Posted by Karyn Ramirez on November 07, 19102 at 07:20:09:
In Reply to: Re: What this OPPORTUNITY has done for me posted by Former Cult Leader on August 31, 19102 at 11:36:20:
Wow!! When I was in training, you where like a hero defending Scentura. It is so hard and sad that someone wakes up after 7 years. I was an owner too, not for long, but I was. This "opportunity", in and ideal world, would be great. But in the real Scentura's world, is not.
This "promoting owners" are so greedy, that if you don't sell 130 bottles after 5 weeks in your own office, you'll get shut down. That's one of the reasons I quit. The lease was in my "partner's" name and mine, so how come they can shut down MY office. It was supposed to be MY OWN business. If an office is paying their bills, which in my case was super easy, (we paid $400.00 for 1,600 sq. f. office) why do they care? Easy, they care about making money in overrides from you. Again the idea, is great, the lies aren't. I was so happy because I thought my name was on Mr. Larry's walls. The 100's club wall. Well it doesn't exist. Some of the regional do have the names of their people on the walls, like Steve and Dana from Miami, but that super wall in the main office, it's another lie. A bunch of the "blowouts", that were owners when I was in training, quit because they were FORCED to endorsed their override checks to buy more bottles to meet the quote in December 2001. Five (5) owners quit for that same reason, including MY promoting owners.
The "choice" you have to run your office, or getting $30,000 a year, doesn't really exist. You are an owner or you are nothing. You'll never get insurance and or car allowance, unless you make the money to pay for it. The people they choose every week on their interviews, are not because they are special, they chose EVERYONE, each week, because as they say, "you never know who can make you money".
But not everything is bad. I met a LOT of people, in and out of the company, that I still like, and wish them well, and at some points I had a lot of fun. But I'm not Scentura material. I can't tell people I am giving them the opportunity to own their business, when I know, it will never be really theirs.