Health

There is a service to send out greeting cards called XYZ (real name withheld to avoid spam).  Up front it really looks like a great idea. In fact if I just wanted a service to send cards  for me and remind me of birthdays etc it might be a good deal.

On closer inspection it is about as near to a pyramid type business as can be without crossing the line of being illegal. An internet search will bring up many sites with folks crying out that it is a pyramid scheme versus a muli-level marketing organization followed with just as many sites claiming how great a  money making deal it is.

An MLM can be a money making deal if you get in on the ground floor. What I have against this one is both personal  and in my opinion applied common sense.

On the later here is short version of how it works.  A person becomes a distributor and then recruits more distributors, you get points and then get  paid a percent from them. They recruit and get points and the first person gets higher points earnings based on what those lower down (those with less time)  the chain earn. Just like an upside down pyramid.

So how does this affect me? Well someone close to us took the lure and got hooked.  He offered to purchase ($389.00) package to get KRP started on her road to riches. She said she would look into it and let him know. Well she thanked him for the offer and said no thank you. He persisted. She explained that she had no time to do it, hated computers, and between her carpal tunnel in both hands and her dead nerve in her leg she could not manage it. It was all she could manage to work full time and hold down the fort here.

He persisted.  Then all of a sudden she could do nothing right when it came to their communications.  Key phrases straight from some of the card companies  literature about successful people versus negative people started cropping up in conversations and emails.

It culminated in an email where the gist of what he said was –  if she chose to be negative and unwilling to work to be successful she was a failure. “If you want life to over whelm you then dont allow me to stand in your way.”

I was unaware of most of this until she left a note on the desk asking me to read her emails to and from him.

The email conversations boiled down to her telling him (as she has over the phone) that we could not afford the postage on a package to be sent overseas (~225.00). Him saying he sent 75 dollars that we have never seen.  Him implying that she was unsuccessful and miserable because she was unwilling to put any effort in and do the greeting card thing.

It went from bad to worse and I felt the anger rising as I read and listened to some of his phone messages to her. He is convinced that her not wanting to do the card thing is a sign of her lazy, miserable existence.  Oh and he kept referring to me as Jane not Jan after all these years.  Any one that is not selling cards is negative and to be avoided. He bought the package hook, line, and sinker.

He reads and regurgitates all sorts of motivational snippets.   It is rather scary really.

A quote off one of his social sites “2 of the top words that mean so much WEALTH AND HEALTH”.

Really?  So if you lose your health and can not make the wealth?