Another thing that really
pissed me of about the Amway ambots I had to put up with was that every single
one of those bastards was an expert on EVERYTHING! You name it those fuckers
knew everything about the subject whether or not it had anything to do with
Amway. The biggest bunch of bullshitters I’ve ever met in my life have all been
Amway assholes.
The arrogance of those pompous Amway bastards is something I have never dealt
with on such a high level of mass concentration before our time in the Amway hellhole.
Fortunately it is something I’ve never had to put up with since we got the hell
away from those Amway assholes!
You name it those Amway assholes pretend they’re an expert at it. I guess the
fact that they run pretend businesses and they’re pretend business owners gives
them all the credibility they need to be pretend experts on every subject under
the sun.
I’m not saying that there are not ambots out there who don’t have
expertise in certain areas through job, education, or life experiences. What I’m
calling out are the Amway assholes who just be virtue of the fact that they are
Amway IBO’s means that now makes them card carrying know it alls.
Those ambots are all experts when it comes to cars. Too bad none of them take
their own fucking advice and drive around in shitmobiles that are 20 or 30
years old and always breaking down due to lack of maintenance. By that age many
cars do run into mechanical problems and need to be completely overhauled or
scrapped. Being an Amway IBO means you are constantly broke because you have to
hand over all your money to the Amway cult leaders so there is no money
leftover for car maintenance or to save up to buy a new car.
Those Amway assholes are experts on all things plumbing and electrical even
though most of them have never picked up a hammer or a screwdriver. I saw a
house an Amway “expert” was working on. Some ceiling lights were falling out of
their fixtures and he said he kept getting electrical shocks when he was
touching sockets and switches. Oh gee I wonder why! The tile in the bathroom
was not grouted right and squint and uneven. He was taking forever to paint
because he had to keep stopping what he was doing to deal with the phone -
calls and texts from the assholes in his Amway upline.
Those Amway assholes are experts when it comes to filling out your income tax. “Everything
in Amway is a tax deduction! Claim that toilet paper!”
Those Amway assholes are “counsellors” even though they’ve never taken any
formal training in counselling for behavior problems, emotional disorders,
marital issues, etc. etc. “The facts don’t count!” Not when you’re an Amway
asshole = automatic expert on everything!
Medical advice? Call an Amway Ambot. They’ll diagnose you and tell you the
treatment consists of buying some overprice shitty Amway vitamins. Snake oil
for whatever ails you! Pick up a case of Amway holy water! What’s the
difference between Dr. Ambot and a Nigerian scammer? Nothing! They’re
both fucked up liars trying to scam you out of your money.
Amway ambots are self proclaimed experts on everything - know it all Amway
assholes. If an Amway product isn’t working for someone then the ambot tells
thems they’re not drinking the water right or they need more vitamins. Amway
ambots viciously defend Amways “prestige” products. There’s nothing wrong with
them - the problem lies with the user. Yup its the typical old Amway standby
response of blaming the victim. Same thing with Amway’s prestige tampons. If
they leak after 30 minutes then us women must be putting them in wrong. Couldn’t
have anything to do with the inferior quality of these products could it?
Hearing a man giving tampon advice makes most women break down
into uncontrollable laughter! But that’s an Amway asshole for you! Experts on
everything!
The arrogant pompous know it all Amway bastards that I had to suffer are the
biggest bunch of assholes I’ve ever met in my life. Troublemaking bastards who
can’t mind their own fucking business.
The one thing that I’m an expert at is blogging about what Amway assholes are
really like! No Amway know it all expert in everything will ever be more expert
than me than cursing out the fucking assholes in the Amway upline!
A second name for "Amway" is ARROGANCE.
ReplyDeleteI mean this sincerely. The typical Amway asshole has an inflated self-image that is utterly beyond any of the actual reality of the guy's knowledge or education.
There are two reasons for this. One is that an IBO's up-line will do everything possible to pump up the guy's vanity and self-assurance, telling him how "smart" he is, and how "brilliant" for joining Amway, and how everyone else in the world is a broke loser with no future. This goes on forever, and naturally the IBO begins to believe it, and he then acts upon it by posing as an expert on every subject in the universe. Some of this is also due to those stupid self-help books that Amway promotes (by Kiyosaki and the other con-men), which tell you to "act the part" and "take charge" and "show your strength" when dealing with others.
The second reason is that a great many Amway IBOs are deeply defensive, small-town schmucks. If you're washing out Porta-Potties in South Succotash for a living, you really don't have much to brag about. But being in Amway allows you to cover up that emptiness by pretending to be a real business owner, with business cards and a cellphone and a cheap suit. So you start giving advice to everybody, as if you were the Delphic Oracle.
Anonymous - you'll meet more arrogant pricks in Amway than anywhere else in the world. These little bastards are full of self importance because they're brainwashed to believe they're hot shot business owners. And they look down on anyone who is not inside the Amway cult. The real broke losers are all in Amway. People who aren't stuck inside a money sucking cult have a chance to save and invest their money.
