One of the nicest things about
no longer being in Amway is that we no longer have to eyeball everyone we meet
as a prospect to be recruited into the business. No more striking up phony
conversations with random people in the grocerystore or mall.
What about being on vacation? You go to an all inclusive resort to relax and be
pampered and instead you’re hounded by an Amway IBO.
On the other hand what IBO can afford to go on vacation? Wouldn’t they have to
get permission from the upline. And then it would be a big NO. Why spend a
couple of thousand on a nice family holiday in Hawaii or Disneyworld when you
could be building your business and stocking up on Amway products and getting
that PV up there?
We were standing in line at an Amway function, I think we were lining up for
the place where dinner was being served. There was another guy in front of us
and him and Ambot were bullshitting each other about their volume. Then they
start talking holidays. Ambot mentions we’re thinking of touring Yellowstone
Park and going to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore. That other good little
ambot started to lay in on us about why were we wasting our money on vacation
and it must be nice that we can afford it and all the other bullshit canned IBO
speeches. How’s it any of his fucking business?
Oh wait. This is Amway. Our business is everyone’s business!
Damned cult!
Could you just see Ambot hanging out at Old Faithful where crowds gather every
hour to watch the geyser? He’d have been hitting all the tourists asking them
about their dreams and if they’d ever thought about owning their own business.
Jesus he’d be there all day knowing he was going to catch a different crowd
every hour. We’d probably get run out of the park by a ranger! Or they’d send
Yogi Bear after us!
About a month before we quit Amway we stayed at a hotel and met a nice couple
who lived not too far from us. Ambot was bragging to them about how The
Slight Edge - on the required reading list - was about the greatest book he’d
ever read. He’d bought a few copies of it and he gladly gave this couple one of
his books and his phone number. Afterwards he’s all excited and telling me
maybe he can sign them up in “the business”. Then he realized I wasn’t as
excited about it as he was.
Perhaps that’s because I’d been reading Merchants of Deception.
By that point Ambot hadn’t been attending meetings regularly or buying Amway
products. I knew it was getting close to him quitting.
But I mean how embarrassing hitting people up to sign up for Amway as an IBO or
customer while you’re on vacation. Even more embarrassing when you have to
watch your husband in action and knowing that’s the only reason he’s interested
in meeting new people and chatting up others while on vacation.
Nobody wants to be bothered by crazed ambots who are determined to show you the
one and only way to financial freedom.
Ambot and I recently enjoyed a wonderful vacation and it was so relaxing to
chat with fellow vacationers about our lives and our other travels and our
interests. No ulterior motive. Simply enjoying the company of others. Meeting
new people and enjoying their company and not feeling like a low life bastard
trying to prospect them into Amway.
There will always be a bit of suspicion when meeting new people who are showing
an interest in you and your lives and wondering if maybe just maybe they are
Amway IBO’s out to get you.
That’s not how people should feel when they’re on vacation. Relax and have fun
and not get bombarded with Amway IBO’s.
The feeling of freedom is wonderful.
Freedom. A chant at Amway functions.
The real freedom only comes once you escape this cult. The freedom to go on
vacations and live your life as you see fit without being ridiculed by the
fucking assholes in the Amway upline.
Anna, this is a great post! You give a vivid picture of the unpleasantness and embarrassment that people in Amway have to put up with as they desperately search for "new prospects." As an ambot you have to have no shame, and you have to be willing to interfere in other people's private lives. You have to be a really annoying little prick to go up to strangers and start bothering them.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for that intrusive little Amway fuck-head who had the nerve to criticize your vacation plans to Yellowstone, he only proves conclusively that being in Amway turns you into a goddamned inconsiderate and rude scumbag. What damned business was it of his where you decided to take a vacation, or whether you took a vacation at all? How dare he advise you about how to spend your money?
Amway is definitely a cult, because it has two of the prime characteristics of all cults: 1) It is fixated on getting new members, and 2) It has a fanatical need to control the thinking and activities of all of its members. Amway is just Scientology with soap-suds.
In fact, you could take this as a shorthand mnemonic device for describing Amway's policy about recruitment: first CONVERT them, and then PERVERT them.
You CONVERT them by getting them to believe the Amway bullshit and to sign up; and you PERVERT them by changing them into monsters of selfishness, greed, and contempt for anyone or anything that isn't part of Amway.
It is always a nightmare when one spouse is a dedicated Amway freak, and the other spouse is clear-headed and sensible. You were very lucky to get your husband out of the stupid racket.
Thanks Anonymous. Yeah it's really fucking embarrassing having to admit any involvement with Amway. And when you're inside the Amway cult all the Ambots want to get in your business. Like that little fucktard who bitched about us going on vacation instead of using that money to buy more Amway shit. And then sneered how nice it must be to afford going on vacations. Ambots are jealous of what others have and what others can do. And that mostly means we have spare cash to spend on stuff we want instead of tithing the Great Amway God.
DeleteConvert and pervert. Love it! You CONVERT them by getting them to believe the Amway bullshit and to sign up; and you PERVERT them by changing them into monsters of selfishness, greed, and contempt for anyone or anything that isn't part of Amway.