Its bad enough on the night of
an Amway meeting to actually have to attend but the horror of horrors is
that there are usually several meetings planned for the evening and some ambots
have the misfortune of attending all of them. The first is a “pre-meeting” with
the Platinum but that’s only if you’ve scheduled an appointment and if the
fucker deems you worthy of his attention. This appointment could be between 5pm
to 7pm lasting 15 to 30 minutes or longer. This is usually held at a coffee
shop where the meddling bastard wants to see a budget, a phone list, or ride
everyone’s asses why they weren’t bringing prospects to meetings and lack of
customers. If we were “privileged” to have the first appointment we were
expected to buy the Platinum a coffee and snack. Even if we weren’t first
sometimes the Platinum just turned to Ambot and asked him to get him a burger.
No cash exchanged hands and of course Ambot hopped into action because the cult
leader had stroked his ego and called him a server. Yeah in more ways than one!
The board plan meeting was either held at the cult leader’s house or at the
home of someone else in our line. They started at 8pm.
I’ve got better things I can be doing at 8pm like some good TV shows are on
then. Ambot used to challenge me and say “how is watching TV making me any
money?” Well at least we weren’t losing any money by staying home and
watching TV! Can’t say the same thing about time and money wasted at Amway
meetings!
The pompous sack of shit Platinum loves the sound of his own voice. He’d spend
the first hour telling the same old bullshit stories mostly about himself and
what a wonderful cult leader he is or about something going on in the news.
Ranting and raving mostly with a good dose of religion thrown in.
Maybe take him an hour or longer to fess up and mention the dreaded Amway word.
He’d use a whiteboard and flash cards to present the Amway business plan. Eat,
drink, and duplicate. Find other people and teach them to do the same. Find
enough people and you'll be earning $300,000 a year.
The board plan drags on for 3 hours because he keeps getting sidetracked
and goes off on various rants usually something negative that's happening in
the news. The sack of shit loves spreading negativity and scaring his ambots
into submission.
I was ready to go home before I even arrived. By 11pm I just want to get the
hell out of here. Go home. Go to a bar. Go to Denny’s. Anywhere but listening
to the sack of shit!
Then the cult leader finally takes a break. Yay! We can go home. Then horrors!
It ain't over yet! Anyone who’s not a “serious business builder” or anyone who
brought guests can go home. The rest of us unfortunate bastards are stuck for
round 2 or maybe round 3 if you were unfortunate enough to be part of the
pre-meeting bullshit. Sometimes Ambot can catch a ride home with someone else
and tells me to go home. Yee haw! I don’t stick around in case Ambot or the
cult leader changes their collective brainwashed mind.
I have stayed for too many late night teachings. These meetings last another
hour or two. Very typical for Amway cult meetings to last well past Midnight.
When cult followers are tired its easier to brainwash their minds. Now is when
the pompous sack of shit criticizes the way people dress, the car they drive,
their haircut, the people they hang out with, etc. Mostly he criticizes the
group for not sponsoring anyone or bringing prospects to meetings. He'll talk
about the movers and shakers in his downline and sing their praises for the
rest of the meeting gabbing on about how those are the people going Platinum,
going Diamond. Not so far! Including him the fucking loser!
No teaching. No business advice. Lots of rants. That sums up what people are
really doing late at night at Amway meetings.
Getting brainwashed!
I really can't understand why anyone would put up with this kind of vicious and nasty regimentation. Who is this fat-assed Platinum? Why do people obey him?
ReplyDeleteYou're not in a prison or a concentration camp. There aren't any guards keeping you confined. Nobody in Amway has any legal control over you. Anybody at one of these stupid Amway meetings can just get up, grab his coat, and say "Sorry, I have to leave now," and walk out the door.
What's keeping them in slavery like this?
Anonymous - for those of us who haven't been brainwashed into a cult it's hard to understand why cult followers put up with this shit.
DeleteThose of us who aren't brainwashed by the Amway cult can observe very clearly what's going on and report on the Internet what it's really like inside the Amway cult.
I felt the same way about the weekly Business Briefings in URA which were and still are held in various hotel ballrooms around the area. Ours were usually on Thursdays.
ReplyDelete$5 a pop for standing in line an hour to get in followed by an hour to act fake nice to the recruits and to the other IBOs.
That only gets us to 8pm. Then, there is an hour to "show the plan" followed by a 20 or so minute break which is annoying.
This is followed up by "training" which takes the charade to about 10:45pm, 11:00pm or even longer.
And THEN...if you're lucky (not really), you have a Night Owl which is more "training" that goes past Midnight...all on a work night.
A total waste of time and you have to pay to endure all of that.
By the way, just curious Anna. Did WWDB charge IBOs to attend these types of open meetings? If so, how much? Just curious.
Anonymous - these Amway meetings are all the same! LOL! And all these brainwashed Ambots must go to every single one of them even though they heard the same Amway lies and bullshit the night before!
DeleteThanks for sharing your experiences!
For the multiple Amway meetings we were forced to go to that were lead by the sack of shit Platinum at a restaurant or someone's house there was no charge. Unless the asshole Emerald showed up to bullshit the cult followers then it cost $5 I think. Cash of course so the fucker could go for dinner later I suppose.
The meetings that Diamond cult leaders showed up for cost $10 but they were held in school auditoriums so someone had to pay the school to rent the room for the night.