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Malik said:
A year after I had graduated high school, I was 19 and I hadn't enrolled in college (did so later) so my moms was harping on me to find a better job. Figure out what i want to do with my life type shyt. Saw an ad for $16/hr, so I said why not :manny:


Cutco/Vector Marketing.....most of yall already know what bullshyt took place :snoop:


After my first hour in there, I knew it was bullshyt. One....nikkas wanted $149 for a knife set to use in showings. Even at 19, I knew that's where their money came from :duck: Two....they wanted us to be walking door to door knocking on random people's houses and begging our family to buy that shyt :heh: I thought that shyt was like a call center type spot. Three.....the dude interviewing me just handed me the job and said I'd be making 100k in 3 months and running my own office :duck: Four......to appease my mom, I went back the next day and they drove us to Baltimore for a conference. It was so fukkin sad and pathetic. Looked like a damn cult. Like a scene from the movie "Boiler Room". I knew I fukked up the minute I walked in. 500 people in there harping on some white dude's every last word and he never once explained what they do or how they make their money. It was shyt like "you can be successful too, you deserve this life, dont listen to your friends and family.....they're holding you back" :russ: :rudy:



I felt like such a dumbass for riding two hours to Baltimore and having to stay and listen to this bullshyt to get a ride back home. The second we touched back to Philly, I couldn't have ran out of that office fast enough. told moms Id find somethin else. I aint pay them nikkas that $149 either :rudy:



Oh yea, there was this dude on the bus who told me he dropped out of college to go sell knives
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I got suckered into that CUTCO bullshyt too, when I was a senior in high school as well. I did the week training and everything.

I got the last laugh in the end tho. A rich friend of mine at the time gave me the 150 for the "promotion set". I did it for 3 days and went on 3 different meetings. Sold enough in those 3 days that they cut me a $40 check, I had another job and realized how stupid that shyt was so I went straight AWOL on my manager for it, it helps that I was beefing w/ my pops at the time and he cutoff my cellphone:russ:. The next year around tax return (my freshman yr of college) they cut me another $30 check. This January I saw the knife set lying around, I put that bytch on eBay and sold them for $255. :umad:
 
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Bone$ said:
My man tried to get me into the coffee shyt..called like organo gold or something..cost like 500 then ya had to keep buying the damn coffee and tea...all the money came from putting more people on and not the actual tea sales
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It's never about the product.

It's all about the membership fees, monthly dues, training products you have to buy and training events you pay to attend.
 
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I think I told my story before on the old site but, I see this all the time. I got suckered twice. The 1st time was my cousin. He tried to get me into Melaluca or something like that. It's about some plant that grows only in Australia or something like that. I actually got a check for like $3.23 or something like that. When he finally got out of it he apoligized for even inviting to that. The 2nd time was Quixstar/Amway. My co-worker got me into that crap. And see his wife has MS and he was always looking for ways to make extra money so I figured it was good if he was trying it. Man, they suckered me in. I told my daughter's mother and she was in even more than me because she didn't have a job at the time.

I was in that shyt for like 3 months when I started to realize I had got taken. The whole time I'm buying the products from the website. I'm going to all the meetings. Me and my baby momma talking to people about it at my cousin's graduation. At the time I had just checked my checking account right before I went to the meeting on Tuesday. My shyt was $200 in the negative. So I had about $20 to last me until I got paid again Friday. I remember that since it was the 1st Tuesday that month that the guy at the top of the "pyramid" was going to be there. That was how they got me in. I met him at one of those book stores and he tells me how much money he got. How he hasn't worked in 15 years, drives a new Lexus he paid off in a year, and how he added a indoor pool to his house in Atlanta.

So after the meeting, he pulls all the people in his pyramid for a meeting afterward. I'm like cool, I can pull him to the side and ask him for a loan until Friday. He gets on to us because we didn't sell enough "product" or didn't recruit enough people for him to reach some goal for a bonus. I'm like :dwillhuh: But you know what, I still pulled him to the side and asked for $300 to get my account back in the black and then I told him I would pay him back Friday when I got paid. Basically explained my situation that I'm not trying to get over on him. That muthafukka looked at me with this actual face :smugbiden: Then tells me that, "this just shows that you need to hit the ground harder".

I blew up, I looked at him in his eyes and I'm like, "I got a 5 month baby at home, my shyt's in the negative, I'm asking for help and this is what you tell me? "MAN, MUTHA fukk YOU, fukk YOU, fukk YOU". I was going down the list, people came up like what's wrong and I'm not gonna lie, it was one other black person there and I went straight N*gga in there. Even my co-worker tried to calm me down. He grabbed my shoulder and looked at him like :usure: and I was out smoking tires and all. My co-worker didn't talk to me for a few weeks behind that. But that was the last time I said I would do any shyt like that. And I'm still seeing these MLM schemes everyday.
 
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Thing is legally these b*stards cannot be touched, hell even when major notable Wall Street investors try to call them out on their B.S. they can still keep up the charade (i.e the situation with Bill Ackman and Herbalife). There was one dude recently on one of these business websites who was basically like "I know they are full of shyt, but they sell that bullshyt effectively to dumbasses so I'm putting money on them b*stards"

 
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ocmfII said:
gunshi too, but gunshi wasn't as eloquent as this dude. he was the dude who always bragged about paying cash for his house and car, then always used that dumb ass, "some of you were meant to be employees, i'm an employer" line.
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I think you are talking about Timbo. :skip:

Pretty sure he posts here too. Dude used to hate me with a passion on SOHH :lolbron: Now some random poster on here is always gettin' at me and he's always dropping that employer/employee shyt here too. :skip:
 
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Stuntone said:
5 Linx might be the worst. Buncha of black crooks ripping their own friends and family off. :smh:
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White dudes in the back of the flyer looking like Mr. Burns "Exceeeellent" voice

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My girl was involved with Pre-Paid Legal (now LegalShield) before we met :yeshrug:.

I always crack jokes about her hustling ppl out of their hard-earned dollars. Last night, it came up again becasue I peeped a 5Linx conference on Youtube and thought it was hilarious. She started beasting! Talking about how she hates when ppl think they know something but are only looking in from the outside. I had to tell her that she's too close and way too defensive for a reasonable person.... for whatever reason, she refuses to look at the MLM industry and concepts and see that the majority of their populations are the exact same dead-end folks, who will willing eat up that dream of making 10MM in 1 year hawking bullshyt from their home or selling crappy financial products. Had me looking at the phone like :usure:
 
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