MLMs are scary
Multi-Level Marketings are scary things. I had a traumatizing day because of it. Let me start from the top.
It all started yesterday when my uncle messaged me if I wanted to join a business seminar. In some strange ways, it got around in the family that I was a sucker for seminars. And besides, this is not an uncle I’m close with and we never contact each other through anything other than when we meet face to face. Okay, fine, I went because my cousin was also talked into going. I really had no idea what it was really about since the topic was ‘Success Stories and Motivation’. But who’s success story and motivation for what?
When we got there, everyone just gave us this look when we said we were students. It wasn’t until we were settled down in the function room that we realised…this was a seminar about Amway. After that we sat down an agonizing two hours of Amway preaching and weird pep rallies.
By the end of the two hours I was pissed, hungry and tired. But noooo, they wouldn’t let us go without personally talking to us. Grrrr. They asked me how do I find the seminar I said it was fine and the business model seems interesting. They said it would be a shame if we just left without looking and understanding their business model.
Me and my big mouth. I should just said the whole thing bored me to death and that I hated MLM.
…So there was another agonizing hour of pep talk.
But too bad for them, one of the women (there were two, and both are my uncle’s colleagues), rubbed me the wrong way. I fumed silently the rest of the time and needless to say, didn’t care what she was talking about. No wonder they gave us that look when we said we’re students. These people like young bloods!
They thought they were convincing enough to make us join and were pretty pleased with themselves. Well I just thought they were middle class suckers for easy money. But both me and my cousin were just putting up an intelligent face to make them feel good. My cousin was like ‘whatever, let’s just look professional. Least we could do’ but I just put up a cold front. The message was clear: ‘I am a customer you will not hope to get’.
They can say a thousand and one wonderful things about Amway but I will never join it. They say you get ahead in Amway by having a lot of strong pipelines below you. I’ll say, since Amway has been around for 70 years, it means that you are just another rat in someone else’s pipeline, right? So it doesn’t matter how many or how strong your pipelines are, you are still a rat yourself.
And I, don’t want to be a rat.
I don’t care how easy it is to get passive income. If you don’t enjoy the journey, what’s the point? It seems too easy to get money from the rats in your pipeline. All you have to do was make sure the rats do their work of maintaining their pipelines. No thanks, that’s not for me.
I will stick with Options. Besides, what’s more impressive? working on a pipeline or the ability to read charts?
I was right to be skeptical when it’s neither Mr. Foong nor Gao Lao Shi giving a talk. The Chin Kuan guy bored me to death.
Therefore, it was a complete waste of afternoon. I shall hide myself away from my uncle too from now own. The thing with MLM is, they have a way of telling you that ‘you can run, but you can’t hide’. Like I said, scary stuff. O_O
Don’t look for me…
*poof*
