conned .. and extremely pissed about it!
as if its not bad enough i'm not feeling well today, i was conned into attending a direct-selling sales pitch thingie. how this happened was an old colleague called me up to meet up for a drink (note that she's old and married so me having an ulterior motive for having a drink with her is totally out of the question..). so anyway, got to the rendezvous point and there she was with her husband (who was clad in suit and tie!!), and almost immediately started with the typical would u like to be ur own boss and earn up to rm10k a month? i knew i was had.. (in hindsight, i should've bolted for the exit right there and then). so anyway i thought i didnt want to be rude or anything so lets just play along and see wat she has to say .. bla bla bla bla bla .. so in a nutshell it was some stupid direct selling pyramid scheme shit which promises rm10k a month in 2 years - which apparently is emphasized to be a CONSERVATIVE number, so the actual no should be way higher than that.. my my my. do i really look THAT stupid to u?
so anyway, i respect the fact that there're many ppl that dumb .. no wait, lemme rephrase that.. i respect the fact that YOU'RE that dumb to actually subscribe to this stupid bullshit and are willing to try to make a fast buck out of these schemes (by you, i mean my ex-colleague). i mean, if there aren't any stupid ppl in this world, how do smart ppl (such as moi) stand out in the crowd right? heh heh..
HOWEVER, what i can't stand about all this is that the fundamental concept of direct selling is to take advantage of ur frens' trust and push the very fabric of that pathetic thing u call a frenship as far as u can just for the sake of ur quest for riches (which is probably never gonna materialize from this dumb scheme anyway). i'm sure many will revert by saying that sometimes when ppl come across a good thing u'd want to introduce it to ur frens right? i say that's not the case for direct selling, because as long as you dont bring anyone under your network, ur chance for the big bucks are practically zilch. so in reality when they say "i want to introduce to you a good thing" actually means "you look gullible and therefore i want to profit off you, sucker".
its a sad, sad world when ppl resort to taking advantage of their frens.
as if its not bad enough i'm not feeling well today, i was conned into attending a direct-selling sales pitch thingie. how this happened was an old colleague called me up to meet up for a drink (note that she's old and married so me having an ulterior motive for having a drink with her is totally out of the question..). so anyway, got to the rendezvous point and there she was with her husband (who was clad in suit and tie!!), and almost immediately started with the typical would u like to be ur own boss and earn up to rm10k a month? i knew i was had.. (in hindsight, i should've bolted for the exit right there and then). so anyway i thought i didnt want to be rude or anything so lets just play along and see wat she has to say .. bla bla bla bla bla .. so in a nutshell it was some stupid direct selling pyramid scheme shit which promises rm10k a month in 2 years - which apparently is emphasized to be a CONSERVATIVE number, so the actual no should be way higher than that.. my my my. do i really look THAT stupid to u?
so anyway, i respect the fact that there're many ppl that dumb .. no wait, lemme rephrase that.. i respect the fact that YOU'RE that dumb to actually subscribe to this stupid bullshit and are willing to try to make a fast buck out of these schemes (by you, i mean my ex-colleague). i mean, if there aren't any stupid ppl in this world, how do smart ppl (such as moi) stand out in the crowd right? heh heh..
HOWEVER, what i can't stand about all this is that the fundamental concept of direct selling is to take advantage of ur frens' trust and push the very fabric of that pathetic thing u call a frenship as far as u can just for the sake of ur quest for riches (which is probably never gonna materialize from this dumb scheme anyway). i'm sure many will revert by saying that sometimes when ppl come across a good thing u'd want to introduce it to ur frens right? i say that's not the case for direct selling, because as long as you dont bring anyone under your network, ur chance for the big bucks are practically zilch. so in reality when they say "i want to introduce to you a good thing" actually means "you look gullible and therefore i want to profit off you, sucker".
its a sad, sad world when ppl resort to taking advantage of their frens.
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