The Amway/Quixtar Rut
This was copied from a Web Bulletin Board.
You know the more I think about it the more thankful I am that I did "GET A LIFE" and quit that stupid "RUT" of Amway. They try to tell us that our JOB (which pays the bills and pays for the stupid tapes and functions and Amvox) is the "RUT". The only "RUT" I see is doing the same thing day after day after day in AMWAY. Let's see it goes like this:
Monday:
1.) Get up "think about Amway". Speak positively.
2.) On my way to my JOB, if I stop in the supermarket, just SMILE and say HELLO. Maybe I could get a name out it. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
3.) Go to JOB. Think about AMWAY. Speak positively.
4.) Go to Lunch. Listen to tapes on the way there. Think about AMWAY. Try to meet somebody to keep my NAMELIST current. Speak positively.
5.) Go back to work. Speak positively.
6.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
7.) Go to mall and try to meet someone before Team Calling. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
8.) Go to Team Calling and PRETEND TO BOOK QI's. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
9.) Go to convenience store and talk with clerk about Quixtar. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
10.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Read a book. Speak positively.
Tuesday:
1.) Get up "think about Amway". Speak positively.
2.) On my way to my JOB, if I stop in the supermarket, just SMILE and say HELLO. Maybe I could get a name out it. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
3.) Go to JOB. Think about AMWAY. Speak positively.
4.) Go to Lunch. Listen to tapes on the way there. Think about AMWAY. Try to meet somebody to keep my NAMELIST current. Speak positively.
5.) Go back to work. Speak positively.
6.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
7.) Go to mall and try to meet someone before showing a Home Plan. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
8.) Go show Home plan and beg couple to get into this AWESOME business. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
9.) Go to convenience store and talk with clerk about Quixtar. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
10.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Read a book. Speak positively.
Wednesday:
1.) Get up "think about Amway". Speak positively.
2.) On my way to my JOB, if I stop in the supermarket, just SMILE and say HELLO. Maybe I could get a name out it. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
3.) Go to JOB. Think about AMWAY. Speak positively.
4.) Go to Lunch. Listen to tapes on the way there. Think about AMWAY. Try to meet somebody to keep my NAMELIST current. Speak positively.
5.) Go back to work. Speak positively.
6.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
7.) Go to mall and try to meet someone before Weekly meeting at hotel. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
8.) Go to "Weekly Meeting" at hotel and TRY TO STAY AWAKE. Take notes on the same thing you have been hearing over and over and over and over again. Laugh at the same jokes. If you had guests there you try to convince them how much fun it is. When they ask you "How long have you been in?" you tell them "I just got started". You know your upline will coach you on what to say because "We don't want to BLOW out the new couple on the first day!" Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
9.) Go to NIGHT OWL and eat and drink with other AMDINK friends. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
10.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Read a book. Speak positively.
Thursday:
11.) Get up "think about Amway". Speak positively.
12.) On my way to my JOB, if I stop in the supermarket, just SMILE and say HELLO. Maybe I could get a name out it. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
13.) Go to JOB. Think about AMWAY. Speak positively.
14.) Go to Lunch. Listen to tapes on the way there. Think about AMWAY. Try to meet somebody to keep my NAMELIST current. Speak positively.
15.) Go back to work. Speak positively.
16.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
17.) Go to mall and try to meet someone before showing a Home Plan. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
18.) Go show Home plan and beg couple to get into this AWESOME business. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
19.) Go to convenience store and talk with clerk about Quixtar. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
20.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Read a book. Speak positively.
Friday:
21.) Get up "think about Amway". Speak positively.
22.) On my way to my JOB, if I stop in the supermarket, just SMILE and say HELLO. Maybe I could get a name out it. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
23.) Go to JOB. Think about AMWAY. Speak positively.
24.) Go to Lunch. Listen to tapes on the way there. Think about AMWAY. Try to meet somebody to keep my NAMELIST current. Speak positively.
25.) Go back to work. Speak positively.
26.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
27.) Go to mall and try to meet someone before going to LEADERSHIP. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
28.) Go to Leadership and listen to the same shit over and over again. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
29.) Go to convenience store and talk with clerk about Quixtar. Listen to tapes. Speak positively.
30.) Go home. Listen to tapes. Read a book. Speak positively.
