Comments on: I Needed A Job, And Xenu Was Hiring

By: Sam Hughes

Sam Hughes — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:50:06 +0000

I would have billed them for wasting my time, 10x minimum wage (probably closer to industry standard for your work).

By: Randall

Randall — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:48:12 +0000

Funny story, Shea. I think the only thing they have right is that psychiatry is total BS. Are you sure you got out injection free?

By: Fredric L. Rice

Fredric L. Rice — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:53:25 +0000

It’s hard to believe that someone still hasn’t learned that NarCONon is actually the notorious Scientology crime syndicate trying to rook and swindle money out of people.

By: DCtouristsANDlocals

DCtouristsANDlocals — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:25:48 +0000

I don’t think it was a waste of time at all. It was like an exciting undercover operation. I want to apply now just to see what happens and to have a good story to tell. I think there’s some important Scientology building downtown in DC… maybe they’re hiring?

By: ArtlessDodger

ArtlessDodger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:50:12 +0000

Scientology is “MEGAFICTION” and the only decent fiction Hubbard ever penned.

It has all the literary elements in spades.

By: WereBear

WereBear — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:07:16 +0000

How I laughed when I read, “By now I’d accepted that Adam was going to kill me.”

This was one of the creepiest job interviews ever… and for a monumentally crappy offer at the end. I once got sucked into a “job interview” which turned out to be convincing us to go door to door selling some kind of air cleaner.

I did not get any salesperson genes, so snuck out fairly early.

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:00:45 +0000

AWESOME post – but I want to clear up that Narconon pays 60% of their monies to Narconon Int, not 10%. Isnt that kirazee? I know this first hand. Xenu out.

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:59:18 +0000

The point of recruiting externally is, is that the only previous way they recruit for Narconon staff is from previous clients. You can literally be a patient one day, and the next be “delivering the program” to other drug addicts. What hell.
Narconon has had failing “stats” for a loong time…meaning no one wants to come onto staff anymore…so they have NO choice! I know this first hand.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:36:31 +0000

> Maybe the point is to recruit people in a sneaky fashion?

Exactly. And they simply are not very good at it. The ‘improved’ recruiting practices are in fact less effective than what they did in the 80s and the bad side of Scientology has been exposed all over the web for nearly as long as there has been a web. The church has had less and less of an effective response to it, and their Supreme Leader has grown more and more insane and is expelling capable people at an accelerating rate. I guess it is a good thing, since the cult is imploding, but the remaining people on the inside are having a hard time.

By: Custador

Custador — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:25:30 +0000

Actually, Daniel: if you look up Angry Aussie on wordpress, he’s had all sorts of fun with the scientologists; I think they’ve tried to sue him a few times.

By: Yoav

Yoav — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:22:09 +0000

Or maybe it’s a scam to get people in. Who know they may have got lucky and after seeing the movie you would have seen the error of your way and ran to buy the complete works of L. Ron and give all your property to the church of Scientology.

By: St Petersburg Times vs. $cientology « Skepacabra

St Petersburg Times vs. $cientology « Skepacabra — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:25:31 +0000

[...] also worth mentioning is this awesome piece by someone who applied for a job with Narconon. She didn’t know it was front group for $cientology when she went in for her interview. But [...]

By: media_lush

media_lush — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:52:56 +0000

thank spag monster you got out, lol

reminds me of the story of the work crew that were working on a Road parallel to Tottenham Court Rd in London (Scientology shop there)…. some of the guys working noticed that he could see into their premises from the back and would often make stupid gestures – walking like Frankenstein, pretending to be a Dalek shouting ‘exterminate’ etc

…. anyway this went on for most of the week.

….that weekend one of the guys woke up on Sunday morning to hearing an almighty noise coming from his front house entrance at 6am – he opened the door to be confronted by a half dozen scientology staff from the shop banging pots and pans (they actually brought them with them). they said they wanted to show him how it felt to be ‘abused’ at work or at home….. creepy, eh?

the thing is his was the only address where they could actually do something like this – the other workers lived in high rise flats or similar that needed a key to get in which, they reckoned, meant that they must have followed all of the workers to their homes before they chose him…. even more creepy!

By: LRA

LRA — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:07:30 +0000

A guy asked me out on a date one time just to pyramid scheme me.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:51:08 +0000

Thanks for this story. It was fascinating.