The puffed up titles are the worst.
"Once you grow your team to 12 people, you'll be at the National Director of the Vice President of the Regional Marketing Protectorate at the Local Ambassador level."
To be clear, I'm fairly certain it's legal,, but it's a pyramid scheme nonetheless.
My boy, a cool dude, but far from a "go-getter", invited me to his 'business reception' one day. Now I didn't know anything about 5Linx and he didn't mention it. He had been complaining about his dead-end job so I assumed he had got the entrepreneurial spirit and was either gonna just announce his company's founding, and/or pitch for investors. And to be honest, I was fully prepared to invest in his company off GP.....but the shyt I walked in to was just sad.
It was like five of us in his living room and he played a bunch of videos advertising 5Linx. Complete with these trumped up titles, company provided BMW's and Bentley's and introduced (for the ignorant) the concept of residual income. The whole presentation was about showcasing 5Linx as a great place to work (excuse me, be your own boss

) as they showed life as a (successful) 5Linx salesman and repeatedly talked about their million dollar headquarters in New York State. They spent very little time talking about the service that 5Linx provides...huge red warning sign. Then they pass out this sheet that's supposed to illustrate how you make money through 5Linx....and it's you at the top of your own pyramid.
I had to restrain myself...didn't want to embarrass dude....but I'm looking at his brother like "man, I know you see what the fukk this is, why ain't you schooling him?"
Anyway, days later, as he was checking in to see if I'd join, I broke down to him all the obvious reasons why it was a pyramid scheme. Explained how 5Linx makes more money (FAR more money) off gaining new employees than selling it's services (like a couple hundred dollars for a new employee versus a very vague $4 for each service....plus a new employee is amost guaranteed to sign up their services, so they get the service money anyway....and a new employee leads to MORE new employees while a new service is a dead end). No real company acts that way. Anyway, the nikka had already PAID to become an employee (

) before I knew about it, so I told him since you're in it, you best know what you're really selling. You're not selling telecommunication or energy....you're selling a job.