Mary Kay Visits Cleta!
Written by Parsons Green
Longtime consultant and sales director Cleta Colson-Eyre had a special night recently. Raul Dominguez, an employee from Mary Kay Inc., came to town to visit Cleta and her bustling team of consultants (complete with two red jackets in DIQ!)
Cleta currently is in the Ruby Division, which will be disbanded after this year’s seminar. Cleta and her downline are going to Emerald. Raul is moving over to Diamond. Cleta wrote a special poem for the occasion.
In the poem, Cleta professes her love of Mary Kay and moves to make Raul proud.
As I’ve said before, Cleta is an independent contractor who could be terminated by Mary Kay if she misses her $4,500 wholesale production goal two months in a row. Cleta and her team are making Mary Kay money, so corporate felt that this visit would be good to keep Cleta and her team ordering. It also serves as an incentive to recruits to see that corporate believes in such a “successful” team.
Cleta showed off her inventory room. Look at all the product.
I wonder what the wholesale cost was and how often she dusts it. What’s the oldest product on those shelves? Does she ever really consider the amount she’s spent on product that’s expired? Does she donate it, toss it or just give it away? How much of the inventory she’s sold was at full cost? What is her average discount?
She also shared a glimpse of her office. She has a Mary Kay tree that she keeps up year round to showcase the various ornaments she’s received through the years.
Mary Kay gives the best gifts. I wonder where she keeps the asparagus prize?
Cleta also has her eyes focused on the goal to earn the top directors trip to Budapest by making her screensaver about it. She’s earned ten trips. I hope she doesn’t miss it this year. Maybe that’s why Raul visited.
Cleta ended the night by kicking off her heels and showing Raul some of her mementos of her time in Mary Kay.
I wonder if she showed him the letter Mary Kay wrote her almost 30 years ago admonishing her for having a unit with at least 30 consultants. If she did, I wonder what he thought of the size of her unit now?
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Cleta, Cleta, Cleta. I thought you were the sugar-shop boss babe She-EO of your own independent small business. What are you doing kissing corporate’s hiney like a snivelling little peon?
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I don’t recall hearing about this and even the Spanish translator making this difficult to understand LOL
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“Cleta is an independent contractor who could be terminated by Mary Kay if she misses her $4,500 wholesale production goal two months in a row”: how does this work? I’m still in my former director’s Facebook group where she posts monthly production. She was doing OK, averaging around $6500/month until last summer when her top-ordering consultant finished DIQ. Since then, it seems like it’s been a struggle. She was making minimum production (I assume on her own credit card) until January when she missed. She made the minimum in February and missed in March and April. Does she automatically lose her unit? The Facebook group is still active and she’s still listed as a director on the MK website.
The official rules state that you must meet production at least every other month, with some annual limit on how many months you can miss production. Practically, corporate extends exceptions all the time, especially if the unit is “rebuilding” after debuting a new director. It takes a lot for them to strip your title and they don’t always follow their own rules. Which, technically, they don’t have to because everyone is an independent contractor working at the company’s discretion.
Looks like every room in the house is dedicated to, or decorated around, Mary Kay. And the pink Cadillac is in the driveway.
To an outsider, it seems a bit fanatical, given her “business” can be taken away from her if she doesn’t continue to meet MK requirements. The only things she owns are the inventory and supplies she purchased.