Back before the internet was what it is today, it made sense how people could get roped into these "business opportunities". But now with all of the widespread information, documentaries, and general public knowledge that MLMs are scams and should be avoided - HOW are they still recruiting so many people?!
I'm in my early 30s and am struggling to understand how people my age, who grew up on the internet and have seen the memes and negative reports about these companies, are falling for it. Has anyone here ever been in an MLM who can shed some light on how they're taking perfectly normal people with jobs and families and turning them into these hunbots who really believe "oh we're not an MLM or a pyramid scheme! Trust me!" What do they say to people to convince them so well that they're willing to fork over tons of money and embarrass themselves in public (online) just to maybe make a buck or two here and there.
It makes absolutely no sense to me.

Southwestern Advantage
An hour ago, I had a knock at the door. It was a clean-cut college age kid who said he was distributing "educational materials". His "proof" that he was legit was showing me pictures on his FB of local families that he supposedly had contact with.
I knew none of these people. I couldn't recognize anything in the backgrouds. I have no idea what kind of "proof" this was supposed to be. For all I know, he took the pics from online and just slapped labels on them.
He was very obviously reciting from a memorized script. I cut to the chase and asked him what it was he was selling. He said the educational materials, which he kept saying went from high school to preschool.
I told him I had no money for that sort of thing (I'm pretty sure the stuff was expensive as hell), said goodbye, and started to shut the door.
He immediately said, "I understand, but if you'd just let me explain, it won't take more than a minute, and I'll still get credit..." That's when I said goodbye again and shut the door. He kept talking after I shut the door, asking if any of my neighbors had kids, then waited a bit before leaving.
I looked these guys up, and they did show up as an MLM in the stickied thread on the first page. They recruit college kids as independent contractors, who are sent to Nashville for training, They're then posted outside their home or college state and stay with a host family. It's door to door sales.
There are no employee benefits, there is no guaranteed income. They get 40% commission, but that's after they pay expenses and cost of the material. They're responsible for their expenses while working, they pay their host families $50 a week, and usually have to go to weekly meetings that also cost money.
I know a lot of MLMs are cult-like, but this added factor of sending the kids out of their home or college state and having them lodge with a host family and pay them rent REALLY concerns me. It reminds me of what I've heard LDS missionaries go through.
The person's uprooted, without friends or families for help. Paying the host family weekly means that's $200 a month gone, plus expenses, plus paying for stock. Apparently some sellers work 80+ hours weeks.
I'm sure those "host families" are not neutral, but involved with the company in some way. They're probably told to keep up company speak and toxic positivity, keep pressure on the kid to sell and sell, and guilt trip them if they try to leave.
It concerns some colleges too - some have banned Southwestern Advantage from recruiting.
I wanted to do this post because I'd never heard of them before, It's all earnest kids selling "educational materials" for school, I think they'd be more likely to get people to lower their guard and feel like they're helping out, when, really, they're perpetuating the company taking advantage of kids.

Hey all, first time posting here, so apologies if I mess anything up. I'm not positive that this is a scam, but it's certainly quite suspect, so I was wondering if anyone here had experience dealing with something like this. Hell, maybe they are legitimate, but I have my doubts.
I've been looking for work the past few months without much luck, since I'm pretty fresh out of college and don't have a ton of experience. Last week I got a message from a number calling themselves Geneva Pop-Ups, saying they had received my Resume and wanted to speak with me. I was initially kind of suspicious as I hadn't applied to any position there, but I checked out their website at genevapopups. com, which raised some eyebrows since it was so barren, but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt. I was suspicious from the start but I had gotten reached out to by another marketing firm that found my resume on Monster, and while a bit weird those guys were legit, so I figured why not.
The first round of "interviews" was a Zoom seminar, where I went in and saw that I wasn't able to talk or post in the chat, or see what other people were in the room with me. There they gave me a brief rundown of what they were trying to do. After that they sent me a surveymonkey link where I filled out some info (values, goals, etc), and invited me to an actual zoom interview, which had two other prospective hires. The guy I talked to there seemed nice but stuff was still weird, like he was conducting it from his car because he was "running late," and he talked about how the company aimed to expand to a shocking degree, like 19 new offices in the next 9 months, and how their goal was to make us all managers within that time period. The way he showed the progression within the company also looked very MLMey to me, with a lot of huge promises about how quickly we'd be promoted and how much we'd be paid, including "yatch" trips for higher level. Then another survey, which continued with weirdly easy interview questions, and then a phone call from a third person. We talked briefly and he said he'd call me back to let me know if I got the job (seemed very weird to be offered a job after having never met anyone in person or seeing the office), and after giving me a bit of a runaround he said I got it.
I was still really hesitant to be excited because it still felt like the whole thing stunk, and upon further research it seems likely that it did. The company had absolutely no online presence, and I wasn't able to find an entry for them on Glassdoor, Linkedin, or anywhere other than their own website. The email they sent me at the end of the process was the final straw, since it was written in a way that said very little about what the company actually did or who their clients were, and was generally shady. The office they directed me to also didn't have them registered anywhere on it. It was then I decided I wasn't going to go, and basically to call this whole thing a wash. It didn't make any sense to me that a company that allegedly is going through 1000s of candidates and has so many high value clients would have zero online presence.
I'm curious if anyone else has had experience dealing with this company or something like this. I'm hesitant to say it's out and out a scam or an MLM scheme, but it was certainly suspicious, and regardless the job I was offered seems like it'd be a bad fit for me personally while also being in a terrible location. I'll update this thread if anything else comes of this, but please let me know what you guys think! This has definitely been a very interesting past few days.

