There is something about Amway that creates hate and rage.
To those of us who used to be in “the business” and have done some research and
read other stories we can understand why the rage. Amway with the assistance of
their cult leaders causes financial distress, debt, bankruptcy, divorces,
destroys relationships, and screws people up emotionally.
A searcher found their way to this blog typing in: “I’ll just have to kill
everyone at Amway”.
My first thought is this person has just got off the phone with one of those
useless unhelpful bastards that work in Amway’s (lack of) customer service
department.
I’ve dealt with those miserable assholes with the I-don’t-give-a-flying-fuck
attitude. It is a lesson in frustration and futility that’s for sure!
I do not like Amway. I do not like people who are involved in Amway. I don’t
like the lazy ass bastards who answer the customer service phone at Amway. That
doesn’t mean I personally wish anyone connected to Amway ill harm or death but
then I like to think I’m a rational, law abiding person. I’m one of many
thousands who swallowed the losses, chalked it up as a bad learning
opportunity, a horrible business, and walked away.
And then got involved in a real fun blog cursing out fucking Amway assholes!
I can see how there would be a small percentage of people that Amway has driven
over the edge of despair. The phrase going postal comes to mind. If someone is
having difficulty with an Amway product or their Amway upline and phones in to
head office for assistance and are met with “there’s nothing we can do for you”
or “Amway is not responsible for what is said at Amway meetings” or “Amway is
not responsible for the IBO’s we hire”. You call in to head office for
assistance and nobody gives a shit. You’ve lost a lot of money in the Amway
scam and all you get from customer service is “ha ha we fucked you over!”
Someone voicing thoughts to kill everyone at Amway shows emotional imbalance.
Maybe quite rightly so after what Amway has put them through. But killing
everyone at Amway? Unfortunately this is not the first searcher who has put in
similar criteria.
People who work at Amway are no different than people who work for other
companies. The most common reason people accept jobs and stay with them is
because its a paycheck. Most employees have no particular loyalty to their
employer. If a better job comes along they are out of there. Sure some of us who
were involved in Amway think that only a low life scum sucking son of a bitch
would actually work for a company that causes so much misery around the world
but when people have bills to pay and need a job who are we to judge why they
work for a scumbag employer. I wrote another post where I said Amway employees
are no different than other corporations. Most companies only 20% of the
employees actually like working there and excel at their position. 80% of
employees its just a paycheck and they are only putting in time while waiting
for something better to come along. This is obvious to those of us who have had
the misfortune to phone in to Amway’s head office for assistance and have dealt
with employees at the customer service desk who don’t give a shit and who
aren’t helpful. I see this a lot in Google searches with people showing up at
my blog who are frustrated after trying to get assistance from Amway’s help
desk which should be more aptly titled the unhelpful desk or the
I-don’t-give-a-shit desk. Either title the customer phoning in rarely gets good
service. What else do you expect? Chances are very good the person answering
the phone at Amway is one of the 80% of employees who doesn’t give a shit about
their job.
I’ve had the experience of working for a company many years ago with a weirdo
employee - fortunately in another department! - who would fly into rages. I
always said if he ever lost his job that I wouldn’t want to keep working for
that company because he’s the only person I’ve ever known that I thought might
show up with a gun and start shooting. When he got laid off I moved on myself
about 3 months later. Even though I’d never had any run ins with him and shook
his hand and wished him well on his last day, I had my doubts about his
emotional stability and I’m sure not going to work for any company where I have
any cause of concern about my personal safety.
In case anyone’s wondering a few months after I left the building was sold and
the company merged with another company and relocated about 20 miles away.
Probably too confusing for him to try to track anyone down.
Likewise I would never work for a controversial company that inspires rage in
people and has received death threats. You just never know when that gun
wielding crazy person is going to storm through the door.
Amway is getting search engine hits from people wishing death to the employees.
I would never work for a company where people have voiced death wishes towards
employees. Maybe some of those Amway employees that are surfing the Internet
and reading my blog when they’re probably supposed to be actually getting some
work done will think twice about their choice of employer and death threats. No
job is worth dying for.
Anna, when somebody says "I'd like to kill that guy!" it's almost always just verbal hyperbole. He doesn't actually mean it, since it's just his way of letting off steam.
ReplyDeleteAbout Amway's refusal to answer any questions or give an IBO any help with a problem, it's done for legal reasons. Amway is terrified of doing anything to stir up trouble with the various AMO subsystems, and since the AMOs are legally independent from the Ada, Michigan office, Amway really can't do much to help an IBO when he has a dispute with up-line.
This is cowardly and gutless, of course. But Amway's only purpose is to rake in money, nothing else. The company really doesn't give a flying fuck about the problems that a lowly IBO has with his up-line. So Amway tells its "Help Desk" to just blow off all the complaints.
Amway is largely self-defeating, since the great majority of new IBOs quit within a year or so. The compensation is so lousy, and the demands are so intrusive, that persons just give up. The business depends on the constant "churn" of new recruits to take their place. For this reason, the key to destroying Amway isn't any kind of violence, but the short-circuiting of the recruitment process.
Anti-Amway blogs are doing it, and doing it effectively. As more and more people come to these blogs and read the horror stories about Amway, two things will happen. First, those who are not in Amway will stay out of it. And second, those who are in it will start to wonder why the hell they are staying and being ripped off.
The anti-Amway blogs have prevented thousands of persons from signing up in the rotten racket, and convinced thousands more to quit. This scares the shit out of Ada, Michigan.
Anonymous - I agree when most people say I'm going to kill you it's just their way of saying I'm going to kick your ass or I'm super pissed off with you.
DeleteHowever when said with anything Amway it could be a real death threat. Too many Amway Ambots are pure shit evil and too many people believe evil should die.
We can only hope that blogs like this scare the shit out of Amway. The truth about their MLM scam and many shared horror stories of being abused by the fucking assholes in the Amway upline, destroyed families and financial and emotional distress. These are real stories.
But Amway is arrogant enough to think what's posted on the Internet doesn't matter and that us bloggers make no difference to their sales and recruiting. Their sales have declined by about 10% for many years now and its because of brave people sharing their stories online so more lives aren't destroyed.
Our reasons for blogging are not financial. We do this because we don't want to see other people getting scammed out of their life savings or going into debt chasing the Amway nightmare.