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by Ladybird » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:31 am
The main purpose of Scientology events is making money.
Here is the short version of what is undoubtedly going on inside the Birthday Event tonight :
The sea org is always short staffed, so in preparation for events the crew gets short rations. The galley crew puts all their attention and allocations on enticing the public to come to the events. They make tasty snacks to encourage the public to stick around afterwards. Staff can sample a thing or two, but will be reported for pigging out. (never mind that they had barely eaten all day.)
Staff are all required to go to the events, and are required to wear "upstat" civies, or "uniform K" so they look like public. At Flag, this would include about 800 Sea Org plus staff from all the Orgs and Missions in driving distance...at least a couple hundred more.
Not many public attend these events. Arnie, if you are reading this, please post the Picture...the man with no head!
So you have at least a thousand staff filling the auditorium...all masquerading as public. Only a skeleton crew is left at the orgs to handle reception or red tags or whatever.
Actual public? Only a few hundred attend. Most of those public have been presold sight unseen whatever "new release" is being released, so when the event is over they pick up their pre-paid CDs or books or whatever, and it is made to look like a big deal so other public feel pressured to buy as well.
So you have roughly 4 to 1 staff for each public, and all the staff are organized into teams to 8-C the public to buy something. All the staff have quotas, and all the exits are blocked by security except for the main one past the sales and reg tables.
SO are channeling the public like a herd of sheep, blocking them off so there is only one way to get out. You will see the "smarter public" running for the door as soon as the event is over and as they are barging themselves through the staff barricades they have to say NO 50 times if they don't want the "new release", or if they already have been presold it they try to just pick it up on the way out or later in the bookstore.
It becomes almost comical, because all the staff are being pushed to meet the unrealistic quota, and no one is allowed to leave until the quota is met. Even the bathrooms are monitored by security, so you dare not spend too much time there either. It ends up that staff are circling in clockwise and counter-clockwise circles like vultures and whispering to each other, "Did you get any?" While looking in desperation for someone, any one to route to the reg.
What happens after the event if the sales quota is not met? The "top regges" and the responsible execs from Dissem Sec up to the Captain and CMO and even sometimes RTC execs keep pounding everyone for the quotas to be met into the late hours. You see regges sitting in the office until 4 o'clock in the morning calling around to other time zones of the world to wake people up for the new release. When they get really desperate, they call someone like the Feshbachs and ask for a big donation for $10,000 or so, to save the day.
Meanwhile, the "downstat" public, who everyone knows don't have any more money, just hang out and eat all the food.
The RPF hangs around out of sight of the public, waiting for the quota to be met so they can clean up. They will be up all night, taking down the event props and getting everything out of there loaded up on trucks. Check the back doors and the drive ways and you will find this activity.
Sounds like a real fun party, doesn't it?