I was at ASHO in the early 2000s, I don't recall the exact dates.
I went there to do a NED internship to go back to my mission to audit.
When I arrived I was put on a Pro TRs "retread." That took a few days, I got a RTC pass. Then, because of an obscure film reference, I had to re-do my pro upper indocs. The supe sent me across the hall to the BC course room to ask for [some specific person] I never heard of. I did, I got him and he came over to coach me on the upper indocs. We did the drills and I passed, and quickly and was routed through course completion. As I was from out of town and finished two "major" courses on Thursday morning (before 2:00 PM) i WAS A HERO!
While my supe was signing off my checksheet she asked me "Do you know who that was? (that had coached me). I said "no." She said "Do you remember the Pro TRs film? The main "Flag" supe, tall, blond, bearded guy? That was his son!" I guess TRs run in the family. ('though, at the time, I did think it was cool.
Then I had to enroll on the Pro Metering course. (I had already passed that, too, at my local org.) That went fine until I sent a tape to the RTC. They decided to flunk me. The course supe passed me, the Practical Supe passed me, the Deputy Senior C/S (the one who checked all tapes before they went to RTC) passed me. When the tape came back with a "flunk" it took the supes reviewing the tape 11 times on super-slo-mo to "agree" that the last (third) read I called as instant was actually "latent." Several weeks of more flunks (in the ASHO courseroom) later, I gave up. The metering supes, (several times while I was there) were checked on their metering skills. They had to retread, retrain, re-do verification tapes of there "skills" while I was there. Led me to believe there was no objective standard. Nobody could pass unless someone wanted tham to pass...
Possibly paranoia on my part, but there was no rhyme or reason to auditing skill and an RTC pass. I left.
However, the supes, I liked them. In the "Theory" room was a woman. I don't recall her name. She was great! Short of stature, form somewhere in Central or South America. Whe was hysterically funny! She would stand behind me and when I screwed up would SHOUT "FLUNK!" Louder than I ever heard. At first it was shocking. Then it became funny. I loved it. She did it to everyone.
She was tough and fair, so she was ok in my book. The lead practical supe was a tallish, slender guy who was also tough and fair. He was a runner. He participated in scientologist runs, ran marathons (and finished them). He was a good guy.
There was a word clearer in the metering courseroom. (As I had been an exemplary word clearer in my earlier days on mission staff, I gave her some trouble.) I didn't toe anyones line. I was a tough student. She got away with nothing with me.
But all to no avail (for them). When It became obvious to me I would never complete the course, I split. I blew, in scn parlance.
F*ck 'em!
But, does anyone have any idea who I'm talking about? Does anyone know who these supes are?
Thanks,
Jack