So, I applied for a marketing internship on LinkedIn. I have experience in marketing and logistics for school and internships. I went to the interview to see what was up but when I asked what exactly they do, their main form of marketing is direct. The main process of their company was that I would train for 6 days, then the next week or so be promoted as a client representative and sell an internet provider's product. When I asked what the pay is they said that I would be making 17 hours during office hours but when I go meet with clients, I would get paid in commission. I seemed sketched out about this job. What is the likelihood it's an MLM? The hours are from 10:00 AM - 8 PM, Monday-Friday as well as 9-4 Saturday.

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Just wanted to give everyone a warning in case you applied. There’s a local company called Elite Power Agency that I interviewed for last week, I applied for the position Account Associate, which was described as an accounting assistant job.
Got the interview started and the interviewer started to describe a sales job. Talking about how their company non-hierarchal and everyone has the ability to become a manager. She also told me how she’s seen people getting promoted in as little as 3-4 days. When I asked her about the discrepancy between the job she was describing and the job listed, she kept explaining how this was a marketing job, with a few financial aspects. Mind you, her description did not at all align with what they have posted.
I wanted to leave a google review but the only thing I can find out about them is on their website. I assume the job was some sort of mlm, and I advise anyone who comes across their listings to stay away.

I just graduated college with my bachelors in business administration. I don’t know what I want to do as a career, but I like working hard, helping people, and making money.
I’ve always worked in retail and would work overtime every week because I like money and helping people. Throughout college I worked full time while studying full time so I never made the opportunity to network or explore professional jobs. Just busting my butt in retail.
Fast forward I graduate so I decide to take the jump to start a professional career in sales. As it’s working hard, helping people, and making money. I send my resume everywhere, get rejected everywhere, then I come across a life insurance sales job. They tell me how great the “opportunity” is, how much money you make (unlimited potential) but straight commission. I go to the interview and they don’t ask me any questions about myself, sell me the job, and hire me on the spot. I’ve done a lot of research and it’s 100% an MLM. I think to myself this is my only option so I might as well give it a shot.
When I first started they started telling me to recruit other people . I said I’ll recruit others when I prove my OWN success first. Out of the 30 people on my training, 27 of them quit already. I was and still very skeptical about this “opportunity” so I am still working my retail job 15 hours a week to create a base pay for myself.
I’ve been working here for almost 2 months now. I work 60+ hours a week plus 15 hours in retail and I’m starting to make sales but it’s exhausting. Sitting on my butt and Calling 200-300 people a day to create appointments just for most of them to not show up. The company claims the leads are warm but most people that pick up the phone have been harassed before. When the appointment isn’t set by another agent, they get passed to another agent. Most of my leads are 2+ years old. No amount of money will make me enjoy this job.
I am miserable here. I work 70+ hours a week and don’t have a life. but I feel like this is my only option. Every other sales agency wants 1-2 years of sales experience for entry level. But I’m the one who wants to make money, so I feel like I have to stay here. I want to do something with my life but I absolutely hate life insurance. I feel lost. Other salespeople, have you ever felt this way? What would you do?
TLDR I hate life insurance sales but I feel like this is my only option right now out of college. I don’t want to give up but I don’t wan’t to stay here.

