From: erichill@microsoft.com (Eric Hill)
Subject: scn compensation
Date: 09 Oct 92 07:53:32 GMT
Organization: MICROSOFT MFG, 



In article <1992Oct7.044705.117@lds-az.loral.com> you write:
>In article <1992Oct06.080529.16536@microsoft.com> erichill@microsoft.com (Eric Hill) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct2.080802.4209@lds-az.loral.com> jerry@lds-az.loral.com (J Barbera) writes:
>>>To add to a statement made by John regarding the $27 per week allowance for
>>>Sea Org members:
>>>
>>>First of all, the weekly allowance varies depending on training level up to
>>>$30 (the average for most) with something like $22.50 for new members still
>>>receiving basic training (and spending 5 hrs. per day in the course room).
>>>
>>>Next, it should be noted that SO members receive clothes, food, and 
>>>berthing (place to sleep) ... all of which adds up when an average SO org
>>>such as AOLA has around two hundred staff.  In addition to buildings,
>>>office supplies, and so forth.
>>>
>>
>>So, the S.O. pays poverty wages and so the vast majority of recruits
>>are of low education and thereby easier to indoctrinate.
>>You get what you pay for and the S.O. is full of poorly educated
>>heavily indoctrinated individuals.  One's first duties in the 
>>S.O.  is 5 hours a day of basics, including how to read if needed.
>>Not exactly professional management staff.
>      
>"vast majority"?  That's quite a generalization.  And as an ex-SO member,
>I take some offense at such a remark.  SO members are not generally of
>"low education".  "full of poorly educated..." is simply not accurate.
>Receiving $30 per week has no reflection on the education of the average
>SO member.  Keep in mind that Scientology is a religion and that the Sea Org
>consists of dedicated Scientologists.  They aren't there to make a profit.
>
>(So, how much do those Catholic monks make?  Probably reflects their
>educational level, aye?)


I too am ex-s.o.  The compensation for the work is extream poverty.
I was as Pac Base (Hollywood) for three years, most of which
was in treasury.  My org was SMI Int (Scientology Missions Int).
The majority of "service organizations" are below the "make break
point" - they are non viable businesses.  That is what the
saint hill award is all about - becoming viable finacialy and
productively.

As pay is derived from a formula  for dividing up the weekly
income, and the majority of "missions" and "churches" are financialy
nonviable, the average pay in all of scientology is disgtustingly
low.  The one area that I do not know first hand is the RTC 
(Top international management) but it would skew the curve.  Just
go to any scn event and watch for the perks that int management
and rtc have.

In the time I was in the SO, The average age of new recruits
was around 20.  Most of the  "professional" training that the 
SO recieve is the 
overly simplistic, rote learning continualy laced with the 
opinions of the old man.  Not exactly collage level learning to
think.  Not exactly well trained professionals or the top in their
fields.

Parts of scn are definately for profit.  Wise (the 1950s style
business tech with real ethics removed and strangulation by
statistic put in), Bridge Publishing (home of the sell is again, and
again self delusion book), Author Services Inc (where junk is sold
at colectors prices), and New Era Publications (the European 
version of Bridge pubs), Narconon (lets get all the cash from
the drugies, alcoholics, and american indians), there must be more
examples....

The catholic monks do not run the catholic church but if
you have the data to cover your assertion please post it for
referance.

Two of my aunts are roman catholic nuns and they go to real
collages and get real degrees in the fields they need to know.

Eric (aka grumpy)
:wq



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