Originally Posted by Tam

I actually didn't take too much offense by what you said, to be honest. I read it, but I didn't put too much weight on it. I don't know you so I just assumed you had your reasons for talking to me and my co-workers in that tone and left it alone and let you have your say.

As far as being batshit crazy, I've been told that before and will be told it again, I'm very sure of that, and you know what? That might possibly be true... I think you have to have a level of crazy to survive in this world today, and I am not mocking you, I'm dead serious.

Let me address something with you here and I won't do it again and I'll not get into a big discussion with you about it. I'll have my say and leave it alone. I don't like drama, don't see it as productive and not so sure it really helps anyone anywhere.

1) The company I work for has always been good to me, they've taken care of me and my family for a very long time and as far as I can see, they've always looked after their affiliates and in most cases put them first, from what I have seen. Do I like everything they do? Nope, to be very honest, I don't.... but then again, I don't like some things about what a LOT of people do, even the ones closest to me... husband, family, friends.. there are a lot of things a lot of people do that I don't like or wouldn't particularly do if it were me. Does it make what they do bad? No, it absolutely does not... just makes them different, which is not a bad thing either.

Just because you don't like a business model of another, doesn't make them bad, doesn't make you bad, makes you different. If you don't agree with the model, business or otherwise, don't have a relationship with that company or otherwise and your life will be much better and less filled with anger and hate. Not everyone can get along and not everyone can work together..... but there is someone somewhere that you will fit into like a glove, go there and be HAPPY.

I'll tell you a little story and try and be brief. In 1996, my husband had a job with a woman that was so crazy that she stalked us for 2 years, we had to leave the state and go halfway across the country to hopefully get away from it, but it followed us there. In late 96, I had a nervous breakdown from trying to destroy her and it ended up almost destroying me and MY family.... and you know what she's doing now? She is doing her own TV Show in Fla, living happy as can be while I struggled trying to find ways to destroy the very air that she breathed. She had my husband investigated for arson after she burned her own house down and said he did it, we were 5 states away is the only thing that saved him. She literally beat her own son half out of his mind and reported my husband as the one that did it, to ruin us, he didn't "love her" like she wanted, so she vowed to destroy him and his family. For 2 YEARS he couldn't get a job because she was always one step ahead of us. This went on for 2 years..... at the end of it, when I was on my way to getting better, I realized something.... the only person it was actually hurting was myself, because I looked like the crazy one, no matter how much proof I had otherwise. I was the one that hurt, I was the one with the breakdown, I was the one with so much pain I literally wanted to die..... so what did I learn from that? If you do not like someone or what they do and you can't live with the things you don't like, walk away and leave it alone. It's wasting YOUR time, YOUR energy and YOUR bottom line by getting on this mission to destroy another, and chances are failing anyway.

All this drama is doing is sending people in the opposite direction than YOU want them to go and making the posters look bad at the end of the day. Is that really how you want to represent yourself? Really? I mean, really?? There are things that everyone does that we don't like, but at the end of the day, all that matters is what you can live with and you really aren't changing anyone's mind, seriously. I don't know you, like I said, and I am not sure I want to know you, or maybe I do... but regardless, you won't change minds by ranting and calling names..... it just never works in your favor. What YOU can do, state your case, have your opinion and then walk away and leave it alone.... let people make up their own minds about what they choose to do, and know you said your piece and it's helping you to sleep at night and not hurting YOUR bottom line.

I have had my say, and now I am walking away and I won't address this again. If you need help, you wish to speak with me, you wish to even be friends with me, then you are more than free to do so, but please don't disrespect me, us, or yourself by trying to force feed people what you want them to eat. You have a right to your opinion, most definitely, I don't say you have to like me, or the company I work for... state your opinion and walk away. You may know things I don't know or have a relationship with the company I work for and it may be a bad experience, but as for me and the affiliates I deal with and help each and every single day, we don't see what you see and we are all quite happy in that. I treat everyone with respect and dignity and that's all I can do.

This went on way more than I wanted to take the time to take on this matter. I apologize for that, but I don't want to be one of the people that start hatred and anger, I want to be one that stops it, or at least slows it down. Which kind of person do YOU want to be?