Betsy Devos secretary of education

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by JCricket

Okay folks,
Devo's father founded Amway - a very corupt MLM
Devo's Brother founded blackwater

My first and only experience with the Amway scam was back in High School. On the way out of the parking lot after school one day a buddy of mine that was riding in the passenger seat saw a poster on a telephone pole advertising summer jobs. So I stopped and he got out and read it and got the address of the place. He said it was an advertisement for jobs at the "Jimenez Lumberyard". Neither one of us had ever heard of it, but what the hey, a summer job at a lumber yard sounded really macho and cool to us. So we went to the address and it was some shabby office building and when we went in there was this dude in a cheap suit, so we told him we were there to apply for the jobs.

So this dude starts in with this pitch about how we can make a shitload of money this summer going door to door selling this Amway shit to our neighbors and friend's moms. And during the whole presentation my buddy and I are exchanging WTF!? looks. Even to a couple of High School kids it ws obvious that this was some kind of bullshit scam.

I don't remember what excuse we used to get the fuck out of there but when we did I said to my buddy, "I thought you said this was for a job at a lumber yard?" And he said "That's what the poster said".

So we drove back to where the poster was and got out and read it and all it said was "Jimenez Productions". And my buddy says "But I was sure it said Lumber Yard!." I don't know how he read that into it the first time, must have been wishful thinking.