“Duplicate your upline.”
In a nutshell that’s the secret to Amway success according to the cult leaders.
I don’t mean to insult or trash anyone’s job because everyone has to start
somewhere, but my upline expects me to duplicate them by shutting down our
business and taking a job working for someone else as a salesperson or painter?
We worked hard at regular jobs for many years until we made the break and
established our own company. I’m supposed to go backwards from a 6 figure self
employed income to minimum wage type jobs? Does not appeal to me. I’m sure if
we stayed in Amway long enough and lost all our savings, our business, our
house, and ended up deep in debt I may have had to reconsider that cashier job
at the dollar store.
How about duplicating my upline by driving around in a junker of a car that’s
always breaking down? Nah, I don’t think so. In the past 20 years I’ve always
saved up my money and then paid cash for either new or newer model vehicles and
keep them well maintained. When I was younger I drove older vehicles that
seemed to always be getting flat tires or having some sort of engine trouble.
Then I got smart and started dating mechanics. Then I got smarter and started
saving money so I could buy more reliable cars. I don’t want to go backwards on
this one either.
How about wearing business attire for 8pm Amway meetings in someone’s living
room? No not my thing. If I invite someone into my house I expect them to wear
whatever makes them comfortable. Likewise if I’m meeting someone at the coffee
shop. Whatever you want to wear is cool with me. I spent 20 years in corporate
wearing business attire. Now that I’m self employed nobody dictates to me what
I wear. If I choose to wear shorts, capris, or jeans and slap a hat on my head
that’s what I’ll do.
Gee one of the lies we were told was that in Amway we’d own our own business.
As a business owner I decide what I wear. In “my” Amway business I have some
upline asshole expecting me to wear a business suit. My blazers and skirts were
donated to charity a long time ago. Don’t expect me to run out and buy more.
How about duplicating our upline and lying to others about what this “global
business opportunity” really is? How about duplicating our upline and insulting
people who have J.O.B.s? Nope, can’t do it.
I used to see the diehard ambots at Amway cult meetings duplicating their
upline. I watched one young lady sitting beside the woman who sponsored her who
I think was around 2500 PV/month or that’s how the lie goes anyway. The
sponsor, not the new IBO. They were both sitting with their legs up on the
chairs in front of them in the auditorium. OK some people (teens) do that. At
the movies. This young IBO always dressed stylishly with impeccable makeup and
didn’t seem the type to be tossing her legs all over the place so everyone
walking by could see her undies but there the two of them were sitting side by
side in a rather unladylike manner. Hmmm. Almost sorry I didn’t think up that
one myself! I’d watch the new IBO clapping at the same time her sponsor did.
Stand up and cheer when the sponsor did. Basically she stuck to her like glue
and copied everything. She had that whole duplicate your upline thing down!
No, that’s not me. I can’t be a copycat to anyone in my upline. That is not my
style.
I’m an original!
Always the rebel, my inclination was to do the opposite that anyone in my
upline was doing. If they stood up and clapped and cheered for the speaker, I
stayed in my seat. If they walked around the room greeting people, I stayed in
my chair and pulled out the trashy novel I kept in my bag for moments like
this. If they drank Perfect Water or XS energy drinks, I’d be sucking back a
Coke. If they ate meal replacement bars or protein bars, I made a big show out
of eating a package of M&M’s. If they hung around chatting at the end of
the meeting, I was the first out the door making a beeline for my car.
Can’t say I ever did anything to duplicate our upline. Can’t say the same thing
about that bunch of Amway loser copycats.
Follow the leaders.
And from marriedtoanambot let’s just send another big old FUCK YOU out to Amway
Scamway and all the losers in their scammer army of Ambots.
In Amway, the real idea that lies behind the command to "duplicate" your up-line is to instill obedience in you. It's not a way for you to be successful, but to give your up-line control over all your actions.
ReplyDeleteThis is why Amway recruiters don't like independent-minded persons who can think for themselves, and instead prefer weak-willed losers who can be manipulated.
Anonymous - aint' that the truth. All this bullshit Amway propaganda to edify your upline and obey your upline and kiss your upline's ass is all to instill obedience and discipline.
DeleteThings that most people probably learned at an early age from their parents.
Round 2 is from Amway cult leaders.
Amway cult leaders hated me because I wasn't a weak willed loser who could be manipulated. Uncoachable. Unfuckwithable.
Why would anybody making a six-figure self employed income want to join a dipshit, nickel-and-dime racket like Amway?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - that's the $100,000 question isn't it. Why would anyone want to take a drop in income to become a slave to the Great Amway God.
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