I had been on the SHSBC at ASHO for quite some time....(several years....) and had been doing some student auditing.....( over a thousand hours....). I had a regular Student PC.....I had been auditing.
One day, I was over at CC.....( I use to like to stop in and have a coffee there, at the cafe...) and one of the CC regs comes up to me, and starts talking to me about "if I liked my Student PC on the BC.....and if I might have a 2D with her....." She did this with an awful coy look on her face....
It shocked me.
First....just the fact that a Reg at CC would know who I was auditing at ASHO.....that indicated to me a HUGE underground rumor/ gossip mill.......in the SO around Los Angeles....
Second.....she was proposing I do what I would have considered a break in the Auditor's Code....
Third.....she was proposing I break some Parishnor / Minister relationship.....
And on ......I was flabbergasted....
That is a weird story! Did you write it up? If that had happened to me, back then, I would have written it up because someone was suggesting to you to break the auditor's code. That was a high crime, not something to let slide by. I'm trying to think who the reg might have been because Hector was the chief registrar for most of the years when they had the coffee bar but there was usually a back up reg on duty as well.
My weird story concerned the washer/dryer machine machines. I had taken over as the head of CC treasury when the Treasury Sec said he was taking a 6 month leave. He grooved me in and left. I took over his desk and after a couple of days found a strange looking key in the desk. I wondered what it was for and tried to figure it out. My space was located in CCLA's staff house on 9th and Lake St. in L.A., in the basement. After about 2 days on the job, some staff member came down to the basement and used the coin operated washer/dryer. In fact many of the staff were using those two machines. Both washing and drying cost 25 cents each.
As soon as the person left, I went over to the washer and dryer and tried my key. Sure enough, it worked. I opened the money box and there was $135 in there in quarters! Apparently no one but the previous Treasury Secretary knew about it. That was a lot of money back in early 1972, probably about $700 in today's money. I had just quit my job and was only earning $10 a week at CCLA, and many times we did not even get that! I emptied the coin box and put the $135 in my desk. The machines were continually being used by the staff, this was a constant source of money. I tried to think of some angle where I could keep the money and not be out ethics. I thought about opening a savings account and collecting interest on it while not touching the principle which would be the Org's money. That way, I would not be stealing org money. Finally, I just decided to tell the senior execs about the money. I took the key and went to see Yvonne Jentzch, the C.O.
She called the FBO (Flag Banking Officer) into her office. The FBO said that he should be given the key and I did so. From then on, once a month, he came to treasury and emptied the coin box. I assume that he sent the money up to Flag. Nothing more was ever said about it. The washer/dryer was bringing $1,600 a year, about $8,000 in today's money. The Org was only doing $3,000 to $5,000 a week back then so it was about 2 weeks of Gross Income. The thought of keeping the money was tempting but I knew that I would I would be caught. The Treasury Sec before me had to be taking the money because no one in the org knew about it. When he left, he must have decided to just leave the key there for me to find. He never came back from leave. He left permanently.
Lakey
