Our sack of shit Platinum was a dictator who ordered his cult
followers around and demanded complete obedience. They better follow his orders
or else! The or else would be public ridicule at the next Amway cult meeting
where he would berate the unfortunate ambot. And then he would ignore them.
Amway cult excommunication.
I remember an instance where Ambot busted his ass getting our chairs to a cult
meeting but we had something else going on that night and he was unable to
attend. I was pissed off about the chairs. Someone upline had ordered Ambot to
bring the damn chairs even though we weren’t going to be at the cult meeting.
Of course they asked Ambot who was only too happy to serve them seeing as how
the sack of shit Platinum had stroked his ego by calling him a server. No one
called me to ask about borrowing the chairs and bringing them to the
meeting because my answer would be NO. Wait a second. My answer would have been
FUCK NO! If you want to borrow the fucking chairs you can haul ass to our house
and get them. And bring them back the next day. Not the other way around
especially when we’re not even attending. I had stopped going to Amway meetings
and Ambot was not going as frequently by this time. The end was in sight!
We were in the car when the fucking Platinum phoned. It was around 8pm. The
Amway warriors would be waiting for their cult leader to get the meeting going.
Its my guess the sack of shit was sitting in front of the cult followers and
had his phone on speaker.
The whole point of the phone call was to berate my husband because he wasn’t at
the meeting. Ambot didn’t have the phone on speaker but I was sitting next to
him and could hear the fucking Amway asshole chewing him out. Natter natter
natter. Bitch bitch bitch. And Ambot took the abuse silently. Just drove along
with the phone plastered to his ear listening to the sack of shit Platinum
bitch him out. And taking it. He should have passed the phone to me and I’d
have given that fucker an earful!
The next day my husband was talking to another ambot on the phone. I’m nearby
and can catch his end of the phone conversation and I gather he was getting the
gist of how he’d been the brunt of the cult leader’s rant at the previous
night’s meeting. And then he says: “I deserved it.”
Shit! This is how Amway cult leaders brainwash their followers. They are
brainwashed to believe when they don’t shut up and do as they’re told by their
cult leader that they deserve whatever abuse is doled out to them.
It all comes back to “never question upline”. If upline is abusing you its
because you deserve it.
Other “never question upline” comes up when ambots have questions about the
Amway scheme. When my husband tried to talk to the Platinum about the
compensation and said the numbers don’t add up and make sense to him he was
brushed off with “don’t question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
The cult leaders have no answers when downline starts to question how they’re
being swindled. Or if the cult leader said something at a meeting and the cult
follower investigated it further and found out it wasn’t true. Panic must set
in for the cult leaders when they’re questioned so they fire back with the only
ammunition they have “don’t question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
Rather than debate controversial issues our upline was quick to point out
negativity of various media sources.
“I don't watch TV. You can't believe what you hear on TV anyway.” Of course the
WWDB Amway cult leaders don't want people to believe the stuff on TV. The news
stories would cause ambots to snap out of the I-only-listen-to-positive drunken
mindset of the brainwashed Amway IBO.
There is nothing wrong with positive thinking. The problem is our upline Amway
cult leaders who insisted that this that and the other is “negative”.
Brainwashing the IBO’s until they refused to even hear about anything negative.
At one meeting the Emerald drew out a quadrant on the white board to indicate
IBO’s in various stages of climbing the Amway pyramid in relation to how much
TV they were allowed to watch. Lowly ambots who were just getting started were
in the zero TV watching quadrant. As an Emerald he was allowed to watch TV I
just don’t remember how much he assigned himself. Another example of “don’t
question me. Just shut up and do as you’re told.”
Yeah right just cause you tell me I can’t watch TV doesn’t mean I’m going to
stop so fuck off!
What about reading the newspaper? That's considered negative as well. An IBO
should only be reading positive business material, preferably books that speak
positively about the Amway business.
What about looking around on the Internet? That’s considered negative as well
especially if you end up at a website belonging to an Amway critic.
What about listening to the radio while driving the car? That’s also considered
negative. Put in an Amway CD and crank those speakers!
Uh huh now that’s what I consider negative! Ha!
Success rate of telling someone who doesn’t like you to “don’t question me.
Just shut up and do as you’re told”?
Zero! I do the opposite of what you Amway cult leaders order me to do! I hit
the Internet looking for real information about Amway, real experiences by real
people financially and emotionally devastated by this cult. They might not be
happy positive stories but they’re real and true.
Not fakes like you Amway cult leaders.
Our Amway cult leaders were desperate to control the information their
followers received because that restricted the ambot’s free ability to think
for himself.
Our Amway WWDB cult leaders preached to us about not getting wrapped up in
details such as how many customers we’re supposed to have in order to be
earning a commission check from Amway. This questioning of upline authority
could ruin our business even if we suspect we’re following upline that aren’t
exactly running their business morally or legally.
“Don’t question me! Just shut the fuck up and do as you’re told!”
I am amazed that Amway still acts as though it is 1950. Women in their place. The man runs the home as a petty dictator and expects deference from his wife and kids. All like one of those 1950s and 60s American sit-coms. So people have to dress up in suits and ties and all meetings must take place in person. They probably still insist on people paying for the voicemail service as though anyone even uses voicemail and certainly to pay for a voicemail service is absurd.
ReplyDeleteThe amounts of money that they claim you can make probably have not changed all that much. You can join Amway and make $100K a year!!! Wow! Most professionals probably make much more than that so where is the incentive to join?
Further to your point above though, if all of this stuff is real why not have a simple computer model of the hierarchy. At the top is the corporation and below that two or three super-duper-diamond-emerald-dudes or whatever they are called and then the lines below extending downwards for ever. The model could show clearly how if you join 15 levels below the corporation you can still make money. It could tell you exactly what your commission will be from the downline chain that they are asking you to build. You would then have exactly an idea of what you are aiming for and could decide for yourself whether it has even a microscopic chance of happening. Instead you are given formulae that are not understandable and a set of vague rules that contradict each other. If I want to become rich I need a downline that does all the work while I sit on the beach correct? However at the same time if I don't do the work my downline gets taken from me? Which is it? Why can't you have a computer model that allows me to simulate my own downline scenarios? I would be more than happy to write a programme of this kind for a fee of course. I doubt that any MLM scammer would actually take me up on that offer though.