a solution it will eliminate this part of the process.

Hmm.... well... just because its part of hell week doesn't make it a good thing. I'd really suggest asking why its important for you to text your pledge brothers every hour on the hour. To top it off, I'm sure no matter which organization you're joining, this kind of task carries little purpose/value - think about what you're doing and how that reflects the organization.

Why am I sitting here trying to figure this out?

Shame on me.

Exactly. Have you spoken to your big brother or pledge class about your concerns?

I know it may seem intimidating to approach the chapter with your concerns, but if its something you don't feel good about doing, carries no purpose, costs money and makes you lose sleep, its not a good fit and really should be handled sooner than later. Trust me, I speak from experience on this part: people who experience any level of hazing who disagree with it, but continue to cross have a tendency to forget their dislike for the activity/task and end up enforcing it themselves during the next pledge process. Better to nip it in the butt now.

k_s.. I also tried to figure it out for about 10 seconds before I came up with the solution:

Don't text them.

If they "make" you do it every 30 minutes... don't do it.

If they haze you harder or kick you out over something so incredibly stupid, they were never your brothers to begin with.

The end. Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by utsarunner (Post 1922472)

I have been tasked to text my brothers every hour on the hour the time for example: i must text at 1pm with a text "1"
there is apparently a way to get out of doing it and they told me to think of the solution or id be going to 30 min timestamps. its hard enough sleeping with 1 hour timestamps.

if you can think of any solutions to help me out, please do so.
Thanks.

I am only sharing bc it took me a while to figure out that a lot of pledge "tasks" can either be solved creatively and with minimal effort, or that if you all stick together and refuse, THAT TOO is working together. If you decide to do it:

Is this for one night/day? Have all pledges sleep in same room.

Everyone goes to sleep except for one. Have that one pledge brother hold onto the phones for the first hour. He writes all the texts about 5 min before the the hour is up. One it's about 1 minute before, he hits SEND on each one.

He stays awake until about 15 minutes before the next hour, then he gives it to the next pledge and #1 can go to sleep.

#2 takes the next hour, then wakes up #3 when it's almost time for his shift. #2 then goes to sleep.

And so on. It's called teamwork.

PS I Am not condoning hazing.

If you had an iPhone, there would be an app for that.

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Originally Posted by annabella (Post 1922526)

If you had an iPhone, there would be an app for that.

I LOLed.

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Originally Posted by annabella (Post 1922526)

If you had an iPhone, there would be an app for that.

this simple quote makes me want to go buy an iphone now

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Originally Posted by utsarunner (Post 1922556)

We thought exactly this but the problem is there are 5 of us, 4 of them go to one school and i, by myself, go to another but we still pledge together, are assigned tasks together, and if one of us screws up, we all get punished for it.

i cannot be with them because they are one hour away.
some of the fraternity brothers want texts every 30 min while others want it every hour. we asked them if we were to send from one phone how often would we need to text and its every 5 minutes but one of us has a auto text app so we are considering doing that but i am quite sure thats not the way we are expected to get through this and there is another solution..
i want to bring it up as hazing but i am kinda scared of the consequences of for say being dropped.. i do not want 11 weeks of hard work, blood, sweat, tears and money to go to waste. (Yes, literally blood, sweat and tears)

For crying out loud:

USE THE "SEND LATER" FEATURE ON YOUR CELL PHONE. Type up a bunch of text messages and time them to be sent at whatever frequency you are supposed to send them. You and your pledge brothers have made this so much harder than it needs to be. If you would have done what I suggested in the first place, it would have taken you about 4-5 minutes to get the job done. You basically hazed yourselves.