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Hi everyone,
I'm reaching out because my friend just finished an internship at an IT company where she was paid very little. She's always found the job stressful and has struggled to focus. Now that her internship is over, she's seriously considering a career change and wants to do something less stressful and more flexible.
Recently, an old roommate who lives in a different city suggested she become a partner in her business to help expand into my friend's city. However, my friend has not been able to clearly explain what the business entails. The only keywords I've caught from their conversations are "customer needs generation," "120 international brands," and "franchisee rights/copy rights."
My friend has been asked to pay 3 lakh (300,000 INR) upfront before she can join as a partner. She was told that this amount would cover training about the business and the workflow. Additionally, she mentioned that her role would involve analyzing data of products and brands.
None of this makes much sense to me. I don't have a business background, but this situation raises several red flags. It seems to me like she might be getting pulled into some kind of chain marketing or MLM scheme.
I'm trying to convince her not to go down this path due to the vague nature of the business and the large upfront payment. Has anyone else encountered something like this? Is there any advice on how to handle this situation?
Thanks in advance for your insights.

I am ready to talk about my horrible experience that has left me traumatized. sorry if this was all over the place i am coming to terms i was in an MLM after discovering these Reddit post. In 2021-22 i applied for the position and on the site it stated that job is 70-80k with a process of going up this promotion ladder. When i went to the interview i was very skeptical as they didn't go through specifics of what the day to day entailed. They claimed to promote big names like apple samsung and other companies. The moment i asked about anything else it was immediately disregarded. E.D. did my initial interview. I was told at the end of the interview many people get a second interview and there's a lot of prospects. i immediately got a call the next day to set up orientation.
Going to the orientation we were filing out what i thought were W-2 forms that were not properly explained at all. You think you were becoming an employee but actually you're an independent contractor. Then they explained how the pay process would work which is so confusing in itself. basically you're not getting paid enough. I should've left then but was optimistic about the opportunity because i was like these people wouldn't be that deceiving right?? (spoiler alert they were) E.D. herself prided on diversity and the fact that "White people were the minority here" and kept saying that to the group. I looked at her so confused and puzzled.
Going to the first day i arrived early into the small office building across from the main office to go to some book reading were we listen to E.D. read some excerpt of a book? (we weren't paid for that) then we all go across back to the main office to learn sales techniques and i'm like okay why do i have to learn about this? they start talking about Fuji method and other methods (sorry its been 3 years i forgot the others) then we broke off into groups. This is where i really should've left. the new people and i looked so puzzled because we were given a packet to memorize a script to practice sales techniques. I was put into a group with "C" who did Energy. We had to practice going up to shoppers asking them about electricity... i about cried because i felt deceived because this is not what i wanted to do at all. the job description said nothing about this whatsoever. i continued through the rest of the day then towards the end we gathered for meeting before we left. this was a complete waste of my time because this was unpaid and only lasted 4 hours.
The next day when we mastered our lines. E.D. was in a bad mood and started going off on people berating for bending their knees and not wearing blazers. One person who leaned a little on the pole while she was talking was yelled at for that . i was yelled at for bending my knees "are you bored listening to me??" like WTF? who tf wants to hear a liar in a cheap ass suit you picked up from shein acting like she makes all this money? Then we have a final talks before we have a company wide meeting with other marketing corps (also this was unpaid). The place i had to be at with "C" was 2 hours away... that is absolutely ridicoulous and you don't even get reimbursed for. Needless to say my time with "C" doing electricity was awful i felt so betrayed by her and Ellen because they knew this is something people didn't sign up for. i ended up driving and literally felt shame and disgust. "C" was trying to guide me but i was about to cry. apparently "C" messaging Ellen about how poor i was doing but i was so traumatized and i kept asking to use the bathroom bc i would puke. Like they did even try to comfort me at all. it go to the point where i would grab my cell phone from the little table she made me put it under and not even ask to go... I just went. then i was told I wasn't allowed to take a break bc i went to the restroom too many times. "C" has told me that she signed people up before who didn't even ask she just memorized their info. so basically if you worked in electricity part of tenacity your part of a group who steals information just to get sales.
My mentor "H" was so incredibly nice and I told her i'm sorry this is not for me at all and i left the place and never went back. i did get my paycheck which was $125 which doesn't even cover the amount of gas i spent the whole 1 1/2 weeks i was there. when it was time to pick it up i had to text her about it and she said get it monday. i came into the office. she asked what could have gone better i said dont lie on the application you post. this is not a marketing job this is am annoying people who come up and scam you in the middle of Costco. there's nothing i can do was E.D. response. which is true because when we went to the OG meeting for paperwork we signed as independent contractors which was explained at all.
Sorry if this was all scrambled but i finally came across this on Reddit and wanted to tell my story. E.D. should be ashamed of what she has done. it's no wonder i am reading stories about how she has failed businesses. if you have any questions i will try to answer them in the comments:) also if you need me to elaborate on any names i will:)

