A reader who went to Amway Free Enterprise Days gives us a first hand impression of what FED is really like.
At the FED I attended I got to see the inauguration of a new Diamond to the
club. To say the process was ridiculous, over the top, weird, and whatever
other adjective you want to throw in would be an understatement.
First of all they rolled out a giant red carpet as though they were a king and
queen. Then they had two long fences on each side where people eagerly trampled
over one another to get as close as possible to the new royalty. They were
giving high fives, hugs, and other congratulations as they watched their money
being filtered into these new diamonds bank accounts. It was like something
from the dark ages where people were paying their respects to the lords of the
land.
The new diamonds were dressed in a tuxedo and wedding dress with their two
little girls going down the aisle. (Yes they were essentially getting married
to Amway). At the end were their parents (executive diamonds), there to
congratulate them and give them their prize. A plaque on their giant diamond
shaped, cubic zerconium statue. As people ooed and awed at the moment, I
couldn't help but feel like something was wrong. When someone becomes a board
member at a new company, I don't believe it is typical for them to have 8,000
plus employees surround and worship them...in a stadium.
Then the creepiest thing happened when they made their complete transformation
into douchery. They gave a 40 min. garbage speech about living the dream just
like every rehearsed diamond speech, and then tried to really impress upon
everyone that if they can do it, YOU CAN DO IT!
Ultimately the experience was bizarre and negligent of the true
responsibilities they have to enrich their followers and help everyone become
successful. They must have spent 10's of thousands on this ridiculous ceremony,
and that probably equates the 1,000's of IBO's literally watching their money
being pissed away. A truly sickening experience.
What a disturbing post. I am not by any means criticising the person who posted it. I am disgusted like he/she is by the waste of money in hiring a stadium and having 8000 people spend hours on utterly pointless and unproductive ceremonies.
ReplyDeleteI know you recycle posts Anna and that is fine because new content is obviously hard to come up with continually. My question is whether FED is still happening or whether this is a relic of the past. It would be great to know if we are succeeding and these kinds of events are now impossible. Is the FED today just for 20 people? 50 people or are they still getting 1000s? So some idea of the age of the post would be helpful if you are able to indicate this.
Aussie Hillbilly - valid points. Seeing as how Amway cult leaders make the bulk of their income selling tickets to the 4 major functions each year - there is no way they will drop one. During the pandemic they sold tickets to the online version which is actually more profitable - no need to rent an arena or auditorium = more profits. The thing is with dwindling attendance at Amway major functions the cult sects have been forced to book smaller meeting spaces in hotel rooms or high school auditoriums and those places don't publish online calendars on their websites. Even when Amway cult sects do rent a place with an online calendar at a conference center they try to disguise the function name. No way will they use the dreaded A word. And not always WWDB or WWG but instead will use the cult leader's name and it will say "meeting" or "event" after it. But the timing will be during October so we can figure out it's FED..... if we can find it!
DeleteToo many jokes have been made here and at other websites about the actual meaning of "FED." I've heard these:
DeleteFuck Every Dope
Fast Exit Door
Fatheads Excreting Delusions
Fake Earning Dreams
Fool Each Dimwit
Once this kind of ridicule starts, the AMO subsystem is forced to drop the offending name of the convention and cal it something else.
LOL Anonymous! Those are some good FED meanings! When you're in Amway you have to expect to be the object of ridicule.
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