From: erichill@microsoft.com (Eric Hill)
Subject: Re: scn compensation
Date: 14 Oct 92 07:37:45 GMT
Organization: MICROSOFT MFG, 


 am ex-s.o.  The compensation for the work is extreme poverty.

e>I was as Pac Base (Hollywood) for three years, most of which

e>was in treasury.  My org was SMI Int. (Scientology Missions Int.).

e>The majority of "service organizations" are below the "make break

e>point" - they are non viable businesses.  That is what the

e>saint hill award is all about - becoming viable financially and

e> productively.



j "Extreme poverty"?  Actually, I know some people in mid to extreme poverty

j and they would be quite happy with luxuries which SO members enjoy.  Food,

j clothes, and shelter ... if not enough, is even added to with $30 a week and

j an occasional bonus!



Food, clothing, shelter and $30.00/week?  Sounds more appropriate to refugees

of a natural disaster than hard working professionals or well rounded people

involved with the society they live in.  Most of my reasons for my leaving 

the s.o. were the pocket money pay, and the slave hours enforced with

punishment for area production not necessarily under one's control.



I have not been to a scn event in 2 years, how many orgs are there and

how many are "old saint hill sized"?



go to the orgs or the staff, it goes to the top and RTC

ensures the missions and orgs stay around through the "ethics" based

coercion of staff, the save the world promises, and paramilitary organization

format.  These are major rea financially

e>nonviable, the average pay in all of scientology is disgustingly

e>low.  The one area that I do not know first hand is the RTC

e>(Top international management) but it would skew the curve.  Just

e>go to any scn event and watch for the perks that int. management

e>and rtc have.



j Although non-SO staff get variable pay, the point of this was the Sea Org.

j They make (after Product 1), $30 a week.  RTC and other INT. orgs should not

j be an exception.  What perks have you seen?  Only perk I've seen was the

j ceremonial dress uniform.  I have no problem with that, do you?



(1)"Int." staff control all the large accounts such as the scn missions int. account 

in Luxembourg.  (2)They are the ones who decide what buildings to put up and

they would not be human if theirs were not the first handled.  Watch any

int. event for the vehicles, and building interiors.  They are set up as the

ruling class that they are in fact.  (3) The commodores messenger org exists

as political officers watching lower orgs and as personal servants to int. staff.

These personal servantn of s.o. members in a special scn school

and daycare which allows the parents to stay on post longer each day.)



e>In the time I was in the SO, The average age of new recruits

e>was around 20.  Most of the  "professional" training that the

e>SO receive is the

e>overly simplistic, rote learning continually laced with the

e>opinions of the old man.  Not exactly collage level learning to

e>think.  Not exactly well trained professionals or the top in their

e>fields.



j The training is appropriate for the various posts people have in addition

j to executive training such as the OEC/FEBC training.  It's not like

j college stuff, yet it isn't suppose to be.  However, your original statement

j was that the average SO membetending an accredited collage.



e>Parts of scn are definitely for profit.  Wise (the 1950s style

e>business tech with real ethics removed and strangulation by

e>statistic put in), Bridge Publishing (home of the sell is again, and

e>again self delusion book), Author Services Inc. (where junk is sold

e>at collectors prices), and New Era Publications (the Europeat. runs fcb which consists of smi (missions), flag bureaux

(churches), wise (management svcs), osa (office of special affairs / legal)

able (schools and social programs incl. narconon), and both bridge pub 

and neation for the church.



Lets just get real, rtc sucks cash from all of these and the staff either

does what they are told or are declared to be suppressive (the

cos equivalent of being excommunicated or damned).

erichill
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