The problem with ideal orgs is not just finding the ridiculous amounts of money required to buy and outfit these empty palaces. It is also trying to find enough people to staff the organizations that are supposed to be within them. We have seen Sea Org members sent en masse to man some of these orgs. Columbus was pretty much manned entirely by SO members. Now Chicago is being manned by the other understaffed orgs finding and "donating" their "experienced" (meaning old) staff to the effort to try to man the org. But the grand promises of "a living wage" turn out to be lies. Many of the … [Read more...]