Platinums, Emeralds, and Diamonds would always tell their flock to counsel with upline. Learn from your upline. Follow their teachings. Be like your Amway upline.
My Ambot and occasionally myself had to put up with being “counselled” by upline.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” I would say to the Ambot. “What credentials do these kids have to be counsellors.”
“They’re our upline,” he would parrot back to me.
I guess the subliminal message was that we should put them up on a pedestal and worship them. Not going to happen as far as I’m concerned. I’ve known our sponsor for many years, never liked him. Irresponsible and unreliable are his best attributes and it goes downhill from there. I can’t tell you how much I aspire to be like him. LOL! Always behind on the rent, being threatened with eviction, having the phone cut off, debt collectors phoning constantly, cars always breaking down. Yeah, I want to be like my upline! LOL! Fucking loser!
OK lets see. Us. We’ve been running a business for many years and doing quite well. We own our own house, not our first home either. We’ve purchased up as our finances have allowed. We own nice vehicles, not brand new, but fairly recent models. We have investments. We have a good lifestyle with our hobbies, travelling, and people in our lives.
Them. The “upline to counsel with”. At least twenty years younger than us. Working jobs like janitor, coffee shop cashier, construction, salesperson. All decent enough jobs if you’re earning an honest living. No savings. Lots of debt. Renters. Drive clunker vehicles.
Hmm. Who should be taking advice from whom here?
But Ambot was dead serious. “I must counsel with upline.”
And off he’d go to gather whatever learned advice he could from these morons.
We’ve all been young, had to save up to buy our first home, had cars that broke down at inconvenient times, and most of us have had dead end jobs that don’t bring in nearly enough income. We all have to start out somewhere and it takes time to save and reach a comfortable stage in our lives.
I sure didn’t pass myself off as any type of counsellor when I was that age.
“Counsel with upline” when upline doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t have life experience. Bad idea.
Here’s a good idea for the kids who insist their downline counsel with them. Buy errors and omissions insurance. Give someone the wrong advice during a counselling session and risk getting your ass sued off.
Its a wise business decision anyway to have this type of insurance no matter what your career is. Funny I don’t seem to recall anyone upline recommending to IBO’s to cover your ass and purchase proper business insurance.
There is an absurd idea floating around in Amway, and it goes like this: if you are involved in Amway, you are an expert on everything in life, and can give other people infallible advice on any subject at all.
ReplyDeleteThis is why Amway freaks think that their up-line is a combination of Albert Einstein and the Pope: brilliant and infallible!
Face it, folks -- your up-line is just a typical jackass, trying to make money out of a nickel-and-dime soaps-suds MLM. If he were smart, he wouldn't be in Amway.
Anonymous- yes it’s well brainwashed into Ambots that because they’re in the Amway cult that automatically makes them experts in everything.
DeleteLOL!
They’re only experts in being jackasses & snake oil salesmen!
Well done. The tragedy is that MLM is presented as a legitimate business opportunity when nothing could be farther from the truth. So many people get taken in by the promise of owning their own businesses, only to find out that it's nothing of the sort. I fell for this myself and am sadder but wiser for the experience. I think your humor adds to the enjoyment of reading the post. It is my hope that your readers will take heed--but probably they won't because the "dream" is so compelling.
ReplyDeleteHi rjhatley. I’m glad you found us! Around here we aim to entertain as well as educate. Most of the entertainment comes from bashing Amway assholes!
DeleteYup Ambots are brainwashed to believe that they are big shot hot shit business owners when all they are is low paid commissioned sales reps for people who own the Amway business. In other words if your last name is not Vanandel or Devos you do not own an Amway business.
Amway Ambots are too stupid to get that.
The trouble is that, the longer you are in the Amway racket, the harder and harder it becomes to get out. You have lost thousands of dollars, and you see no way to recoup that money except by "hitting it big" by becoming a Diamond. And if you can see no other option for yourself, then you are basically trapped in Amway forever as a down-line contributor to your Platinum's wealth.
ReplyDeleteThe real victims of Amway are the small-town schlubs who do $100 PV every month for ten years running, without ever managing to recruit any down-line for themselves. They get nowhere, they bleed money endlessly, and they live on hope.
Anonymous- it’s kind of like sitting at a slot machine that’s eating all your money but you don’t want to leave because you’re about to hit it big any minute now.
DeleteActually you have a better chance of making money in a casino than you do with Scamway.
And yup the longer Ambots stay in Amway the higher the financial losses. Compared to the people who spend 10 to 15 hours a week for 2 to 5 years in a casino I know which group is making more money and having more fun.