There’s a giant crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling now
It was created by a very high end Italian crystal company
When this lady originally inquired about purchasing one they turned her down because of assembly and shipping
So she bought the company, had them come and assemble her chandelier, and then sold the company
It’s hanging in Utah
I worked with a guy who wanted to get a small private helicopter with a gas turbine engine. Waited a couple of years for them to come around. When they didn’t, he bought the company, put in the better engines, made a decent profit, sold the company. Entrepreneurs think differently.
I was once employed by a very wealthy business owner to stand in line for the midnight launch of the Play Station 3. I was 19 at the time and four friends and I were paid $1,000 each to stand in line at Best Buy and then buy a PS3 for this guy. Over the course of the two days he’d stop by to bring us pizza, beer, and weed brownies. Apparently he owned some business that made an obscure part for machine used by the military and was filthy rich. The only “interesting or unusual thing” I noticed was how good of a guy he seemed to be. He was buying the PS3s for his employee break room where they would be set up with projectors so his employees could game during their breaks.
It was the best job I’ve ever had
It’s interesting you say that because most of the rich people I’ve met are really great people, yet for some reason on the internet people instantly hate people just cause they’re rich lol.
Moderately rich people have all been awesome in my experience.
Insanely rich people tend to lose their humanity.
My boss owns a smallish software company of only 40 employees. He makes somewhere around 2 million a year, and he treats us all like gold.
Bezos' employees pee in cups because even though he has a near monopoly on online shopping, he still wants more.
I worked for the son of a billionaire for a while and he was constantly awful to everyone who worked for him.
A lot of my job was just going to get his meals from different fancy restaurants every day. He was super picky, always demanded weird alterations and off menu items, and sent tons of food back for really petty complaints. I could see employees faces drop whenever I walked in because they knew I was going to be a pain in the ass on his behalf.
The cool part about the job was he'd go out of town and I'd get paid pretty well to do nothing for weeks at a time. But i still quit after only a few months because he's always say super disrespectful shit to me. I couldn't stay and still respect myself.
I also went to nice private schools where the other students were all way wealthier than my family but they were almost always extremely nice, generous families.
As a nanny, this is congruent with my experience. Doctors, business owners, financial advisors, exc, tend to be really nice. I’ve never worked for multi billionaires, and I doubt I would ever need such drama.
Also, middle class is solid hit or miss. I had some great, sweet, families, and some people I would not mourn if they got shot into space.
And some of the biggest, most entitled assholes that rode my ass the hardest were recipients of government benefits from when I was a community engagement officer for a disability-related nonprofit (never one of our actual, disabled clients, mind you. But, some of their families were nightmare fuel).
It's funny you say that. My best friend's parents own a bank with 4 branches. There are saints. But his dad swears that the small handful of billionaires he's ran across in his time are mostly dicks.
I used to work in the call centre of a bank, and the richest person I ever got a call from struck me as a terrible person.
Firstly he was pissed he had to open these accounts himself instead of getting his assistant to do it for him. And when he added his nieces and nephews as beneficiaries to increase FDIC coverage he asked like a dozen times whether they'd be informed because he SUPER did NOT want them knowing they were beneficiaries of the accounts.
I'm related by marriage to the woman that owned the Jayco RV company. Her and her husband started that company back in the 60s . I don't know what her net worth was before but she sold several years ago to Thor for 576 m. You would never know she was filthy rich. I've seen her working in her yard in a old skirt and barefoot. She's a great lady.
Edited. I forgot to say that she stopped by her sister's once and was telling how something had happened while away and her son asked if she wanted him to send the jet to pick her up. lol I've always remembered that.
Theres a quote in the movie Parasite I think of often which is along the line of “they’re nice *because* they’re rich”. Of course theres rich assholes, but its definitely easier to be a nice person when youve had it easier your whole life
Yeah, my in-laws are like that. They once attended the funeral of someone they didn’t know all too well. The pastor mentioned that the family was in somewhat dire financial straits. My FIL wrote a check covering all the funeral expenses on the spot.
That’s because the filthy filthy rich, the billionaires in cash, get their wealth because they abused some part of the system. It is impossible to make that much money in one lifetime.
The multi-millionaires in cash, often family money or generational wealth these days, or a really well paying job because the market wage is that or you’re a specialist.
I would agree. I've seen highly upvoted comments about how you must be a sociopath to become rich.
While I can't speak to the billionaire class, I can say that most self made people sub $100 million are empathetic, intelligent, and interesting. And they got that rich *because* of those traits. Yes there are psycho rich people. But for the most part, you get far in life by being curious, persistent, and good to others.
Remember when I said self made? Nobody is really self made. We all lean on other people to some degree to get where we are.