ALTERNATIVE "FUNCTION FRIDAY" this is a repeat for some of you people, but I thought it would be appropriate for some NEW people to read like R.Harris and ""The Player"
You get off work early to go drive 5 hours to a function. You are listening to tapes all the way there, "Show your wife that you were the pants in the family", "You must STP, listen to tapes, you must do everything your upline says because your success is their success!". You get to the hotel and tell your wife to go and check in because there isn't a parking spot around. You spend about an hour trying to find a paring spot, lug 80 pounds of luggage back to the hotel and wait for your wife to finish checking in. When she does finally check in, of course, you have a room on like the 30th floor. I have gone to a couple of functions where your upline tells you that WOMEN in one room and MEN in another! What? To try to share expenses the upline thought it was CUTE to have the WOMEN in one room to share and bond and the MEN in another to fart and burp. We would make our way over to the elevator and sit and wait and sit and wait and sit and wait, but hey, we are PAYING THE PRICE! You know everyone is at the major function checking in, going to the room to change and when you get thousands of people in the same hotel...well, you know what the deal is. Finally, you squeeze into the elevator and, of course, you have to get off the elevator, so everyone must un-ass the elevator to let you off. Whew, finally you get into the room and tell your wife "Honey, I'll meet you at the function somewhere in the front right-side of the coliseum." You see "MEN" would need to PAY THE PRICE and SAVE seats for their spouse and group. Damn, looking back at how stupid it really was. We are there paying full retail price for a ticket and our upline THIEVES who would never tell you that they are making money from your ticket, come strolling in minutes before the function starts, and get to sit way up front in their SPECIALLY marked section. I know I know Wah Wah Wah on me, but damnit why didn't they tell us they were making money from the tickets? That shit pisses me off!
Ok, your at the function, the doors are about to open, you are being pushed in every damn direction because everyone is pushing from every side and your being slammed into the door like a wet noodle in a strainer. I can't tell you how many functions that I went to in my 10 years that I was always trying to get a front row seat that I would almost get trampled along the way. Well, I know, if my X-Dumbass would have only moved on like "my special and better than me" upline did, I would have SAVED SEATING - La di da fu&^*ing la di da. You would have your briefcase in one hand, your ticket stub in another.....and.....ready......set......GO!!!!!!!! You start running....you are told by UPLINE USHERS to "Slow down", "Slow down", what the hell are they going to do to you anyway? Arrest you? Get the hell out of my way I'm PAYING THE PRICE! You finally reach the coliseum floor and make a dash to the nearest seat in the front, "What's this?" There are already people in the coliseum with front row seats? Where did they come from? You have been outside in the heat for hours and when you finally get inside the very front row seats are taken! That's right Ambots, they are taken because a special few gets front seats. They aren't emeralds, diamonds or Someone who sponsored 6 in 3 months, just good ole boys that the upline Emerald or Diamond "HOOKS UP". Damn, the lucky few.
Ok, now you put sheets of paper down trying to save seats and hope that you see somebody from your team so they can help you save the seats. Would you believe that I have almost been in fights with other Ambots about my seats? Some would even come over to your saved seats, move your paper, and sit down. They would say "You can only save seats for your spouse!" Bastards. I have been outside for hours and can't even save a few seats for my team to show them that "I've Paid the price!". Finally, your spouse shows up and you can relax. Whew, now that was fun. You hear music and see people dancing in the coliseum. Everybody is feeling pretty good at this point. Finally, somebody comes on stage and the yelling begins, "Fired up", "Fired up", "Fired up", "Humph, Humph FREEDOM", "Humph, Humph FREEDOM", "Humph, Humph FREEDOM". You think this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. People at work would never believe this. Hour passes on upon hour, speaker upon speaker, music, videos, speakers, hours, videos, hours, speakers. Thirst sets in, you go and spend $3 for a large coke.....hours.....speakers....videos...."FIRED UP".....hours. Finally, the thing ends; whew I'm exhausted. Oh what's this....."NIGHT OWL", what the hell is that? You are told to go back to the hotel and find a conference room to meet. You go back to the hotel and there are hundreds of people after midnight walking around, giggling, talking, looking dumb founded, trying to find the conference room that there group was assigned to. You find the room an there are people everywhere, you find a seat on the floor and listen intensely, hoping for something that will be said that will build the burn in you to GO DIAMOND! Well, guess what, the same damn thing is said over and over and over, "Oh, I'm so glad to be here, my sponsor is Jack, and I want to tell him that I'm so excited to be here, my husband and kids are at home because.........giggle giggle my husband