The last time we ran the Doom and Gloom post, some of our readers chimed in.
Anonymous said: Yo! Same anonymous here with the
crossline girlfriend. I just came back from Family Reunion and admittedly, I'm
quite inspired to achieve (luckily I have the good sense to direct my
motivation towards something other than Amway--I've recently started a data
analytics business, and some of the speakers at this convention have delivered
enough platitudes to get me through the long nights of GENUINE
entrepreneurship).
I'd like to make a correction to this post...Ambots are some of the most
positive people on God's green earth...until you mention SOMETHING OTHER THAN
AMWAY. Entrepreneur? YAY! Want to start a business of your own that doesn't
involve funneling money into a corporate scheme?
UNSTABLE MARKET! TOO MUCH RISK! YOU'LL BE DOING THAT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
My girl basically lambasted her brother, during the car ride (we all drove together...unfortunately) for wanting to be a bartender in Vegas making $100,000+ a year.
She critizised his view of Amway as a “side” business and
emphasized the power of “residual income” over “paycheck” lifestyle.
I bit my tongue. I wanted to tell him I thought it was a great idea, but I
decided I wouldn't get involved. If you're wondering why, you don't understand
at all how much I love my Ambot GF. I don't believe in what she's chasing but I
believe in HER. She's very sensitive and gets defensive about “the business.”
My personal experience is that Ambots are generally VERY positive, up until the
moment you mention income outside of the “incredible business opportunity” that
is Amway.
Anna Banana responds: Well at least you took
something away from the Amway meeting - to get away from those losers and start
up your own legitimate business.
Yup that's pretty much true about Amway Ambots. They go around pretending that
they're the most positive people around and they're all schizoid paranoid about
everything negative but as soon as you mention starting another type of
business or talk about stuff that has nothing to do with Amway - the Ambot's “positive
attitude to life” goes down the shitter! LOL!
As for your girlfriend lambasting the brother about how Amway is a side
business - she is wrong. That's exactly how the Amway cult leaders describe
Amway: a side business where you can earn thousands of dollars a month working
part time 10 to 15 hours a week out of your own home.
And thanks to your comment Las Vegas is probably going to get an influx of
wannabe bartenders heading their way! Now really we just talked about this in a
recent post. Why would someone who makes good money like $100,000 a year want
to leave that behind and go make less money in Scamway?
As for “residual income” did you know that's a violation of Amway's policy to
promise people they'll make residual income? Because head office has issued a
statement that its not true. However most Ambots give the big old fuck you to
head office and do their own thing. That's why we make so much fun of the
bazillions of dollars in monthly residual income the Ambots are going to make.
And your girlfriend is just like all Amway Ambots out there - they all get
sensitive and defensive about “the business”. Being an Amway Ambot means you
lie, deny, distract, and defend. Really have you ever had a job that you had to
put in that much effort defending your employer or would you just say fuck it
I'm out of here.
Anonymous says: In any cult (religious or business),
there is a fixation on the cult itself as something primal and sacred. If you
mention anything outside of the cult in a positive way (or even just mention it
at all), you get a very negative and disapproving response from cult members.
A guy working as a bartender in Las Vegas and making $100,00 per year could
easily parlay his savings into a millionaire's retirement by the time he's 40.
He could put those Amway assholes to shame.
But just mentioning this fact is heresy to an Amway freak. Financial
opportunities other than Amway's fucked-up MLM scheme are taboo. You can't even
THINK about them, much less mention them. For Amway freaks, Amway isn't just
the American Way -- it's the ONLY way.
That's why this guy's girlfriend is a sad case. She needs to snap out of it
real soon, or else she'll be a lifer in Amway. Her brother sounds like the more
intelligent sibling in that family.
Another Anonymous weighs in: If your girlfriend gets
defensive about the Amway business, this means that, deep down, she has the
gnawing suspicion that it's a scam.
Use that weak spot. Gently tell her that even Amway's official literature
admits that 99% of IBOs will not make money in Amway.
She'll get mad at first and scream at you, but believe me, when she's alone
thinking about what you said, it will begin to gnaw at her even more. And that
will be the beginning of the end of her Amway fixation.
And Another Anonymous Makes Some Observations:
IBO's are Imaginary Business Owners:
They run a business that has:
1. No physical existence
2. No control of its own.
3. No definite long term objectives.
4. No real customers.
5. No name of its own but amway.
Imaginary Business Owners are:
1. Not even business owners because of the characteriatics above.
2. Hoping, Dreaming and Imagining that they will achieve diamond success.
3. Not really at their own, they have to report to their new taskmasters
(upline)
4. Are students attending a pseudo-education consisting of meetings and
functions.
5. those with onion-skinned, crab mentality and uber-hyped beings.