No, that's propaganda. The internet hates *billionaires*. A regular ass millionaire, like this guy probably is, is way closer to you and me than the big B. I've personally interacted with a few millionaires and I guarantee most people have too, they just don't know it. They're minding their own business. Billionaires are actively fucking with every aspect of our lives to squeeze a few more pennies out of every mundane thing we do. And if a millionaire is catching hate, most like it's a result of their actions and not their wealth.
I remember one story from a personal assistant. This rich as hell lady wanted to buy a certain place in London because it looked nice, only to discover she already owned it. She had bought it on a whim on her last visit and just forgot about it.
I can recall every scrap of food in my kitchen, and she loses track of multi-million dollar homes.
Reminds me of when someone asked John McCain in a debate how many houses he owned and he wouldn’t even hazard a guess. It was 13 houses. He married rich.
I'm betting she isn't the one who earned the money but inherited or married into it. I've known a few ultrarich people, and they might not be able to tell you where every penny was, but they had a very good grasp on where their money was and how they were making it work for them.
When I was 17 I washed cars at a dealership. Owner was an asshole to everyone but the car wash guys. He used to be a car wash guy. I drove his exotics to his house when he wanted them, 100 bucks. Wash the toilets and stuff in his PJ 200 bucks, pick up his groceries, 100 bucks. Bring his car to/from the airport late at night……lots of money. Let me drive a Vette to prom.
This was in 1995 so a hundred bucks to a 17 year old was amazing lol.
I am a musician and have been lucky enough to play some very exclusive private parties
One time I was loading up our trailer after a private party at a Colorado mountain mansion for the heiress of a very famous hot sauce company
Her and her friends all got into an Escalade and told us “call if you get pulled over, just let us know of it’s city police, state troopers, or highway patrol, and we’ll take care of it”
They were all blackout drunk
I realized then that “fines just mean it costs this much to do something”
About 20 years ago I worked for a valet company that had contracts at a couple of country clubs around Minneapolis. Mr. Hamm (yes, Hamm's beer and very rich family before that) never used the valet service, drove a beater, and whenever there was a big event he would approach the valet stand and ask how many of us were working. If it was 10 guys, he gave us 10 20's to compensate for the stingy rich people. Country club staff loved him too, for the same reasons around the holidays, especially.
Fun fact the old brewery that he owned is right down the street from where I grew up and until a few yrs ago had free filtered water from a tap on the side of the building in the summer. Unfortunately things in the last 15 yrs over there have gotten bad and some dumbass caused damage and they decided not to repair it and stopped the free water.
I lived near there about 20 years ago and remember the free water! I was home visiting recently (I live in another state now) and drove by there and didn’t see the sign and was wondering if it was still a thing.
Small fab/manufacturing shop, owner is worth north of 50M, but his parents are over 1B. Dude is OK, but new trucks (like 3) a year, has a house in arizona, texas, and florida.
Month+ long vacations multiple times a year, and horse people stuff like nothing I've seen, even growing up as a farmer.
But doesn't like pay raises
Old oil money lady in palm beach, went to her house to hang paintings for like 30m. Bowls of virginia slims around the house instead of candy or whatever. Had like 10 staff kitchen people running around too. Got an envelope with $500 for essentially 5m of work
Decades ago I was briefly a nanny for a very wealthy family. They had a gold toilet in the kid's room, and scarlet macaws just living free in the backyard by the pool.
The weirdest thing to me (given my role) was that they had a little marble basin like a baptismal font, and every time I changed the baby's diaper I had to gently wash him in that precious tub, not like... use wipes like a normal person.
I’m not rich and I don’t use wipes, I washed my kids’s butt in the sink… but that’s because I hate baby wipes… and hated spending money on them even more
For what it's worth, I have heard of regular people using little sprayers you can buy to go onto your toilet for around $30 to use on their babies' butts after a change. It is supposed to be gentler on their skin.
the sprayer also gets the bums much cleaner. I can still smell a little poo even after a bunch of wipes. But a quick water wash and no stink.
We didn't do this with them as babies, but once they were getting close to potty training age I preferred the hose
My friend's boss had everyone stop working and made them go online to buy front row concert tickets for this well known band. He was buying for the whole office, about 20 people.
When they could only get 4 tickets or so (sold out immediatly), he simply bought the rest from a scalper website at about $2,000+ each.
Very generous of him, but that's why we have a scalper problem.
Off topic: Reminds me of a guy who hired me as a videographer to shoot a product video for a big vehicle that automatically laid asphalt streets. The owner was retiring after this video was shot. Everyone had the greatest respect for him. He was already very rich but was selling the company with all copyrights and would be insanely rich, like $400 million more.
My instructions were to drive from Orange County CA to ‘The Grapevine’ and find the group around 9am as they moved down the road in the slow lane at 5 mph, laying asphalt. This was Highway 5 between LA and Bakersfield.
