Our sack of shit Platinum was a
dictator who ordered his cult followers around and demanded complete obedience.
They better follow his orders or else! The or else would be public ridicule at
the next Amway cult meeting where he would berate the unfortunate ambot. And
then he would ignore them. Amway cult excommunication.
I remember an instance where Ambot busted his ass getting our chairs to a cult
meeting but we had something else going on that night and he was unable to
attend. I was pissed off about the chairs. Someone upline had ordered Ambot to
bring the damn chairs even though we weren’t going to be at the cult meeting.
Of course they asked Ambot who was only too happy to serve them seeing as how
the sack of shit Platinum had stroked his ego by calling him a server. No one
called me to ask about borrowing the chairs and bringing them to the
meeting because my answer would be NO. Wait a second. My answer would have been
FUCK NO! If you want to borrow the fucking chairs you can haul ass to our house
and get them. And bring them back the next day. Not the other way around
especially when we’re not even attending. I had stopped going to Amway meetings
and Ambot was not going as frequently by this time. The end was in sight!
We were in the car when the fucking Platinum phoned. It was around 8pm. The
Amway warriors would be waiting for their cult leader to get the meeting going.
Its my guess the sack of shit was sitting in front of the cult followers and
had his phone on speaker.
The whole point of the phone call was to berate my husband because he wasn’t at
the meeting. Ambot didn’t have the phone on speaker but I was sitting next to
him and could hear the fucking Amway asshole chewing him out. Natter natter
natter. Bitch bitch bitch. And Ambot took the abuse silently. Just drove along
with the phone plastered to his ear listening to the sack of shit Platinum
bitch him out. And taking it. He should have passed the phone to me and I’d
have given that fucker an earful!
The next day my husband was talking to another ambot on the phone. I’m nearby
and can catch his end of the phone conversation and I gather he was getting the
gist of how he’d been the brunt of the cult leader’s rant at the previous
night’s meeting. And then he says: “I deserved it.”
Shit! This is how Amway cult leaders brainwash their followers. They are
brainwashed to believe when they don’t shut up and do as they’re told by their
cult leader that they deserve whatever abuse is doled out to them.
It all comes back to “never question upline”. If upline is abusing you its because
you deserve it.
Other “never question upline” comes up when ambots have questions about the
Amway scheme. When my husband tried to talk to the Platinum about the
compensation and said the numbers don’t add up and make sense to him he was
brushed off with “don’t question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
The cult leaders have no answers when downline starts to question how they’re
being swindled. Or if the cult leader said something at a meeting and the cult
follower investigated it further and found out it wasn’t true. Panic must set
in for the cult leaders when they’re questioned so they fire back with the only
ammunition they have “don’t question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
Rather than debate controversial issues our upline was quick to point out
negativity of various media sources.
“I don't watch TV. You can't believe what you hear on TV anyway.” Of course the
WWDB Amway cult leaders don't want people to believe the stuff on TV. The news
stories would cause ambots to snap out of the I-only-listen-to-positive drunken
mindset of the brainwashed Amway IBO.
There is nothing wrong with positive thinking. The problem is our upline Amway
cult leaders who insisted that this that and the other is “negative”.
Brainwashing the IBO’s until they refused to even hear about anything negative.
At one meeting the Emerald drew out a quadrant on the white board to indicate
IBO’s in various stages of climbing the Amway pyramid in relation to how much
TV they were allowed to watch. Lowly ambots who were just getting started were
in the zero TV watching quadrant. As an Emerald he was allowed to watch TV I
just don’t remember how much he assigned himself. Another example of “don’t
question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
Yeah right just cause you tell me I can’t watch TV doesn’t mean I’m going to
stop so fuck off!
What about reading the newspaper? That's considered negative as well. An IBO
should only be reading positive business material, preferably books that speak
positively about the Amway business.
What about looking around on the Internet? That’s considered negative as well
especially if you end up at a website belonging to an Amway critic.
What about listening to the radio while driving the car? That’s also considered
negative. Put in an Amway CD and crank those speakers!
Uh huh now that’s what I consider negative! Ha!
Success rate of telling someone who doesn’t like you to “don’t question me.
Just shut up and do as you’re told”?
Zero! I do the opposite of what you Amway cult leaders order me to do! I hit
the Internet looking for real information about Amway, real experiences by real
people financially and emotionally devastated by this cult. They might not be
happy positive stories but they’re real and true.
Not fakes like you Amway cult leaders.
Our Amway cult leaders were desperate to control the information their
followers received because that restricted the ambot’s free ability to think
for himself.
