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Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination
touretzky writes "Two ex-employees have sued Diskeeper Corporation in Los Angeles Superior Court after being fired, alleging that the company makes Scientology training a mandatory condition of employment (complaint, PDF). Diskeeper founder and CEO Craig Jensen is a high-level, publicly avowed Scientologist who has given millions to his Church. Diskeeper's surprising response to the lawsuit (PDF) appears to be that religious instruction in a place of employment is protected by the First Amendment." The blogger at RealityBasedCommunity.net believes that the legal mechanism that Diskeeper is using to advance this argument ("motion to strike") is inappropriate and will be disallowed, but that the company will eventually be permitted to present its novel legal theory.
Now, where did you get the idea that the Supreme Court can change the law?
Luke-Jr
Hmmm. What if that promise was made under torture?
I'm just wondering if tickling my boss really hard could help my job security.
If only the cult members could be let in on the joke!
Self help books have taught me that the best way to make money is to write the self-help books. Scientology really makes that point.
If your boss happens to be a member of the opposite sex, it's bound to radically affect your job security one way or another...
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
several people threatened them with the 'L' word
Umm.. they threatened to become lesbians?
Oh, God, the irony, Google Ads gave me a 'What is Scientology?' video from scientology.org.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
There's one product I won't be buying anymore. Oh, and before you start, I worked for a company that tried to pull that indoctrination stuff on employees, until several people threatened them with the 'L' word and a few more quit nearly putting the company OOB. They stopped it fast.
Linux?
Llamas?
Woah, I've got to be much more careful when terminating CAT-5...
Liechtenstein?
How is that a threat?
Oh wait, you meant Lieberman, didn't you?
--MarkusQ
Though, admittedly the mutilating babies isn't a *special* right to the Jews - everyone in the US is free to do it.
> Last time I checked PEOPLE, NOT CORPORATIONS enjoyed constitutional protections such as the 1st Amendment.
Hold on... Are you telling me that corporations can't get married.
I guess the wedding is off.
How am I going to break the news to my family?
Worse, how is my true love going to break the news to her board of directors?
Well, that's using strong language to describe Microsoft, isn't it? I guess if the shoe fits...
Can I be fired for being an atheist?
It would not be religious discrimination.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
Of course if avoiding the taint of Hans Reiser is how you choose a file system, perhaps you've never left the basement ;)
Good for you.
It's a bold statement to admit to voluntarily seeking out another man's taint to choose a filesystem.
Me? I'm old-fashioned. I spread my cheeks and lift my sac.
So you don't put it on your Resume?
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
have you checked the code for OCA personality tests?
It's not about fate, it's about character.
there be no shelter here, the frontline is everywhere!
No his current main email is "animalshavesexwith@me.com"
> Hold on... Are you telling me that corporations can't get married.
Well, certainly not gay corporations.
No Kidding, diskeeper is most likely based on alien technology that can be used to take over the planet at some point. Or they will all drink some spiked coolaid and go up in the mothership leaving us with no technical support.
Legumes.
Something backward about this. :P
Shell out money for deep hypnotic manipulation of your homosexual workers, get invasive plastic surgery for your negroid employees, and simply place all the "handicapped accessible" bathrooms and fascilities in an isolated section of your corporate locale, so that nobody has to see those damn cripples. :D
Afterall, DiskKeeper's handlers werent FIRING people for NOT being scientologists, they were actively attempting to MAKE THEM INTO scientologists.
Dont fire the black people-- Turn them white with expensive cosmetic surgery instead! Afterall, it's a key business tactic! [Hey, it worked for Micheal Jackson!]
What's up with that?
The google ad on this very page is for the Scientology video channel. What the heck is with that? At the very least, it's inappropriate. Will we see RIAA ads next?
Posting as AC, not logged in, for reasonably paranoid reasons.
So what you are saying is that my Hard Drive isn't fragmented; it's really full of Body Thetans?
Sh*t!
I better get an audit soon, so I can get my OSX to be OT-5.... Thank the FSM that my Linux install is already "clear"!
I for one welcome a Hard-Drive overlord - but sorry, I have to denounce Xenu.
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody... - Dick Armey
criminal? historically
cult? I think the word you're looking for is "Apple"
Oh, I can see it now: KB111666: Thetans cause random restarts.
Trust me, both you and Apple are happier this way. She was cheating on you with Office-for-Mac anyway.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Most clearly it is! Where is Amnesty International when you really need them, this atrocity has to be stopped.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You should pay higher taxes if you don't have any black friends.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
the CEO isn't Craig Jensen. he's Chairman. Lisa Terrenzi is CEO. I sent her a message telling her that I would be taking my business elsewhere just a minute ago.
So did I.
I hope she doesn't figure out that I don't do any business with her company.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger
stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very
space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet,
178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to
be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the
principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to
Las Palmas and there "packaged".
His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading
data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.
When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people)
captured him after six years of battle and put him in an
electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone.
The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length
and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never
recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc)
anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been
dispensed with by my tech development.
One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is
approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running
on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be
careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow
around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.
In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did
and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one
ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but
only that given here is needful.
One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or
to the body.
One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I.
It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing.
You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some
large, some small.
Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error.
Good luck.
I prefer to be an ignostic. It doesn't matter if God exists or not because we have free will; therefore, I just ignore the existence of God or whether God exists in the first place.
There's a simple solution to this. Simply volunteer to lead the prayer yourself. Then put your hands together solemnly, bow your head, and use these words:
"Dread Satan, grant us the power to crush our competitors and consign their souls to Your fiery pits. Amen."
You should find yourself feeling much, much better. And if you get fired, you can sue for religious discrimination!
> I guess if the shoe fits...
Throw it?
Does Microsoft hold Windows users at gunpoint? Who, exactly, is forced to use Windows?
People with jobs. You've probably met a couple and never even realised it.
Not all of us. Some people were born skeptical.
I know. I happen to be one of them.
I don't believe it.
It doesn't say that a space warlord nuked some aliens on Earth thousands of years ago, set up a force field to keep their souls trapped here, that those trapped souls are the source of all problems in the world, and that the only way to get rid of them is to pay the Church of Scientology thousands of dollars to take courses.
I'm pretty sure that's implied