And now a word from a reader who tells how sick it is working for ScAmway:
IBOS deceive people telling them they buy from their own company, but they are just distributors buying from Amway, they don’t have their own products. I know this is an old post but I worked with them for several years and I want to share my experience, maybe can be of help for someone.
Everything you see at the functions is just show off, nothing is real, it’s a very dark world inside with envy, blaming, nobody cares for you, except if they can make money from you. First, they are extremely friendly and love bombs you. A lady once told me that I’m really special and she loves me - it was the first time I meet her. They try to change your mindset - never question Upline (they are worshiped like gods), they often talk about the outside world who is trying to steal your dream (they ask you what is your dream- buying a house, a car, whatever) and then they blackmail you if you don’t work enough to make your dream come true- recruting more and more people to expand your network and so your Upline can make money).
If you don’t make money and you’re struggling with the business, they say you have to pay the price for success, you’re poor now but spend money you don’t have on products, books and fuctions you don’t need and you’ll have success in the future. They separate you from your family and friends (“ a truly friend should support your business and buy from you, are they really your friends? They are envious because they don’t want to see you successful - this is their speech. I’ve seen people talking on stage how Amway changed their life, they have a VIP life now - but many of them borrowed money to pay the ticket for the function.
I lived this because my relatives are in Amway and they blame us for having a conventional job and not willing to join them - I try to avoid them because they make us feel bad for not being successful and having “our own company”.
It’ really a cult, you lose your self esteem and self worth - you are important to them if they can make money from you, if not, you are lazy and they blame you for not following the system...
Think twice if someone is being extra nicely with you and say they want to help you make money to support your family. I’ve seen people who didn’t attend their child wedding because the function was more important. How sick is this?
Not attending a son or daughter's wedding because you have tickets for some stupid Amway "function"? Is that even conceivable behavior for a real-life human being?
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine the burning resentment and grievance of your son or daughter if you were insane enough to not appear at a wedding because you needed to obey some asshole up-line or fat-assed Platinum. The hurt and the rage would last for years.
Family is more important than anything else, especially on occasions that are major and life-changing. If you missed your child's wedding because you had to listen to bullshit from some Diamond lying about how rich he is, you would cause a breach in your family relationship that could never be healed.
People in Amway are REALLY stupid. In fact, when it comes to stupidity they are in a class by themselves.
Anonymous - we've heard all kinds of stories at Amway cult meetings where the Diamond says someone missed an event - wedding, funeral, graduation, etc to put Amway first like all good little Ambots must do. I've even heard of a jerk who went to an Amway meeting while his wife was in the hospital pushing out their baby. This is what brainwashing by a cult leader does to a person.
DeleteAnna, this enrages me. When a pregnant woman is in labor, she is putting her life on the line, in the same way that a soldier puts his life on the line when he lands on an enemy beachhead to face machine gun fire. Life or death hangs in the balance, in both cases.
DeleteA husband who would leave his wife to face giving birth alone, in order to go to a goddamned stupid Amway "function," is nothing but a piece of shit.
Anonymous - it's outrageous. And there's also the stories about how a family member is dying in the hospital or undergoing surgery or ill and the Ambot abandons them to go to an Amway cult meeting because nothing is more important in their lives than worshipping everything Amway. And pretty much everyone in Amway is a lousy piece of shit.
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