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[The Entity]

I know scientologies front group W.I.S.E. really messed up Allstate: http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/allstate.html

Any other great examples on this?  I'm also interested in finding leaks of what the materials are that they teach from. 

I might be able to use it in a letter for local my Chamber of Commerce.

[Lorelei]

Can we find out which businesses in ATL are affiliated with WISE?

This is pertinent to my interests, as I do not wish to apply for a job or go to a doctor or dentist who may be involved with Scientology (or any other cult) in any way.

[ethercat]

Can we find out which businesses in ATL are affiliated with WISE?

This is pertinent to my interests, as I do not wish to apply for a job or go to a doctor or dentist who may be involved with Scientology (or any other cult) in any way.

The latest WISE list I've seen is from 2006, and I'm betting it's changed a good bit since then.  Don't worry, though, there aren't that many in the Atlanta area.  The largest concentrations seem to be in California and Florida (big surprise, huh?). 

Here's a copy: 2006 WISE list

They may not all be members of WISE, even if they have a business, so you can also check the names against the Online Scientologist pages: http://on-line.scientology.org/,

you can check against Kristi Wachter's Completions Database

and you can search their name with the term "scientology" added to your seach.


 

[Lorelei]

Info from  critic named "Marcab":

Watch out for WISE businesses in your area, particularly dentist and chiropractic offices.  Perhaps some kind of information dissemination campaign could be done- send flyers and papers encouraging businesses to end their affiliation.

World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) is an organization affiliated with the Church of Scientology that assists businesses in the use of management methods and techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard. Critics of WISE say that its real purpose is dissemination of and recruitment into Scientology and they reference the incorporation papers of WISE which include the statement "It is organized under the Nonprofit Religious Corporation Law primarily for religious purposes. Its purposes are to promote and foster the religious teachings of L. Ron Hubbard in society, and to have and exercise all rights and powers from time to time granted to nonprofit corporations by law."

"...staff objected to having to take Scientology courses (especially ones with religious content), several of them questioned the relevance of much of the material to their jobs. For example, one former I-20 AMC employee, Cathy Sisk, wrote about the courses and exercises that she took as an employee, and the first "exercise" that she identified was "Communication" (Sisk [Affidavit], 1997: 1). She said that she had "to sit knee to knee with a stranger Tim (name unknown) with my eyes closed until time was called. Time was called after 2 hours and 20 minutes passed" (Sisk [Affidavit], 1997: 1; Sisk [Deposition], 1999: 24; see Winnett [Deposition], 1999: 22). During her second exercise, Ms. Sisk "sat with my 'twin' Tim (name unknown) [and] we were told . . . to stare at each other and control the conversation" (Sisk [Affidavit]: 1997: 1; Sisk [Deposition], 1999: 24). Ms. Sisk "came to realize [that] this is how they break you down [--]by controlling you through this course" (Sisk [Affidavit], 1997: 2). There is some merit in Sisk's interpretation, and it is worth pointing out that these two exercises actually described drills (called Training Routines or TRs) that are part of Scientology's standard Communication Course."

More info:

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/I-20.html#wise
http://www.lermanet.com/latimes/la90-4a.html
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/latimes/lat-4a2.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_59/ai_53590311
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-complaint_04met.ART0.North.Edition1.3deea1f.html
http://stop-wise.biz/jeff-wise.html
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/declaration-vaughn090893.htm
http://stop-wise.biz/index.html

List of WISE businesses:

http://www.scientology-kills.org/wise1.htm
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/wise/wise_2001_directory.html
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/wise/wise_2004_directory.html
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/wise/2004/
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/wise/2004/category_table.html
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/prosp/
http://www.wise.org/en_US/membership/about/index.html

A W.I.S.E. member company called Financial Rescue Service, had as an address, a mailbox drop in Glendale, California. This small company was able to be the organizing sponsor of a group called the National Consumer Council (NCC). The NCC had enough money to buy air time on CNN. They indicated that their pupose was to help people get out of debt through their debt counseling program. They instructed people who were behind in their payment to various souces, not to send money to pay down the debts, but to send money to the National Consumer Council and they would taker over the task of helping people get out of debt. Complaints began to pour in. It was alleged, that in many instances, the NCC did little to help process the loan repayments. The Federal Trade Commission finally stepped in and on May 5, 2004, effectively shut the organization down. Penalties approached $84 million. (This not to be confused with other businesses which operate under similar names but are not related to W.I.S.E. or Scientology.)

The interior ministry of the German state of Brandenburg published a press release yesterday saying WISE is "the main financial pillar" of the Scientology Organization.

The press release is about CoS approaching minors and WISE is only mentioned in passing, but it's the most important part. So if that's true it means that the celebutards, the other front groups as well as the 'fixed' and the actual donations by org members actually come in second only. Financially speaking, WISE is the most important part of Scientology according to this.

http://www.mi.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=bb2.c.558488.de

[Lorelei]

About Allstate and WISE:

http://www.scientology-lies.com/organization/front-groups/wise.html

Thousands of workers participated in seminars that taught them to disregard ethics in the quest for productivity. Allstate Corp. acknowledged that it hired a consultant who taught "unacceptable" Church of Scientology management principles to the insurance company's agents and supervisors between 1988 and 1992. More than two dozen agents have filed lawsuits or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints alleging fraud, harassment or discrimination by Allstate.

http://www.scientology-lies.com/whats-wrong/workplace.html

Veteran agents are trying to unionize. They claim the insurance company's business strategy reflects certain teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard that stress higher sales at any cost.

http://stop-wise.biz/

WISE is the Scientology sector responsible for getting the supposedly secularized "Hubbard Management System" / "organizational and management technology" / "Management and Administrative Technology" / "LRH admin tech" in a wide as use as possible. The system is basically ruthless management by statistics which preaches a rigorous, even ruthless devotion to raising productivity for both staff and clients. The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, wrote the material to manage the Church of Scientology and "is part of the religious literature and works of Scientology" (Foreword in OEC and Management Series books). Hubbard incidentely flunked out of College and lied about virtually every aspect of his life.

