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Amway Poland - work - salary [18]
It's basically a giant scam t
Agreed. It isn't clear whether or not the OP has been offered a job in their office or been invited to take part in one of their schemes. I would hope that they don't hassle their clerks, receptionists etc to join the schemes, however I wouldn't put it past them.
the mind-control cult aspects are downright scary.
Agreed. I once attended one of their rallies. It reminded me of an American evangelical rally - the same language used, the same presentation techniques, the lot. When someone makes a pitch at you about Amway, they use the same sort of persuasion techniques as the sharpest sales people and worse.
that the way to make money was not by selling their detergents, but by recruiting lots of gullible people to do so and raking off a percentage of their sales
This is true - that's how it works. What Terri says is true as well.
Just about the only plus within the Amway movement doesn't work in Poland but has its uses in America. Remember the Amway suckers do it as self-employed (one of their buzzwords is 'independent business operator'). This means that Joe from New Jersey goes with his wife for a weekend to visit their aunty Mary in Ohio. They stay at a hotel there, eat meals on the way, and give an Amway pitch to aunty Mary's next door neighbour for ten minutes. This means that the entire trip, the hotel, the car hire, the petrol etc is a business expense - in effect a tax loss since the 3 dollars or whatever they make a month from Amway doesn't cover the losses.
In Poland of course, you can't get away with that.
You have to be careful. Amway's reputation is so poor that they use other trading names to draw suckers in - in fact, during the first few pitches they deliberately avoid the name Amway. 'Network 21' is one they use in Poland, others are 'Alticor'. 'Quixtar' and.
A sociologist described them as a "quasi-religious corporation having sectarian characteristics".
