Scientology CSW – Completed Staff Work

Another Scientology acronym? Yes, there is. This is not KSW but CSW. Another Scientology construct to keep you so busy you don’t realize you’re not doing anything.

A CSW is a Completed Staff Work, which sounds like it should be some sort of report you submit after you finish something. It’s not. It’s actually a usually a request.

If a person on staff needs or wants anything, they must submit a CSW in order to get it. Say your department was out of papers and pencils, you would have to use papers and pencils to submit a CSW to get more papers and pencils. But no, it’s not a requisition form. That would be too easy.

Hubbard wrote a policy letter (HCOPL 4 September 1959 Rev 21 Nov 1962) on how to do it and, in his inimitable form, stated that he had researched it, and that this was the only way to get things done properly.

In order to do a CSW, the staff member is required to write out a multi part document which includes the following sections:

• Situation
• Data
• Solution
• Place for your supervisor to ok it.

In one part of the PL, he states

If you are mad at your boss you can always ruin him with “Incomplete Staff Work”. You forward him a fragment of alarming data without collecting the whole picture.

This applies to anything a staff member wants, including something like a piece of paper, but it is much more devastating than that. Say, for example you were on staff, and your grandmother died. I use this as an example because this happened to me.

Theoretically, a staff member has the right to attend the funeral of a deceased family member. However the practice is much more complicated. In order for me to attend my grandmother’s funeral, I personally would have had to written a CSW to go.

In that CSW, I would have had to give the situation, data, and solution, leaving out all emotion.

The CSW would have looked something like this.

Data: Her funeral is (date, time, location)

Solution: My statistics are in power. I can take flight ## on (date, time). I will make my own arrangements to get to the airport. I will pay for my own ticket. Sally Staffmember will add my duties to hers while I am out of town for the three days it will take.

This is ok.

Approved____________________ Disapproved _______________________

Some really important things to note here are that I would be required to have someone to do my job that I had personally trained to do so until I returned. The cost of the flight would be on me, making $5/week. I would be responsible for getting to and from the airport myself. And, if my statistics weren’t in affluence or above, it wouldn’t even have Ben worth asking for.

I didn’t go to my grandmother’s funeral, I didn’t even ask. They made the price to pay too high. That is just another that Hubbard did so wrong.

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