Weasel words - Part Two (or, "You should be like me")

Part One dealt with the nature of legalese (called "weasel words" on PT).

This post will deal with the nature of the words in question. Please note that these are numbers from MK in Canada, not the US.

I am not going to copy and paste here. If you want to read the whole post, go here.

The entire tone of the post strikes me as being....judgemental. Not just against MKC, but of the reps themselves.

We have no way of knowing what the goals of those reps are. We don't know how many hours they worked. We don't know anything about these reps.

When I see phrases like

• "We don't know how much less, but I'll bet that for most of them, it was a lot less."


• "That means that 29,429 have not earned any commission, just their sales, we'll ignore that for now."


• "By my estimate, anybody who earns less than $6,000 commissions per month is not making an executive salary."

...it drives me crazy.

How do you know? How do you know how much money people made from selling products?

Who made you the judge of what is executive salary and what isn't?

How do you know what the goals of these reps were? Perhaps they made exactly what they wanted to make. Perhaps not. Your idea of success might not be the same as theirs.

To give another perspective:

When I was a Seventh-Day Adventist, I had someone come up to me and tell me what I believed and why it was wrong.

The problem is, he did not have any of his facts right, and he made himself look like an idiot because he pronounced judgement without taking the time to find out what my beliefs actually were!

I feel the same way about PT.

To sit and pass judgement on the success or failure of others without first finding out what the goals were in the first place seems just as foolish to me.

And that, of course, is just my opinion. :D