This information comes from a self-reporting survey. My company sent out an email asking us to participate in the survey and say good things about the company.
I expect that the employees of TSCC were pressured by upper management to make the church look good.
I doubt it. A good majority of people who work for TSCC are ones who could not function in the real world. There's a coffee pot in the break room and they look for the lightening. I'd imagine most people who are the kind that would work there absolutely love it. They can be in cult central 24/7. No one's going to make fun of their religion or ask about their undies.
Roman salt mine slaves indicated in a survey that they absolutely LOVE working as a slave in the salt mines for the Roman Empire. At least, that's what they said when surveyed by the Roman Empire, and told that if they didn't say that, they'd be tossed into the Tiber with lead weights tied to them.
Looking at the other companies on the list, it's somehow difficult to picture TSCC among them. It's almost as if it were an assigned task to respond positively to the survey.
I worked as a janitor at the church office building and conference center for a period when I was in college. I found them to be the absolutely worst employer I had ever been with. I don't think that was the market they interviewed though, more the career folk
ya, the lds must have been the professionals and upper managers they asked. And yes those up in the hierarchy are very very very happy.
I didn't see my Company on the list which is one of the largest employers in big-box-hell around. But then again most of my coworkers are missing teeth, all on foodstamps, medicade, alcoholics, polygamists (though they'd never admit to that one, lol!).
We should also keep in mind how it is important in the LDS Church to be "happy."
Heaven forbid you are not "happy"--this would indicate that you have sinned, lost the spirit, or have the spirit of contention, which of course is of the devil (aka Stan).
If you are drinking the Kool-aid then everything must be fine. For those who like the conformity and doing "the Lord's work," everyday must be rather gratifying.
But, if a person has a clear-eyed view of what's going on (the lies, the business side, etc.) then I think they would either be miserable or a sociopath. A PR hack, who is fully steeped in all the "issues" about why people leave LDS, Inc., for example, would likely either develop their own concerns, or be in it for themselves to a sickening extent.
VERY close relative worked for TSCC for many years. After years of being berated by GAs for not steering contracts to their family and friends, he left with his testimony in tatters and his opinion of these "great" men forever altered. It was an absolute grinding place to work with so called "men of God" giving differing and contradictory instructions and requirements. GBH was the worst and most demanding and never afraid to publicly berate the staff.
tiredoflies Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > VERY close relative worked for TSCC for many > years. After years of being berated by GAs for > not steering contracts to their family and > friends,
For sure, and that's why Joseph Goebbels and Baghdad Bob brag about being baptized vicariously after their deaths is greatest event about their new lives on Kolob.
I know a super-TBM guy that oversees temple construction for TSCC. He LOVES working for the church. He travels all over, they pay him well, etc... However, it was his TBM childhood dream to build temples.
Everyone else I know that works/worked for TSCC hates/hated it. One of them was the EQ president when I left. He worked in IT and was paid pretty well, but he couldn't wait to get out. I suspect that he might be a closeted exmo, but I don't know how to bring it up. He was released from his calling and stopped attending SS and EQ right when he quit his church job.
I know guys that work in translation and printing departments as well, and they're constantly complaining about their jobs. They're paid very little...obviously valued less than SEO experts and designers that are good at burying essays deep in the corner of LDS.org.
Maybe only GA's were polled. They ARE employees that are paid handsomely after all.
Many employers use screen capture and key stroke tracking software on ALL employee machines. I would imagine this is the case at TSCC and I would also expect that most employees would be aware of this. We are tracked at my place of work and they make it abundantly clear to us that they follow everything.
Given the authoritarian, vindictive nature of Mormonism, no employee of TSCC in his or her right might would complete such an online poll in any way other than extreme positive on everything.
Agree. Mormons are pretty much "scared straight". I cannot imagine Greg Dodge and his fellow workers are enjoying their job. If I were TBM I'd be depressed and if I was doubting I'd be looking for the door.
Don't you have to be a member of the church and temple worthy to work there? Why even survey church workers when the employer discriminates against all nonmembers?