Nothing like wearing a blue polyester smock to make your day!Gotta love that snazzy blue attire they all are forced to wear
Actually, I think that using the trainees as menial labor WAS the primary plan, with any training they got being secondary.Students sent to the Flag Land Base had a rough time because their Orgs were not paying for their food and bunk bed.
So they were put on Work/Study and had to be chambermaids and dishwashers half the day, often extending their training to YEARS.
Based on most outer-orgs' FPs, when they couldn't even pay their own utility bills, that would never happen. Observing collections at ITO, few orgs could actually pay much towards the training costs of their OOTs.If they were serious about actually getting their training done, Flag would have demanded that accommodations be pre-paid before the trainee arrived.
1) If the Tech had actually worked, then PCs would have paid money for it, and orgs would be solvent.Based on most outer-orgs' FPs, when they couldn't even pay their own utility bills, that would never happen. Observing collections at ITO, few orgs could actually pay much towards the training costs of their OOTs.
What I remember from being in a service org (AOSHUK), the org attitude was not "Oh goody, we're gonna get to deliver this exciting new service!" but more resentment at having to find yet more staff from somewhere to send off to some higher org with a fair chance you'd never see them again or maybe they'd come back after literally years and maybe be useful.
$3 billion stashed away in reserves.Having experienced both Flag Training as an outer org trainee (I'm in the pictures above) and an admin trainee at the PAC Base fairly recently, I developed an opinion.
At PAC, we mostly fulfilled a div 6 function to help recover disgruntled LA field. Spent hours on the phones calling, and miles driving all over, from San Diego to almost SF. We were calling the same people, hundreds of guys and gals called before I did. I did sway a few folks, and made some GI for LA Org. I was harassed about my training debt for years from Flag. Threatening phone calls, etc. I had a brilliant staff ass hat at my org suggest I pay it off personally. Did I say ass hat?
Oh yeah, did I mention that for a brief while, we were twenty-two (22) dudes to a one bedroom apartment? Showering was interesting, needless to say. Hacienda Gardens, Drew Street over to Saturn, I believe, for those CW inclined folks.
I vaguely remember from some all-hands letter-writing at ITO -- we wrote letters to the outer orgs to try and collect money for training their OOTs! -- that the invoices/contracts the OOTs signed actually said they agreed to pay for their training personally if their org didn't pay up. Realistically this only got enforced if the person freeloaded (enforced in terms of the bill being "served," not so much in terms of collecting the money). But sometimes this would be mentioned by the ITO letter-writer writing to the now-returned-to-his-org OOT.I had a brilliant staff ass hat at my org suggest I pay it off personally. Did I say ass hat?
This picture in the auditorium reminded me of something. Anyone who happened to be there at CW for this evolution around Christmas 1995, did have a treat, but it wasn't provided by the cherch. Some of the more talented folks that were there had a show, and they played music and sang. Anyone that was there can attest to the fact that it was really, really good. I seem to remember a guy from Germany named Hardy played guitar, and some others played, there were singers, oh, there was a guy from Tampa, Tai Chesamire, he was a DJ, record scratching and all. It was really good.Students sent to the Flag Land Base had a rough time because their Orgs were not paying for their food and bunk bed.
So they were put on Work/Study and had to be chambermaids and dishwashers half the day, often extending their training to YEARS.
Anyone in this forum who was an Outer Org Trainee ?
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