McOcean Confessions
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This is going to be long so bare with me⬇️
I won’t say this biz is bad ….rather, the leadership&people,culture is terrible. There is no direction. Words are twist&turn to suit their agenda. The leaders(KPs &Prince) claim every individual is responsible for their own business as we are the one invest the money. But as time goes by,they go by “being a good follower”. This is my experience when I was a mobile stockist in McOcean (no sugarcoating) :
1) This business was said to be FLEXIBLE can run PART TIME etc. once you enrol to become a mobile stockist they will brainwash you to attend every meeting, training & team party saying to support new partners, for you to learn the business,system etc. in that process the KPs will brainwash you on why running it aggressively will do more good than bad(become KP within 1 month). Without you knowing, you will start running this business aggressively on full time basis because now you realize you have invested too much time, money & energy to stop or walk away. (Look up “The Sunk-Cost Fallacy”).
2) No autonomy in how you run your business. The way you run your business will fully depend on whatever your KP says. If they say go means go, come means come. Every decision, every word that comes out of your mouth will not be yours but your KP/Prince. You are just their puppet. Sometimes even your friend will realize you have changed just by the vocab’s you use and the way you handle conversations with them . You will start emulating the leaders and speak like them.
3) If your close friend is your downline/upline, then confirm will have a lot of misunderstanding due to Reason #1. Your friendship will begin to deteriorate because your friend won’t feel they are interacting with u but someone entirely different (Because you are no longer their friend but their KPs zombie)
4) Everything you share with your upline/downline/sideline everyone on top will know (can be smtg u not happy with in the biz, your personal problem etc.) everything is reported upwards to ensure the leaders are aware of your state of mind 24/7 and so that the system has full control over you. Hence every partner is advised TO BE CLOSE to their KP so that they too can be successful & earn 20K a month. It’s for this reason! Some people become too attached to their KP they report every single thing including snitching on others (I’m saying this because i was that person—regretfully). So there are no secrets here yaaaa…No matter how “songeh” your attitude is, your KP will find a way to bond with you through shared experience, interest (Look up “Trauma Bond”)
5) People here are discouraged from discussing personal stories or anything they not happy abt the business. Only can discuss business-related amongst partners, making it extremely difficult to connect genuinely. You can have the deepest friendship out of this platform but once ur in, it’s all transactional,superficial. Sad to say I lost many friends due to this. Yet to understand if they were truly my friends or they just got exposed.
6) Personal time is a sin here. Taking some time off to rest is labelled lazy, “not being serious about your dreams” & slowing down momentum of the team.When I was a partner there and got into an accident, the leaders didn’t bother to show concern for my wellbeing instead asked what is my ETA to the office training. That is my first time experiencing people with NEGATIVE Empathy! Worst than a toxic corporate environment! If you don’t answer calls/texts, getting spam calls/texts from partners/uplines/sidelines is completely normal here. You can be in a funeral or in middle of work, the expectation to answer at anytime is there. It shows “commitment and dedication to your dreams “ konon….Dont even get me started on the amount of group chats we have to maintain. Now there is rule that every group MUST have a Prince monitoring & any other groups to be shut down. Everything is monitored.
7) Feedback or criticism is labelled as spreading “negativity”. I remember having a 1v1 with one of the Prince as I was having problem prospecting and he kept spinning my points to show me I’m the problem. One point he got defensive telling I’m blaming the system which I clearly wasn’t. So exhausting. It’s an endless battle you train to fight but just never win.
8) KPs who keep doing wrong doings are not penalised not sure for what reason. This platform is willing to compromise good partners safety just to retain a KP maybe he/she is dedicated or what idk. One particular KP sexually harass his downlines and still continues to do so(Discreetly). A warning has been issued in the past but it is still happening. How is this a safe environment for women to do business as to what they claim?
I Won’t expose the name of this KP yet. Or should I? Just comment.
9) If a partner failed to close new partners, they are pushed to buy products to get more SPs or so their upline can get income. I only realized how broken their system is when ppl in the platform had to work 1000 harder just to prove it’s working. Partners end up maxxxing out their credit cards, taking up new loans just to keep the system running. They can only show the title to prove the system is working. What if they show their bank accounts? Will that prove the system works or not? If you look closely, most of the KPs are desperate, in survival mode and regretting leaving their full time jobs after becoming a CKP. They don’t even have money to buy food and end up sharing food with their SPs. Some don’t even pay the bill and expect new partners to pay for their food saying it’s gratitude for the KPs help. Then End up pushing your SPs to close prospects under the reason of creating a new CKP. Is this the kind of system I want to be part of long run? Hard no.
10) Here u can MAKE MONEY & also EASILY LOSE MONEY. Let me explain. If you have a solid network who can pump in the money & willing to grow the network with u, and u being heartless & selfish ,u will see the money.NO DOUBT . I have personally closed prospects and seen SOLID 10K cash. Now here is why you will lose that money as easily : due to the points you read above, your network will eventually break….Your downlines will eventually burn out, lose motivation or just leave because they don’t feel like it anymore/misunderstanding. This is when your downlines would want to withdraw and you as an upline need to give back the income earned back to your downline. Now u have to decide if you want to help your downline withdraw and lose your income or work closely with your KP to ensure your downline don’t withdraw (You will be taught many techniques for that). If you choose to help your downline, be prepared to be boycott by entire network for being NEGATIVE. And even if you want to return the money, you might not to do as soon because your money is used up for all the cost of running the business (food,petrol,toll, warm up, GES tickets, top up products etc). So now you have to work extra hard to close another down line so the sales proceed can be reimbursed to your other downline who wants to withdraw.
Here is where you really choose. MONEY or MORAL?
11) Eventually you will realize this whole system is a hamster wheel just by how the management chose to run their network. There Is no point in making money if you lose your time, freedom,
autonomy, and genuine connections.
I eventually chose my autonomy, time & freedom. The same platform that promised me all these, took away everything from me until I choose to walk away.
Though this is not the end. This was an experience that taught me:
1) To have boundaries (Say no & mean it without guilt)
2) Learn about money(loan,income taxes)
3) Distinguish between fake & genuine friends
4) Money is important (VERY). But it can be earned. Whereas time can never be earned.
Thank you for attending my Ted Talk☺️