Its no secret that Amway and upline IBO’s treat downline
ambots like shit but what about Amway’s employees? Are the people who work for
the various Amway and Alticor offices and distribution warehouses and
plants treated like shit too?
One would think a big company that claims to make billions of dollars a year
and claims to be debt free would offer its employees a benefit program. Health,
dental, eyeglasses, chiropractor, 401k or some kind of pension or retirement
savings or stock options.
Maybe they do offer benefits to a select few employees. There are nasty
companies out there who don’t give all employees benefits (I’ve worked for a
couple of those!) and call employees temporary or part time so they can get out
of paying benefits. Some of those employees have been around for years and
might be working 40 hours a week but their employer won’t adjust their status
to permanent due to whatever loophole they’ve discovered to avoid paying the
extra money towards benefits.
I’ve worked for companies much smaller, say about 50 people or so, and got an
excellent benefits package. All employees including part time got benefits.
Some companies do treat all their employees well.
I had a former employee of Amway in Ada Michigan show up to say they’d left
Amway after 20 years because they could no longer take their cult bullshit.
Claims they’ve had record sales in the past 10 years. (This post appeared here
quite a few years back.) Who knows? Could be Amway’s bullshit propaganda and
manipulating the books. Anyway the employees got nothing. No benefits. No
bonuses. Treated like shit. But what else do you expect when you sign up with a
scumbag employer who’s agenda is to rip people off with overpriced shitty
products and cause financial and emotional distress to every life it affects.
And that is bullshit. There are a lot of companies who do profit sharing or
some kind of bonus if sales are over the projection.
No wonder this former Amway employee refers to their former employer as a
greedy ass.
And then I get further proof that Amway the employer is a greedy asshole. When
it comes to Christmas and if it falls on a Sunday, businesses that are normally
closed on Sunday typically take a day off on Monday instead and make it a 3 day
long weekend. In 2011 December 25 fell on a Sunday. Around here a lot of
businesses were closed on Monday December 26. Government employees, office
employees, bank employees, etc. Big box retail stores, groceries, and gas
stations were all open. Most of those businesses were closed on Christmas Day
though. No different than anywhere else across the nation. Employers who
actually care about their staff gave them a nice 3 day long weekend. So on
Monday morning December 26 I get a visitor from Grand Rapids Alticor. Some
really pissed off Amway employee who is working on Monday December 26 is
fucking around surfing the Internet looking for dirt about their shitty
employer instead of actually getting their work done. Ha ha! This employee is
so fucking pissed off at its employer Amway keeping the office open for
business on Monday December 26 instead of generously giving their employees a
day off and a 3 day weekend like most other businesses who are normally closed
on Sundays that s/he is getting revenge on Amway by not getting their work
done. Really! As far as I’m concerned it takes a really lousy shitty bad ass
employer to open their doors on December 26 following a weekend Christmas Day
instead of doing what nice generous companies who care about their employees do
and giving them an extra day off to spend with their families.
But this is Amway we’re talking about here. A company that is responsible for
destroying families. I can see why they don’t give a shit about wanting their
employees to have extra family time on their nickel.
But you know these insider glimpses got me thinking about the contact I’ve had
with Amway employees and here I’ve only dealt with the customer service
department which I refer to as the I-don’t-give-a-shit department. I get it
that 80% of employees at any company barely like or really despise their
employer and their job and without a doubt the only people I’ve dealt with at
Amway have been in that 80%, maybe the bottom 20% of the ones who really
hate working there. But with the former employee’s insight about the way the
employees are treated I’m going to raise the bar and suggest that it is way
more than 20% of Amway’s employees who hate working there. I mean that’s really
shitty not to have any benefits when you see the lifestyle of the person who
owns the company. I can see how that leads to a lot of angry employees. Not to
mention no benefits and no extra day off for the Christmas weekend and I can
understand there are a lot of angry Amway employees out there who must want to
give a big old fuck you to their employer.
Angry employees = the fuck off attitude IBO’s get when they phone Amway head
office for assistance.
Any company or business enterprise, if it exists for a good length of time, develops what can be called a "company culture." It happens in the corporate world, in academia, in church organizations, in the military, and in government bureaucracies.
ReplyDeleteThis "company culture" is started and fostered by the people who set the enterprise up. It's rooted in what they believe in, how they see the world, and what kind of personality traits they have. As time passes this "culture" hardens into a solid orthodoxy, or fixed way of thinking and acting. Even when the founders of the business die, the culture goes on.
Amway was founded by two Dutch Calvinists named De Vos and Van Andel. Their religious background and cultural habits became the backbone of the entire Amway racket and system. The two men were ferociously independent, tight with money, contemptuous of anyone who did not work as hard as they did, fiercely opposed to benefits for employees, and unwilling to bend an inch on any "matters of principle." This is pure Dutch Calvinism. The culture also believes in a small group of the "elect" who will be saved, and the sign of being in the elect here on earth is to be very rich and successful.
THAT'S AMWAY. Every single bit of it. It is an MLM scheme that has its roots in a strangulated Calvinist view of the world and of people. Much of the contempt and anger that Amway members show for those who "fail" or "quit" comes right out of the Calvinistic hatred for the "non-elect" who will not be saved.
Treating employees like shit is part and parcel of the entire Amway mentality.
Thanks Anonymous. That's a great description of the Amway business culture. Any company of significant size should be offering employee benefits. Especially when Ambots are showing up here bragging about how much money Amway makes. Invest it back in the people you greedy bastards!
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