[Info about the Flag Land Base, 2005 insider stuff, about the FSO and surrounding area.]

Debbie Cook CO FSO runs the weekly staff meetings on Thursday nights at 9pm. They tend to be long and boring. There are a few rewards given, baskets of food, to the "upstats", and also the Flag Registrars. FSO is doing about $2.5 million a week, as of early 2005. There is an "upstat " club with $50 prize, new uniform, etc. and there's the downstat club, called the "It's got nothing to do with me club" where you stand up, are frowned at by 700 people(or pitied) and you do 25 hrs amends and some other gruesome stuff. Harvey Jacques runs this. Harvey does the frequent speeches to all FSO staff to sell "congress packages". FSO staff are all "sales" personnel, and urged to sell the $2000 package for all the congress cd's. The Super Power building is empty, with mysterious plans about whatever is supposed to happen to the inside of the building now. The hype goes on year after year.

The Hacienda has an electronic fence that senses when it is touched and gives the location of the touch. There are cameras everywhere. The impression it gives is that it is mostly to keep the staff IN. The staff are NOT encouraged to keep "up" on daily events in the world. There is now a course new staff do called the "Exterior Influences Course" or somesuch. The issues on it make it clear you are not to have a cell phone, internet, eat in restaurants, buy drinks during post hours, etc. Your mail is opened and looked over by security.

The dining mess at the Clearwater Building is crazy. People still continue to smoke like chimneys, and the room is full of cigarette smoke. The cups are at one end and the coffee at the other end of the room. Go figure. I liked the food okay but it was very boring and repetitive. You got about 10 min to eat breakfast, 10 min lunch 25-30 min dinner. Nice stuff available in the canteen, like avocados, which lots of women bought for their salads. You would think with 2.5 million in GI they could get some fruit baskets on tables or free avocados, but no, you buy those with your $50 a week.

There were never enough coffee cups, so people put it in water glasses, cooled it off with ice so it could be drunk in the 6 minutes left to eat breakfast. The breakfast was always scrambled eggs, over medium if you went to the back and waited. Oatmeal, corn flakes, sometimes granola with apple juice on it or yogurt. Juice once a week. Lucky you. Some of the lunches were UNBELIEVEABLY out-pep. Like Pizza, with so little protein you would be dizzy by dinnertime. Or chili cheese dogs. Water to drink. The salad bar was ok.

Pay is 50 bucks a week, and seems pretty regular. More later.

[info gotten from Flag, Clearwater, 2005 info]

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