just doesn't have a dream yet....but I'm working on him." Well, isn't that just so damn sweet, what they hell does that have to do with me? In selling soap? What's that you say? Amway/Quixtar isn't about making money? Bullshit, then why the hell do we have to pay extra for tapes, functions, and seminars? They could sell us the those things at there cost and maybe more people would come to hear the secret and the business would grow, we would sponsor more people who could pay "AT COST" for tapes, books, functions, seminars! But no, the money that would be lost to our uplines pockets is too much. They wouldn't make as much money, so don't tell me that it's more than money. That's a bunch of crock! So you sit and sit and listen to the "NEW" people that are there telling you about how their lives have changed since they have been there and are looking forward to the rest of the weekend. Then you upline THIEF comes in with his tie all undone and starts to tell you how special it is that you are part of the bigger system and just to plug into your upline and listen to what he has to say. You must listen to people in life where you want to be and follow their footsteps. My favorite Ambot saying that I use to love to tell Anti-Amway people......you want to hear this one? Ok, here it is.........."Thank you very much for providing me with an example of just the kind of person I don't want to be like!" SLAM SLAM SLAM. Oh how good it would feel to let that one liner out on someone.
I'm so glad I'm a X-Dumbass! Thank you Thank you Thank you. I'm sitting here writing this crap and it's making my hair on my arms stand up. I can't believe I was right in the middle of this shit for so long. Do you know why it is so fun to come back to this site and see all the people that come and makes comments or tell stories? THIS IS ALSO FOR ALL YOU CURRENT AMBOTS. Amway was such a way of life for a lot of people, we lost friends, we use to tell people we were going to be rich, we went through No's after No's, we told our parents that we will support them and buy them cars and take them on vacations etc etc etc. Years after years pass and nothing. We would almost be too embarrassed to face these people again. They make comments like "Have you made your million yet?" I would say "I'm right on track" or "I'm on my plan and I've almost made it" I would tell people lies that "I'm making over $1,000 a month and that's why my wife is at home". Shit I wasn't making nothing and the only reason she was at home was because they would tell you that you should have your wife at home and that's what we did. We would have to skip movies, buying jewelry because we couldn't afford it only TAPES, BOOKS, FUNCTIONS. So you Ambots still ask, "Why does the owner of this website spend his time here?" Why doesn't he spend his time in Amway/Quixtar and go diamond? He figured out real quickly that Amway/Quixtar had high prices and the only real money is TOOL MONEY! I enjoy coming back to this site because I spent all my years devoted to Amway/Quixtar, would think about it everyday and now that I'm an X-Dumbass, it's still hard to NOT think about it. I'm glad that I can tell my story and maybe get somebody out there to THINK what they are doing, THINK about writing their next check for tapes or functions, that their upline will be making the PROFIT from these items. SUCKERS
Saturday: STREEEETTTTTCCCCCCCHHHHHHH, you wake up about 6:30 am, after a smooth 2-3 hours of sleep. Drink some Trim Advantage Chocolate drink and have a Nutrilite Strive Energy Bar. Damn satisfying knowing you purchased it through your business (even though it was twice as much as a health bar from the store). You get dressed and on your way to the coliseum to get back into line and start the whole line B.S. again. I won't go into the wait process and the mad dash into the coliseum. I already did it for Friday night. Now you are inside the stadium hours pass on upon hours, speaker upon speaker, music, videos, speakers, hours, videos, hours, speakers, starvation. Thirst sets in, you go and spend $3 for a large coke, but wait you see tables set up to sell us tapes, books, shirts. Damn nice of our upline to do that for US. They really do care about us! You know all the years my X-Dumbass bought tapes and books at the functions, I never once thought that our upline was making money from these things. I honestly thought they would have mentioned that to us, ah to be young and stupid again! After getting my tapes and stuff, I remember that they did mention that a Diamond Clothing store was somewhere in the coliseum. I finally found it! I finally found it! The Diamond Clothing Store just for us! You don't think our upline put it there to sell us suits at cost? Hell, I was thinking I was doing what I was supposed to do to make it big in the business. So I purchased a suit, shirts, ties, socks, etc., etc. WOW, that was awfully nice of our upline to have a place where we could buy clothes at the function. Do you think that they care if we don't get PV/BV for that? Didn't we have suits and shit in our own catalog? Why we would want to buy this from our generous upline? He just wants to make sure that we were getting a nice looking suit! He would say, "Men should have a dark suit, white shirt, red tie. It should fit nice and that's why we have our own tailors here with us today." He would make it seem like he is doing this out of the goodness of his heart. I'm such a X-DUMBASS.