Our Amway WWDB cult leaders preached to us about not getting wrapped up in
details such as how many customers we’re supposed to have in order to be
earning a commission check from Amway. This questioning of upline authority
could ruin our business even if we suspect we’re following upline that aren’t
exactly running their business morally or legally.
“Don’t question me! Just shut the fuck up and do as you’re told!”
It's hard to believe that any self-respecting person, born as a free citizen in a free country, would join a sick and vicious mind-control cult like Amway.
ReplyDeleteWhy do it? Why take obnoxious orders from some fat-assed Platinum schmuck with no class, no culture, and no education? Why do this if you are going to be among the 99% of Amway IBOs who never make a dime in the business, and who usually lose their shirts?
The business that you describe about borrowing the chairs is absolutely intolerable. Your husband (at great inconvenience to himself) brings the chairs over, and the goddamned Platinum publicly abuses him for not attending some dipshit meeting?
The whole thing is INSANE! Those little weekly Amway meetings are TOTALLY STUPID, as every Amway IBO realizes but is too frightened to admit. All you get from them is bullshit and arrogance, dished out by your asshole up-line and Platinum.
Anonymous - it's hard to believe that things like this happen to people who you'd never thought would fall for getting brainwashed into a cult. It is scary how Amway cult leaders treat their flock.
DeleteThat's why a blog like this is so important. Others who've been in Amway write about everything that makes Amway a bad business choice - because its a scam! But this blog hits the emotional terror that goes along with the financial distress that's part of Amway.
Why would he take orders from some fucking Amway asshole instead of listening to his wife? I'm not the only woman out there who wonders what the fuck is happening to our husbands. It's scary and creepy the control the Amway cult has over its believers.
Not once did any of those fucking assholes in the Amway upline contact me and ask me to bring chairs or snacks or anything else to their Amway cult meetings. They knew the answer they'd get! You want to borrow something off someone and they're nice enough to lend it. Haul your ass over to their house and pick it up!
I just wish he'd passed that phone over to me when that fucktard Platinum called to bitch at him for not being at the Amway cult meeting. Ambot knew I'd give that motherfucker an earful and then he'd probably be in deeper shit with the Amway cult.
Those Amway cult leaders might have been able to bully him around but they didn't dare try it with me.
People get sucked into Amway because their lives are meaningless and empty. They don't really care about the money. All they want is "to belong."
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate this "need to belong" that exists in weak-willed and naive people.
Anonymous - that is very true of the Amway lifers.
DeleteThe other Ambots get sucked in by the lies that by working part time 10 to 15 hours a week for 2 to 5 years they will have bazillions of dollars in residual income rolling in from Amway for the rest of their lives while they sit back and do nothing.
That's an attractant. We'd all like to have lots of money rolling in every month. For most people its called working a job and getting a paycheck. For others it could be investments, like real estate where you receive rent from your tenants or stocks that pay dividends. For others it could be running a side gig.
But yes don't underestimate the need to belong in weak willed naive people. Also don't underestimate greed. Amway cult leaders promise an affluent lifestyle with little effort. That's an attractant. Too bad they don't mention the part of scamming you out of hundreds of dollars each month.
For the meeting that your husband couldn't attend (the one where he got the call in the car when you were with him), was that another one of those meetings where you had to pay $5 or whatever to attend?
ReplyDeleteI noticed that a lot during my time. Aside from the weekly meetings ($5), the one monthly meeting with the "bigger team" ($6), there were other meetings where you had to bring money.
The nickel and diming turned out to be more annoying than plopping big money ($93 + travel/hotel) on a the four "major" conferences each year WHICH...by the way are referred to as the, "Super Bowl of our Business Team".
But you are right about the attendance of meetings. In my group, someone would read the "9 Core Steps" after the one-hour recruiting meeting each week. And one of those steps was to "attend every event". Such BS. I attended every event for over two and a half years and I came down with strep and a bad flu over a three week period. I only missed one meeting but I remember texting my Platinum (at the time) Upline to let him know and he replied with an "OK...". Not a, "I hope you get better." or, "I'm sorry to hear that." I guess they were missing my $5 to help pay for the ballroom they were doing the "Weekly Business Briefing" in (aka the recruiting seminar).
There is nothing weak in shunning any advice these people give. "Prospects" and even "IBOs" should have their eyes and ears open at all times and remain skeptical. Because if they have just four brain cells, they should be able to see through the charade.
Anonymous - yes I also was pissed off with the $5 here and $10 there to attend Amway cult meetings.
DeleteWhat a racket the Amway scam is!
And the same thing was said at every fucking Amway meeting. What difference did it make if you didn't go.
As for your Platinum not offering sympathy and get well soon that's just more proof that the Amway upline doesn't give a shit about the downline unless they're making money off them and then they'll be all attentive.