I too hope that my two kids get some crappy, non-justice, horrible ethics run on them so that they will wake up and decide it is wrong and leave the cult.

Hi Alco,
Yeah, I think that happy dippy thrilled to be here/ so privileged to be on staff /smile perpetually plastered on face default expression is a Celebrity Centre thing. Ditto the love bombing 🙂

Aqua, that’s my story exactly! CCNashville staff were also the happy, skippy “It’s a Sunshine Day” bunch that you described. Just like you said, a few of them did have family funds backing them up or got special treatment because mom and dad made a huge donation to the org. Privately, there were some rumblings of discontent but it was all not-izzed under a smiling Brady Bunch facade.

Thanks, Mark! When you think about it, it really is sad that I made more money working for Goodwill on minimum wage than I did being on staff in Scientology.

Aqua,
I do understand what you mean.
Instead of feeling that old robotic, cringey, culty “certainty” ,I feel grateful every day for simply being alive and for being able to learn…and for real, mutually loving relationships…

Hear you. Sounds awful to agree and say I, too, am glad you got rotten treatment but you know where I’m coming from when I say that.

Alcoboy,
Amazing! Glad that you made it out!

I get it.
I was fooled, too, for years…
In hindsight, I am grateful for receiving the rude shock of crappy staff treatment, as it expedited my exit from the cult…

Agreed on all, Mark, and yet, at the same time – at least in MY former org – the staff went around BEAMING with contentment, I kid you not! BEAMING. They looked so HAPPY to be there! Always smiling, or if not smiling, at least contented and at peace. I used to look at them and wonder; “How do they DO this? How can they be so happy?” I knew I’d be miserable.

Their life situations were familiar to me. I KNEW that most of them worked unGODly hours at the org and made no money AND had wog jobs, moonlighting gigs they did to pay the bills.

Of course a few of them had family money but most of the staff in my org did not have that kind of independent income or support.

So the ones who between one thing or another were working constantly, I used to look at them in AWE.

How could they be so cheerful, so glad to be there?

It wasn’t until YEARS after I was out that I found out that they HAD to appear that way in front of us – had to appear happy and glad, etc. etc., to present this image, this pulled together, competent, “winning on all dynamics” image to the public was POLICY they dared not flout!

Well, I’ll tell ‘ya, they had ME fooled. I totally bought it.

Not that fooling me was so hard to do, back in the day. I was pretty dumb, not at all suspicious. I bought their “thrilled to be on staff” line hook, line and sinker!