Pink Truth: Mary Kay Opinions: The Mary Kay Way is to Cheat and Justify

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Mary Kay Opinions: The Mary Kay Way is to Cheat and Justify Feb 2nd 2012, 12:00 Written by “Stephanie” I was a Sales Director in Mary Kay a few years ago. If I knew then what I know now I would have never became a sales director… especially not doing it the way I was taught to do it. Being in MK you learn the lingo, the language and the look. [...]

While this story is heartbreaking and brought me to the point of tears, it still disgusts me.  Why?  Allow me to explain. 1."Stephanie" claims that her experience is the "Mary Kay way".  She says "...everyone in Mary Kay is doing it... " and "... every sales director has signed up family and friends and paid the money for them to finish DIQ - has topped off production to meet minimums - has ordered in someone else's name to make them active..."  First, there is no way that anyone could "know" this as a fact even if it were true, and there is just no way that this is true.  Considering all the directors, senior directors, etc, etc, NSD's, there is simply no way that every single one of them has done this.  In point of fact, seeing how her story ends, there is no way that anyone could be a successful director if they did do these things. 2. "Stephanie" says that her director's Senior Director reached out to her (Stephanie) and told her to focus on her marriage while her director essentially ignored her.  This would seem to indicate to me that the 'corruption' started and ended with the director.  Or (and I hate to kick a gal when she's down) perhaps even the director's words were twisted and she never encouraged any of this in the first place.  Regardless, for "Stephanie" to take this admittedly heart wrenching story and use it as proof that the "Mary Kay Way" is to cheat and justify tells me that either she has very little common sense, or she is still allowing women (in this case Pink Truth) take her to extremes.  Her director "talked her into" spending stupid amounts of money to achieve (on paper) something she had not yet achieved in reality, and now Pink Truth is "talking her into" taking aim at "the big bad Mary Kay" instead of recognizing that she got bad advice and made bad decisions. This pieced would be SO much more helpful if it was left at "these are the mistakes I made, don't make them yourself".  In fact, the end of the article seems to indicate that she knows the director is still up to the same nonsense and that she hopes Mary Kay "catches" her and that people will read her mistakes and not make the same ones.  This makes me wonder if Pink Truth (*ahem, Tracy) made some small "edits" to what was originally written to make it so "Mary Kay is evil" sounding.