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But seriously, I didn't have enough of a reason to have a meeting tonight, and, therefore, I don't see a need to have a meeting simply to have a meeting. I mean, I'm sure we would have a good discussion about something, but all four of us women are busy people, and I like surprising the other three with one less thing they have to do in the week when they're all tired from work and when there's no reason to have a meeting.
When we do need to have a meeting, we have a meeting, but I live by this motto:
"It takes a really good meeting to be better than no meeting at all."
~Dale G. Renlund
Speaking of meetings, I bowed out of another meeting scheduled for tonight, as well.
Last week, one of my bus driver friends, Charles, hopped on my bus after I'd pulled into the bus garage and proceeded to tell me excitedly about this opportunity he'd just signed up for. Immediately, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up in alarm. After about twenty seconds, I knew for sure he was talking about an MLM.
The horror!
He kept me there for a good fifteen minutes talking about Kyäni, one of the innumerable health and nutrition MLMs that exist, though it is not, oddly, based in Utah (Utah State Motto: Home of So Very Many MLMs And The Suckers Who Join Them). It's actually based in Idaho. Close enough.
Now, I like Charles. He is a good man, and I'm not making fun of him for joining an MLM; but my heart did sink because now he was going to try and get me to be on his team, and I have vowed never to get entangled in one of those things again. Ever.
I did tell him that I don't like MLMs, I have been in many of them, and I really am not interested in MLMs. He said he had also been in many MLMs and understood my reservations, but that I am exactly the kind of skeptical person who would be a great addition to his team because I would be so fired up about the product once I tried it.
Sigh.
I did research the company. Yes, same schtick, same problems as any other MLM. Nothing special going on there that I can see. It ticks all the boxes that make me shudder: expensive product, expensive buy-in, somewhat shady origin story, complicated compensation system, and lots of hype. Not my scene.
Anyway, last night, Charles sent me a text with an invitation to his business launch meeting for Kyäni. I didn't text back right away because I was trying to formulate a response that both thanked him for the invitation but firmly rejected the MLM without rejecting him personally. This morning, I figured it out and sent it. He responded by telling me he was grateful for my honesty and preferred open honesty to having someone accept the invitation but then never showing up, and that--of course!--we are still friends.
Phew! I'm relieved that he's rational. Some people take rejection of what they're selling as rejection of them as a person, and then it gets all dramatic and tense. Charles is the kind of friendly, extroverted person who tends to do very well in an MLM and thinks everyone will do as well as he will. I'm glad that my initial impression of him has held: that he's not egotistical and irrational, only willing to be friends if I do what he wants. I wish him all the best. He'll probably be raking in the dough soon enough.
Now, as I have no meetings to attend this evening, I shall luxuriate in some unexpected free time.
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