DeleteEvery business needs at least four things -
Delete1. Customers
2. People who know what they are doing
3. Products that people want to buy
4. Financial viability
You can't have one, two or three and last in business. Obviously we can argue about which of the four is the most important but that is like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If your business is not taking care of all four aspects, you are not in a business and you certainly will not be in business in a year or two.
Let us pretend that I have just joined Amway. Who is my customer? It should be a bunch of people who want to buy Amway products from me but it too often is a bunch of people who will be in my downline. Yet if I cannot get anyone to buy products from me, why would anyone in my downline be any better at it?
In terms of product, I can only sell what Amway allows me to at a price that Amway sets. A normal human identifies needs and buys whatever fulfills that need from whatever source is best for them. For the normal person Amway is one place to get a product but there are shopping malls, internet sites and tens (maybe hundreds) of brands at all different price points. Why does the normal human want to buy an Amway product? What is so good about it that the other brands sold through normal channels do not have? What about the quality of the Amway people? Apart from the upline and the incessant meetings with the people above you, you know nothing about their characters, strengths and weaknesses. You see a manufactured story. In a real business you know something about Barbara in accounts and Ravi in marketing. Of course the work persona is somewhat manufactured as well but you know your colleagues well enough to know whether you trust them. So to the final item, financial viability. You have to have more revenue than expenses each month or else you are doing an expensive hobby not a business.
As you and others have said in these pages, the real Amway business is that run by the few at the top. The product they are selling is the idea that the normal punter can become rich. The people part is the one that I struggle with here. There is a quasi-religion put in place to control the people in the organisation given that the real owners have no other means of disciplining or rewarding them but there is no real attempt at quality control in the people. It is enough to have people join up.
I think we have all gone over these thoughts many times in various forms. We are united by our hatred of MLM and this company in particular. On any reckoning and in a world where logic and reason are at least partially followed, this company should have died in the last 10 years. How is it still around to even try and bring new people in? I suppose it is like a religion now. Religions attract new converts after all. The religion however generally has mechanisms to keep you in the fold for life if you truly do convert. No religion promises you things that will be proven to never occur. Religions sell hope but do not tell you that there will be riches around the corner for every adherent. Those kinds of religion probably do not last.
I want to know therefore why Amway has lasted? What is the bit that we are missing? Why is it still alive?
Amway continues to exist because of certain peculiarly North American specialties and tendencies, which can in fact also exist in other places, but which are honed to a very sharp edge here in the United States. Here they are:
Delete1. Salesmanship: Foreigners cannot conceive the ways in which the need to SELL, SELL, and SELL is divinized and propagated here. Almost everyone who goes to college in America is taking courses in marketing, or merchandizing , or advertising, or business management, or product promotion. If you want to understand this dominant mentality about the United States, read Arthur Miller's tragic play, "The Death of a Salesman."
2. Hype: Everything here is hyped up in ways that approach pure absurdity. There is nowhere you can turn without being hit with a commercial, a marketing broadcast, a pop-up ad, a flyer under your door, a catalogue in your mailbox, a spam e-mail trying to flog something, and endless letters that are come-ons, solicitations, or propaganda for some goddamned scheme or offering. Sometimes this flood of crap becomes so intense you want to stick your fingers in your ears and scream STOP!
3. Uncontrolled energy and "hustle": This is the hardest to describe. It is an American psychological compulsion to be "on the go" all the time, to "be on the ball and active," to "never sit back for a minute" and to "Remember that Time is Money."
4. Hatred of a leisurely, dignified lifestyle: If you wish to live a quiet, sensible, intelligent life of humane activity such as reading or writing or creating art or attending plays and concerts or having discussions with your friends, you will generally be despised as a loser.
Put all four of these tendencies together, and you have the ready-made market for Amway and its idiocies.
Hi Aussie Hillbilly. Yes as you've pointed out a business needs several things to survive. If a business is not financially sustainable the owner has to make a decision when to cut their losses.
DeleteAnd yes Amway should have died by now. And we keep holding on to getting the word out about how Amway destroys lives and hope to prevent victims from signing up.
Then as Anonymous pointed out there are reasons why Amway exists. Amway is the Cult of Greed and Ambots have been brainwashed by their cult leaders to believe they are successful business people and business owners and entrepreneurs and whatever else the cult leader is pitching at this sharp guy who's going to be a mover and shaker in ScAmway. Same as with all cults Amway has twisted religious teachings and Ambots are brainwashed to believe that in 2 to 5 years they will be rewarded by Amway with bazillions of dollars rolling in every month while they sit back and do nothing for the rest of their lives except walk the beaches of the world.
Anonymous - The Death of a Salesman. I remember dissecting that book in American lit class starting with Willie Loman's name and that whole character analysis. Do you think Willie would have made a good Ambot?
Willie would have been the perfect Ambot. He was always "positive," even to the point of lying to his wife about how much money he had earned, because he wanted to look like a big shot. He refused to face simple and obvious facts, such the truth that his sons were dishonest and selfish. He insisted on being "fired up" and enthusiastic about everything, even when his life was falling apart. He thought he was a brilliant salesman, even though he never really made that much money.
DeleteAnonymous - if any American Lit students are reading your comments I think you've just given them a new spin on dissecting the novel!
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