I usually do one big grocery shopping trip a month and inbetween I shop as needed for perishables. Ambot had been so preoccupied with Amway meetings that we’d fallen behind on shopping and running low on everything. We had our night set aside that we were going shopping and shortly before we headed out the door his cell phone chirps that he has a text message. I tell him to ignore it because the only texts he gets are from some upline asshole.
Sure enough the arrogant prick that sponsored Ambot and the fucking idiot that sponsored him have scheduled an immediate meeting at Taco Bell. I tell Ambot to tell them to fuck off - we have other plans. Instead Ambot declares that we must drop whatever we’re doing because these cultists expect him to be available at their beck and call 24/7. Well seeing as how we hadn’t eaten dinner yet I said I’d eat some Mexican fast food and then we go grocery shopping. And I mean it. Before the store closes.
For the life of me I can’t remember what those two assholes wanted other than to harass us about “the business”. These two bastards are much younger than us and although Ambot was of the attitude that they’re our upline and we must treat them like gods and kiss their asses I wasn’t under any similar brainwashed delusions. I made it very clear to those two bastards that I had to get to the grocery store before it closed even though they kept trying to sway Ambot to stay in Taco Bell so they could go over some very important business strategies. I sort of won this battle because Ambot and I headed to the store but those two fucking idiots followed us in their car. What are they going grocery shopping for? They both still lived at home and had their mommys taking care of the shopping and cooking.
Those two idiots told Ambot to find prospects in the grocery store. Oh shit how embarrassing is that. There’s a security guard standing outside the store so Ambot pounces on him while I push the grocery cart into the store and abandon him to his stupid Amway games. Eventually Ambot catches up to me and tells me the security guard is a hot prospect and he got his phone number. How sick is that? Its like he’s trying to pick up a date at the grocery store.
Eventually those two upline bastards get bored of walking around the grocery store or else they weren’t having much luck sniping shoppers and they left. However they continued to phone and text Ambot while we were shopping so see how the prospecting is going. Ambot tried to strike up a conversation with a couple of other shoppers but mostly they looked at him like he was some weirdo while I pushed the grocery cart the hell away from his shenanigans.
Then we get to the line up for the cash register and Ambot starts talking to the man in line in front of us who looks rather uncomfortable. Ambot is using F.O.R.M. on him but bypasses F (Family) and goes right for O (Occupation). The man has something to do with developing computer games. Ambot gets that much out of him before his cell phone rings. Its the arrogant prick sponsor. Ambot gets all excited and tells his upline bastard he’s not going to believe who he’s talking to - some dude who invents computer games. After the call ends he turns back to the man who is probably wishing like hell that the cashier would move a little faster and tells him his friend that was on the phone is interested in a similar career (BULLSHIT!) and was wondering if he might be available sometime to talk to him. The man reluctantly gives Ambot his work phone number.
I have no idea if Ambot or the arrogant prick ever tried to contact the man. Probably lost the piece of paper the number was written down on.
I don’t know what’s more embarrassing. Faking interest in somebody’s career in the hopes of trying to trick him to come to an Amway or trying to snipe grocery shoppers to come to Amway meetings.
Ambots always say there's no other business out there like Amway. Yeah I'd say I can't think of any other company that sends their employees out to forage for prospects in places where most people don't want to be bothered by some rabid cult follower.
Has anyone else come to the realization that 9 out of the 10 steps of CORE have absolutely NOTHING to do with making money? Showing the plan, the ONLY step that contributes to "building" the biz. So 90% of what you do, just takes your money and time. And the platinums and above make money off of that. How don't these ambots see that?? You're being tooled, wake up!! I was a positive person who knew how to make good association and loved to read before I was in WWDB. Why did I have to pay for their stuff, to teach me to be something I already was? There is NO training in it, it's just stuff to make you warm and fuzzy inside and put your money into the pockets of uplines who didn't earn it. Another thing that is a little precarious is that they put almost no emphasis on retailing, just do enough to get 50pv to collect your shitty little bonus. Uh, wait a minute. So instead of retailing as much as possible, and getting full cash retail profit in my pocket, I should just do enough to get by, and spend my money on 100pv for myself to get a $10 bonus back? WTF??? What business logic is that?!?! Wow. If my wife and I only retailed, and kept EVERY dollar we made, and never did our 100pv and were not WWDB members, we would actually have been in the positive net profit somewhere in the $4-6 thousands. Instead, we did it like they teach, and were at a total net loss of 8-10K in 2 years of participating in WWDB with function costs, orders, memberships etc. etc. The only ways we actually made profit, (retail) ironically had NOTHING to do with WWDB. BS business plan, and if you are someone that tries to drag people into it, you have no soul. I think I could have bought a nice vacation for $4-6K, a vacation no one will ever get being in WWDB, one they'll all 'dream' about. This propted me to start a second savings, and take the money that I would have put into the biz before into this account, and every year do the vacation I dreamed about doing while in the Biz. This way, I'll actually have the time and money to do it. I'll send some post cards, going where I want, with no amway agenda. I'M taking my life BACK!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - thank you for stopping by with your first hand view of the average Ambot experience. I'd say the wives of most ambots have figured out that CORE is more useless than a sack of shit Platinum! CORE only serves to get the upline richer not the Ambot richer as is lied to you by the speaker at every Scamway meeting. You're lucky your losses weren't more. I've had former ambots show up here who have lost 50k or more. As you said money that could go towards a vacation. Or a car. Or a down payment on a house. Most people can learn more about business by going to a library and checking out a how to start your own business book than they could if they went to 1000 Amway meetings. Enjoy your travels! Ambots can't afford to travel because that money must be spent buying Amway products and motivational materials.
DeleteWe are one of the lucky ones. The only reason we didn't lose more is because we went against the grain and really did build up quite a retail business along with it (well, my wife did). That helped pad the losses. I put a tight leash on our 'biz' budget too, because I had a sense of this in the beginning, because the mechanics of the 'biz' didn't sit that well with me. Still lost in the end though. I'm just happy now we aren't going to spend 10 years dragging ourselves through that miserable journey. You know what they say, "you lose a thousand bucks, then spend ten thousand trying to get it back." That should be the biz motto of WWDB. It'd be accurate at least.
DeleteAnonymous - you did what most ambots don't do. You kept an eye on your expenses. There's a reason part of the business training does not include something most business owners do - keep a profit and loss statement!
DeleteYour blog is awesome covered in fabulous! I've NEVA been solicited by Amway. I went to a Cutco recruitment meeting about 20 years ago. It was lame.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anonymous! Glad you're enjoying my blog.
DeleteAnonymous, you are so lucky! There are certain places that are crawling with ambots, and you can't get out to a mall or a park or Starbucks without one bumping into you... While I was in, I was prospected a lot. As soon as they started talking I knew what they were up to. And inside I would just cringe. It made me so uncomfortable and uneasy, you felt like you were being sales pitched. Even as someone that was in the biz I felt this way. That is why I left. It's sales, no matter how much emphasis they put on it that it isn't. I didn't want to do that to people.
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