If someone has a minute, could
1. you please type out the text in the photo
2. maybe decipher what the stuff means
2014 London Org Tech/Qual Staff, left to right:
01. [Name] Flag Trained Cramming Officer, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup, Cramming Officer
02. [Name] Flag Trained Ethics Officer, Class IV Auditor, PTS/SP Specialist
03. [Name] Flag Trained Supervisor, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup
04. [Name] Flag Trained Supervisor, Class II Auditor, Pro Sup
05. [Name] Academy Wordclearer, Class III Auditor, Pro Sup
06. [Name] Flag Trained Qual Sec, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup, Cram Off
07. [Name] Flag Trained Tech Sec, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup
08. [Name] Flag Trained Supervisor, Class VI Auditor, Pro Sup
09. [Name] Flag Trained Auditor, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup
10. [Name] Flag Trained Case Supervisor, Grad V Case Cracker, Class IV C/S
11. [Name] Flag Trained Auditor, Grad V Case Cracker
12. [Name] Purification In-Charge
13. [Name] Flag Trained Supervisor, Class IV Auditor, Pro Sup
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Flag Trained: Trained at "Flag" (= Flag Service Organization), in Clearwater Florida. This is (supposedly) the top technical org on the planet, and in this context of public promotion means they are the best-trained staff one could have.
Cramming Officer: Person in the Qualifications (Correction) Division responsible for, er, Quality Control. If a staff member screws up it means he didn't follow some laid-down technical issue (or policy letter) correctly. The Cram Off is supposed to find out why he didn't (misunderstood word etc, and fix it).
Auditor: Vaguely like a counsellor, but supposed to follow certain technical procedures to the letter with no innovation. [PaulsRobot was originally called
Paul's Robot Auditor, and is very good at following (mostly non-Scientology) technical procedures to the letter.]
Class IV Auditor: Able to deliver auditing up to the level of Grade IV, as a technician just following the rules. If anything goes seriously not according to plan, a Class IV Auditor doesn't have the tools to fix it.
Class VI Auditor: Graduate of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, maybe 6 months to a year full-time, able to do all auditing actions below the confidential ones.
Sup: Course supervisor, vaguely similar to a teacher or instructor with a classroom in which students study, except the job involves more individual tutoring while running the class (calling roll on time etc). The students study written materials and recorded lectures and do drills at their own pace.
Pro(fessional) Sup: Highly trained course sup, with Professional Word-Clearer one of the prerequisite courses.
Ethics Officer: Disciplinary guy. What is supposed to happen is that (1) the Ethics Officer interviews the miscreant to discover what unethical situation the guy is in (fucking someone else's wife; stealing; reading naughty stuff online etc), and then (2) writing and overseeing an "ethics program" for the guy to do to fix him, to get him back on the straight and narrow.
PTS/SP Specialist: A graduate of the Potential Trouble Source and Suppressive Person course. The (supposed) original idea is that it's a technical thing, namely that a Suppressive Person long ago (trillions of years ago) got overwhelmed by the long-ago equivalent of psychiatrists and essentially adopted that identity, becoming very similar in outlook to these nasty evil destructive persons. Now, in this life, the SP is really stuck in the past, and instead of seeing the smiling flower-seller in front of him on the street, he sees these long-ago evil people that he must attack, so it is perfectly logical for him to suppress the flower-seller or whoever is in front of him. A PTS is someone who is under the influence of an SP. In regular auditing, an SP won't get any benefit as he can't change. In auditing a PTS person will make gains (since he's not an SP) but will lose them as a result of the SP's invalidation.
The technical idea is that someone who knows all this shit can spot SPs and PTSes. Then the SP gets "declared" and removed from contact with "normal" Scientologists so he can't influence them ("disconnection"). The PTSes can then (maybe) get de-PTSed so they can keep gains made in auditing.
Whatever the merits of all this, nowadays the SP label is almost entirely used to stop people spreading the truth about the CofS's crimes and rip-offs to the deluded people still paying money to the cult.
Word-Clearer: Person who finds and clears misunderstood words from someone, the theory being that misunderstood words hamper understanding and thus correct actions. Also includes False Data Stripping [PaulsRobot version at
http://paulsrobot3.com/scn/fds/index.htm].
Qual Sec: Qualifications Secretary, the head of Div 5, the Qualifications (Correction) Division. Some product produced by the org is wrong, the Qual Div is supposed to fix whatever went wrong so it doesn't happen again. Some other functions in that division too.
Tech Sec: Technical Secretary, guy in charge of Div 4, the Technical Division, that delivers training and auditing.
Grad V: Class V Graduate auditor, includes all the auditor courses below the confidential levels so can audit anything. The SHSBC includes studying a whole slew of stuff in date order, the idea being that one follows along Hubbard's research route, thereby gaining a complete understanding of why stuff is done the way it is. This supposedly makes a superb auditor. The Grad V is more of a technician, merely learning the procedures without so much of the theory behind it all.
Case Cracker: Here, a PR designation to make the person sound more competent. There used to be (maybe still is) an auditing program called the Case-Cracker Rundown, delivered only at Flag. If a person is bogged in auditing, doesn't seem to make any progress, then the idea is to "crack his case" so that he will then get wonderful gains in routine auditing henceforth. Doesn't always work out this way!
Purification In-Charge: Minimally-trained guy in charge of the Purification Rundown (sauna and dangerous shit-load of vitamins). It's mostly an admin position, not a technical one.
Case Supervisor: Generally the most highly-trained technical person in the org, who oversees the auditing done by the auditors. In every session the auditor keeps extensive notes as the session progresses, showing the technical actions done and the client's response. The C/S oversees that the auditor is keeping to the overall program and that the individual actions performed in session are technically exactly correct.
Paul