Pyramid Schemes (And the idiots who embrace them...)

FenderPusher said:
Update!

My boss just sent ANOTHER email saying I know you've reviewed the information and said you're not interested, but please try and make it to the meeting with the executive director of sales (about an hour from here on a Saturday evening) to get a better idea. I responded saying I'm still not interested but thanks for the offer... my co-worker just replied "Steve, you are starting to piss me off..."

:grin::grin::grin:

Best email reply to a boss I've ever seen... We'll see what happens from here.
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Don't you work for a government agency of some sort?
 
FenderPusher said:
Update!

My boss just sent ANOTHER email saying I know you've reviewed the information and said you're not interested, but please try and make it to the meeting with the executive director of sales (about an hour from here on a Saturday evening) to get a better idea. I responded saying I'm still not interested but thanks for the offer... my co-worker just replied "Steve, you are starting to piss me off..."

:grin::grin::grin:

Best email reply to a boss I've ever seen... We'll see what happens from here.
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Sad day.....but that dude is funny. Never picked up the religious tones that you mentioned but that seems to be the case out here on the West Coast as well. Got a few friends who were selling that crap and were part of the church and they too wanted me to come and sit and listen - I simply said: NO!

Back in Hawaii it was not only Amway but Insurance as well. Can't remember the companies name anymore. I love the line that a co-worker would use to entice the sale: "Do you love your family?"
 
Jeremy said:
My mom bought into that bullshit for a while. Until it became painfully obvious that it was, in fact, bullshit.

She even bought me the book at one point. :embarrassed:
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Man, and you were having such a good week and then I have to go and bring that up. Sorry. :)
 
Of course maybe you were having such a good week, because you thought positively and wished all of this stuff into your lief. :thu:
 
All this talk of The Secret reminds me of the days when ex-wife 2 got us into fundamentalist religion. We got a mailing from some preacher who would, for a donation, of course, pray for your choice of "blessings." One check off was to get an inheritance. I guess it is okay to pray for someone to die so I can get money. :rolleyes:
 
Elias Graves said:
My mother inlaw started selling Melaleuca products some years ago.
The products themselves were actually quite good, but it took her a year to figure out that she was losing money doing it. :facepalm:

Of course, she fell hard for Y2K and now she's freaking out about 2012.

EG
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Agreed. Id never sell melaluca or encourage anyone I know to do it, but I like some of their products a lot. The alloy anti-perspirant in particular. It's 96 degrees here today and I'm sweating my balls off, but not a drop from under my arms.
 
Here's what you do. Take all of these emails and send them to 5 other coworkers, who will send them to 5 other coworkers each, who will then in turn forward it to 5 more coworkers each.

Each of these 125 ultimate recipients will go to your boss and demand that he pay them $10 to NOT go to HR with a complaint. Those 125 recipients will in turn give half of their $10 to the gang of 25 secondary recipients, who will give half of that to the 5 initial recipients, who will then give half of that money to you.

Bam. Pyramid inverted.
 
Jeremy said:
That would be my guess. My father-in-law did that shit.
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My dad went to a Primerica meeting once in the late '80s. He thought it was hilarious when they showed, as their primary success story, this guy Georgia who had something like 1000 people in his downchannel and was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month...and was 600 pounds and appeared to be housebound. :lol:
 
When we were in San Francisco, there were people on the street drumming up some kind of business. They were offering free cruises, airline tickets, stuff like that, and all you had to do was come listen to a one hour lecture.

We basically told them to fuck off too.
 
rusholmeruffian said:
My dad went to a Primerica meeting once in the late '80s. He thought it was hilarious when they showed, as their primary success story, this guy Georgia who had something like 1000 people in his downchannel and was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month...and was 600 pounds and appeared to be housebound. :lol:
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Lol.

He used to give me that "do you love your family" shit. I used to tell him that yes, I do, that's why I'm going to buy food and clothes for them and pay the rent instead of giving you my money for insurance.
 
I'll never forget, when I was a kid, the college kids that used to come around and try to sell encyclopedias or cutco knives. They never got far into their sales pitch at our house.
 
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