Ashleigh “Mac-Slay” McKenzeigh was an exemplary University of Washington student: joined a sorority, got good grades, joined a student organization, got drunk on the weekends, also got drunk on the weekdays, “shacked at SAE,” spent all of daddy’s money, fell in love with three separate Tylers, got kicked out of that student organization for “racist remarks,” and cheated to get those good grades.
However, now that Ashleigh has graduated (and the sorority refuses to continue housing her), she now embarks on a turbulent journey most upper middle-class white women take in an attempt to answer the question—“where do I go now that I’ve peaked?” For most, including Ashleigh, the answer seems to lie in Multi-Level-Marketing companies, or MLMs.
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“For me, I love never having any reason to leave the house! Factoring in things like commuting, walking, and socializing were really hard for me to manage around my day-drinking,” McKenzeigh says.
For those seeking shallow bonds between women pitted in competition, an MLM may feel like a natural next step after sorority life. Even the MLM recruitment process bears surprising resemblance to sorority rush season. According to her Monat recruiter, Ashleigh’s 2,400 Instagram followers and pink-bleached photos “showed incredible marketing potential.”
“Whenever [Ashleigh] was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always said ‘dependent on men, and join Kappa Kappa Kappa!’,” remarked Ashleigh’s father, Mr. Mister McKenzeigh. “Even though she only got into Kappa Mu Sigma, I’m so proud of her being able to accomplish at least one of her goals.”
For women like Ashleigh, joining an MLM is the best surefire way to maintain the highs of sorority life. Ashleigh describes how it’s been “so fun and nostalgic” to be amongst her fellow #bossbabes:
“Ever since graduating, I’ve had to interact with a lot of urban people who are poor and different from me. I’m so glad that I have found a community in Seattle that thinks (and looks) like me. As I say to my downline, even though HR doesn’t exist, neither does DEI! #winning.”
Story update: Ashleigh is no longer partnered with Monat due to financial concerns. She is now #bossingitup at Herbalife, where she hopes to “not spend daddy’s money so quickly” this time around.
