The problem is that for it to be effective there has to be a fair degree of truth in it. It's like bullbaiting. Generic bullbaiting is OK up to a point, but to really bullbait you have to bullbait with very personal reality. Prior knowledge of the person is not necessary to bullbait well as long as your observation is very acute. It doesn't work like that if you're giving someone an SRA based on his production record.
Paul
Exactly, and you have to put a perverse and preferably unjust twist on it, too. You must intentionally misduplicate something and then really drive it in.
For example:
Let's say you're the PES and you have been off post all week handling a "Hill 10" that was created when it was decided that your org is going to be the next Saint Hill Size Org, and a management team arrived last week to get you there. You've been working every day with the Flag Rep, because you have been ordered to do so by the management team, getting "compliance" on the project orders they have given you.
None of the orders has had anything to do with getting new people in and onto service, and it's the end of the week, a Wednesday night, and your First Services Starts have totally crashed.
You are frantic. You now have to make sure that the targets you have been working on with the Flag Rep get complied with, going around taking pictures of receipts and checksheets for the compliance reports, but you also have to go out and hand out promo and get someone in and onto course. You have absolutely no prospects because you have not been developing any from being pulled off your post.
The ED of the org comes in and says, "Hey man, where are the FSSes for the week?"
"Zero."
"What? Come on! Where's Mrs. Zikes? I thought she was supposed to be here at 7pm to start?"
"No show."
"Oh Jesus!"
You say, "I'm calling all these lists and I think I might be able to get Brian's brother's wife in on the How to Pick Your Nose Course tonight."
"OK. Let me know how it goes. I'm going to see if I can get Pam to get her dad to finally come in."
"Sorry man."
"I understand. Get on it!"
So you're frantically calling every beaten down number you can get off of recent booksales receipts, anything. Then you're going to take that stack of promo out and see if you can get someone in from the street." Totally desperate.
You made 9 calls and you've been hung up on for the third time. So you set down the phone and put your head in your hands. You have to think.
Just then, the Mission First walks into your office.
"Where are the Compliance Reports?"
"My First Service Starts are crashed and I have to get an FSS right now, and then I'll...."
Your daughter is outside your office stamping promo, two public are standing in the bookstore, and the mission first takes a deep breath while you are about to say what you are planning to do to handle both, when he says....
"WHAT THE
FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING HANDING ME A PROBLEM??? YOUR ORG IS GOING SAINT HILL SIZE
NOW DESPITE YOUR FUCKING DB CI. YOU HAD BETTER GET THOSE CRs IN TO ME NOW. MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS ORG FAIL??? IT'S OBVIOUS YOU ARE THE ONE TO HAVE HELD DOWN THIS PLACE FOR YEARS ANYWAY AND YOU ARE
NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO DO THAT ANYMORE!!! I WANT THOSE CRs ON MY DESK IN TEN MINUTES OR YOU ARE OFF POST IMMEDIATELY!! DO YOU GOT THAT?"
It gives you a sick feeling in your stomach. You want to defend yourself, but you feel the tears welling up and you know that if you talk, if you say anything, you will just make it ten times worse. You are constantly thinking, even in your sleep of how great it would be to have a Saint Hill Size org. It means everything to you. But you can't even think of that right now. Your brain freezes solid on the injustice of this accusation, invalidation, humiliation. Plus you'll make an ass of your self for crying in front of your daughter, who is standing there watching you. So you say "Yes sir" and try to keep tears from coming in to your eyes and your head from exploding.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY???"
"YES SIR!"
"GOOD!"
After enduring enough of this, you get worn down and convinced that you are truly a DB who is trying to destroy his org, and that everything you do is probably suppressive.
At that point, SRAs seem normal to you.
And you begin to look like Helena Kobrin.