You’re Robbing People of an Opportunity
I want to thank you. I found your site searching for information on how to help one of my consultants. I have spent the past days reading it. I commend you for the professional look of the site. It seems that you are uncovering the “truths” that Mary Kay is trying to hide. If I were a new consultant, I would be swayed.
If your goal was to help women by creating a place where women can express their frustrations, I could see the value of that. Mary Kay is not perfect. There are real issues that you have tried to bring to light – but your site has become a place for women grow their disdain and hurt into something far more damaging to them and to those around them. Was that your intent?
Do doctors close wounds, creating a “community” inside for the wound to fester and support itself, or do they open it up (a painful and slow process) and allow healing to take place?
The “truth” is, Tracy, you are robbing people of the opportunity to do this business correctly because of your experience. It is both selfish and incredibly sad. It is not unbiased. It is not fair.
You are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I am genuinely sorry that you had a bad experience with Mary Kay. And if you knew me, you would know that I really mean that. But think of this – Now, you are truly helping no one. Just like before, when you were almost an NSD and turned a blind eye, by your own admission, to your team members ordering $30,000 to $50,000 in product that she was not selling. You clearly carry guilt in your heart for that or you wouldn’t have shared it. Forgive yourself. Work with the company to create a culture where that kind of practice does not persist. Or, just move on.
Please don’t continue to damage other people by holding onto your pride and rallying around other women who agree with you so you can all attempt to feel better. That solves…nothing.
I appreciate that not everyone in Mary Kay is good, or moral. Your site has become a breeding ground of ex-consultants who would rather hold onto their hurt than make a better choice and move forward. It has strengthened me as a consultant committed to the ideals and morals that I choose to hold on to, and for that, I thank you. I can now confidently move forward building a business using those as my guide.
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Could this be some kind of a you need to come to Jesus moment for these people? Asking for an atheist friend.
PTC, your commitment to ideals and morals is admirable. Prove it by committing to never recruit a downline or sell to family and friends. This is the only way to participate in an MLM ethically.
But if you want the MLM “opportunity”, you have no choice but to create and exploit a downline. Once you’ve made the choice to build a downline, ethics go out the window implicitly. Research shows 99.6% of participants lose money in MLMs like Mary Kay. This means that for every participant that turns a true business profit, 249 others must lose money. There is no way around these loss rates. They are built right into the model.
Rise above and do the right thing. Don’t recruit, and don’t sell to family and friends!
“Do doctors close wounds, creating a “community” inside for the wound to fester and support itself, or do they open it up (a painful and slow process) and allow healing to take place?” Oh honey, we’re ripping those pink bandages OFF and letting the light and air in. When you realize that when your SD told you that you were “special”and “had a real talent” for sales that she was following a script SDs have used for decades … RIP … there goes another pustulent secret.
I’m sure Dr. Nurse Heather can tell our correspondent more than she ever wanted to know about wound care, though preferably not over lunch 😉
“Just like before, when you [Tracy] were almost an NSD and turned a blind eye, by your own admission, to your team members ordering $30,000 to $50,000 in product that she was not selling.”
Gee golly whillikers, Tracy, and here I thought you were just a bitter former director who was salty about getting fired /(heavy sarcasm).
More proof, as if it were needed, that none of these Friday critics actually read a darn thing on here and instead just respond to the pink strawmen that live in their brains.