I have an offer from a company called Go Sales to be a door to door salesman selling Telus products making only commission.
They sent a video “explaining” the position but it honestly did not explain much, so I’m not sure what to think of it.
The company website says there is training and help to make sure you can be successful, however.
While I do like the people skills aspect of this, it also just seems like it could be an MLM. Should I take it?

Tldr I've watched the Try Guys pretty much since their first vids with Buzzfeed and same for Watcher. I've followed both creatoes turned companies and enjoy a good 70% of the content they put out.
That being said, watching Anthony interview Zach and Keith, I couldn't help but notice so much of the verbiage they used was identical to that used by the Watcher guys. Specially, the anti-algorithim talk, business and advertiser disdain and the use of the word "streamer" all stand out as such scripted sounding things. The more I learn about 2nd Try the more it seems it's the brother to Watcher.TV. At risk of sounding consirpratiorial, does anyone else think that maybe the Try Guys, Watcher and perhaps other companies were scouted by streaming platform server? Idk it just seems so...weird?
I also just can't help to see this as MLM dealings. They're already struggling with payroll and cash flow, how in the hell is a big financial gamble the smart move for growth? It just seems like 2nd Try is trying to move quicker than it can, overworking it's engine sorta speak.
As an aside, Zach sounded borderline condescending in the Anthony interview with how he was babystepping an audience through the "big business dealings and process" like get a grip, a lot of fans are college grads/uni students and also have taken management 201.
Which brings me to what I think is the biggest overreaching point is the lack of audience identity. Ie, who the hell is their target audience? Because all of this happened as soon as the wave of "bringing fans over" died
(Edit: i know 2nd try was rocked hard by the whole ginger incident so i dont mean to discount the business acumen needed to weather that. Rather, just think they lack audience awareness)

To anyone who may be interviewing or looking to interview with Morph Management, in any of their MA offices, I hope you do some due diligence on the company and come across this post.
I've been on the job market for a while, and came across two job listings on ZipRecruiter from Morph Management - one titled Marketing Assistant and one titled Entry Level Communications Coordinator. At the time, I had no idea what a Devil Corp was and had never heard of this company before, but the job listings had the town I lived in on them and had "1-Click Apply" enabled so I sent off some applications and thought nothing of it.
The next day I get a text early in the morning, and then a phone call shortly after that, from Morph Management. I spoke with a woman on the phone who mentioned my LinkedIn application (red flag one) and wanted to set up a time with me to conduct a Zoom interview. We settled on a time for the following day, and I received a few emails and automated texts about it. One of the emails briefly mentioned the interview as a group interview, and looking into their Glassdoor reviews I saw that this company has a history of misrepresenting jobs, surprise group interviews, and actually being door to door sales no matter what the job description says (red flag two).
I became apprehensive, but where I've been on the job market for a while I decided to go through with the first round of interviews just to keep my options open and potentially use an offer from them as leverage with a job I actually wanted. I showed up and there were four candidates and one company rep. Ten minutes into the interview two of the candidates had dropped out of the Zoom call.
The interview went as follows:

• Asked for our names, a little about ourselves, why we're looking to work at Morph Management, and a fun fact.
• Told us some info on the job itself.
  • The job is face to face "marketing" on behalf of Verizon.
  • Working hours were 10am-7pm, Monday through Friday, with optional overtime on Saturdays.
  • We would be placed in a management training program, hopefully becoming "Marketing Managers" within 6-9 months.
  • Pay would be $900-$1200 a week, and management pay started at $120k-$150k a year.
• Went through a potential daily schedule while in the training program.
• Asked if we'd be interested in a potential follow up interview the following day.

