There are laws, and they are sometimes observed by the Church and ignored when it suits them (although there are Exec Directives which clearly state minors have to work hours prescribed by labor laws).

The problem being, there is no documentation on hours worked. We didn’t clock in, roll call only happened on courses, and your direct senior is usually pushing the schedule – so there’s an out for the Church to say “this guy (the senior) was RPFed because he didn’t follow Church policy”.

That’s even IF someone were to get a report, have someone external actually investigate and for some bizarre reason, a minor actually spoke up about it (they’d be promptly offloaded or possibly RPFed after the investigation). And let me tell you, in twelve years, I’ve heard of exactly zero instances of this at upper middle management level.

We occasionally had an OSA mission which came in and thankfully curtailed all of the extra hours for minors and assigned a round of lower conditions to those who forced illegal schedules, but around a month later it would be “business as usual” and we’d be working insane hours again, or just randomly “white-gloving” the building until 4AM because some nut was in power and needed to strut.

Your estimate on the average schedule is a bit off, FYI. It wasn’t 12-14 hours. It was a baseline 8AM-11PM (15 hours) with semi-regular 18-20 hour days (depending on what is flapping).

Lance: SCN never has subscribed to medical technology; not even regular dental hygiene, I’m literally paying for that now that I’m out with gum disease and having to have a dozen teeth pulled over the intervening decades because we, the Homo Novis, wouldn’t have trouble with such pettiness if we stayed away from all SPs, so didn’t go PTS. Remember, LRH refused to follow his personal MO’s directive and didn’t go to the doctor after the infamous motorcycle spill he took that broke his arm and a couple of ribs. All the doc could do for him was prescribe powerful painkillers, which I believe he enjoyed to excess. There was no moderation to the guy; either full on or full off. Until he got those drugs, stories say he was insufferable, as befits the malignant narcissist that he seems to have been.

You’re welcome, Robert.

Mary: I see your point of view. Thanks.

That’s just scientology buying Google ads, or “targeting” in the marketing sense of the word.

Since you’ve looked at sites/videos pertaining to the subject, the Google advertising algorithm gives you the silly STAND ads. Nothing *hideously* nefarious about it – just in the usual corporatized Big Data level of nefarious.

Absolutely.

I knew right after I left that I had done the correct thing. I reassured myself by reading and studying everything about Scientology and Hubbard I could find.

These studies highlighted the contradictions, falsehoods and control mechanisms which I had previously seen but never wanted to accept.