One of the things I take issue with is how Amway uplines will create an us versus them mentality in the business. Thus, friends and family who care about you suddenly become "negative" and association with them should be limited or cut off completely. In some cases, people are discouraged from excellence in their jobs or professions because it takes the focus off of their Amway business. What I was told was to do my job, but my radar should always be on for new prospects. And I should only do my job and not focus on anything more because you need to focus on Amway. Some cross line IBOs turned down promotions at work because they did not want to have to work longer hours or take the focus off of their Amway businesses.
In some cases, the speaker at open meetings or functions will put down people's jobs. A commonly used acronym was J-O-B = "Just Over Broke", or "Jackass Of (The) Boss". Some leaders also would say that my job was a pyramid because you will never earn more than the boss. A completely ridiculous comparison because someone's job has no relationship with how people view the Amway business (i.e. an Amway pyramid) and in a job, every employee gets paid and has a net gain at the end of the month. Not true in Amway. If IBOs only use KATE for example, an IBO at 100 PV or less will already be at a loss, and that is not considering any other expenses that IBO may have. And while a job may have a hierarchy, or chain of command, the business owner and CEO or manager earns their salary from customers, not directly from the pockets of their employees. And in a business. even the lowest guy that might sweep the floors, will still get paid and have income at the end of the month. No so in Amway.Some uplines will laugh about people's jobs, stating that they wake up at the "crack of noon". What these same uplines may not tell you is that they wake up at noon because they are up at 3:00 in the morning doing night owls for their groups and looking for recruits. These same uplines possibly can't do much with their downlines since their downlines mostly tend to have 9-5 jobs. An Amway diamond still has a job, but they work the graveyard shift because the mainstream world works during the day. The part about waking up at the crack of noon is because your upline diamond has to sleep in since he's working the overnight shift.
So if you are of the opinion that nobody should criticize the Amway opportunity or IBO behavior, maybe uplines and IBOs should not criticize family and friends who disagree with or are not interested in the Amway opportunity. And maybe the same uplines and IBOs should not criticize people who choose to work jobs. Don't most IBOs rely on their jobs? More than likely their Amway income is not sufficient to even pay for their Amway business related expenses, let alone anything else. It is most often someone's job that winds up supporting their Amway business, which is truly ironic.
The biggest problem for Amway today, especially in North America, is recruitment of new IBOs. The avalanche of negative publicity about everything in Amway (the massive fees, the useless "tool" rip-off, the nastiness and bullying from up-line, the lack of product demand) has been widely reported on the internet, and in fact has now given Amway a very bad reputation. Just say "Amway" and people laugh in your face, or turn and walk away.
ReplyDeleteThe consequence is that any IBO trying to build a down-line will say or do ANYTHING to convince prospects to sign up. And when you are desperate, you'll exaggerate or distort or simply lie. Sometimes this procedure works, but more frequently it doesn't, because people have heard so much about Amway's 99% failure rate that they're disinclined to listen. This is even starting to happen in foreign countries.
As a result IBOs and their up-lines get infuriated and vicious. And their anger shows itself in silly attacks on "jobs," and contempt for anyone who is happy at his job. They also come up with absurd predictions that Social Security will go broke and collapse, that brick-and-mortar stores will disappear, and that Amway is "the only thing left." The stupid idea that a regular job is a "Pyramid" is a desperate attempt to cover up the fact that Amway is a racket, designed to bleed funds from the lower levels of down-line to enrich a few fat-assed Big Pins at the top of the Amway pyramid.
If you have a job today where you make $100,000 (not uncommon these days), with benefits and a pension, you are not in any sort of "pyramid." You're richer than the vast majority of Amway assholes will ever be.