The interview painted a picture of the job being a fast track management training program with some in-office client sales in order to understand company methodologies and better manage others. I hesitantly said I'd be interested in continuing to a second interview, just in case this specific position truly was management focused and not door to door sales.
I received a phone call later that evening to set up a time for the second interview, confirming a time for the following morning. Just like with the first interview, I received an email and a few automated text messages leading up to the start time.
After this call, I decided to do some more research on Morph Management, which led me to discovering this subreddit, Devil Corps in general, and I saw some stories about other Devil Corp experiences that lined up a little too closely to my experiences with Morph Management (red flag three). I made a decision that I wasn't going to accept any potential offers from them, but I was still going to attend the next interview to ask some pointed questions and see what they have to say.
The second interview was with an individual who had just become a manager. I know this because at the start of the interview he mentioned that he's only been a manager for 3 months. It felt like he was giving a sales pitch to work for the company and it gave hard MLM vibes (red flag four). He tried to make me feel special, saying I was among very few who made it to this stage (not sure how, considering they barely have candidates speak in the interviews and literally asked "do you want to move on to the next stage"), how he wants to help mold me into a future business partner, and how it's a "hustle the pavement" door to door sales job that can allow me to retire by 35. He made a point to say that he loves what he does, that they have the best people, and that he could tell that I could be someone who is a good fit (red flag five).
He asked me what my thoughts were and I told him it was a pretty good pitch to work for Morph Management, which he seemed to be offended by. He then made an "off script" joke to talk about how the job takes up a lot of your time (red flag six). I think it was meant to show how dedication pays off, as he then said he has been promoted twice within a month and a half, but that's not how it came across.
I was asked if I had any questions, and I decided to directly bring up the poor reviews on Glassdoor and Indeed, and the online accusations of being a Devil Corp affiliated business. He responded, clearly already knowing about both of those things, saying that those reviews and accusations are just from disgruntled former employees who couldn't keep up with the grind and that I shouldn't listen to them (red flag seven).
I pivoted and asked what the position progression was within the company, and folks, this is where it truly gets into MLM territory. This is the job progression that he responds with:

1. Entry Level Sales
2. Level 1 Management (still doing door to door sales just a slightly higher commission)
3. Level 2 Management/Account Manager (some employee training and slightly higher commission, but still door to door sales)
4. Assistant Manager (basically running the office without actually doing so, and again still door to door sales)
5. Branch Manager (be your own boss vibe/run your own branch of 40/60 employees)

He also mentioned that they actively share an office with Megalodon Management, which is another company I've seen mentioned on this sub (albeit not as much), but they were planning on moving to New Jersey (red flags eight and nine). If you see a Megalodon Management job in NJ, it's probably an identical experience to what I've said in this post.
"His phone died" mid sentence on that last part, and I eventually got a voicemail from the manager on another phone giving me his number if I wanted to continue the interview. I texted the number he gave saying I wasn't interested in door to door sales, and as of writing this I did not get a response.
TL;DR: This company is definitely a Devil Corp/MLM kind of setup, purposely hides the fact that it's all door to door Verizon sales until the second interview, and dangles a carrot of high paying management in the near future to entice people into selling for them.

People seemed to like one of my comments on another post so I thought I'd make a post out of it, haha.
I wrote:

Pretty incredible what the church can con, I mean, trick, I mean, get its members to do, if you think about it.
Can you imagine talking someone into paying $12,000 so that they can knock on doors as an unpaid salesperson, for 12 hours a day, for TWO YEARS, where they are instructed to sign up random strangers, who don’t want your product, which has no tangible benefits, to join your MLM so that they, too, can be unpaid volunteers and pay this 200 billion dollar investment company to pay, like you, 10% of their income for the rest of their lives?
And don’t forget all the unpaid sales meetings you have to attend every week where you get guilted and pressured to keep believing in this con and to keep trying to get those other, unpaid, volunteers to keep attending the sales meetings too.
That’s essentially what the LDS Church is.

A FB friend keeps posting about how her “company” is blowing up and when people ask her what company she says she’s a “wellness entrepreneur.”
That’s gotta be an MLM, right?