Ok, I finally go and sit down, after spending $100's for dollars on crap that I thought I needed to make it big. Of course, this wasn't from the profit of our business, but the profit of my job. After about 5 hours of the same, "I'm wonderful, don't you wish you were me!" crap, we would have an afternoon break. Damn I'm hungry. Oh wait, aren't you the winner? Don't you want to set the example for your group? Go back in line! Go and stand in line for the next 3 hours to make sure you have front row seats again! Your wife tells you, "I'll bring you a bite to eat later honey". "Ok honey, I love you". So you sit down in front of the coliseum with a bunch of other Ambots with no liquor, no cussing, no fun. "Damn it's hot", "I'm sweating like a pig", "sure glad I'm here", "....look at all those losers NOT standing in line like I am", "What time is it?" you ask, "we have another 3 hours until the doors open". Great, I'm starving, hot and thirsty and I only have 3 hours until I get inside. LOSER
Finally, the same thing over again. Push, shove, and race to get a seat, blah, blah blah, blah. Now this is a special night! Really special. You see Dream Night on Saturday night is when the upline will dress up in tuxes, turn off the lights in the coliseum and come running down the man-made aisles up onto stage, with the sound of ROCKY music in the background. What a sight to see! This goes on for about an hour, afterwards, you are thirsty and ready to go and spend $3 more dollars on a coke. This night is really special because you get to hear from all your upline heroes, see videos, slide shows of their struggles. The Rags-to-Riches stuff that will melt your hearts. Come about 1am, you are about to fall over in your chair from sleep deprivation, when you notice that your upline Diamond is coming back on stage. He asks all his downline Mega-thieves to come up on stage. He will start to tell you about a DREAM and how everything starts with a dream. We are asked to get the candle out from under our seat and then the lights dim down in the coliseum. You can't even see your candle in front of you; all you hear is your upline thief talking about DREAMS. He then lights his candle and keeps on talking, He talks about how he first went through like 20 "No's" before he found his first LEG. Then he explains how he built depth and the first 3 people quit before he found a real HOSS. This HOSS went Direct blah, blah, blah. Then he found another Loser, who found a loser, who found a loser, who found a loser, who found a loser, who finally found a winner. He didn't quite use the word "Loser". As he is explaining how he has sponsored all these people he lights their candle, eventually; everyone that's on stage has a candle that's lit. Then he goes on and talks about duplication and how these HOSSES found other people like them after going through herds and herds of "No's" and sifting through hundreds of Loser's they too found other HOSSES. Then all the HOSSES start lighting the candles of people off stage and they light candles and so on and so on. Pretty soon the whole coliseum is lit with candlelight. Ah isn't that sweet. Then they talk about how important the "Woman" are to the business and ask the woman to blow out their candle. The coliseum dims a bit and then he asks for the "Men" to light their spouses candle again and the coliseum is lit up. Then he asks everyone to blow out his or her candle and again "darkness". Silence....... then you hear your upline thief explain how important a dream is. A dream of having more out of life. To do this you must buy more tapes.....Oops he didn't really say that. You get the idea. By this time everyone is feeling all juicy inside and you can see people hugging and kissing. I could almost see the "upline thieves" tongue down everyone's wallet! After that is over, maybe around 1:00 - 1:30 AM, we finally exit the coliseum and make our way over to the hotel......to sleep you ask? Ha Ha Ha nice try X-Dumbass. No you are going to another NIGHT OWL! Get fired up LOSER because you have at least 2 more hours of the same shit. Same people that talked the night before say the same thing over again. We are asked to keep it down by the hotel staff because it's so late. "What a bunch of loser's!" someone would say. "They just don't understand what this business is about!" I would say. Damn, are you sure I wasn't gay? After the great 2 hours of speeches that are really going to change you into a HOSS, you get to go upstairs and sleep! Have I mentioned eating? You eat whenever you can and don't you dare pull out something that you bought at the store! You will get ridiculed by everyone; your downline will look at you funny. You know there were times that I would have to sneak into a restroom to eat something that I bought at the store! People would question every piece of clothing, food, personal care items, pens, paper. Anything that you might be using would be questioned if it has been BOUGHT FROM THE BUSINESS. Has anyone else ever felt the damn pressure from that?