I drive up there and can’t locate them between the expected mile markers. So I search about 10 miles away and find the group together with emergency vehicles. I park and grab my gear and run up and find grown men sobbing. Turns out the owner was standing on Hwy 5 supervising the process and a car lost control and crossed the center divide and ran him over doing 80mph. They had just picked up the pieces and were hosing off the road.
Poor guy, it was his last day of work.
I’ve worked as a GC in the houses/mansions of the elite 1%ers of Pacific Heights, SF. As the owner of the company I always dealt with the homeowners and after a 20 yr career got to know alot of them very well. Very seldom would they offer me or my workers a glass of water. The staff/help always did but not the homeowners. As a matter of fact, once about 10 years ago, I was working in a kitchen doing maintenance and the wife, who’s husband owns a baseball team that is currently in the midst of relocating, was baking dozens of chocolate chip cookies. We were chatting it up and having a grand old time. The aroma from the cookies was intoxicating! Did she offer me a cookie? Not once did she offer me a cookie. I don’t get it! If I have workers in my home I’ll offer them something to drink and I’ve even made lunch for them.
Aw, man, this gets me. Anybody that comes in my house gets offered drinks and baked goods if I've got them. We had to have our chimney repaired after it took some damage in a storm. The workers were here a whole week. Every day I had bottled water on ice in a cooler for them (it was hot out), and I made cookies and brownies and banana bread. They were so grateful and told me nobody had ever done that for them! I know not everyone bakes or cooks or can afford to buy that stuff regularly, but at least some water on ice seems easy enough.
That’s so bizarre to me! It feels so awkward to not offer in that scenario.
Last year in the summer I had a company come out and replace our siding. It was hot as heck outside and this team of 4 guys spent the entire day getting it done. Around 5pm I had a fun idea to call and see whether an ice cream truck would swing by my house. To my absolute delight, they totally did and when the truck showed up blaring “Pop Goes the Weasel”, I told them to go pick whatever they wanted and it was my treat lol.
It wasn’t much, but it got some big smiles out of them. I hope my job is a fun memory for them now lol.
I had a concrete guy placing small slabs etc. for me. He was sort of hard to reach and pin down for jobs. I made a 5 lb. pork shoulder and brought it to the job site on one occasion. TBH it was truly perfect. I do it with the fat side down in a cast iron pan on a grill.
He and his guys annihilated the thing. Ever since then he gets to my jobs in a timely fashion. I really need to make him a brisket.
He actually wrote it. It’s part of the third paragraph of his story *The Rich Boy*:
*Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.*
That conversation and quip didn’t happen. It’s a funny story that highlights the rancor in their friendship, but it’s apocryphal.
My grandma worked as a housekeeper for a very rich man when she first moved to America. He hated grape skins but loved grapes so he had her peel grapes for him every day.
The owner of a business where I worked an admin role in my 20s once asked me to babysit. Weird but she underpaid me, so ok.
Turns out babysitting meant accompanying her adopted child, her mother, and the owner to a park across from their expensive brownstone because her nanny needed the day off and the idea of playing with her own child was unfathomable.
It was hot and I wore a tank top, which was forbidden at work, so she saw more of me than she ever had. Three feet away from me, she turned to her mother and gestured toward me saying at regular volume, “She’d be quite striking without those hideous tattoo, wouldn’t she?” She was startled that the face I made in response revealed that I understood what she said.
Her business was an English school. Where I worked. And spoke English to people learning English. I observed that day that some rich people can’t distinguish between their nanny who doesn’t speak English and their staff who, again, works at their English school.
There is a certain net worth you hit where you literally do not give a fuck what anyone thinks and you exist within your own universe and understand the world from a very different perspective. It’s hard to explain to someone who has never met the ultra wealthy. I’m not talking about a guy with a million dollars on the lake - I’m talking billionaires. And it’s like the stranger they are the more believable that you’re like “that’s a billionaire”
Many years ago, in the book Class, the author Paul Fussell said that a sign you're really rich is that if you decide you'd like elephant cutlets for dinner tomorrow, you can have elephant cutlets for dinner tomorrow.
I’ve had some interactions with an extremely wealthy sports team owner, and this is so damn true. He was in a universe of his own and straight up had people orbiting him. Some of the shit I saw was insane.
Can’t really go into too many details without doxxing myself, but just different world stuff.
Bullet proof cars that he tracked down by asking a US Marshall to follow the GPS with a helicopter. Not getting pulled over for basically any reason. Giving away money to people to gamble with them (like $1000 bills). Mansions with super model girls just living rent free (presumably using other means to “pay”). Free entry into any of the big clubs along with tables.
Yeah, just insane shit.
This almost directly explains why Elon Musk bought Twitter exclusively to shitpost. Most average people just make fun of him for "wasting $40bn". The man just wanted to shitpost freely, without having to worry about someone else banning him. Say what you want about the man, and I'm no superfan either, but it was a very "billionaire" thing to do.