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To start, I have been with my girlfriend for two years.
Since meeting her she's always held a part-time position at a place called "(insert local town here) Nutrition."
I would come in and see all these shakes and "energy teas" she'd be making, and all the customers who requested additions like "fat reduction" or "collagen" in these drinks, and I didn't really think much of it, but behind the counter all the products are from one company, which happens to be Herbalife.
The owner of the shop proposed for my girlfriend to take over another local store which also happens to be using Herbalife products, which seemed sweet and possibly a good business opportunity, so we went and checked the location out and the store is pretty hidden in a shopping center so we decided not to do that.
Queue my research: I quickly found out Herbalife is an MLM company and realized she won't be making much money from selling their products, only if she starts to get other people to sell in a downline.
I've warned her about what she's getting sucked into but she only responds to my precautions with anger and tells me about how this could buy us a house, retire our family, blah blah blah. On the note of family, her parents are now actively aiding her in getting into this MLM business without doing any research on the company and are speaking to realtors to find a store location so that their daughter can open up a brand new Herbalife front, looking at $2,500-4,000/mo in rent.
Just based off calculations, cost of product, expected sales, etc, I really don't see this making much more $$$ than a job paying $15/hr, but any job she's had since she's been with me she has walked out on.
So her parents are going to foot the bill for the startup costs (looking at about $15-20k) and she's going to be working 54-60 hours a week to run it. I don't doubt that this will end badly, so could anyone give me any advice? She's repeatedly tried to loop me into this and I don't want any part of it because I can see through the get-rich-quick, be-your-own boss bs that the company peddles.

I need a bit of advice. WFG has been one of the biggest organizations to look out for, but I never realized that one of my best friends was a victim since she was young. I’ll call her Sophia, and my other friend, Jay.
Suddenly, Sophia’s mom called her, asking where she was, and she told her that we were on the court playing basketball just for fun. Sophia’s mom told her to wait to be picked up, and after 40 minutes, her mom arrived with someone else wearing luxurious clothes, like Louis Vuitton and expensive jewelry. We’ll call her Rose. Sophia quickly notified us that Rose would be talking about her business, which didn’t seem fishy at all.
But then, out of nowhere, Rose decided to show us this 4x4 card that included all the bills and told us that we could easily avoid paying taxes, get our brand-new cars paid for by the government, and earn a “passive/residual income.” Rose also talked about how a certain person from their company recently sold her code for “50 million USD.” She also pulled out a picture of her business partner in the Philippines distributing 1,000 wheelchairs to those who couldn’t afford one.
At first, I thought this was just some other MLM organization, and when I tried to ask her the name of the organization, she instantly avoided the question by asking me what my parents’ jobs were. My father works as a janitor, and my mom works in a warehouse. She was like, “Would you like to marry someone whose parents work in a factory or as a janitor?” I kept my composure and told her that I didn’t, but deep inside, I was really pissed about how she insulted my parents. My friend Jay was also shocked at what he just heard from Rose.
After that, Rose asked us if we would like to go to their seminar this upcoming Saturday, and we told her that we were uncertain and would let them know ASAP. After Rose was done talking about her business proposal to us, Sophia came up to us, apologizing and telling us that Rose has been doing this with her friends as well. That’s how she lost some of her friends, who told her that she should stay away from them.
Jay and I knew that this was all WFG’s doing because of the 4x4 card that Rose showed us earlier, and they forgot to exclude the organization’s name on it. We tried explaining to Sophia that WFG is a pyramid scheme, but she kept denying it and telling us to search about the organization ourselves. It felt like she was under an oath not to tell us that it was all part of a scam. The worst part is, Sophia is only 17 and told us that she has been to every single meeting since she was 11 or 12. Her mom is also part of the organization, and after searching a bit, I saw that her mom is part of the manager’s team.
I have one year from now to somehow convince her not to join the organization, but if I decide to report them, her family would be greatly affected. I really want to help her. What should I do?

Redditors,
I’ve seen a lot of talk of M&A on small businesses or ideas, but I think we are destroying the word by applying it to everything, including a BS MLM scheme.
Is the minimum of a company formed, EIN obtained, people hired and holding equity not the foundation? I’ve been trying to find a community to connect with but I’m either too large of a company or there is a interviews / elitism.
Basically, what is an entrepreneur to you? Just as a baseline. I don’t like to refer to myself as one and I have several dozen of people on a w2 and topped the inc5000. They had a cool honoree thing in SA TX and I got to meet Terry Crews and I’m a fan tbh.
Also what vertical are you tackling? (Tech, luxury goods or oil as examples).
I’d love to get to FY2024 overall revenue goals with others and tailwinds in supply chain or whatever. Basically share strengths and opportunities.
Example is LTL shipments I slashed 20% but have international air shipments to keep my prepaid inventory up. My international is TQL. To sell over in Europe I used avalara for VAT compliance.
Some of my recent issues and stats: EBITDA margin was 21.82 last quarter and SG&A rose as I pay everyone above market rate. Currently, I have the forward curve on FX for foreign business and that was hard to find. Challenges for myself is having HR let someone go as we all have families. Larger challenge is audits and wiring over the consideration of a factory I’ve acquired. Why is this challenging? My senior debt facility has a cash covenant and my SOP standard on liquidity is high.

