My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
An Amway Employee Who Graduated From Amway University Speaks Up!
12 comments:
Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!
If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:
1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.
2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.
3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.
4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.
5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!
6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.
7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.
8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?
9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.
10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.
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ReplyDeleteBruce
Thanks Bruce. Right back at you!
DeleteMy excuses for poor grammer is English is my 2nd language. This person from Ada seems to be your typical ambot or amway employee. Probably a high-school dropout and making minimum wage and selling soap
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - that's what I say. Typical Amway employee.
DeletePerhaps you do not understand. Qualifications to be an Amway employee (not IBO) is get hired by a temp agency, Then pray to whoever you worship that they hire you full time. Percent chance of that happening is probably around 5%.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous. I've had Amway employees stop by to complain about their employer. Mostly the shitty wages, shitty working conditions, no benefits after 20 years that sort of thing. Shitty employers keep staff as temps so they can get out of benefits, etc. Amways not the only one but 95% are temps, thanks for the update. I think most staff should be praying they find a better job with a company that will treat them decent.
DeleteWow, even as a temp...you have to admit that if (s)he is really this illiterate, we have a problem here! I can't even decipher what this individual is trying to communicate. I've never tried this hard to understand anyone before (and I'm a high school graduate only-no college). I'm sorry you had to read that gibberish Anna, however, there are some Amway sub-humans out there unfit for "real-world" communication skills!
ReplyDeleteIts hard to decipher what anyone in Amway says!
DeleteHello! I happened upon your blog while doing a search about The Goads. I was curious to see what they were up to theses days and whether or not they were still involved with the motivational Amway functions. I do enjoy the one Christian album they put out, even if they did change the words to a couple of their songs from the motivational side to being a Christian-themed song. I know this particular blog post isn't about the Goads, but I wanted to share how I got here.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I keep reading about Amway emoloyees in ADA, MI. The example you poasted from the alleged customer service rep sounds more like an ambot troll than an actual employee. I have SOME minimal insight to ADA and Amway, itself, as I, too, was an ambot for about four years in the late 80s. I credit my experience with them for giving me such an arrogant attitude at the time that I willingly let my Air Force career (eblisted) go down the drain. Wanted to do 20yrs, but NO! I was going to retire in about 3-5 years as a Diamond! I am getting pissed just thinking about it now.
I also can say that my cousin's husband was an actual Amway executive. I believe he was responsible for the overall printing operation for the catalogs. Not sure. He was an executive VP, though, for a time there, and eventually retired in his mid 50s, but from a different company. He once told me that Amway employees are just that....employees. If they wanted to join the IBO side of the business, they would have to quit working for Amway, itself. Strange that that policy is in olace. You would think that they would encourage their employees to succeed and move on within the system. This information is well over 20 years old, and may have changed.
Thought I would share. Hope I was able to contribute. I have enjoyed this blog. I tend to go back and get some negativity training in order to remind me that this was all complete bull. I was in utter shock when I learned about the volume of cash coming from the tools side of the business. That's when it all made sense.
Even after over 20 years, I still find myself wondering "what if", having been conditioned in this cult for four years. Fortunately, my bullshit detector is fine tuned and I can tell when I'm being prospected by anyone from any MLM. World Ventures was my most recent experience...vacation travel agent MLM. That's for another post, though.
Hi Tom. Thanks for stopping by with your story. Sorry I can't help you on the Goads but occasionally people leave comments here about listening to their songs and listed off the titles which all had to do with signing people up for Amway or something similar. Yup people around here have their bullshit detectors on full blast after having being subjected to Amway!
DeleteOne more thing, I pride myself on my writing skills, including spelling. My post was typed into a phone with only a small window in which to proof read. I was aghast when I saw the finished product! Please accept my humble apologies!
ReplyDeleteTom I must say way to go for typing all that out on a phone!
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