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Doc Bunkum
07-17-2010, 05:53 AM
Joining MLM: How to lose self respect, dignity and friendship in 1 easy step (http://sheepvomit.com/Joining_MLM_how_to_lose_dignity.html)


Multi level marketing has destroyed more friendships and families than child pornography and unplanned pregnancy combined. The objective of every MLM executive is to resurrect the crushed financial dreams of your every day housewife and turn her into a remorseless selling machine.

Let's be honest here, we all hate salespeople. Granted, there are varying degrees of shittiness when speaking of the common salesperson, and I will admit that some deserve to be eaten alive by lions slightly less than others. Not the MLM'er. The MLM'er is to business and sales as aid's is to prostitution: one minute you're having the time of your life the next thing you know you're a living corpse and nobody wants you within 20ft and for good reason. That's actually the perfect metaphor. If I imagine myself in a room surrounded by 15 people with aids or 15 mlm'ers jacked up on their 'opportunity' I get the same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and the urge to spray every surface and fixture they have touched with industrial strength cleaners starts to become very real.

The very tenet of the MLM 'business' is to target and sell (they call it presenting the opportunity) everyone by any means necessary. Nothing is below them. When preying on your financial hopes and dreams doesn't work they quickly shift gears to other emotions such as fear or even guilt to get you to 'sign up' or buy whatever shoddy overpriced 'specialty' products they happen to be hawking.

Here's the kicker though: they tell you there is no sales involved! Instead they tell you that you are just presenting an 'opportunity'! They are presenting an opportunity all right, the opportunity to alienate everyone who trusted and respected you or otherwise. The opportunity to become a complete asshole. The opportunity to piss away your hard earned dollars quicker than a recently widowed senior with a fat retirement fund at an Indian casino.

My authority on this subject is unquestionable. I know first hand the scourge of MLM in the family. Since about my 10th birthday I have witnessed my mothers 'business meetings' in the living room of our family home and have heard the carefully crafted 'presentations' from the likes of Amway, Melaleuca, Monavie, Glentel, Young Living, BiM and half a dozen less memorable flash in the pan names. The paltry products change but the spiel is always the same. I have observed my mother pouring her hard earned money into these businesses with the hopes of striking it rich only to line the pockets of the master manipulators in her 'upline'. There is a special spot in hell reserved for these people right between Michael Jackson and Rodney Dangerfield where clothing and consensual anal sex is not optional. At least the punishment fits the crime.

The hardest pill for me to swallow is the whole 'this is a new business concept' of MLM. When Paul Zane Pilzer deep throated the cock of MLM by publicly endorsing it as 'the business of the future' he lost all credibility as an economist.

Before you buy into the bullshit and without getting too technical ask yourself this: when the people in the 'downline' make the people in the 'upline' rich does that sound like a groundbreaking new business model? Of course not, that's called division of labour in a capitalist economy. There is nothing different or new about the MLM concept. The few get rich from the efforts of many.

Network marketing is just a way of repackaging a job and selling it in a manner that makes you think it's something else. That's called deception, something jargon spewing network marketing executives like Kevin Trudeau (convicted of multiple MLM related felonies) are masters of. Why do the unfortunate souls that join fail to see this? Because they are the victims of master manipulators and con artists. If you want to find the best con men and women in this world, look no further than your nearest MLM organization. At least in a real business you know you are only there for a paycheck you don't have this false hope that you're going to score big.

Do yourself a favor and the next time a friend offers you a 'business opportunity' that you can work from the comfort of your own home tell them you would rather spend life in prison for a string of brutal rapes that you didn't commit. When they ask why tell them at least you will die with your dignity intact.

Joining MLM: How to lose self respect, dignity and friendship in 1 easy step (http://sheepvomit.com/Joining_MLM_how_to_lose_dignity.html)

King
07-17-2010, 11:03 AM
A friend of mine was in between jobs around 8 or 9 years ago. He went to this supposed "job" fair, and not surprisingly, it was a bait for only one company. He was "chosen" out of the 100 or so people that showed up, to sell some knock off cologne door to door. They sold him on the "build some clients under you, everyone uses cologne, make millions, etc."

So he shows up at my door, with that "Dude, I know this is lame" look on his face, and then before I could laugh at him, he throws it down and says, "Wow, I feel like a dumbass...I just got rooked." He spent something like $150 for this "100% genuine imitation" cologne. It went straight to the trash, and he learned his lesson. I couldn't believe he fell for it...former helicopter repair tech...even spent time in Afghanistan. One of the most trusted auto mechanics in my hometown.

It makes me wonder exactly how many of the "participants" at the job fair were even real people looking for jobs. I wonder how many were planted in the mix to hype up the potential job seekers. How many of these plants were there to put that "opportunity" bug in the ears of the unsuspecting.

The lengths some people take....