At first I was like Carmen, and was just gonna let it pass on by, then I read further down and you had to go and strike a nerve. Open Meeting Review is something that was invented by the Board of Directors, Helen Petermann, and Dr. George Ross following the disasterous events of the Tampa Screw-up. Open meetings up until that point were just run by the seat of the pants and there was alot of improvisation to them. Following the start of Open Meeting Review, the Open Meetings at the Morgan Yacht building were actually scripted and kept to a rigid time frame.
It was pure hell waiting for them to get their shit together and get it all down pat, but by late October of 1978, the meetings were pretty much over and done by 9pm on Mondays, and 10pm Fridays. I know this sounds crazy, but it really is true if you look back on it. The parents were getting fed up, and alot of them complained, and some, like my dad, stopped making payments. Once they started messing with the money flow, staff got really damned serious about making Open Meetings faster, and better. They got smarter too. They opened up the storage area and started coffee and donuts and shit, but what the parents were not aware of was that their every move and conversations were closely monitored. Staff would turn around and use this to their advantage. If parents got all chummy with eachother, and their kids had contact with each other as well, it was'nt too long before someone wound up on a refresher. More money, longer program get it? Plus Jerks like me who went through alot of newcomers got away with murder. Staff would have to be out of their minds to put me on a refresher, when I steadily cranked sucessful newcomers out of my house and onto 2nd phase like a factory. When I see stuff on the History Channel about German Engineering and Nazi efficiency, I have to laugh. Straight had them beat hands down.
[ This Message was edited by: 85 Day Jerk on 2003-06-23 13:45 ]
