My departure story in words & pictures

[Emma]

A while ago I scanned what correspondance I kept from my Org as a record in case they ever decided to enter my home & take any of my stuff (it's been done before). I was going to put these things up on the web somewhere but never got around to it or never quite had the guts (or both).

Now I've decided to post these things in a thread about my journey out as an example of what this "church" does to anyone who doesn't toe their line.

Background
I won't get into how I entered Scn in this thread except to say that I was quite a mess. Scientology kind of solved a bunch of problems for me and this is why some people find it so hard to give up. I used to go as far as saying that Scientology saved my life. Maybe it did. I was headed down a dark path that Scientology put a stop to. Well, actually *I* put a stop to it but used Scientology to help me. This is a hook that Scientology will use on people like me as much as possible. "Scientology saved your life so you owe us big time"...that sort of thing.

All I wanted to do was audit once I'd had my first session. It took a while before I actually joined staff, but once I did it was with the goal to become the best auditor in the world.

After a few years of musical chairs (I ended up being a posted as a Supervisor), post swaps, replacement finds and heated arguments I was finally back in the TTC doing what I wanted to do...training to be an auditor.

I excelled in the TTC. I was the first to pass the GAT Metering Course in Melbourne (although I had to go to Sydney at my own expense to do it), I was the first in Melbourne to complete the GAT 0 - IV courses, these were C/Sed long distance to AOSH ANZO as we didn't have a GAT Snr C/S in Melbourne. I was creating the GAT in Melbourne. I was their star. I was celebrated and held in high status.

I've attached some of my certs to prove I really did do those courses. I'm missing a lot of them. I never got a Pro TRs cert or HRD Auditor cert or a few others.



to be continued...

[programmer_guy]

That's interesting.

For me... I threw my certs in the trash many years ago.

Now I wish that I had kept them just for the signatures (people's names) and the dates. Oh well... this is just water under the bridge for me now.

[Emma]

When I finished by Class IV course I was posted as an intern in the HCG. I was the first GAT auditor posted in Melbourne. Here is a commendation that is very hard to read. It was a bad carbon copy to begin with and scanning hasn't helped any, but it basically says that I'm the first GAT auditor in Melbourne.



There were lots of commendations along the way, most of them I didn't keep but I did manage to salvage a few.



There was also an instant read exam that came to all the Orgs at one stage. Bea might remember it. It was a video and you had to call the reads as instant, prior or latent.

I got 98% on my exam and was sent to cramming to correct my mistake. I argued with Qual for hours how I thought it was wrong. I got a bad reputation for ser fac'ing over it. I almost copped an ethics trip because I dared to question the meter Gods. Eventually I caved in and did the cram. Then this arrived in the mail:



Was there an apology? NOOOO. You were just expected to cop the invalidation and forget about it. It's no big deal but it REALLY pissed me off!

To be continued...

[Jimmy Cricket]

To be continued...

(No emoticon for a half ack, so...) Please continue.

[jodie]

Thanks for telling your story! More, please.

Luv,

- jodie

[Emma]

I will finish this story. Just not right now.

[programmer_guy]

Hi, Emma

How about some pics of the buildings and locations from when you were a Scientologist? Just a suggestion.

[Kathy (ImOut)]

Was there an apology? NOOOO. You were just expected to cop the invalidation and forget about it. It's no big deal but it REALLY pissed me off!
To be continued...

I never got an apology from anyone in the Church, no matter how badly someone had messed up. Doesn't the "no apology" come from the auditors code? Well, that shouldn't also include a bad Tech Estimate or a misduplication of a person's comm.

[Tanstaafl]

I never got an apology from anyone in the Church, no matter how badly someone had messed up. Doesn't the "no apology" come from the auditors code? Well, that shouldn't also include a bad Tech Estimate or a misduplication of a person's comm.

If anyone ever gets an apology from a CoS terminal for God's sake make sure I'm sitting down before you post about it.

I had an ethics sit' that caused me a huge amount of dev-t and hassle. It all came from a (wholly) false report from a Flag MAA. At least it taught me the importance of applying "if it isn't written..."

[Dulloldfart]

I never got an apology from anyone in the Church, no matter how badly someone had messed up. Doesn't the "no apology" come from the auditors code?

No. It says don't justify mistakes; it doesn't say don't apologize.

Paul