One of our readers had this to say the last time we posted no more embarrassment or pressure after leaving ScAmway:
Anna, this is exactly what I
remember from my days in Amway: the deep embarrassment of having to bother
strangers by asking them annoying questions that would lead to showing them
"the Plan."
It was horrible. You'd have to approach someone at a party, or at a family
gathering, or at a coffee shop, and strike up an unwanted conversation with
him. You had to be like a whore under a lamppost, accosting every male who
passed by and soliciting him. You had to be like the guy hawking hot dogs at a
ball game. In short, you had to be a constant pain in the ass to other people.
It was excruciatingly unpleasant. I wanted to sit freely and talk freely with
guests at a party. I wanted to relax and shoot the breeze with my relatives at
a family gathering. I wanted to have a leisurely lunch at the coffee shop, not
be sizing everyone up as a potential "recruit." I didn't want to draw
circles on a napkin and explain a plan which (even back then) I thought was
imbecilic and unworkable.
The entire culture of Amway forces you to be an obnoxious, intrusive, obsessive
busybody. You have to be like those tedious Jehovah's Witnesses who ring your
doorbell every Sunday morning wanting to talk to you about God.
Yes -- your are right. One of the best things about quitting Amway is that you
don't have to be a nuisance to strangers.
The entire Amway mentality is rooted in the idea that you MUST be a pain in the ass to everybody around you. If you're not, you're passing up opportunities to get rich.
ReplyDeleteThis is why nearly everyone hates Ambots and tries to stay clear of them. These Amway freaks have a one-track mind, and they will zero in on you like flies on carrion.
Anonymous - that is so true. Were these Amway losers born assholes or did they work hard at becoming assholes after signing up to the Amway cult!
DeleteAmway freaks don't seem to understand that normal people HATE being solicited for anything. When a stranger approaches you with some stupid shpiel about a business proposition, most persons get angry and impatient. When they get a phone solicitation, they hang up quickly. When the Jehovah's Witnesses ring their doorbell, they tell them to get lost.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of people, when they watch TV, simply mute a commercial when it comes on. Nobody wants to listen to bullshit from some merchant. And yet these Amway assholes think they will have luck bothering strangers in Barnes and Noble or Starbucks or a fast-food place or a shopping mall with their stupid Amway "Plan".
Imagine that you're sitting quietly in the park, reading a paper, or eating your lunch at a counter, and some asshole comes up to you and wants to draw little circles on a napkin to show you how to get rich. Your first reaction is to think "Who is this fucking moron?" Your second reaction is to say "I'm not interested; please leave me alone."
This is why it is incredibly difficult to build a down-line in Amway. It is also why on-line hucksters are now offering to sell you "ways to generate leads" for your Amway business. The old procedure of making a huge list of all your relatives, friends, neighbors, schoolmates, colleagues, and acquaintances is now recognized (even in Amway) as basically useless. And accosting total strangers is worse than useless.
So who gets recruited into Amway? Generally these types: the stupid, the witless, the unemployed, the inexperienced young, the desperate, the dreamers, the lonely, the dopes. It explains a lot about the cultural wasteland that one encounters at any Amway gathering.
You're right Anonymous. Most people don't want to get bugged by others pushing their "business" proposition, religion, window washing, or what have you. Whether you're an Amway Ambot, a JW, telemarketer, or random scammer. Normal people don't want to be bugged with your sales pitch. If we're looking for something, we all know how to hit the Internet and do a search or ask others for recommendations.
DeleteAn Amway Ambot bugging us at the grocery store, B&N, or coffee shop asking if we want to get rich makes us all go: who is this fucking loser?
Yup those are all people who get recruited into Amway. But Ambots also prey on the disadvantaged and new immigrants with their promises of paying off all your debt and having bazillions of dollars in residual income rolling in every month from Amway.