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July 28, 2004
Rule 6.5 Means YOU!
By QBlog in
In May, I posted about Quixtar's New Rule known as the Non-Competition and Anti-Raiding rule (or Rule 6.5). This rule, which has yet to make it onto the official Business Compendium (pdf), has been criticized by some current and former IBOs as draconian (paraphrasing). However, a common defense of this rule has claimed that it was only designed to target people like Bo Short and would never be enforced against ordinary IBOs.
I present to you, Exhibit A (published with permission):
To my knowledge, Jacqueline Curcio was not a high-level IBO. It is also my understanding that Curcio has no knowledge of who actually submitted the complaint to Quixtar.
Now, I'm not saying that Quixtar did anything wrong here. In fact, it seems that their response to such a complaint was appropriate and I commend them for taking action. Yet it does illustrate the naivete of believing that Quixtar will not enforce Rule 6.5 when it receives complaints.
Take this as a friendly warning, if you're a Quixtar IBO be mindful of Rule 6.5, even if it hasn't made it's way onto the Official Compendium just yet.
Comments
Interesting. I am curious as to what product/service she was marketing, and in what context. It's been my experience that complaints such as these are TYPICALLY made as retaliation to something, and not as a response to genuine concern. Unless, an UPLINE complained...this is NOT TO SAY this is the case here, I do not know the circumstances, and I am generalizing based on my observations of past events.
Rules like this one, and the "certain percentage of customers ouside of the network" rule, are tailor-made for mid-to-low-level IBOs to create the illusion that the corporation is taking serious action on a serious issue that they have no intention of ever taking serious action on. This rule, or the "% of customers" rule, will NEVER have any impact on any high level business owners business.
Consider this analogy. With steroids such a hot and publicized topic in baseball right now, especially surrounding Barry Bonds, the commisioner has implimented much stricter random drug testing policies, but there's NO WAY IN HELL they'll ever even test Bonds or a Sosa or an A-Rod because they bring in way too much cash for the league. Instead, they'll bust a few 2nd and 3rd stringers to prove to the fans they're "serious" about keeping the league "clean." In the meantime, J.T. Snow could pretty much walk right up to Bonds while he's in the on-deck circle and inject a syringe in his ass right there and no one will say a thing.
Check it.
I think one of the sillier things I see in this letter is the clause about if you quit quixtar, you must wait 6 months before entering another MLM, and 2 years before approaching any Quixtar IBO's.
The letter indicates the action could be "up to and including termination". If you quit Quixtar, how can they terminate your IBO#?
What other business could you own, then close, but not be allowed to start a new company with people you used to work with as co-owners?
Amway is not an opportunity to own your own business, nor is it the last great hope for the common person.
It's very simple to see that this is not anything at all like owning your own business, and anyone who believes otherwise is very naive, a fool, or both.
But that's just me:)
Actually non-compete clauses aren't that out of the ordinary when dealing with franchises or when an owner sells a company. Standard is usually two years. However, with Quixtar, if these people are supposed to be [b]independant[/b] business owners, just how much autonomy do they have if there is a non-compete clause?
What are they gonna do take all my tapes,books,functions back and rebrain wash me!In the 16 years of A/Q I lost a wife,my kids,gainned the IRS,lost a lot of friends,lost time with family,no real vacations,wasted a lot of money for overpriced products.Maybe they will give all back but x-wife.Kinda like that country song!You play it backwards and you get your lady back ,your gun back,your truck back and most important your dog!
I can accept that every company has rules of conduct. I can accept that each "employee" needs to read all the fine print when accepting "employment". I still have 2 questions however. First, doesn't Quixtar have a responsibility to communicate changes to the Rules Of Conduct other than publishing the announcement of these changes for a few days on the website? If an IBO decides to become inactive the day before the adoption of these rules and never views the website, how would they know there were changes that may affect them. Second, I am very curious to hear whether former IBOs now with another MLM (other than Passport) have received any letters from Quixtar.
hey Dave, when you said
'The letter indicates the action could be "up to and including termination". If you quit Quixtar, how can they terminate your IBO#?"
did you think they meant "fired" when they said "terminate"???? They will get Qrush, Johnny Bravo, Alex, and the others to come over and "terminate' you with "extreme prejudice".....not that we haven't seen prejudice from them before.
How enforceable is this new rule?
Posted by: Caleb | July 29, 2004 1:14 AM