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| I'm happy to say that I quit Mary Kay yesterday. It was getting bad and I was getting sad thoughts that wanted me to end my life. I was also ghosted by a very evil spirit that almost got our kitchen stove on fire because she could do it. This ghost was a woman named Ruble Laura who gave a zoom video blog about how she got herself into Mary Kay years ago. She was not convincing and I was able to see holes in her story. In truth, she was a fake thought and had no real experience in Mary kay and merely spouted the conventional things like how "cool" it was to be in a Mary Kay party where they served canapes and all that sort of thing. She also mentioned that she had a degree in singing or voice and a minor in piano but that she decided against a career in music or opera (my thought she had an operatic voice but that's not true) and instead went for a full time consultancy as a mary kay rep. I thought this was rather bizarre that someone with a beautiful voice and her face was beautiful indeed with blonde short cropped hair and that she would give up the opportunity for a great career in music to be a shill for Mary Kay. She also went on and said how fun it was to link arms with her peers in Mary Kay and be happy with them in this business. Then she went on saying that her children (had after a decade or so of marriage) had her as a home mom but also that one of her kids had an auditory problem where he wasn't able to process learning somehow. She went into detail about his problem that there was some sort of lag between hearing something and knowing or leaerning what was told him. I am not an auditory expert but this sounded like a sham illness. Anyway she said she could stay home and be with him and help him learn. This is something that many who are attracted to Mary Kay go for because they have the means to stay with the kids at home and have no real reason to work outside the house. However, she went on and said something that really struck me: she said that she and her husband had no real retirement to look forward to or words to that effect. I realized that Mary Kay has no retirement plans for their consultants because the consultants are contract workers and nothing else. Contract workers are left without benefits (as a rule) unless the company or companies they work for give them W2 and that will include benefits. I know this for a fact because I've been recruited by several headhunters to apply for contractual work for medical device companies on a W2 (instead of as a contractor without benefits) - W2 has that option to get benefits and that's what many people in self-employment want. This lack of benefits from Mary Kay made me rethink working for Mary Kay. I myself am retired now and so I have a fixed income but for many women who work for Mary Kay this way, as a consultant, do not have retirement to look forward to from Mary Kay. Unless they are really working for the company in Dallas, TX, that is. So I felt sad for these women who do the work of selling products and their superiors are getting a 'miraculous' influx of money from their work into their own bank accounts. This I heard from another woman from Mary Kay's director vlog. So, I said to myself, fuck it, I'm not going to do this. I don't like the superiors I had at Mary Kay as they are a cliquish set and don't tell all to those who are new to the business. They don't spill the secrets of getting ahead in the business. If they don't like you (and they didn't like me for some reason) they won't go out of their way to help you get to boost your business. They merely tell you to do "scripts" to tell your customers and well, their scripts aren't always applicable. There's a script that they gave me after I asked for help finally getting a call with my superior, this script was supposed to tell customers that there's a "Pink Party" with a "Pink Bag" that they were going to get and that they'll get together virtually to use the contents of the pink bag. Well, I have no money to pack a Pink Bag with goodies (I have to use my income to buy inventory and if the inventory hasn't got the goodies at the time, I'll have to again buy these goodies etc etc etc). So I was somehow blocked from using the scripts. It's crazy. So I think that this Pink thing was a lesson and I learned that even though I wanted the challenge of 'building my business' as a Mary kay consultant, it wasn't doing well as I had few contacts and few FB friends and I wrote emails to half the population of the city and did not get any responses. I did get a few three at the most who said no or had their own Mary Kay person to go to. It's a sad thing to have no friends to sell to and those I had weren't interested except for a couple who were nice enough to buy something from me but I do not doubt they wanted to keep coming back to buy these same things from me. So, now I'm out of Mary Kay and I hope that those who are considering joining Mary Kay need to think how they handle their newbies. There's an IPA sheet they hand out (Income Producing Activities) that you need to log and several of these things include having to have a Pearl Meeting where the customer, the consultant and the consultant's superior meet online or via three way call and the purpose is to sell, and recruit. My superior was such a shallow woman and boasted that she did some million dollars of sales in her career, and had a fleet of Pink Mary Kay cars to her credit. And that the business afforded the consultant-to-be a discount (50 percent off) for products of Mary Kay. Well, it's off-putting to have to hear this for me because it just wasn't my idea of what i wanted out of Mary Kay (except for the discount, haha) and I didn't want a damn Pink Cadillac or whatever the flavor of the car was at the time, so I thought this Pearl convo was not what I wanted. I would be embarassed in front of my customer (a friend, most likely) who would be wondering what i'd got myself into. There were other activiities there that included a $100 sale (which I could not reach at all), 10 shares with customers or reach outs (which I could do but well, that's a different story altogether and I'm rather not sure I want to divulge that now), 1 face (a customer who buys product), and whatever else they had. They had a little group on FB that talked about their IPAs and well, I was so downcast to think that I'd not got enough IPAs to belong to their group, which is ridiculous in retrospect. So, I decided (and here's my confession) to "buy" followers at FB and got about 300 people to share with and it was rather an astounding turnaround in my IPA points which got my superior somewhat flummoxed (as she was convinced I was a loser) and so that got me into the first round of "the bottleneck" and it was then that I was reduced to tears thinking I'd cheated my way into the inner circle of Mary Kay's elite snobs who make money off of the backs of their small consultants who are trying their best to sell things and creams and makeup to their near and dear friends and family. I'd actually convinced a relative to buy aftershave and shave foam (and my stepfather too) which amounted to half the people I sold anything to. Oh my God. So my lesson is that one needs to understand how MLM businesses thrive and it's not good. I had been warned several times by people on Reddit about this but I persisted, thinking that I was challenged to build my business but I'm so fucking exhausted from the mental stress and physical negativity from Mary Kay and I'm no longer there and I'm hoping that today will be the first day of my life back as a free person. Haha. Let's see how it goes, right? |
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