I've been to enough Amway meetings where the Platinum or Diamond speaker expresses disdain for anyone who holds down a regular employment position.
It is those who laugh at those who have work. They make fun of folks who are employed. They are critical of those who hold down a job. They want to know why independent business owners (IBOs) are working for other individuals.
The brainwashing continues unabated for an indefinite period of time.
People who have jobs and people who work for someone else are treated with contempt by the IBOs as soon as they replicate their upline. These identical IBOs are employed full-time in their respective fields. When we worked for Amway, no one in our line, except from ourselves, was self-employed, and only a small number of crossline employees were self-employed.
Most independent business owners (IBOs) are hired by others, and armed with the derogatory things they have to say about individuals who have jobs, it doesn't take long for their snarky demeanour to penetrate the workplace environment. They despise their coworkers and, most likely, their employer because they are all fucking fools for having a J.O.B. and working for someone else rather than themselves instead of pursuing their own interests. They will almost certainly begin to moan about how much they despise their jobs and how much they can't wait till they are finally free, due to Amway's generosity. You'd better keep your tongues shut, because that day might come sooner than you expect! Moreover, you will not be financially independent when it occurs!
Employees who constantly grumble about how much they despise their jobs are unlikely to remain very long in their current positions. They have two options: quit or be fired. Nobody wants that kind of negativity in the office, because it will bring down morale and irritate the other employees who will have to listen to the Amway inebriated IBO spout forth their brainwashed garbage.
I was astounded by the amount of IBOs in our line or crossline who were unemployed in a few of months after joining the company. The fact that they all had this brainwashed "J.O.B.'s Suck" mindset made it understandable why their employers didn't want to keep them on the payroll. While we were still employed by Amway, I never saw any of them look for another work, and the majority of them resorted to picking up odd jobs wherever they could find them.
When my Ambot learned about someone who needed casual labour help doing upkeep around the house, he wanted to assist them as best he could because he is such a kind guy.
In a previous piece, I mentioned a friend of ours who is a painter and who periodically hires workers for large-scale projects. Ambot was able to hire an unemployed IBO as a part-time assistant. It wasn't a very difficult or time-consuming task. It was a 1600 square foot house with two levels and three bedrooms, but it needed to be painted both inside and out. It shouldn't take more than two guys too long, especially considering that the house was vacant and in the process of being painted previous to the new owners moving in. The inside of the house needed to be painted first, and that was obviously the priority.
He was slower than shit, and our painter friend would never hire him again since he was so inefficient. However, our acquaintance claims that the IBO moved at a snail's pace, and that he did an excellent job. I could understand why he would want to keep the job going as long as he possibly could for $15 an hour, especially since he had no other work lined up. As if that weren't enough, the IBO also upset our friend by spending excessive amounts of time on his cell phone, making phone calls and sending text messages to his friends. As if that wasn't awful enough, he showed in with a boom box and started blasting the latest Amway CD from his tools order.
Exactly, I wouldn't hire that jerk again either!
Ambot was successful in finding him another day employment. Some of our friends chose to renovate their shed in the back yard into a clubhouse for their teenage son, and we were all in favour of it. The interior of the house, which was around 10' by 15', needed to be sanded down in preparation for painting. Ambot suggested the bastard, but cautioned them that he was extremely S...L..O..W.... They didn't seem to mind as long as he was conscientious and performed a good job for the company. As an alternative to paying him per the hour, Ambot offers that they pay the bastard $150 for the work, regardless of whether it takes him 5 hours or 10 hours. As a result, they are all in agreement. For whatever reason, we ended up being involved in the process of retrieving the sander from the rental facility. I guess our pals couldn't make it before they had to leave for work. When I arrived, I picked up the tool and carried it over to their shed. Ambot phoned slow-as-shit to remind him that the tool rental company would close at 5 p.m. if he didn't return it in time. The guy arrived at the site at 9 or 10 a.m. and immediately got to work. At 2:30 p.m., he called Ambot to let him know he was almost finished and ready to begin cleaning up. I'm not sure how long it takes to sweep or vacuum up the sawdust, but I'm confident that my friends or their kid could have completed the task when they returned home, and it would have taken them no more than 10 minutes at the most. Towards the end of the evening, the bastard calls Ambot to double-check the location of the tool rental facility. Ambot is extremely enraged! I'm not sure what part of "they're closed at 5pm" he was having trouble comprehending. The cretin decides to drive over to the location anyhow, just to see if anyone is still at work. Unfortunately, there was no luck. The sander ultimately makes its way back to our residence. The rental place opens at 7 a.m., and if we return the vehicle by 7:30 a.m., our friends will not be charged for an additional day. So now I'm inconvenienced since I have to drag myself out of bed at the crack of dawn the next morning in order to return the darned sander to its rightful owner.
We never suggested that cretin for any other odd jobs in the future. I mean, instead of returning the tool to the shop - which was only a 10-minute drive away - he lingered inside the shed for two hours, fiddling with his phone!
Our friends required additional assistance with the conversion of their shed into a teen clubhouse. They intended to run a phone line and a cablevision line out to the location in order to install a television and a phone. Another friend of theirs was going to wire it from their house to the shed, and he suggested that they dig a trench so that he could run the wires via plastic pipes and bury the entire structure. Their teenager and a few of his pals could have helped dig a trench, but they didn't. I'm not sure why they didn't enlist the help of their teenager and some of his friends. Ambot is acquainted with another unemployed IBO, a young man who appears to be physically fit. In exchange for digging a trench around one foot deep and 25 feet from the house to the shed, he has given $100. As long as you have really great soft soil and easy digging, you shouldn't have to spend more than a few hours on it. Because of all of the time he spends on his cell phone, it takes him 4 hours to complete the task. But he was successful in his endeavours.
Because of the reasons I've already stated, I would never hire an IBO for any position. They are unhappy about their jobs, they waste too much time on the phone, they want to turn up the volume on Amway CDs, and they have a negative attitude. In exchange for your money, you want someone to complete the task at hand without interfering with it with texting, phone calls, recruiting prospects, selling Amway goods, playing Amway motivational CDs, or otherwise being obnoxious and inconsiderate.
Yes, I do make distinctions! Assholes in the night Amway independent business owners (IBOs) are not eligible to apply.
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