I’ve been to enough Amway
meetings where the Platinum or Diamond speaker shows contempt to anyone who has
a job.
They sneer at people who have jobs. They put down people who have jobs. They
criticize people who have jobs. They demand to know why IBO’s are working for
other people.
The brainwashing just goes on and on and on.
Soon the IBO’s duplicate their upline and sneer at people who have jobs and
show contempt for people who work for someone else. These same IBO’s hold down
jobs themselves. When we were in Amway no one in our line other than ourselves
were self-employed and very few crossline were self-employed.
Most IBO’s are employed by others and armed with the hateful things they have
to say about people with J.O.B.s it doesn’t take long for their shitty attitude
to infiltrate the workplace. They criticize their co-workers and probably their
boss because they’re all fucking morons for having a J.O.B. and working for
someone else instead of themselves. They probably start complaining about how
much they hate their job and they can’t wait until they’re finally free, thanks
to Amway. Better keep your mouths shut or that day might come sooner than you
think! And you won’t be financially free when it does!
Employees that complain about how much they hate their job usually don’t last
too long in the workplace. They either quit or they’re fired. No workplace
needs that kind of negativity bringing the moral down or irritating the other
employees who have to listen to the Amway drunken IBO spout off their
brainwashed bullshit.
I was amazed at the number of IBO’s in our line or crossline who became
unemployed in a period of several months. I could certainly understand why
their employers didn’t want to keep them around because they all had this
brainwashed “J.O.B.’s Suck” attitude. I never saw any of them find another
J.O.B. while we were still in Amway and most of them resorted to taking odd
jobs wherever they could find them.
Being the nice guy that he is my Ambot tried to help a few of them out whenever
he heard of someone who needed casual labor help doing maintenance around the
house or short term help for their business. Sometimes he even heard of people
looking for permanent employment rather than short term gigs but Ambots weren’t
usually interested. It’s beneath a “business owner” to work for someone else.
I talked about our friend who’s a painter in a previous
post who occasionally hires helpers for large jobs. Ambot managed to get
an unemployed IBO on as his helper. It wasn’t a particularly large job either.
About a 1600 square foot house, 2 stories, 3 bedrooms but it needed painting
inside and out. Shouldn’t take 2 men too long especially since it was empty and
being repainted prior to the new owners moving in. Getting the inside painted
first was obviously the priority.
Our painter friend will never hire that IBO again because he was slower than
shit. He did a good job but according to our friend, the IBO was
S..L..O..W..... For $15/hour I could see why he wanted to drag the job on as
long as he could especially since he had no other work lined up. In addition to
being a too slow painter, the IBO further annoyed our friend by spending huge
amounts of time on his cell phone, calls and texts. If that wasn’t bad enough
he brought a boom box and blasted out the latest Amway CD from his tools order.
Yeah I wouldn’t hire that bastard again either!
Ambot actually found another day job for him. Some friends of ours decided to
turn their shed in the back yard into a clubhouse for their teenage son. The
interior, about 10’ x 15’, needed to be sanded down in preparation for
painting. There was some tool they were able to rent for sanding but neither of
them wanted to sand so Ambot recommended the slower than shit bastard but
cautioned he was really S..L..O..W..... They didn’t care as long as he was
conscientious and did a good job. Ambot suggests rather than paying him by the
hour that they pay the bastard $150 for the job whether it takes him 5 hours or
10 hours. So they all agree on that. For some reason we ended up getting
involved in picking up the sander from the rental place. I guess our friends
couldn’t get there before going to work. I picked up the tool and brought it
over to their shed. Ambot phoned slow-as-shit to tell him to get it back to the
tool rental place before they closed at 5pm. The bastard arrived around 9 or
10am and started work. At 2:30 he phoned Ambot to say he was nearly done and
ready to start cleaning up. I’m not sure how long it takes to sweep up or
vacuum the sawdust in what’s a relatively small room that is bare but I’m sure
my friends or their son could have done it when they got home probably take
them no more than 10 minutes. Around 5:10 the bastard phones Ambot to
double check the address of the tool rental place. Ambot is pissed! What part of
“they’re closed at 5pm” did he have trouble understanding? The bastard decides
to drive over there anyway and see if someone is still at work. No luck. He
eventually brings the sander back to our house. The rental place opens at 7am
and if we can get it back by 7:30 our friends won’t be charged an extra
day. So now I’m inconvenienced because I have to haul my ass out of
bed early the next morning to return the damned sander.
We never recommended that bastard for any other odd jobs. I mean instead of getting
the tool back to the shop - about 10 minute drive away - he stayed inside the
shed fucking around on his phone for 2 hours!
Our friends needed more help with their shed renos into teen clubhouse. They
wanted to get a phone line and cablevision line out there so they could put in
a TV and phone. Another friend of theirs was going to wire it from their house
to the shed and said they should dig a trench so he could feed the wires
through plastic pipes and bury it. They needed a trench dug and I’m not sure
why they didn’t get their teenager and some of his friends to dig it but they
didn’t. Ambot knows another out of work IBO a young fellow who looks pretty
strong. He’s offered $100 to dig a trench about a foot deep and 25 feet from
the house to the shed. Shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours because its
really nice soft soil, easy digging. It takes him 4 hours because of all the
time he spends on his cell phone. But he got the job done.
I would never hire an IBO for any job for the reasons I’ve already listed. They’re
negative toward work, they waste too much time on the phone, they want to crank
the volume on Amway CD’s, and they have a bad attitude. You pay somebody to get
a job done you want them to do the work and not fuck around with texting, phone
calls, recruiting prospects, selling Amway shit, blasting Amway motivational CD’s,
and otherwise being annoying.
Yes I discriminate! Lazy ass Amway IBO’s need not apply!
Anna, these examples that you give of how rotten Amway freaks are at actual work are really interesting. They show that, despite of all the rah-rah bullshit that Amway preaches about "free enterprise" and "hard work," the average Ambot is a lazy prick with a bad attitude towards any kind of labor.
ReplyDeleteBeing on a cellphone when you're in the middle of hard manual labor (as these two guys were) is a sign of pretentious snobbery. These two shitheads had been brainwashed to believe that they were "Independent Business Owners," and therefore they had to play the part of a bigshot with a phone pasted to his ear all day to get "important calls." Who the hell needs a call from your up-line when you're in the midst of painting a house, or sanding wooden floors, or digging a trench?
Amway promotes a naive arrogance in all of its IBOs -- an arrogance that makes them unsuitable for any honest labor.
Anonymous - that's exactly it! Amway Ambots have a bad attitude towards any type of work because they're arrogant prick Amway "business owners" and that sense of entitlement that it's beneath them to work for other people.
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