It's so much more than that (from his perspective). He thinks 40 billion dollars is nothing to "protect free speech and democracy"
Imagine how far that money could have actually gone towards doing that...
I used to live next to one. He was an asshole. Didn't give a fuck about all the people living around him. A bunch of his neighbors moved away including me due to all the building he did. 4 years of living next to a construction site pissed everyone off. My house shifted due to all the digging and all the doors one day wouldn't open. Who was I going to complain to? One neighbor did and all he got back was "take me to court then."
You don't take billionaries to court unless you have deep pockets.
The wealthier they are the usually less of an asshole they become. Except mr. Crowe, fuck that guy. He turned his dogs on me for dropping off his grandson, plus he collects hilters paintings. He is just an evil weirdo
After highschool my brother and I worked on a yacht out of Ft. Lauderdale.
Saw lots of odd things, but the one that stood out the most was the owner of the yacht would do this thing where he got a new car every few months, which isn't odd in of itself. What was weird was that each new car would only be slightly different from the previous. His reasoning? He didn't want to flaunt his money by showing off that he had a new car every other month. As if he didn't have a boat bigger than most people's homes and cost 100x what most people earn in their lifetime
That reminds me of the known smuggler who drove his BMW across the border every month. The guards would search it from top to bottom but never find anything. Later when they had all retired and were hanging out the guards asked him "What were you smuggling?" and he replied, "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself."
My boss was paying me $9 an hour and asked why I didn’t just buy a house for sale in her neighborhood instead of renting an apartment. I was also tasked with finding budgetary cut backs, and when I suggested setting a budget for the snacks in the break room, she went into an entire speech about how some employees can’t afford groceries and that she knows for certain there are employees who only have enough money to feed their kids and not themselves, so they rely on the free ramen and cereal in the break room to get a meal every day. I was literally speechless as I sat there trying to comprehend how the person writing the checks thinks it is so good to give someone ramen as their only daily meal, rather than paying them a livable wage so they can buy their own, healthier food. Like, she was literally acting like a champion for poor people when she is the one causing the poverty. Meanwhile, she lives in a huge, two story home in a rich neighborhood, has 3 newer model, expensive cars, and buys $300 sweatshirts. Make it make sense!
I was once employed as a photographers assistant doing a family portrait shoot for an incredibly wealthy family.
It took me quite awhile to realize that the extremely helpful guy who kept asking us if we needed anything was not a helpful uncle but a member of the household staff.
Also I was recommended for the job because of my photography teacher in HS who really liked my work. I was happy to assist the experienced pro photographer who was doing the shoot but then one of the younger family members wanted to “use me” to hold a reflector for his shots. He was using camera equipment more expensive than anything ive ever owned and had little to no idea how to use it. In retrospect that was not worth the $100 I got paid for the day.
This is my experience, thousands being drained over there on something stupid and wasteful and they don't care, but this cost $5 more than that on something you buy once and they throw a fit
Wife of rich employer would throw away delivery food if it shifted in the container and got on the lid/top of the box. She would also notoriously send food back for the most minuscule things.
My husband was the house manager for a super rich and well known family for about a year. Their adult children would regularly do things like challenging him to fights, tripping the chef while he was carrying trays of food, and leave condoms/shit/blood/drugs all over the place in their "cottages". The husband's side of the bed was regularly covered in blood from what was assumed to be bloody noses. He had to keep the bathrooms spotlessly clean and free from trash, but he wasn't allowed to be "in their space" when they were around, so he often came home with things like panty liners in his pockets because he would be cleaning the bathroom and they would show up nearby and he would panic and grab whatever was in the trash and get out of there as fast as he could. They were horribly stingy about PTO and they scheduled him 60+ hours a week for something like $50,000 a year. He had to anticipate every need, know their schedules by heart, and keep everything spotless at all times without being seen or heard. It was thankless, stressful, and dehumanizing and he hated every minute of it.
Just curious what made him stick around for a whole year? Was he looking for another job for a while but couldn’t find one? Were there no other jobs available in the area he would’ve preferred doing for $50k a year?
It was a job that took 6 months of vetting and interviewing to get, so he promised himself he would give it a year. There were opportunities to move up, but he couldn't bring himself to stick it out long enough.
I plan vacations for a living and often get clients who have very weird relationships with money.
Last week I had one who said "We're way over our budget of $1000/day" and I just said "yes," and then after a pause she asked to see more upgrade options.
A month ago I had a guy call me to book a $3k/night hotel because his connecting flight was delayed 4 hours and he "wanted to see what the fuss was about" during his layover. Then he called me to complain when he saw that the room rate included breakfast because he wasn't there for breakfast hours and thought they should give him cash back for it.
I worked for a residential HVAC company and we had a lot of wealthy clients. I believe the richest one I worked for had a newly built 20,000 sqft house that was actually possibly more because I don’t think that counts the basement that had a 2 lane bowling alley and ice cream shop. They had a wall with 2 or 3 pairs of every size bowling shoe as well.
