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MLM Bot Watch 75: Bots not even bothering to fake it till they make it anymore…

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SnoogyWoo · 12/02/2023 18:45

Keep the awesome discussion going :)

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SnoogyWoo · 20/03/2023 23:01

That rant about the utility bill just shows that they are making no money.

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BSintolerant · 20/03/2023 23:13

Perhaps she could burn copies of The S*n to keep herself warm.

PieonaBarm · 21/03/2023 00:52

Ex-BFF's DH has the pips of a Chief Inspector but I think he's acting, (I seem to remember her saying he hadn't passed the board a while ago) so he'll be on the bottom salary for that rank of £60,324 (max for that role is £62,634).

Once you reach Inspector rank there's no overtime. It's not that it isn't available, you simply don't get paid for it, there's an allowance built into your basic pay years ago which is meant to account for it, and you may get some time off in lieu, but deffo no pay. He'll be paying 13% pension and then tax/NI like the rest of us. With the size of their house, new BMW/Audi cars they drive, 4 kids and then you've Ex-BFF playing with aloe I would guess there's not much left at the end of the month.

I also laughed when she said her utility bills were with UW. There's some irony in her being rinsed for £600/month by another MLM Bot who saw them coming!

YouOKHun · 21/03/2023 01:14

I also wonder at the wisdom of being in the police force and having your family and yourself plastered all over social media. Even if he’s just appearing in the pics it feels unwise to me. Or am I overthinking it?

PieonaBarm · 21/03/2023 04:34

@YouOKHun definitely not overthinking it. Every bit of guidance given is not to put a single thing on social media about your employment, your address, or anything that could identify you or reveal your address. I know Northern Ireland is a whole different kettle of fish but look at the officer shot while coaching his kids football team. I'm not saying that he used social media, but it makes it easier for you to be found.

NormalForNuneaton · 21/03/2023 07:41

@YouOKHun , no you're not overthinking it at all.

Why he has his face plastered all over her social media I don't know. In his line of work he must have some enemies.

I'm pretty sure I could find their address, the kids schools and work out their weekly routine etc with no local knowledge of that area at all, so a local criminal would have no problem.

terrywynne · 21/03/2023 08:08

I'm sure Castle write something a few weeks ago about being told to take down a social media post whilst she was in the police (something to do with FL but I can't remember if it was FL or another issue that drew their ire). It was given as one of the she quit.

PieonaBarm · 21/03/2023 08:14

terrywynne · 21/03/2023 08:08

I'm sure Castle write something a few weeks ago about being told to take down a social media post whilst she was in the police (something to do with FL but I can't remember if it was FL or another issue that drew their ire). It was given as one of the she quit.

There's rules around having a second job/running a business when you're a serving officer and you have to apply to your force for permission. For example, it's unlikely you'd be able to do anything that needed licence conditions for sale of alcohol, and if a family member had a pub you'd not be allowed to help out.

They can put restrictions on you with regards to what you can/can't do and also where and how you advertise. She likely broke one of the rules they gave her.

Ohnonevermind · 21/03/2023 08:48

That was castles reveal ‘HOW I NEARLY LOST EVERYTHING’ dramatics from one of her lives

she did a FL video which was posted publicly and was asked to take it down. Of course there are rules but she said they didn’t know why they wanted her to take down the video

isn’t fierce supposed to speak this month at the sca

fromdownwest · 21/03/2023 10:38

What is Castle's business, genuine question.

Her latest Insta's are just random splatterings of how to make money on a side hustle with zero meat on the bones.

Also, more and more it is my life in 90 seconds, like people actually care where she has come from?

When I have a trainer (in a real profession) I am concerned about the content they provide and how they deliver it, not how they ended up where they are.

NormalForNuneaton · 21/03/2023 10:59

Talking of bots scraping the bottom of the barrel and documenting every tiny detail of their lives.......anyone else waiting with bated breath to see what Yawn's doing today?

I mean, yesterday was reed diffuser refilling day.

Who knows what excitement today could bring .....cleaning the veg drawer of the fridge maybe? Going through the pot of pens and throwing away the ones that don't work or have leaked?

Twentytwentyhindsight · 21/03/2023 12:33

I wonder if the figure BFF plucked out of thin air for her earnings/turnover (often confused in the MLM world) was £80k because that's about as high as she could put it without questions being raised about VAT registration...

fromdownwest · 21/03/2023 12:55

As someone above said, the irony of BFF being rinsed by an MLM is comical.

