My husband wanted to succeed at
this Amway business, even though the odds - with over a 99% failure rate
- were stacked against him that he wouldn’t. More than becoming
financially secure, success in Amway would mean basking in the
bliss from the Amway cult leaders that he adored so much.
All over the Internet are blogs and forums from former Amway IBO’s who say much
of the same thing. They worked hard and put a lot of time and effort into
building an Amway business and it didn’t pan out. Also on the Internet you will
see plenty of posts from current IBO’s who parrot their upline and said the
reason these people didn’t sponsor anyone is because they didn’t work hard
enough or didn’t put in the effort.
Sure there are IBO’s out there who signed up due to pressure from friends or
family. They paid their $150, got their start up kit, and that was the extent
of their Amway involvement. Those people probably had no intention of putting
in any work, just wanted to help out the person who hounded them into signing
up.
I’d say my Ambot worked hard and put in plenty of effort to build an Amway
business. He spent hours glued to the computer taking the Amway university
program. He spent hours studying the Amway literature and product magazines. He
memorized everything and could answer questions about the plan or products and
knew as much or more than the fucking assholes in his Amway upline. He spent
hours listening to tapes and reading books that his upline pressured him to
buy. He spent many hours each week hounding prospects to come to meetings. He
went to every Amway cult meeting, rally, seminar, and major function. Those
meetings ate up at least 50 hours a month and if a major function out of state
for the weekend was in there, easily over 100 hours a month attending Amway
meetings including travelling to them.
Let’s not forget the hours each week he spent talking on the phone and dealing
with the endless text messages with the fucking assholes in the Amway upline.
Ambot easily doubled, if not tripled, Amway’s estimate of 10 to 15 hours
per week once all the meetings, listening to tapes, and studying Amway is added
up.
Ambot put in plenty of time and effort and his upline still rode his ass
accusing him of not working hard enough. He was told the reason he wasn’t
succeeding at the Amway business was because he was lazy and not trying hard
enough.
Let’s see. Someone investing at least 100 hours a month into any project is not
a lazy person. They are on a mission and determined to succeed and accomplish
their goal even when the odds are stacked against them, like Amway’s success
rate is a fraction of less than 1%.
What kind of motivation techniques is the upline using accusing people of being
lazy, not trying, not working hard enough? This is clearly more than my Ambot’s
upline because so many former IBO’s have the same story that their upline (not
related to ours) said the exact same thing.
And this fucking Amway bullshit is still being taught today judging by all the
Amway assholes who leave comments here screeching that we didn’t work hard enough,
we’re lazy, and we didn’t put enough effort in. But not a single one of these
Amway motherfuckers will define what is working hard. Sure in the real world
everyone has different definitions of thinking they’re working hard but there
is probably a tangible line. Not a single Amway motherfucker can answer that
question when it comes to working hard enough in Amway.
Fuck you Amway and fuck all your scammy little Ambots!
There are better ways to motivate people.
Oh I forget. Upline is not there to motivate. They are there to brainwash. Like
the good cult leaders they have been trained to be, they scold, they mock, they
punish, they blame. Even more than wanting to succeed at an Amway business, the
followers want to please their cult leader. They try harder, they put in more
effort. They are scolded and belittled time after time when they don’t get
results, specifically sponsoring new IBO’s.
Fortunately, many IBO’s get tired of this degrading treatment and quit “the
business”. Sadly not always before some major financial and emotional damage
has been done.
And one more time from marriedtoanambot let’s just send another big old FUCK
YOU out to Amway Scamway and their scammer army of Ambots.
Anna, I think the main reason why your husband's up-line was so abusive and insulting to him was this: up-line KNEW VERY WELL that your husband was working intensely and fiercely, probably more than anyone else in the down-line. But your husband still wasn't making any real profit, and this was a red flag -- it showed that the entire Amway system was flawed and rigged. So up-line had to insist that the failure to make money was totally your husband's fault, and nothing else.
ReplyDeleteIf they didn't do this, it would be an admission that Amway doesn't really work for the vast majority of IBOs, even the dedicated ones. And that would violate a major dogma of the Amway religion,
A person who is working his ass off in Amway, and not making money, is living proof that the propaganda bullshit of Amway promoters is simply not true. And so the only thing up-line can do is be abusive and insulting to the IBO who is a very hard worker but not succeeding.
That's a good point Anonymous. In Amway you're always being screeched at that you're not making money because you're not working hard enough. Then when you get someone who is working his ass off trying to get one downline and make a sale there is living proof to the others in the room who aren't working so hard that it doesn't matter how hard you work there is no way you'll make money in ScAmway. It's a system designed for failure even if you are a hard worker.
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