Hello friends!
Over the last few weeks I posted about my coworker who decided to throw out my personal items from my locker and replace it with Plexus garbage.
For those of you wanting more context start here:
TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of cancer, eating disorders and body dysmorphia.
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/antiMLM/s/DKtg3tPztv
Part 2 : https://www.reddit.com/antiMLM/s/W3mDFhdZOt
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So on to the finale!! It’s a long one!!
Quick recap: I am a night shifter security guard and have struggled with EDs the majority of my life and am very self conscious about my body and how I look. I keep crystal light and some snacks in my locker for when I need a little pick me up mid shift or if I want some juice instead of water. My personal items were removed from my locker and thrown out and replaced with Plexus weight loss garbage.
Buckle up everyone, here we go!!
I was paid back for the stuff she threw out. She handed me the money in front of our manager who for the record was not impressed she had to be on site at 8pm to make sure it was done. Our manager is a no-nonsense Slavic woman who hails from the same region I do - so I’m very familiar with the attitude 😂. So needless to say, having to show up at site on a Tuesday at 8pm when she’s an early to bed early to rise type was already a bad thing.

• There was an investigation into the theft from my locker which was concluded by statements from 3 people who are unrelated to my company, who recognized the items to be mine since they saw me bring them in. IT was able to recover footage of her opening my locker and putting items into a small dark bag. The IT guy said it looked like a dog-poo bag 😂. Unfortunately the footage wasn’t super clear but it’s very obvious it’s my locker door because I have a big sticker of a holographic beetle on the door (it was there before I started working here).
  
• My coworker was fired as well as had her licence pulled by the solicitor general who is our issuing body of licences. To my understanding she has a 10 year bar on re-applying for her security licence.
  
• The other two guards who left because of her were contacted and were able to give approximate dates of the same nonsense she pulled on me and there was footage recovered from that too. They also gave statements to the manager about what happened to them.
  
• The building owner we provide services for did file for charges but it’s a civil matter and probably won’t be pursued by the courts because the amount was under $500. I’m not sure what’s going on there. That’s between my company and the building we provide the services for. Also I don’t want any part in that more than I need to be involved.
  
• The lawyer-hun was terminated from her employer for unethical practices as well as encouraging the “replacement of items” aka theft. After the incident went down and she was told not to contact security for anything besides immediate emergent situations (after hours maintenance situations, safe-walks), we got a new guard and she went full on hun-bot and tried to recruit her. The new guard is an immigrant and mlms aren’t something that’s really a thing in her country so she’s a hun-bot dream come true. The new guard came to me and asked me some oddly specific questions about certain products and I was caught off guard at first and then my blood boiled, I forced myself to quickly calm down and asked her where she heard that crap. She confided in me and I told her about what’s going on with the situation and she started crying. I asked her what was wrong and she told me she signed up with one of the mlms lawyer hun was shilling. I helped her get in contact with our manager so she could help her with that. I’ve since had a sit down with the law association people and have made a sworn statement at their request. She’s currently suspended from all practice pending investigation by the law association. My statement was taken on the basis that if they find anything that proves ground for prosecution it can be used in court.
  
• Our lockers have been switched out for ones with dial locks on them. The only people who have the combinations is the locker holder (us individual guards and our manager). It’s kinda nice because it’s a wider locker and now I don’t have to Tetris my duty items into it to get the door closed.
  

If there’s anything I can say as a take away for anyone in a similar situation at their workplace - be brave and be confident in reporting it. Document everything in relation to the MLM crap - paper trails are your friend. If you’re unsure of how to approach the topic with a manager find someone you trust and are comfortable with (preferably an outside source. Eg: mom or dad, sibling, friend) and have a mock-manageemployee-conversation with them about the situation. I know not all managers are good and some are absolute crap - report it and then send an email to them with a “just to recap what we spoke about on _______ date at _____ time.” If that goes nowhere, most companies have an anonymous whistle blower hotline - call them if you’re comfortable doing so.
Good luck to anyone dealing with this!