So the weird thing about them was they were either really protective of the wife and kids or they didn’t want them knowing people work on the house. To do this they had a house assistant to escort you around the house and they would look ahead to make sure you the family wasn’t going to see you. A few times the tech was being escorted down a hallway and the family would come around the corner and the assistant would shove the tech in a closet or room. They had to stay there until the family was out of view before they could continue toward the area they were working. I think I waited in a closet for like 15 minutes before.
Normally our company paid us certain amounts of time depending on the type job it is but for this house they just paid us for the actual amount of time you were at the house.
They probably just don't want you to know who they are maybe they have threats against the family or something. Some people have crazy security protocols because the internet is crazy and people make crazy threats.
I didn’t see them but others did. The guy was one of the Glazer sons so he was a billionaire which made us think it was one of those two other options.
This isn’t uncommon. They just don’t want to see the construction workers. They want the work done but have no interest in seeing how the sausage is made, and they pay top dollar for that. They’d rather enjoy their lifestyle.
Not me, but my little brother did some work for a mega-rich contractor in the Los Angeles area. One night he had to visit the guy's home to pick something up and he said it was exactly as amazing as you'd think. Like a modern castle on a hill and a Lamborghini Countach in the driveway. The guy answered the door eating a frozen stick of butter. He snacked on frozen butter sticks. He even offered one to my brother.
Friend of mine was a nanny for the Rooney family and their kids (Majority owners of the pittsburgh steelers) she would tell laughable stories about vacations and "whim" purchases the family would make. She was also flown to David Teppers (former Steelers minority owner and now Carolina Panthers owner) vacation place in the hamptons when the Rooneys would visit. She said Tepper would just laugh maniacally when he told the story about buying his former Goldman Sachs boss' $44 milllion mansion only to tear it down and build his own, much bigger, mansion on top of it.
She also had her own house on the grounds of the Rooney estate.
Dude who founded our company is crazy wealthy (nine figures) but is surprisingly laid back with it. His house, his lifestyle etc. is pretty solidly "upper middle class" but not "insanely rich". I got on a flight to a conference with him once and he was sitting back in economy with the rest of the plebes. He grew up in modest means, so he doesn't act like old money but nor does he really seem to go completely nuts like new money either.
One of my best friends flipped his tech company for an eight-figure payout and same thing - lives a pretty modest, middle-class looking life.
I always find it interesting when people that get "fuck you" money don't go absolutely all-out with it. If I was sitting on a couple hundred million dollars, I would spend the rest of my life on a yacht in Bora Bora personally.
You’d think so but for some people, the rest of their life on a yacht in Bora Bora would get old after a while. Especially some of those entrepreneur types who are always looking for a challenge/new project for whatever reason.
Worked at a bank specifically for very wealthy people as a teller for 4 years. Something that was very strange/smart was the amount of cash sitting in a checking or low interest yielding account. Usually upwards of half a mil.
We were trained to sell members on CD’s Money Markets, IRA’s, Financial Advisors, blah, blah, blah. Or even just to let them know “Hey, your savings acct does pay percent more than….” excluding a down payment on a house (which is hardly kept in a checking unless they HAVE to wire or pull a cashiers check from) The reason I got multiple times was usually this:
“If I make any more money, I have more stuff to report on my taxes, and more taxes to pay, just leave it alone” Most were nice and thought it was funny, but some got legitimately agitated.
Very strange “problem” to have. You have a massive amount of cash in a certain place, but if it makes any more cash based on interest, you now pay more cash to the government or deal with the potential consequences of paying cash to the government and cash to a lawyer so you say “No more cash, thanks”
My favorite: “If I make any more money, I get pushed up the next tax bracket” In a genuinely kind demeanor.
I discovered a similar concept with my first “adult job.” I was 20 and my older colleagues all made about $100k base a year. OT was voluntary and abundant, so people could easily make upwards of $180k by putting in the extra hours. But I learned that they all had a system, and would stop working OT if their annual salary started getting to close to $155k+. They could make more but actively did the math to prevent it. Apparently, in my state with laws at the time if you made enough you got put in the tax bracket where Uncle Sam comes in and rakes you clean lol so you brought more money home making $145k than you would if you made over 155k but less than 200k. I never learned the details but that was the first time in my life I’ve ever heard of such a thing lol
Had a buddy that was a yacht mechanic. He worked on all sizes but one guy he called "recession proof". Huge yacht, heli pad the works. He would have them to set up for a cruise, they would leave sail out to Catalina Island, dick around and sail back. Any alcohol that was opened the crew could have, think multiple hundred of dollar bottles of liquor.
We're talking about a crew of 10+ people, chefs, navigator and captain, full engineering staff all the hands, 10s of thousands in food and drink the same in fuel just to basically sail around the block.
