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Anonymous asked this question on 5/23/2000:
I was just wondering - Do scientologists have "real" jobs? Or is all of their time
devoted to scientology and working at the churches?
honorarykid gave this response on 5/25/2000:
I think the answers provided by Larrybergen, FreeZone and
formerscientologist are all good answers.
Scientologists are as a group, very dedicated people, there is no doubt about
that. They work very hard. Too bad they work so hard toward such dismal
ends.
In fact, the subject of employment has been a sticking point with the CoS for
many years.
Most, if not all orgs and missions used to post "Help Wanted" signs outside
their facilities in order to lure people into the building. Then, when people
came in expecting to apply for jobs, they were given essentially the same
recruiting pitch to become a Scientologists as a regular, non-job-seeker would
get. Typically, no discussion of the "voluntary" status that legally governs
most staff members pay and benefits would take place.
The CoS would just wait until it "dawned" on the new "hire" that the CoS was
not looking for an employee at all, but for a new Scientologist.
This deceptive form of proselytizing reached it's low point in Germany, when
orgs posted these non-employment "jobs" through state supported
employment service bureaus. The German government said, no. They made
the Scientology "jobs" have a special indicator in their computers, so that real
job-hunters would know that the Scientology "jobs" were simply volunteer
positions, mainly intended as a proselytizing activity. The Scientologists have
used this eminently reasonable response by the German government as
evidence that Scientologists are being persecuted in Germany.
I believe that with the advent of global networking of Scientology's critics, the
widespread and uniform practice of recruiting new Scientologists through
bogus "Help Wanted" signs and ads has slowed somewhat.
But rest assured, if you see a "Help Wanted" sign outside a Dianetics Mission
or Scientology org, they are not really looking for an employee.
Further facts
about this criminal empire may be found at
Operation Clambake and FACTNet.
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Subject: Jobs??
Answered by: honorarykid
Asked By: Anonymous
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