When this post was originally
published on this blog the CBS show 2 Broke Girls was just about to begin on
September 19, 2011. In May 2017 CBS announced they’re cancelling the show. Too
bad because I kind of got into watching it but I suppose it’ll be around in
reruns. Speaking of reruns, here’s this post being rerun.
The premise is two girls in their twenties who are roommates and work as
waitresses. They’re trying to raise a couple of hundred thousand dollars so
they can open a cupcake store but in the meantime they are barely scraping by.
Gee don’t they just sound like prime targets for some crazed ambot?
You know the bullshit lines those IBO’s use on people like what do you do for a
living and if its some minimum wage type job then the ambot jumps all over them.
Wouldn’t you like to be making an extra $2000/month working part time from
home?
Sure, who wouldn’t?
What about your dreams?
Owning a cupcake bakery.
How much money will that take.
A couple of hundred thousand.
Hey how would you like to be making a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year
working part time from home.
That’s how it always starts.
Then when the IBO digs deeper and finds they’re barely scraping by, their eyes
light up and they rub their hands together in glee. Got a prospect!
The problem is if those 2 broke girls sign up with Amway if they thought they
were broke now they don’t know the meaning of the word broke! Spend at least
$300/month to meet the minimum PV requirement to get a bonus check of around
$10. Then there’s Premier Membership to WWDB for $50/month, Communikate for
$40/month, books and CDs at least $100/month, and $10 for every Amway meeting
attended in the month. If its a major function cost of ticket, food, travel,
and hotel, at least $1000.
After a few months the 2 broke girls have thrown at least $5000 each at the
Amway scheme and are way deep in the hole. They had a couple of friends buy
Amway products at the beginning but their friends don’t want to buy from them
anymore because they can buy similar products at Walmart that are better
quality and cost less money. As hard as they prospect every customer that walks
in the door of the restaurant they can’t convince anyone to come to an Amway
meeting. They’ve even tried all the tricks upline suggested inviting prospects
to a tea party, movie night, or beer bust disguised as an Amway event.
The 2 broke girls find themselves getting broker and broker by the second
thanks to the Amway scheme.
They decide to quit.
Their upline rides their asses.
“You can’t quit now. Not when success is right around the corner.”
“Only losers aren’t in Amway.”
“I guess your dream of owning a cupcake store just wasn’t big enough.”
“Think of all those poor homeless little cupcakes that are going to die because
you don’t open up a store and sell them.”
The 2 broke girls tell their upline to fuck off and die.
To celebrate getting the Amway albatross off their necks they stop at a 7-11 on
the way home and buy a lottery ticket. They win half a million dollars and are
able to open their cupcake shop anyway. Unfortunately it becomes a hang out for
ambots to hold meetings at and they pester the cupcake clients. The 2 formerly
broke girls file a complaint with Amway’s head office who don’t give a shit and
do nothing.
Well if you can’t beat them join them. The 2 formerly broke girls start to
offer ambots free chocolate cupcakes and that really packs their restaurant
when word gets out.
Specially made for Amway IBO’s they’re loaded with ex-lax.
Ironically out of service signs always are posted on the cupcake store’s
restrooms whenever ambots are in there.
And they said Amway doesn’t give a shit!
Anna, the real moral of this little story is that Amway preys upon those who aren't making it. It seeks out the small-time, marginal workers who don't really have a chance to make it big.
ReplyDeleteThere are exceptions, but a successful doctor or lawyer or stockbroker isn't going to sign up in a dipshit MLM like Amway. It's going to be those two struggling girls, wanting to open a cupcake shop.
It's ironic how your lying up-line says that "Only losers aren't in Amway." The actual fact is that the vast majority of those IBOs signed up in Amway are total losers, both before and after joining.
Anonymous - yes Amway Ambots usually prey on people who don't have a chance of making good money in their jobs. Mostly people who are unskilled labor. Though occasionally an Ambot will sign up a professional.
DeleteAmway Ambots are all about insulting people who aren't in the Amway cult and calling them losers. Around here we're all about throwing it back in the Ambots faces and we call everyone in their cult Amway losers so they hate being insulted even though they're quick to insult everyone who's not in Amway.
"Out of service signs always are posted on the cupcake store's restrooms whenever ambots are in there." That's cruel to not let ambots use the restrooms because they are so full of shit they need to go there.
ReplyDeleteLOL Anonymous. Good one! Amway Ambots are full of shit!
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