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!
Monday, April 18, 2016
The Magic Of Not Giving A Fuck
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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!
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If you're in Amway, you have to pretend that you like sitting at those stupid meetings and night owls and functions. You have to wear a fake smile, and keep saying that everything is going great with your business, even though you are hemorrhaging funds to your bloodsucking up-line.
ReplyDeleteThis is all part of that "positive thinking" crap. You are required to be upbeat and cheery about EVERYTHING! It's sickening.
And yes -- the persons you have to associate with are the stupidest, dullest, least educated buffoons that can be imagined. No interest in ANYTHING outside of Amway! Nothing at all! They don't give a shit about music, or art, or literature, or fine dining, or anything at all that isn't connected with Amway.
Ask yourself -- do you really want to spend years of your life hanging out with philistine assholes of this type? With small-town dorks in cheap business suits? With people whose mental horizon is limited to their monthly PV?
An Ambot becomes free when he finally says to himself "I don't give a fuck about these stupid people and this stupid business plan. I'm outta here!"
Anonymous - yup you've described an Amway Ambot. Wearing a stupid suit and a stupid smile during stupid Amway meetings.
DeleteTherefore the term - AMBOTS!
I still wonder why my cousin joined Amway back in 1971. He was such a nice guy -- so kind, so perceptive, so willing to learn. And as I have mentioned in past posts here, he had a love of art and culture and music and fine literature back then.
ReplyDeleteSo what the hell happened?
As I ponder it, it occurs to me that he came from a working-class family that was rising up to comfortable middle-class status. His neighborhood was nice, but not fancy. He was the first in his family to go to college.
And then it hit me -- the older men around him! The men in his neighborhood were self-employed, working to middle class types. They ran small garages, or maybe grocery stores. One had a laundromat. Another had a motor vehicle franchise. Some were civil servants like police or firemen. One guy had a hardware store, another a delicatessen. None of them had desk jobs in offices.
These men shaped my cousin's worldview. He looked up to guys like this. They were independent, hard-working, hard-as-nails guys who knew the value of a dollar and the importance of labor. They were shrewd and tough. I remember how my cousin would talk with these men, in a tone of deep respect and reverence for their skill and tenacity.
So what happens -- a tragedy. Some fucking Amway schmuck comes along and tells my poor cousin (he was only 23 at the time) that he too could become an "independent" and "profit-making" man just like all of these guys around him. Hard work and persistence and devotion to a goal was all he needed! And my cousin swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker.
I wonder if this is a common pattern in the recruitment of young male IBOs. Are they trying to emulate the successful men around them, by taking a fake shortcut to success?
Anonymous - I'd say most family of people recruited by a cult wonder how the hell it could have happened. Hundreds of people moved to Jonestown Guyana to become jungle slave laborers. Why would people do that? Why do people worship the Great Amway God. If there was an answer or a way to stop people from getting scammed by these evil cult leaders that would be as great an invention as sliced bread!
DeleteWhat's really funny is that my cousin, as soon as he signed up in Amway, tried to recruit all of those men around him who had garages and delicatessens and grocery stores and motor vehicle franchises to join Amway too.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't laugh in his face, but politely declined.
Anonymous - at least it was nice they didn't laugh in his face the way most people do when they hear someone is in Amway.
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