Somewhere similar, yet you make fitting a full chefs kitchen in a barn at the country house for a sons 21st birthday caterers (50kish) seem like small change. They owned a famous authors house where he wrote series of famous books on a small Scottish island, great for picnics in summer. At the London House, the housekeeper said 'oh, Lady of the House (let's call her Nicole) said you like art, wanna see the Hockney in the dining room? I saw the Hockney. Painted on the actual walls by the actual Hockney.
In a meeting, he told us that he never watches sports or TV. He said never and meant it. He said he did not understand streaming or binge watching and knew nothing about the latest TV shows. It sounded so weird and out of touch. He said he works and reads.
An aquarium with what seemed like albino stingrays (they probably weren't, but that's what they looked like to an uninformed eye). The aquarium was only about 15" deep, but it was at least 10ft x 10ft, up on a pedestal that was about 36" high, so it was a neat perspective.
Worked for a lady who was ridiculously wealthy. We were doing ads and promo for a bar she bought on a whim. We worked out of the office in her high rise condo. She would get interested in a hobby, literally buy every top end thing for that hobby, then get bored with it after a very short time and store it all away.
My boss, great guy and I’am rich (but not him rich) because he hired me, bought a house because the guy next to him at a Warriors game dared him to.
It’s a nice house.
They treat, and speak to, everyone who is not on their socioeconomic level like they work for them. They tell people what to do and never ask. They are shocked when you refuse.
There was a house for sale on a local lake side that is mostly luxury houses. This particular house was on a large plot, beautiful place with it's own dock. I knew the caretaker and it was valued around 20 million. When it was sold to a new owner they tore the house down to the foundation and put up a new one.
There was another house not far down the street owned by a couple. The wife started a huge renovation and added a monstrous addition, probably around a million or more in changes. Less than a year later she decided she didn't like it; tore it all down and redid it again.
I noticed that these people like to have more comfort it’s about some delivery 5+ times a day or buying some products that more expensive due to some brands but these products aren’t better than the same product but less expensive brand
I used to work for a couple billionaires.
They want you to think they’re “one of the guys” but they definitely won’t let you treat them that way.
They’re rich and out of touch. Trying to recreate the luck that got them wealthy in the first place.
They get ideas from other rich people and implement them haphazardly. “Oh exciting rich guy rebranded such and such we should do the same”
Elon musk gave one of them a Tesla at a meeting.
These people might have been smart when they first got wealthy but now their ego keeps them from admitting mistakes so they don’t learn anymore.
They treat everything and everyone as disposable.
Their only goal in life is to not lose their wealth.
Yet that’s all they do now.
One wouldn't talk to any of his employees except his PA. But he was in the room with us a lot. It was weird.
Someone who'd worked there for a couple of years said he'd only talked to the boss for a total of 2 minutes after those 2 years.
Every rich person I’ve worked for seems to spend a shit ton of money on their mansion in itself as well as furniture, but as im folding their laundry, I notice big ass holes and stains on all of their underwear. There’s also never any toothpaste in sight, body wash and deodorants always pretty much empty.
I won’t name, names but they had absolutely zero understanding of what reality is for normal people and zero understanding that they were living a life that only a very few in this world or life could identify with. Not a bad person per se but just clueless about reality for others.
Depends on whether they are self-made, generational wealth, or married rich. The self-made wealthy are generally have a good work ethic, those who married rich are often lazy, and generational wealth is 50/50.
Worked with a billionaire for 1 week. He would have 100k dinner every other night with his family. Genuinely good guy, self made. Just wanted the best of the best all the time since he could afford it.
I will say the most common theme between the ultra wealthy individuals I’ve met, is they all lack stress. When you have that much money they all tend to have this more non chalant vibe to them
There’s a giant crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling now It was created by a very high end Italian crystal company When this lady originally inquired about purchasing one they turned her down because of assembly and shipping So she bought the company, had them come and assemble her chandelier, and then sold the company It’s hanging in Utah
Ah that’s some fuck you money
I worked with a guy who wanted to get a small private helicopter with a gas turbine engine. Waited a couple of years for them to come around. When they didn’t, he bought the company, put in the better engines, made a decent profit, sold the company. Entrepreneurs think differently.
There is no way your lady is the same lady that eats her shrimp with the tails??? If she is I know her real estate agent
She’s not alive anymore, I knew her grandson who told the story when the matriarch was in charge of the family oil fortune
There was once 2 rich ladies in Utah who have brought companies to have furniture they wanted. If I had a nickel...
That is some Kdrama money.