She left Octpus, who have the best rate in their Wholesale Tracker, to go to UW. There is a waiting list of 12 months to get on that Octopus rate, and she just signs up to UW!

Crazy

NormalForNuneaton · 21/03/2023 13:59

In Fierce's latest long winded post she has the line....

I was dragged to working with people I didn’t enjoy working with

Ouch.

RogueApostrophe · 21/03/2023 15:40

Did Castle and ex-BFF fall out then? Or did they just part ways coz the planner thing bombed?

YouOKHun · 21/03/2023 16:01

@NormalForNuneaton @PieonaBarm BFF’s home address is on CH for MyPlan2Fail Ltd which is easy to find by searching her name. A quick google shows the address is the same as the photo of her house on SM the other day, which is alongside photos of him. So thanks to her FLP activity anyone with a grudge against Mr BFF or the organisation he represents is going to be able to find him super easily. Someone could also google his surname and the rough area and bingo - up she pops along with her open SM. If his photo wasn’t on her open SM it wouldn’t be nearly so easy to find him. She would have been wise to use her original surname for commercial purposes.

Risky.

YouOKHun · 21/03/2023 16:12

@RogueApostrophe there has definitely been a cooling of that friendship and no communication via social media. I don’t know if there was a specific moment when they fell out but others may have spotted it. Unfortunately they are very much bound together as fellow directors of the failed business with late accounts. I expect they’re in a stand off and Castle thinks it’s not her problem because she’s not in the UK.

Not only has BFF been swindled by a UW hun but she’s been shat on from a great height by a former FLP hun. I wonder if she has pondered what the common denominator might be in all this trouble at her door? Could it be that involvement in MLM and the people it attracts almost always pans out badly for people?

PieonaBarm · 22/03/2023 12:31

Yawn's Win Wednesday around her kitchen table where her team can come over and bounce off ideas consists of her sons girlfriend and Yawn. She's really winning this week!

Norma27 · 22/03/2023 12:55

And I thought the dog walking business yawns son and girlfriend set up was doing amazing. Not what she is saying now in the fb post!

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 22/03/2023 13:33

You get cupcakes if you work with Yawn!
I get money in my job.

thetemptationofchocolate · 22/03/2023 13:35

Yes, also you would get paid holiday and sick leave (as long as not on zero hours). Now I have retired I also get a pension from my job.
I'd rather have that than be a boss babe with a director's loan...

Spongebobette · 22/03/2023 14:08

I really hope the son’s gf isn’t putting all her eggs in the FL basket thinking it’s a career

SoosanCarter · 22/03/2023 14:37

Smacks of grooming to me. It will all end in tears before bedtime.

YouOKHun · 22/03/2023 22:10

@SoosanCarter I agree. She is just 18 and I see she’s been encouraged to link her chronic gynae condition to FLP products on Insta - that’ll be an instruction from Yawn no doubt. Yawn says that FLP ticked all Mini Yawn’s boxes including the fact you can run an FLP “business” with “very low confidence”, [so perfect for Mini Yawn]; nice.

Mini Yawn may be an adult in the official sense of the word but in my experience 18-20 is a vulnerable age with all the legal freedoms of being 18 but with a lot to learn and a lot still to happen brain chemistry wise. It makes for a vulnerable period in life for many. If I was her parent I’d be intervening before she breaks up with Yawn’s DS and finds herself without a dog walking business and Yawn not returning her calls. Someone needs to help her find a proper path to follow that is not going to leave her socially, emotionally and financially vulnerable before she’s 19.

NormalForNuneaton · 22/03/2023 22:22

We've all voiced concern over ex-BFFs disordered eating in the past combined with her frequent C9's or whatever they're called nowadays and, lo and behold, today she's posting about her 12 year old daughter having dizzy spells at school and the school phoning to pick her up.

Ex BFF then goes on to say it's probably because her DD hasn't had breakfast. This is a sports mad 12 yo who has PE that day who has gone to school without breakfast. You have to wonder if watching her Mum's obsession with undereating, over exercising and popping fat-blockers like Smarties has had an influence on this.

I hope to god I'm wrong as this could take her down a very difficult and destructive path.

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