Sunday: STREEEETTTTTCCCCCCCHHHHHHH, you wake up about 6:30 am, you try to get an extra 30 minutes of sleep because you only had about 2-3 hours of sleep, but hey, you are PAYING THE PRICE! Drink some Trim Advantage Chocolate drink and have a Nutrilite Strive Energy Bar. This is probably the worst day of all. By this time you are so tired that you are grumpy and pissed. I can't explain to you being that tired and still having to put a smile on your face because your new down-line needed a place to stay and you can't show him your bad side - right? Ok, now you pack your shit and head over to the elevator. This is real funny now. You see, you now have to checkout of the hotel with about 2000 other Ambots. The elevator shows up and guess what? It's full, I mean FULL. After about 1 function you begin to realize that you must ride the elevator "UP" first before you can take it down again. Checking out is about 1 - 1-1/2 hours of complete FUN! Your cranky, tired, pissed and hungry at this point.
You walk you butt over to the coliseum and realize that you don't have to show your ticket stub to anyone, why, because Sunday is Christ's day. You only paid $85 for your ticket for Friday and Saturday stuff. Sunday is free. You get inside and see about half of the normal people that were there the night before. I think this is because they are still sleeping - LOSERS. You know I am a Christian and I did enjoy Sunday morning. All the singing and praising. I won't get into that part of it very much. After a couple of hours, our upline thieves talk about how Christ is part of their life and how you can't make it without having Christ in your life. One of the sayings were, "I can't believe you have to build your business with Christ" and the response would be "I can't believe that you wouldn't". Then the big finale.....your upline would now call people down to stage that has felt Jesus touch them this morning. By the time it's all over thousand's of people have accepted Jesus as their savior. This I tell you is a sight to see. I actually think it's kind of cool that people are thinking about God, but I don't think it's a good idea to have this at a BUSINESS FUNCTION. Can you get a tax deduction for accepting Jesus in your life? Ha Ha To me it seems that some people might feel pressured into this. You see, you might have your down-line by you and you don't want him to think you are scared or something, so you get up and accept Jesus in your life because you must set the example - right? After all that is over with you get a small break. Food....Food...Food. You go and get a great big hot dog and a coke. No PV/BV on that stuff. You feel really good after spending $6, but hey, you are already use to paying high prices for stuff!
You seat down and try to stay awake for the rest of the afternoon. Finally, Sunday about 2:00 PM, you hear your upline start talking about something useful. How to Show the Plan, Team Calling, Prospecting, 8 team Steps (This includes attending all functions, reading books and listening to tapes! At this point, maybe they will mention that they make money from this? Yeah right. You bunch of Losers! Damn, that pisses me off). You see all Sunday afternoon is spent on making your business bigger and in turn getting more people on Standing Order. Can you honestly say, "They are doing this for us?" Are they? Aren't our Upline Thieves in a position to profit from us, if they tell us to attend function, buy books and be on Standing Order tape of the week?
You finally leave the function and drive back home another 3-5 hours. It's really late and you are exhausted. You go to sleep feeling real good about spending $85 per person on tickets, $150+ for hotel room that you slept in for maybe 6 hours (Hopefully, you split that cost with some other people), $80-110 for food, $100+ for clothes, tapes, books, $80 gas. Damn, what a deal! You really are PAYING THE PRICE! STUPID!
Repeat back to Monday!
Do you call this a "LIFE"? I would rather have my family and friends then the same thing over and over and over again like Amway. Don't tell me my JOB is a rut when Amway is just as much of a RUT as Amway!
X-Dumbass