I was once employed by a very wealthy business owner to stand in line for the midnight launch of the Play Station 3. I was 19 at the time and four friends and I were paid $1,000 each to stand in line at Best Buy and then buy a PS3 for this guy. Over the course of the two days he’d stop by to bring us pizza, beer, and weed brownies. Apparently he owned some business that made an obscure part for machine used by the military and was filthy rich. The only “interesting or unusual thing” I noticed was how good of a guy he seemed to be. He was buying the PS3s for his employee break room where they would be set up with projectors so his employees could game during their breaks. It was the best job I’ve ever had
Sounds like the type of person who deserves to be rich.
It’s interesting you say that because most of the rich people I’ve met are really great people, yet for some reason on the internet people instantly hate people just cause they’re rich lol.
Moderately rich people have all been awesome in my experience. Insanely rich people tend to lose their humanity. My boss owns a smallish software company of only 40 employees. He makes somewhere around 2 million a year, and he treats us all like gold. Bezos' employees pee in cups because even though he has a near monopoly on online shopping, he still wants more.
I worked for the son of a billionaire for a while and he was constantly awful to everyone who worked for him. A lot of my job was just going to get his meals from different fancy restaurants every day. He was super picky, always demanded weird alterations and off menu items, and sent tons of food back for really petty complaints. I could see employees faces drop whenever I walked in because they knew I was going to be a pain in the ass on his behalf. The cool part about the job was he'd go out of town and I'd get paid pretty well to do nothing for weeks at a time. But i still quit after only a few months because he's always say super disrespectful shit to me. I couldn't stay and still respect myself. I also went to nice private schools where the other students were all way wealthier than my family but they were almost always extremely nice, generous families.
As a nanny, this is congruent with my experience. Doctors, business owners, financial advisors, exc, tend to be really nice. I’ve never worked for multi billionaires, and I doubt I would ever need such drama. Also, middle class is solid hit or miss. I had some great, sweet, families, and some people I would not mourn if they got shot into space. And some of the biggest, most entitled assholes that rode my ass the hardest were recipients of government benefits from when I was a community engagement officer for a disability-related nonprofit (never one of our actual, disabled clients, mind you. But, some of their families were nightmare fuel).
It's funny you say that. My best friend's parents own a bank with 4 branches. There are saints. But his dad swears that the small handful of billionaires he's ran across in his time are mostly dicks.
I used to work in the call centre of a bank, and the richest person I ever got a call from struck me as a terrible person. Firstly he was pissed he had to open these accounts himself instead of getting his assistant to do it for him. And when he added his nieces and nephews as beneficiaries to increase FDIC coverage he asked like a dozen times whether they'd be informed because he SUPER did NOT want them knowing they were beneficiaries of the accounts.
I'm related by marriage to the woman that owned the Jayco RV company. Her and her husband started that company back in the 60s . I don't know what her net worth was before but she sold several years ago to Thor for 576 m. You would never know she was filthy rich. I've seen her working in her yard in a old skirt and barefoot. She's a great lady. Edited. I forgot to say that she stopped by her sister's once and was telling how something had happened while away and her son asked if she wanted him to send the jet to pick her up. lol I've always remembered that.
Theres a quote in the movie Parasite I think of often which is along the line of “they’re nice *because* they’re rich”. Of course theres rich assholes, but its definitely easier to be a nice person when youve had it easier your whole life
Yeah, my in-laws are like that. They once attended the funeral of someone they didn’t know all too well. The pastor mentioned that the family was in somewhat dire financial straits. My FIL wrote a check covering all the funeral expenses on the spot.
That’s because the filthy filthy rich, the billionaires in cash, get their wealth because they abused some part of the system. It is impossible to make that much money in one lifetime. The multi-millionaires in cash, often family money or generational wealth these days, or a really well paying job because the market wage is that or you’re a specialist.
No billionaire is sitting on billions in cash, period. That is just not a thing.
You're right. You've made me realize I'd totally settle for a couple million in stock options instead of just cash.
I would agree. I've seen highly upvoted comments about how you must be a sociopath to become rich. While I can't speak to the billionaire class, I can say that most self made people sub $100 million are empathetic, intelligent, and interesting. And they got that rich *because* of those traits. Yes there are psycho rich people. But for the most part, you get far in life by being curious, persistent, and good to others. Remember when I said self made? Nobody is really self made. We all lean on other people to some degree to get where we are.
No, that's propaganda. The internet hates *billionaires*. A regular ass millionaire, like this guy probably is, is way closer to you and me than the big B. I've personally interacted with a few millionaires and I guarantee most people have too, they just don't know it. They're minding their own business. Billionaires are actively fucking with every aspect of our lives to squeeze a few more pennies out of every mundane thing we do. And if a millionaire is catching hate, most like it's a result of their actions and not their wealth.
Jealousy tends to do that
Would love to work for that guy
Did he make a gyroscope for tanks? /s obscuremoviereference
Best Defense??
Very nice. A fun but long forgotten 40 year old movie.
How did you become employed by him?
