The EEOC's complaint [pdf] details the bizarre job requirements, which included:
- Screaming at ashtrays.
- Staring at someone for eight hours without moving.
- Undergoing a "purification audit" by connecting to a Scientology religious artifact known as an "E-meter."
JON HYMAN —
A partner at Cleveland's Kohrman Jackson & Krantz — provides proactive and results-driven solutions to employers' workforce problems. Jon is the author of the nationally recognized and award winning Ohio Employer's Law Blog, which the ABA has commended as one of the top 100 legal blogs three years running, and which LexisNexis has also honored as one of the top Labor & Employment blogs. His most recent book is The Employer Bill of Rights: A Manager’s Guide to Workplace Law. He also co-authored, Think Before You Click: Strategies for Managing Social Media in the Workplace. Jon is a Super Lawyers Ohio Rising Star in the area of Employment Law six out of the last seven years. Lastly, Jon appeared on a November 1999 episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but, sadly, lacked the fastest fingers.
If any of the EEOC's allegations in the lawsuit are true, the agency is going to have an easy time winning this case, which serves a good reminder that an employer cannot force its employees to conform to, follow, or practice, the employer's chosen religious practices and beliefs.
Written by Jon Hyman, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. For more information, contact Jon at (216) 736-7226 or jth@kjk.com.
Church of Scientology Photoshops an Image, Internet Catches It and Laughs: Here’s Why
According to Gizmodo, the Church of Scientology has been caught with their pants down. The organization had a meeting recently with only a couple hundred people, but the Church claimed that it gathered well over 1,000. And to prove it, they showed off the image above. The problem is that the lower right hand side is apparently completely photoshopped–which essentially points to the use of Photoshop (in this case, quite poorly) for marketing reasons.
We ran the image through Image Edited and Four and Six, and they both found the image to be questionable. But then we ran it through Photoshop Elements and through use of my knowledge of lighting, I found some extra flaws.
Want to know how? Continue on below.
Via Gizmodo
We added a Glowing Edges filter in Photoshop Elements to the image. Notice the areas circled in red. See where the sun is coming down? It is causing some major warm light to be cast onto the trees in front of the building, but the entire crowd is somehow or another untouched by it. However, the crowd in the lower right hand corner is being touched by the sun’s ray, though subtle and they also have confetti mixed in. The problem though is that the tree right next to them doesn’t have any sun on it at all. The blue lines show the clear sun diffusion, while the red shows where the sun is actually hitting–and that’s really not possible, even with very little cloud activity over the city this past weekend.
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Scientology Hides in Portland
[Guest post from Arthur who was in Portland for the "Grand Opening".]
I dropped by the “Grand Opening” of Scientology’s latest “Ideal Org” in Portland, Oregon. It was nothing much. I guess that’s typical of these events. Only a couple of hundred Scientologists showed up.
As much as it was nothing much, a few things struck me about the event and how Scientology “welcomed itself” into the community.
The overwhelming image and attitude of Scientology in that neighborhood and in that community was, “We don’t like you, we don’t trust you. Keep out.” There were tons of security all over the place plus rented off-duty police. The police were polite, the Scientologists were most definitely not. At one point I saw one Scientology “security” person hassling a non-uniformed Scientology security person because he didn’t recognize him. That was funny.
If you were not a known Scientologist, you were most unwelcome. Even if you were just curious and only wanted to know what was going on — you were not welcome.
As Bill likes to say, compare Scientology with how a normal organization or a normalchurch would carry out their Grand Opening. The whole community would be invited. Everyone would be welcome. A normal organization or church would want everyone to show up, participate and feel welcome.
Scientology demands that “All you people stay the hell out of our building.”
And that is why these “Grand Openings”, and all the empty days following them, are such failures. If you welcome yourself “into the community” by erecting barricades, keeping the community out and harassing those who are curious, you are sending a message that the community is not welcome at the Church of Scientology. And it’s true! Go to any Scientology organization and see what their attitude is. It is, “We don’t like you, we don’t trust you. If you try hard, you might be welcome here, but we doubt it.”
It’s called a “Bunker Mentality”. (It has nothing to do with Mark Bunker — a “bunker” is a fortified place to hide.) That’s Scientology in a nutshell.
You could blame it all on Anonymous, making the problems of Scientology so visible — and that’s true in a superficial way. Certainly Anonymous was there at Portland’s Grand Opening, but they were small in number and pretty polite, considering.
Anonymous was the spark, but the fuel was there in abundance. The endless Scientology tricks and lies, the horrible abuses and the crimes were all there. The Scientology survivors and the witnesses were all there in large numbers. The continuing crimes, so carefully covered up, were all there.
Scientology has been creating their victims and, consequently, their enemies for over 60 years. Thanks to Anonymous, it finally became safe to talk about it, document it and finally, finally, bring Scientology to the attention of the law and the courts.
The Church of Scientology is very, very frightened. That was never more apparent than today, at Scientology’s small “grand” opening of their latest fortress against justice, truth and the very community they claim they want to help.
Arthur
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