Once or twice a month a Diamond would come to town to show the plan. Usually an auditorium at a school was booked for this event that was scheduled to begin at 8pm. IBO’s got ripped off $10 each to listen to these Amway cult leaders.
Good IBO’s who are “serious
business builders” must show up at least an hour in advance so my husband was
usually in a panic to get there by 7pm.
Ambot enjoyed mingling beforehand with the other cult followers. I did not so
I’d bring a book (fiction, not on the required reading list) choose a seat and
sit down and read while the room filled with IBO’s excited to hear the Diamond
say the same old same old.
It pissed off the Platinum sack of shit that I didn’t mingle beforehand. He’d
get after Ambot and criticize him because I wasn’t hanging out with his wife
and doing what she was doing, sticking close to her if I wanted to be like her.
Um, no, I never said I wanted to be like her or hang out with her. She was an
OK person and I’d usually say hi to her at some point in the evening like
when we were leaving.
The mingling lasted until 8:30 or so because the Diamond was always delayed
somewhere so the Amway meeting never started on time at 8. The Diamond would
finally show up and the cult followers would jump to their feet cheering and
clapping with over the top adoration for some fucking Amway scammer. I was one
of the few who remained seated and silent.
Usually these meetings would last over 2 hours. Each Diamond’s speech was a bit
different but most of them spent the first half hour to an hour talking about
themselves, pretending to be a comedian, or talking about news events. Then
they’d spend an hour to an hour and a half giving the business plan
presentation on a Powerpoint presentation on a movie screen.
Some of these Diamonds never mentioned Amway. Other times the A word came up
towards the end of their presentation. They’d all talk about the training
system and the tools must be purchased and to bring people to the functions.
They’d all do a bunch of real fast talk when it came to the compensation.
I remember one Diamond said if the IBO finds 6 people, and they find 6 people,
and so on and so on, that in 6 to 9 months you’d earn $78,000 a year working
only 10 hours a week. Two minutes later he’d upped the ante to $250,000 a year.
By now he’s got the cult followers whipped into a frenzy so then he goes for it
a couple of minutes later. $750,000 a year in 2 to 5 years working 10 hours a
week! The cult followers are shrieking with this good news totally lapping it
up.
When the Diamond finally finished, the IBO’s would rush the stage wanting to
meet him and he’d have a group of admirers hanging around for 20 or 30 minutes.
Then he’d leave. Even the Amway cult leaders have better things to do with
their time than hang out with a bunch of Amway losers.
Occasionally the Diamond stayed for some worthless “teaching”. You know the
kind that involves telling all the IBO’s in attendance to sign up for
Communikate, buy a premier monthly membership to World Wide Destructive
Bastards, buy CD’s, buy books on the reading list, attend major functions. Buy
tools and when you’re done buy even more tools so you can give them away to
prospects. That’s the only way to become successful is buying the tools needed
to succeed at an Amway business.
Oh wait, they got that wrong. The only way to succeed at making your upline
Diamond rich is to buy tools.
If we were lucky we’d get out of there by 11pm. If not so lucky, midnight.
Usually the Diamond couldn’t rattle on into the wee hours because the school
was only booked for a set period of time. Probably the janitor was off shift
around midnight and had to lock up.
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 and the fucking Amway
Diamonds who just want to fuck you out of your hard earned money.
Fucking Amway scammers! Scum of the earth.
Sleep deprivation plays a big part in the method of keeping IBOs under control. This is why they have those stupid "night owl" meetings after the regular meetings are over.
ReplyDeleteAmway does NOT want you to think, and does NOT want you to have a sense of independence. Amway just wants you to be a totally obedient slug. When you have been artificially kept awake for hours, you are very vulnerable and suggestible.
Anonymous - as you said sleep deprivation is a huge part of how cult leaders control their flock. When someone is deprived of sleep they are more likely to agree with what is being said and more susceptible to brainwashing.
DeleteCops use this technique when interrogating suspects and get false admissions of guilt this way. The suspect is willing to agree to anything when they're tired enough.
This whole thing proves how profoundly stupid the entire Amway racket (and mentality) are. Grown-ups screaming and shouting because some half-assed Diamond (who's probably out of qualification) shows up? Who cares?
ReplyDeleteAnyone who tells you that you can make $750,000 a year working ten hours a day at a stupid MLM fraud like Amway is a total liar, and anyone who believes it must be brain-dead.
Anonymous - grown ups screaming and shouting might still happen at a Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney concert! But screaming because some fucking Amway cult leader is on the stage?
DeleteYeah wouldn't we all like to be making over half a million a year working 10 hours a week (not a day! LOL!). If that was something everyone could do then there'd be a lot of dimwits pulling this off and making more money than neurosurgeons.