It's a joke, of course! An individual conducting a Google search and entering the phrase "ambot conference Las Vegas 2012" came up with the title of today's blog post.
So I'm not going to pick Las Vegas for this blog - it could be anywhere - but I will put my own twist on an ambot conference and write about it!
The Amway WWDB World Wide Dream Builder function is more popularly referred to as the Ambot conference. There are four of them in a year. Dream Night takes place in January, Spring Leadership takes place in April, Family Reunion takes place in July, and Free Enterprise Days FED takes place in October. Except for last year, when someone at WWDB made a blunder and failed to book the event in time, forcing it to be moved to November, the first time the arena was available at the time. There are several of these functions that take place in more than one town.
Forcing ambots to attend the next ambot conference begins around the time when the previous conference comes to a close. The Amway cult leaders put pressure on their downline to purchase tickets for the next Amway function as soon as possible. It's critical to keep the tool scam money flowing in for the cult leaders in case any ambots decide to leave in the coming months. So let's get this business of purchasing tickets over with. Consider it $125, however some ambot conferences are more expensive and others are less expensive.
It is becoming increasingly important for the ambot to acquire a hotel room as the conference date approaches. On the WWDB web page, there are always certain hotel rooms that have been banned because they have been acquired at a group or conference rate. It doesn't hurt to check with the hotel directly to see if they can offer you a better deal. AAA members can get substantial discounts at several hotels. Additionally, some travel websites such as http://www.hotels.com/ and http://www.priceline.com/ may be able to provide you with a better deal. Let's say the hotel room is $100 per night, even if some may argue that a Motel 6 is less expensive or that a Hyatt is more expensive; I'm calling it a mid-range price and working in round numbers. Amway WWDB functions are notoriously held on weekends, when hotel rooms are more expensive than during the rest of the week.
Let's have a look at this. Consider holding the event during the week when hotel rooms are less expensive. Don't forget that ambots are self-employed business proprietors, after all. When you own your own firm, you have the freedom to choose which days you want to take off.
Take, for example, that the ambot conference is being hosted in a place that requires 5 hours of driving time. As a result, the ambot will begin driving somewhere in the early morning. Oh. I've need to go fill up the car's gas tank. The ambot is only a few miles down the road, and it's only $50 down the hatch. Ambot is hungry and thirsty after a couple of hours of play. I'm going to have to stop for lunch. There's a Denny's right here! Let's call it a two-person lunch because Ambot has most likely brought his wife along with him to dine. Lunch comes to $30 for a pair of burger plates, two sodas, plus a 10% service charge and tip.
After an hour on the road, the automobile is thirsty once more. Invest another $50 in the vehicle's fuel tank.
Finally, we arrive at the hotel in the late afternoon or early evening. There are two hours left before the ambot conference's evening session gets underway on Friday, so use them wisely. Dinner is essential during this time period. It doesn't appear like there is a Denny's nearby, but the hotel either has a restaurant or is close by that is a little more expensive than Denny's. Let's assume dinner for two people costs $40.
Yikes! A total of $170 has already been spent by Ambots on gas and food!
Add in the conference tickets ($250 for two people) and two nights of accommodation that has been pre-paid ($200), and they've spent an additional $450 before ever entering the ambot conference.
A bunch of nationalistic rah rah get the crowd fired up indoctrination material will be presented on Friday night at the Ambot conference. The ambot, on the other hand, must put in 5 hours a day, starting early to stand in line before the door opens and staying in the auditorium until around midnight, listening to the cult leaders brainwash him.
Ambot has a craving for something to eat. It's a good thing there's a McDonald's drive through open 24 hours on the way back to the motel. $15 for a late-night snack for two people, bringing the total for today's food and gas expenses to $185 dollars. We're in desperate need of some nutrition for the Night Owl that the piece of shit Platinum has ordered all of his cult followers to attend.
Saturday morning brunch is a must-have! Add extra $30 for a total of two individuals. Perhaps they will drive around town until they come upon an IHOP or a Dennys.
Weekends at the Amway Bot Conference are spent listening to a bunch of greedy Amway Diamonds blather on about "the business" - without ever providing any concrete advice and trying to avoid using the "A" word - and showing pictures and videos of their mansions, sports cars, private aeroplanes and luxury vacation destinations - all while taunting the audience with "wouldn't you like to have what we have"? This portion of the ambot conference continues until midnight, and while there is a 2-3 hour break for ambots to depart and scrounge up food, there is no break at lunch time for this portion of the conference. In order to survive, ambots must either purchase food from the arena's pricey concessions or be terrible little ambots and leave the premises in search of sustenance at one of the surrounding restaurants.
Dinner and a quasi-lunch for two persons, please. Let's say the amount is $50. And don't forget to make a $15 stop at McDonald's on the way back to the hotel because the ambots will be starving by the time they arrive to the Night Owl.
This amounts to $95 in food for Saturday.
What are your plans for Sunday morning at the Ambot conference? Yes, there will be a sermon at church! That means spending another $30 on breakfast at the hotel's restaurant, which is required to be present. Then it went off to the ambot version of church, as if there wasn't already a plentiful supply of religion available all day Saturday and all night Friday. Cults employ religious terminology as a part of their brainwashing methods.
Just as a side note, conventional corporate practises prohibit religion from being discussed in the workplace.
After the a.m. church service, find a local restaurant to eat at for lunch. Add another $30 to the tally. The ambot conference concludes on a Sunday afternoon, so what happens then? Of certainly, more of the same will suffice! This is merely a long winded, several-hour recap of the previous two days' events. The cult leaders advise their members to purchase additional motivational materials because sales of tool scams were a little low the previous year. Of course, you should also purchase more and more Amway merchandise.
The ambot conference has finally come to a close! It's time to get back on the road. Let's say the petrol is $170 and we stop for supper at a restaurant that charges the same price as it did on Friday.
The ambot conference has cost $960, but let's round it up to $1000 because the ambots are likely to have purchased a book or a CD while they were inside the ambot conference building. The ambot conference tickets were purchased with the $250, with the majority of the cost being borne by the Diamonds who were in charge of the event. Are you talking about $750 in incidental expenses to attend an ambot conference?
What a complete waste of money.
I can't even think of a single rock star for whom I'd be ready to fork over a thousand dollars in tickets and incidentals, as well as dedicate three days of my time to go there and back.
Nope Not even on airfare, hotel, and food to fly to Washington DC to meet up with George Clooney at the Sudanese embassy, would I spend that much money!
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