Random Rant- Oh you kooky MLM types.

I’m going to start off by kind of apologizing for going dark ish. I’ve been going through a particularly difficult phase of the fun that is life. How fun, you ask? Well, you know about shingles, right? How they are a horrible remnant of chicken pox blah blah blah you get older and sometimes stress will cause your skin to break out and excruciating pain wherever you get that break out?

I’ve got shingles on my face.

I don’t talk about this hardly at all- I’ve had extensive plastic surgery on my face due to a birth defect. So the nerves don’t exactly all work the way they are supposed to. Which means I don’t have constant pain.. I just have weird scabs and random jolts.

On. My. Face.

So with all the stress/depress going on, I’m pretty much done taking on anything extra I find stressing or hurtful. You could say my tolerance levels for shrugging off bullshit are pretty low.

Enter random person I know tangentially. We do some gaming together, so I added them on Facebook and enjoyed their occasional pithy comments.

This week has been especially not great as I wait for phone calls about hospice care possibilities that don’t seem to come. So when I got an invite for something that looked kinda cool and D&D geeky, I was pretty jazzed.

And then, I found it was a cover for Mary Kay sales.

I have this theory that one of the reasons I’m so stressed out is that I bottle up the things that hurt my feelings and let them give me ulcers. Well, this time, I didn’t bottle.

Now, let me be clear. The person that invited me has spent time with me in person. And while I ain’t so jacked up as to be all Quasimodo, I’ve got facial scars. They are pretty evident, as is the fact that I don’t wear any kind of makeup to cover (or to irritate, to be frank) them up. What I’m saying is, it’s hard to miss that I ain’t the Cover Girl in the room, if you get my drift.

So I said my piece, removed myself from the group, blocked the individual, and had a two minute pity party before getting on with another episode of In Plain Sight (it’s been my thing lately and I’m not really sure why).

The next day, I found that the individual had found my professional Facebook profile and sent a little note-

So… yeah. Cool story… a non apology apology while cribbing from the note cards for Overcoming Objections by Mary Kay and still trying to sell me shit.

I’m not even kidding, check it out-

So shocking that this isn’t a person I want to talk to about my feelings. I mean, they managed not to notice all the times I post about hating MLMs, or my facial scars that mean no makeup kplzthx, or even like READ the POST and have an ounce of empathy.

Conclusion? MLMs create toxic sociopaths where normal human beings used to be. I really can’t believe the number of folks that get sucked in. I get that folks are hurting for money and motivation or what the hell ever they are looking for when they join this nonsense, I do. But man, what a great way to lose money, people in your circle, and belittle the people who truly do have their own small businesses with their own creativity they are trying to promote rather than goop in a jar or plasticrap from who knows where. I can’t even count the number of old school acquaintances, gaming friends, and co workers that have gotten into this stuff.

I just know I’m tired, and I’m tired of hiding the hurt when folks are just hitting me up to sell me their misery because they got themselves into the hype of it all.