--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > I've never encountered any form of sales-pitch on ANY course during decades > > in the TMO. > > So far we only have your version of this. > > So you never taught 3rd night of checking which includes the > sales pitch for a residence course as a mandatory part of it?
The issue is sales pitches *on rounding courses*, Curtis. The complaint (I guess you missed it) is that you're told not to make major decisions (such as purchasing what is being sold) while you're rounding. > Never taught a residence course which also included making > a sales pitch for advance programs like the sidhis? This is the only one of your questions that's relevant to the issue. But of course you can't *apply and be accepted for and then pay for* these advanced programs on a residence course. All that would have to take place after the course was over. So whether a pitch for the programs violates the "no decisions while rounding" recommendation depends on whether that means decisions that would be *implemented* while you were rounding (which is how I always understood it), as opposed to decisions you could only implement once the course was over (and had presumably had a chance to give the decision some non-spacey thought). > Never attended any of the MANY fundraisers held at the bigger facilities that > I both attended or ran for years? > > Never promoted Ayur veda or its many products at your TM center? > > Were you ever a teacher in the field? Selling programs was our total focus. > > The brochure version of TM that you pitch here only works on people without > experience of the organization, like maybe someone at an intro lecture. > > If I had kept all the Telexes from National commanding me to pitch the next > TM product through the next big campaign, I could turn them over and never > need sketch paper for the rest of my life. Again, the question isn't whether the TMO makes sales pitches; obviously no one would claim that it does not. It's whether the TMO has made sales pitches at an inappropriate time and place.