Though the WISE affiliates deny the material is core part of the Scientology belief system. Afiliates like Hubbard College of Administration, Sterling Management Systems, David Singer Enterprises, Marcus Group Enterprises (MGE) / MGE: Management Experts, Hollander Consultants, Silhouet, Prosperity Plus Management Consulting, Modus Operandi Consultants owned by Manuel Nugteren, U-Man, Halverson-Quigley Management Systems (HQMS), Flasch Business Consulting and many others.

Likewise will they vehemently deny any relation with the Church of Scientology. However as the above internal policy and a magazine article published by WISE indicates, they are indeed rewarded money for every new Scientology recruit they make. To add insult to injury has WISE put togheter a 300 page manual for WISE consultants to maximize the number of new recruits into Scientology.

This is how that manual is touted in WISE International magazine Prosperity, issue #60, September 2003, pages 12 - 13: "We also produce the Consultant's Guide to Bridge Dissemination, a manual of more than 300 pages on how to handle clients, colleagues and business associates who come to you for help with their personal problems by referring them to a Church of Scientology for assistance."

Earlier this year agents secretly helped a Wall Street Journal reporter expose an issue they had been trying to get management to acknowledge for years: that training seminars linked to the notorious Church of Scientology were widespread in Allstate during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

http://www.raids.org/oracle1.htm

Myles Barchas had become one of Allstate's top-selling salesmen- -the best in the 550-agent Dallas region--by his 29th birthday in 1993. Working seven-day weeks, he had amassed 3,200 customer accounts, nearly twice the company average. Allstate, headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, showered Barchas with awards and honors and free exotic vacations that he never had time to accept.

Then one day Barchas's world exploded. Deeply disturbed that his superiors were ordering agents to break state laws that protected consumers from discrimination, he began to blow the whistle. Though the company never admitted doing anything wrong, Barchas's evidence resulted in Allstate's paying what was then the largest insurance fine in Texas history. But Barchas paid too. He was stalked and chased by private eyes for periods spanning six months, according to internal company documents. And with the flick of a computer switch, Allstate took away his business.

In recent years more than 1,600 agents have formed a national "club"--not a labor union, they insist, a club--that Allstate quietly monitors but refuses to communicate with. Some of its leaders have been harassed, even terminated for dubious reasons (such as misfiling a handful of insurance applications). At a recent convention in Atlanta, not one member of the group--the National Neighborhood Office Agents Club (NNOAC)--was willing to be quoted in FORTUNE. One of the club's most eloquent leaders, Richard Larkin, a successful 33-year Allstate veter an, edits a newsletter that calls for the ouster of senior executives, whom he considers "crooks and cowards." He says he arrived at his home in Virginia one day last March to find his .22-caliber handgun, which he hadn't used for more than a decade, lying on his dresser. The gun's chamber had four spent cartridges. In Larkin's closet, a row of pants had bullet holes through their backsides.

Larkin believes the shooting incident is related to his activities on behalf of the NNOAC, that somebody was trying to scare him into silence. But he has no proof, and Allstate denies any involvement. Larkin refers to the past ten years at Allstate as "a decade of deceit" and writes that "if the Good Hands people are to prevail in this struggle, then those responsible for the turmoil, the deceit and deception must depart. Those corporate executives who feel they are above the law in the pursuit of the bottom line are liabilities. They constitute a clear and present danger to all employees of the company and to the insuring public."

http://www.scientology-kills.org/articles/w_allstate.htm

Two years ago, an Allstate agent stood up at Sears's annual meeting to ask what then seemed a bizarre question.

"To what extent," he inquired, "are the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology present today in Allstate and in Sears?"

Edward Brennan, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Wayne Hedien, then-chairman of Sears's Allstate Insurance Co. unit, both appeared bewildered. Mr. Brennan said he had no knowledge of any relationship at all. Mr. Hedien said he didn't even know any Scientologists. "I'm a Roman Catholic myself," Mr. Brennan added. Shareholders laughed, and the board moved on to apparently more serious concerns.

But today, the influence of Scientology at Allstate is no joking matter. Between 1988 and 1992, it turns out, the Good Hands company entrusted the training of workers coast to coast to a consultant teaching Scientology management principles.

The consultant says more than 3,500 Allstate supervisors and agents participated in the nearly 200 seminars conducted by his firm, which was licensed by a Scientology institute to teach such classes. The course materials -- which preached a rigorous, even ruthless devotion to raising productivity -- were developed by Mr. Hubbard, founder of the religion that some critics claim is a cult.

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol14/scientology/front-groups.shtml

INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE TECHNOLOGY, INC. - WISE member, designed to bring in businesses to Scientology through LRH management tech Allstate Insurance Company was a major former client [Orlando Sentinel]

http://www.xenu-directory.net/documents/corporate/entity.php?ntt=279
http://www.xenu-directory.net/news/images/thecompiler-1995-3.pdf#page=3

“One of the purposes of teaching Mr. Hubbard's management program, a Scientology pamphlet states, is to instill ‘the ethics, principles, codes and doctrines of the Scientology religion throughout the business world.’ ” – Wall Street Journal's “In Whose Hands? / Allstate applied Scientology methods to train its management,” Mar 22, 1995.