You’re Obsessed with Mary Kay
I honestly don’t understand why anyone would spend this much time talking about Mary Kay after they quit. If I leave a job, I move on. If I stop shopping somewhere, I don’t build an entire website about it. Yet here you all are, year after year, writing article after article about a company you supposedly hate.
That tells me Mary Kay wasn’t the problem. You just never got over whatever happened to you. Maybe your director hurt your feelings. Maybe you didn’t become a director when you thought you deserved it. I don’t know. But healthy people don’t spend 20 years talking about something they claim they left behind.
The funniest part is that you all think you’re helping women. I think you’re just scaring people away from an opportunity because it didn’t work for YOU. There are thousands of women still enjoying their Mary Kay business. They aren’t online complaining because they’re too busy living their lives.
Maybe its time to let it go.
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“There are thousands of women still enjoying their Mary Kay business [emphasis mine].”
Lets assume there are still 500K reps in MK today. Research for the FTC shows that 0.4% (or one in 250) of MLM reps turn a true business profit. This means roughly 2000 in today’s MK sales force are not losing money.
PTC, you are right about the “thousands”. And some others may still enjoy MK participation in spite of losing money. But this is not nearly the flex you think it is.
If there is a giant pothole in the road, warning others about it is the right thing to do in order to protect others. The Mary Kay “opportunity” is a huge financial and mental pothole- and we will continue to warn others about the inevitable damage it will cause.
If I leave a job because the pay is lousy, or you’re horrendously overworked, or treated like crap by management, I’m not going to build a website but I will spread the word around so others know to avoid the place. Ditto if I stop shopping at a store because of poor selection or rude staff.
People leave negative reviews for on LinkedIn, on Yelp, on Trustpilot, on Reddit, on other social media. There are websites that are anti Amazon, Walmart, Disney, Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, and pretty much every other big corporation out there.
Mary Kay doesn’t get a pass. Furthermore it squelches all negativity within its sphere of influence. Tracy is simply providing the other side of the story since they won’t.
To borrow from another Disney villain song, it’s good to have friends on the other side.