My sister in law's ex-boss hired a consultant a few years back to help in the organisation part of the business as he felt there was some problems in the company. The company is pretty small ( some 25 emplyees at most and is in the manufacturing business, basically it is a machine shop). My sister in law does pretty much all the billing, and all teh finance part and HR of the business so she basically talks to everybody in the place at one point or another.
So the consultant comes in and the first thing he identifies as necessary is to establish everybody's tasks and what they are supposed to do and do an organigram. Since their is no human resources my sister in law is targeted by the guy as THE resource in the company to based all his work upon because she is pretty much the hub were everything transits.
During the next few months, the consultant systematically destroys any kind of self worth she had because he keep hammering the point that everything that goes wrong in the business is because of her. Because she was told by her boss to listen to everything the guy tells her she has problems voicing any kind of counterargument, especially because everything he says is not without foundation (the business is working all wacky and it must be someone's fault)
Anyway, after totally breaking her will he basically tells her is that her problem is communicationg with the rest of the people in the company. The solution is simple: Communication classes. So he gives her some documentation about it and leave it at that. It looks legit so she take the necessary arrangements to schedule classes and her boss is willing to pay since it is recommended by the consultant.
But sometimes before the classes the consultant finally hints at scientology and how it could help her with everything she experiences and he proposes new documentation and classes proposals. Not knowing anything about scientology she agrees because by then she is pretty much a zombie when with this guy.
During all this time, my brother was trying to keep her somewhat sane and because he works in the same company sees thing going on but isn't able to really say that he is trying to brainwash her or anything. In any case, when the scientology finally comes up he just put a stop to it and just said:''Just wait, let's get more info and we'll see''
So here comes the hero of this story: the intarweb. They spent like 6 hours that night on the web, reading horror story after horror story, stories that were exactly the same as hers, some different, often with an organizational consultant coming in a company and recruiting three quarters of the company within two years. So the next morning they came to work with a hundred and fifty pages of documentation that they gave to the boss and he fired the consultant on the spot after a lengthy conversation with my brother and his girlfriend.
Voilà
