One of our readers had this to say the last time we posted no more embarrassment or pressure after leaving ScAmway:
Anna, this is exactly what I
remember from my days in Amway: the deep embarrassment of having to bother
strangers by asking them annoying questions that would lead to showing them “the
Plan.”
It was horrible. You’d have to approach someone at a party, or at a family
gathering, or at a coffee shop, and strike up an unwanted conversation with
him. You had to be like a whore under a lamppost, accosting every male who
passed by and soliciting him. You had to be like the guy hawking hot dogs at a
ball game. In short, you had to be a constant pain in the ass to other people.
It was excruciatingly unpleasant. I wanted to sit freely and talk freely with
guests at a party. I wanted to relax and shoot the breeze with my relatives at
a family gathering. I wanted to have a leisurely lunch at the coffee shop, not
be sizing everyone up as a potential “recruit.” I didn’t want to draw circles
on a napkin and explain a plan which (even back then) I thought was imbecilic
and unworkable.
The entire culture of Amway forces you to be an obnoxious, intrusive, obsessive
busybody. You have to be like those tedious Jehovah’s Witnesses who ring your
doorbell every Sunday morning wanting to talk to you about God.
Yes -- your are right. One of the best things about quitting Amway is that you
don’t have to be a nuisance to strangers.
Most human beings have an innate sense of decency, and are naturally reticent and not pushy. This means that they have been well brought up, and are polite enough to respect the proper distances between themselves and strangers.
ReplyDeleteAmway does everything to crush this innate decency. It requires (and even DEMANDS) that you be aggressive, intrusive, presumptuous, and talky. You have to be very "forward," as used to be said in the old days. This means that you have to be unafraid of just going right up to persons you don't know and starting a conversation, regardless of the situation, the place, or what they are doing.
This is why most IBOs never recruit any down-line. They cannot suppress their natural decency and sense of privacy and respect for the space of others. The up-line assholes in the AMO subsystems have a word for this: they say that such IBOs are representative of a despised mental state:
STATUS = Still Too Arrogant To Understand Success
In other words, an IBO who won't be a pain in the ass to potential recruits, and who is careful not to be intrusive and pushy, is a failure who will never make it in Amway, because he's more concerned with maintaining his status as a nice guy.
Up-line often says that "Amway will make you a better person." Yeah, that's right from their point of view. Amway will make you into an obnoxious, sneering, obsessive jerk whom everyone will try hard to avoid.
Anonymous - what you said about pushy people means there's only a small percentage of the population who can be time share salespeople, used car salespeople, or a salesperson for an MLM.
DeleteOK a used car salesperson might sell a decent car that is in good running shape. Or could be a scammer selling a lemon. That goes either way. The timeshare salespeople have a product where they get people hyped up to spend thousands of dollars on a product that they may or may not ever use but still have to spend hundreds if not thousands annually to keep up their membership. Yeah kind of like Amway LOL! But at least it's easy to quit the Amway cult than an unwanted timeshare. In either of those sales positions you gotta be the best damned salesperson out there who has no qualms about being pushy and being a liar in order to make a buck.
STATUS = Still Too Arrogant To Understand Success
Yeah all these scam MLMs have keywords they use on their downline. I never saw anyone in the Amway cult who became a better person while losing hundreds of dollars every month in this scam. Obnoxious, sneering assholes is more commonly what becomes of Ambots and the rest of the sane world wants to stay the hell away from these losers.