Hi everyone,
I have recently left TEAM and it's been refreshing to
read all the posts and see that some of the feelings you have and
get are not as isolated as you feel. I had been with TEAM a little
over two years. Suprising..I never made a profit even though I
worked the business hard. I don't feel I'm a dupe or sucker, I
actually work in Law Enforcement but we were introduced to TEAM
through a good personal friend(who never did a thing in the
business) and my personality is a Choleric Sanguine..(Read Florence
Littauer's book, it can actually help a lot if your trying to reason
with someone regarding choices they have made, not to use them to
get into a MLM) Basically I'm very goal-driven and also a people
person and I"m extremly stubborn(I blame my Dad) and don't like to
give up.
All I really wanted was for my wife to be able to stay home with
our kids, if I made a ton of money, I wasn't going to give it
back!! I didn't put myself in an extremly deep hole as far as debt,
I worked a lot of OT shifts and special assignments to make money to
help cover costs and DOT1 STEP!! I regret the most is the time I
gave up with my family to work the business. There were several
times in the business where I really started to think things through
and wonder if it's worth the cost and it all came to a head when
Orrin and Chris and several of the other leaders left or were
terminated(who knows?)
I read everything I could on the lawsuits and was suprised that
TEAM was claiming Quixtar was an illegal pyramid. I asked one of my
upline Platinums about this and got a very vague answer and was told
to just keeping showing the plan. I never showed another plan.. I
felt it was wrong to put people into a business that the leaders
were saying was a pyramid. I kept on system(quit listening to it)
for a little while longer and then received a call from upline that
he was resigning and that I could do what I wanted(mu business). I
also resigned from Quixtar. There was one more open meeting after
that and it was pretty pathetic, the speaker had no clue what he
could say and couldn't say. Afterwards, I made some,"negative"
comments and asked that if Quixtar was a pyramid for self-consuming
wasn't TEAM the same thing if we're selling leadership/motivati
materials to TEAM members.
I received a call from my upline saying he heard I was having a
rough time with the adjustments(
hot but I had a ticket to the major function in Louisville,KY. and
hotel rooms already paid for. The night before the function
started, there was an emergency in the town I work for and i had to
come home. It was a pretty well publicized incident( I really don't
wanna say what it was cause it could give away my identity if
certain people cruise this group, I've even used a different e-mail
than my regular one) The only calls I got were from a well-known
Sapphire and Round table member inquiring as to where the two extra
tickets I was going to sell them were, no one asked how my family
and community were doing. I called one of my upline platinums(a
good friend at the time) and told him what had happened and that I
had to go home. I haven't heard from him since(6 weeks)
I took myself off system and told some of my downline I'm
finished. I'm not going to bash TEAM but I figure after two years,
I should have had better results, once you've burned through your
warm market and do not have anything substantial building, it is
EXTREMELY hard to build a profitable business. I have a great
opprutunity to start a new business in the transport business(no
MLM) and am excited. Heck I even listen to the radio again and
*gasp*watch some TV and play video games with my boys. Sorry about
the long post, tried to scale it down as short as possible.
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