Yelling & Screaming

[Thought Provoking]

Yes, as I recall, you were capable of presenting an intimidating presence when required.

One of the memories I have of Pat Bloomberg (when she was Captain of AOSHANZO) is of being witness to her giving a huge serve to one of her Juniors. It was the first time I'd seen her do this and it was impressive as to volume and intention!

As the chastened Staff Member cringed and stared at the floor, Pat looked at me over her victim's shoulder and winked. What she communicated with that wink was, "I'm just creating this, I'm not actually upset at her at all, this is how you use wrath."

At the time, that communication sufficed for me.

Actually had been the receipt point of a similar dress down in front of the whole staff by the ED and honestly, you could feel that it was "at cause" and I had to really work at not breaking into a big grin. The CS happened to cross flow my suppressing a grin, said, "You went uptone on that." I smiled back, yeah, she got it. Anger, used appropriately can be a right indication.

When the comm cycle turns into case dramatization people go down tone. I have had that before as well (many times).

The first was not enturbulating, the second was and eventually I left because of it.

My last day on post I had already decided to leave at the end of the day. It was the typical drama scream fest throughout the morning. My senior left the org with production demands (a contracted staff member...even though I was psoted in Div 6) and true gruesome threats, also a common occurrance. She called fifteen minutes later screaming at me because I hadn't gotten a "done" yet, screaming that she would call back in ten minutes and I'd better have it done...or else...threats and swearing. As I literally held the phone at arms length I decided...fuck the end of the day...I'm done, no more Q and A...I'm leaving NOW...and I walked away. Ten minutes later when my phone started ringing, I just shut it off and left it off. Two days later, I changed the number.

[Ogsonofgroo]

Actually had been the receipt point of a similar dress down in front of the whole staff by the ED and honestly, you could feel that it was "at cause" and I had to really work at not breaking into a big grin. The CS happened to cross flow my suppressing a grin, said, "You went uptone on that." I smiled back, yeah, she got it. Anger, used appropriately can be a right indication.

When the comm cycle turns into case dramatization people go down tone. I have had that before as well (many times).

The first was not enturbulating, the second was and eventually I left because of it.

My last day on post I had already decided to leave at the end of the day. It was the typical drama scream fest throughout the morning. My senior left the org with production demands (a contracted staff member...even though I was psoted in Div 6) and true gruesome threats, also a common occurrance. She called fifteen minutes later screaming at me because I hadn't gotten a "done" yet, screaming that she would call back in ten minutes and I'd better have it done...or else...threats and swearing. As I literally held the phone at arms length I decided...fuck the end of the day...I'm done, no more Q and A...I'm leaving NOW...and I walked away. Ten minutes later when my phone started ringing, I just shut it off and left it off. Two days later, I changed the number.

A familiar sounding story I am sure resonates with many here, I hope that life is treating you well now that you are free (at least hoping so), stop by more often eh!



(its nice to see people returning to check things out around here and yak/story some, even nicer to have some updates on folks progress )

[Mest Lover]

Hey, I just wanted to give everyone an update about me. When I wrote this post I was still on staff. I was on staff for another few months after writing this post before I just stopped going in. I have been free for several months now and things are going great! I'm making the most of life, I have a 2d that has no clue about my involvement in Scientology, I'm contemplating starting a business or going back to school, things really are great now. I just wish I could get those years of my life back. Well it was a learning experience regardless of the torture of it all. It has actually been really easy for me to leave and they mostly have left me alone, not a single tour to visit me or try to recover me. I get calls and emails from recruiters but they have no clue what's up. I am not declared and I still have some friends that I see weekly that are on staff still. I am still in good standings or at least neutral, no one is attacking me... yet. Besides the BS that I hear about through the grapevine about what so and so said about me to someone else, mostly all has been peachy. I have all these materials but no desire to read them. I have been selling my extra materials on eBay, but as it turns out they are not in high demand and sell for pennies on the dollar of what they cost me. Anyways, things are peachy now that Scientology is behind me. I have not turned to any other religion, I think Christianity is ridiculous, and I have been reading some books on Buddhism which are interesting, but overall I'm kinda over religions for now. I'm enjoying my free time, getting back into old hobbies that I didn't have time for when I was on staff. My general tone has improved from about .5-1.5 ish when I was on staff to now I am 2.5-3.5 most of the time which is nice. I miss some of the people, but the loss of some relationships is minor considering that now I have time to repair the relationships that I had put on the back burner when I joined staff. My friends have been really great, forgiving me for blowing them off for a few years. Things are good and looking up.

Give a Scientologist a back to stab and they will be asking: "Where can I find a big knife?"

If Scientology was really worth what Scientology touts it to be, then there would be no devaluation of the materials no matter what source they are being sold to or from.

Goes to show exactly what SCN is really worth anywhere else than a reg cycle or an event.

[Reasonable]

"What Would Ron Do?"

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