What was the first thing you remember noticing that led you to get out of the pink fog?

For me, I'd have to say it was when my director, who had led me to believe that it's very rare for someone to fail at the MK business as long as she is working to advance her business, said, "I think the reason why so many people fail at this business...blah blah blah."

That was the first time I heard her admit that most women do *NOT* make it.  Strange, but that line alone is what made me start rethinking this decision, and she said that even before my "debut!"

I would say the first unit meeting started making me question what I was doing, but what really made me sit up and take notice was when a VERY successful attorney in my unit became a Sales Director and was talking about how much money she was making and how MK had changed her life and then 2 weeks after DIT she quit MK!

I started thinking, there must be something that she knows that only directors are privy too. . . what could it be? I started searching for information and a couple months later happened upon PC's blog and the rest, as they say, is history (and a scam!).

I think the fog started to clear early on right after I started getting "training" from my recruiter....she was doing things like cold-calling from the phone book, warm chattering at Target, and she was in credit card debt up to her eyeballs for inventory that she wasn't selling....once I knew her situation, and looked back on the things she told me to recruit me (she misrepresented her MK income and the difficulty of the business BIG TIME) I knew something was shady.
The final nail in the coffin was the horrible sales I had at skin care classes and facials, and that's when I knew that I had been lied to.

I think the first thing that made me uneasy was that when I was being recruited it was emphasized that I'd get a 50% profit on everything--if I sold $200 worth of product, I'd have $100 profit. All of a sudden once I started going to meetings, I was told, "well, actually you only make about 40% after expenses, but that's still more than you'll make anywhere else!" 40% actually sounded really good to me, but why couldn't they just have told me that in the first place???

Stryker was a porn star? Wha?
LOL

Yep, that's what did it for me.  I was told the 50% off everything you order  line but my director neglected to tell me that you had to order a certain minimun to get that  I was lead to believe it would be easy to be an order taker.  (i.e. customer orders $50.00 of product you order from the company for $25.00)  From then on it was down hill for me.  I couldn't get past the lies.

It wasn't so much the minimum but the fact that I was lied to.  I felt my director should've said plainly that in order to get the 50% you had to order $200 wholesale.    so much for honesty and integrity 

My pink bubble burst when on the last day of the month my director was worried about not making production for the month when she got a call on the other line...
From a new recruit...

My director had done her wedding makeup (and charged her like $100 for it... nice 'complimentary' appointment) and THEN signed her up.

The woman was calling to say that she had gotten approved for a credit card with a balance that would allow her to start off with a -gulp- $3000 w/s order...

So what did my director do?  She told the woman to call the credit card company back and ask for the credit card number and exp. date so she could use it THAT DAY to place her order...

Because she(my director) wanted to make $4k in production for the month.

I told her, hey, don't sweat it, if she places the order tomorrow then you'll only need $1k in production to finish up August.  Her response made it seem like that wasn't good enough.

Oh, and I forgot to mention - the woman with the credit card lives in a *doublewide*.

That's when I realized - there's no way in heck I would EVER feel comfortable recommending to ANYONE that they go into credit card debt for MK.

It's not that she lives in a doublewide, its that most people who live in a trailer probably can't afford $3k in credit card debt.  We own our house, and we can't afford that much.

THAT'S when I knew.... and *pop* went my bubble.

My first sign was that I was telling girls in interviews that they would be making $150 a class and if they worked X amount of hours they could make X amount of money.  Yet I had NEVER made that much in a class.  I was supposed to encourage them to go into debt when I don't even believe in debt, although from my cc balance you can't tell.  AAAAAAAAAAARGH!  I STILL feel guilty for interviewing those poor girls...