If you are given orders or directions or preventions or denied materials whichmakes it hard or impossible for you to raise your statistics or do your job at all, youMUST file a job endangerment chit on your next highest superior.

If you are admonished or ordered to a hearing for NOT doing your job and havinglow statistics and have NOT previously filed a job endangerment chit at the time itoccurred, you have no defense.

You should not come to a hearing as a defendant and say you were prevented orinhibited from doing your job. Unless you have filed a job endangerment chitpreviously when your job was endangered the statement MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED bythe Hearing Officer or the Comm Ev.

Most people who have trouble with policy or admin do so simply because theydon't know it or can't or don't use it.

Such a person can be told anything and tends to take it as fact.

Policy exists to speed the wheels and make a job do-able.

But sometimes one has a senior who continually says this or that is "againstpolicy".

Always respectfully ask for the date of the Policy Letter and to see a copy of it.

Then you will know that what you propose is or is not against policy. If no policyletter can be produced or if what you proposed is NOT against policy and is stillrefused, you must file a job endangerment chit.

FORMERLY ONLY ONE COPY WAS WRITTEN. THIS IS NOW MODIFIED.

USING CARBON PAPER, MAKE AN ORIGINAL AND TWO COPIES. SENDONE COPY TO THE PERSON BEING FILED ON.

SEND TWO COPIES TO THE ETHICS OFFICER.

THE ETHICS OFFICER WILL FILE ONE IN THE FILE OF THE PERSONNAMED AND ONE IN THE FILE OF THE PERSON WRITING THE CHIT. THESECOPIES MUST BE CAREFULLY PRESERVED IN EVENT OF A COMM EV ORHEARING AS THEY ARE NECESSARY DEFENSE PAPERS.

Full details, without rancor or discourtesy, must be given in the report, includingtime, places and any witnesses.

Anyone filing job endangerment chits on superiors or equal or juniors must be able to back them up.

One cannot be given an Ethics Hearing or Comm Ev for a false job endangerment chit unless it contains a willful and knowing false report which endangers somebody else's job. But even so, no Ethics Hearing may be ordered for the fact of filing, only for a willful and knowing false report.

So if your facts are straight there is no slightest risk in filing a job endangerment chit. On the contrary, it is dangerous NOT to file one. For then one has NO defense.

Sometimes a staff member is imposed on in such a way as to prejudice his job such as having to do off line favours.

This is an occasion for a job endangerment chit.

If one is threatened with punishment if one files a job endangerment chit, one must then file a second chit based on the threat.

If an org as a whole seems to refuse job endangerment chits or ignore them, one can be filed with Worldwide simply by sending it direct to "HCO Ethics Worldwide, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex."

Dismissal without following proper procedure of a Hearing may be sued in the Chaplain's Court, Division 6. If no Chaplain's Court exists in the local org then one surely does in the Continental Org and one can file such a suit there or at Saint Hill.

Seniors let down by juniors had better file job endangerment chits before calling a lot of Ethics actions. Staff members are seldom willful, they are just unknowing. Senior chits on juniors should carry a copy to the junior on channels as well as Ethics.

When one finds he has been falsely reported upon he should file a job endangerment chit.

Ethics action is not necessarily taken because a chit has been filed on one. But if too many chits occur in a staff member's file, an investigation should be ordered and only if the Board so recommends does Ethics action then occur.

Don't sit around muttering because you are being kept from doing your job.

And don't be timid about filing a job endangerment chit.

Don't accept orders you know are against policy or at least unworkable. File a job endangerment chit.

There is no vast THEY weighing you down. There is only ignorance of policy or misinterpretation or arbitrary interference.

If you are willing to do your job, then know your job and do it. And if you are being shoved off so you can't do it you MUST file a job endangerment chit.

You have a right to do your job, you know.

Copyright ©1966, 1968

by L. Ron Hubbard

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

[Note: The reissue expanded the section under "Where to File".]