One of the things we used to
hear at Amway meetings is the only reason people aren’t in Amway is because
they have an “employee mentality” or a “job mentality” or some other similar
phrase. Usually punctuated with J.O.B. = Just Over Broke and that’s all they’ll
ever be.
I can say Just Over Broke is all most people will be for as long as they stick
it out with Amway!
Just another way of brainwashing the IBO’s into thinking they’re better than
everyone else because they’re with Amway and they own their own business and
don’t have an employee mentality.
So when did we hear the “employee mentality” sneer? Usually when we’ve told our
upline about potential prospects who weren’t interested in coming to a meeting.
The Platinum would put them down in his usual way dismissing them with bullshit
about how they’ll always have employee mentality.
The other time we heard it was when an IBO had dropped out. The sack of shit
Platinum would rant about how the escapee’s “dream wasn’t big enough”,
“employee mentality”, “broke loser”, etc, etc.
Do any of these bastards ever sit back for a minute and think about what’s so
bad about having an employee mentality?
Probably not because that means they had to grow a brain and stop being
brainwashed!
Not everyone has the personality, the intellect, the drive, the knowledge, the
learning capacity, etc to have what it takes to start a business.
Sadly there are a lot of people who have physical and mental limitations who
will never realize a dream to own a business. Do IBO’s sneer at people with
missing limbs and who have brain damage? No compassion from those upline
bastards for people who will never be Amway IBO's!
In any business the most important thing is sales. Whether that is selling your
product or your service - if you own a business you are selling yourself. Nothing
happens in your business until you get a customer and make a sale. There are
many people who are good at what they do and think they can use that skill to
open their own business but if they aren’t a good salesperson being an
entrepreneur is a bad decision. Depending on the business the owner can hire
salespeople. Its like everything else with being a small business owner. You
hire others to do the things you’re not good at, don’t have time for, or are
not qualified to do. Hiring salespeople is one thing. Teaching them how to sell
your service or product if you’re not already a good salesperson can be
disastrous and depending on the type of business, customers might only want to
deal with the owner.
I would think that some people can learn to become better salespeople. Classes
and books are available. When it comes right down to it not everyone has the
personality to be a salesperson no matter how hard they work on it.
That’s the way it is with Amway. Amway Independent Business Owner is a fancy
way of saying commissioned salesperson. The only way an IBO earns money is to
find customers to buy overpriced products and recruit others to do the same.
Commissions and bonuses are earned on the sales.
So when the upline sneers at people who aren’t interested in Amway or have quit
Amway because they have an “employee mentality” what they really should be
saying is the people who left suck at being lowly paid salespeople.
There is no shame in having an employee mentality and working for someone else.
You can’t force yourself to be a good salesperson.
I often wonder how our Platinum sack of shit rated Ambot after he quit. “That
Ambot has an employee mentality!” Yeah right. Someone who’s owned their own
business for years and hasn’t had an employer in a long time really has
an employee mentality. Let’s see. Doesn’t that Platinum bastard have a full
time job? Doesn’t he have a boss? That would be a big yessiree!
Who really has the employee mentality here? Ambot or the sack of shit Platinum?
And why does it matter?
The big mistake is thinking that the Amway racket is a business in any real sense. It isn't. It's just an MLM scam disguised as a kind of buyers' club, where if you are a member you are forced to purchase stuff you don't need, and are compelled to recruit others to do the same.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need any type of business mentality for that. In fact, if you have a genuine business mentality you will be repelled by the absurdity of Amway -- its refusal to keep profit-and-loss statements, its inventory packing, its crappy products, its stingy refunds and bonuses, its waste of time on endless rah-rah meetings, its expensive and utterly worthless 'functions," and its essentially frivolous attitude towards sales.
This last thing is the most important. Amway is about RECRUITMENT, first and foremost. All the various subsystems push recruitment of down-line as more important than anything else, including retail sales to the public.
This is in no real way a business. It is play-acting and pretending. That's why every IBO in the racket needs to keep his job.
Hi Anonymous. Yup you summeed up Amway in a few words: an MLM scam disguised as a kind of buyers' club, where if you are a member you are forced to purchase stuff you don't need, and are compelled to recruit others to do the same.
DeleteIf someone wants to work as a commissioned sales rep there are better paying options out there like car sales or real estate sales. But Ambots are brainwashed to believe they are "business owners" instead of what they really are - low paid commissioned sales reps who spend more money on the Amway pyramid scheme than they'll ever recoup.