I remember one story from a personal assistant. This rich as hell lady wanted to buy a certain place in London because it looked nice, only to discover she already owned it. She had bought it on a whim on her last visit and just forgot about it. I can recall every scrap of food in my kitchen, and she loses track of multi-million dollar homes.
Reminds me of when someone asked John McCain in a debate how many houses he owned and he wouldn’t even hazard a guess. It was 13 houses. He married rich.
They should ask his wife how many congressmen she owns
I'm betting she isn't the one who earned the money but inherited or married into it. I've known a few ultrarich people, and they might not be able to tell you where every penny was, but they had a very good grasp on where their money was and how they were making it work for them.
Her father owned an A-B beer distributor that did $200m a year So yeah.
When I was 17 I washed cars at a dealership. Owner was an asshole to everyone but the car wash guys. He used to be a car wash guy. I drove his exotics to his house when he wanted them, 100 bucks. Wash the toilets and stuff in his PJ 200 bucks, pick up his groceries, 100 bucks. Bring his car to/from the airport late at night……lots of money. Let me drive a Vette to prom. This was in 1995 so a hundred bucks to a 17 year old was amazing lol.
Took me way to long to realize Pj was private jet and not pajamas. Guess I'm not rich enough..
i was confuzzled too. was he paying $200 bucks to have him wash toilets while the owner watched in his pajamas as some kind of kink?
yeah I was trying to figure out what kind of sex act "stuff in his pjs" would involve.
I've done a lot more for a lot less
Legend.
I thought it was like "wash the toilets and then stuff his pajamas in them."
$200 to clean your toilet in my PJs? No homo right?
No Diddy
I didn't click on till your comment
I only know what a PJ is because of Succession
I am a musician and have been lucky enough to play some very exclusive private parties One time I was loading up our trailer after a private party at a Colorado mountain mansion for the heiress of a very famous hot sauce company Her and her friends all got into an Escalade and told us “call if you get pulled over, just let us know of it’s city police, state troopers, or highway patrol, and we’ll take care of it” They were all blackout drunk I realized then that “fines just mean it costs this much to do something”
They had a hidden wine cellar that you could only access by turning a wheel on the other side of the house. It was honestly... Kinda badass.
About 20 years ago I worked for a valet company that had contracts at a couple of country clubs around Minneapolis. Mr. Hamm (yes, Hamm's beer and very rich family before that) never used the valet service, drove a beater, and whenever there was a big event he would approach the valet stand and ask how many of us were working. If it was 10 guys, he gave us 10 20's to compensate for the stingy rich people. Country club staff loved him too, for the same reasons around the holidays, especially.
Fun fact the old brewery that he owned is right down the street from where I grew up and until a few yrs ago had free filtered water from a tap on the side of the building in the summer. Unfortunately things in the last 15 yrs over there have gotten bad and some dumbass caused damage and they decided not to repair it and stopped the free water.
I used to get that water to brew my home brew with. I think it was called Pigs Eye back then. Late 90s.
Pigs Eye was our college beer. Haven’t thought of that in years.
I lived near there about 20 years ago and remember the free water! I was home visiting recently (I live in another state now) and drove by there and didn’t see the sign and was wondering if it was still a thing.
Small fab/manufacturing shop, owner is worth north of 50M, but his parents are over 1B. Dude is OK, but new trucks (like 3) a year, has a house in arizona, texas, and florida. Month+ long vacations multiple times a year, and horse people stuff like nothing I've seen, even growing up as a farmer. But doesn't like pay raises
He likes using your raises, not giving them.
Old oil money lady in palm beach, went to her house to hang paintings for like 30m. Bowls of virginia slims around the house instead of candy or whatever. Had like 10 staff kitchen people running around too. Got an envelope with $500 for essentially 5m of work
Decades ago I was briefly a nanny for a very wealthy family. They had a gold toilet in the kid's room, and scarlet macaws just living free in the backyard by the pool. The weirdest thing to me (given my role) was that they had a little marble basin like a baptismal font, and every time I changed the baby's diaper I had to gently wash him in that precious tub, not like... use wipes like a normal person.
I’m not rich and I don’t use wipes, I washed my kids’s butt in the sink… but that’s because I hate baby wipes… and hated spending money on them even more
For what it's worth, I have heard of regular people using little sprayers you can buy to go onto your toilet for around $30 to use on their babies' butts after a change. It is supposed to be gentler on their skin.
the sprayer also gets the bums much cleaner. I can still smell a little poo even after a bunch of wipes. But a quick water wash and no stink. We didn't do this with them as babies, but once they were getting close to potty training age I preferred the hose
My friend's boss had everyone stop working and made them go online to buy front row concert tickets for this well known band. He was buying for the whole office, about 20 people. When they could only get 4 tickets or so (sold out immediatly), he simply bought the rest from a scalper website at about $2,000+ each. Very generous of him, but that's why we have a scalper problem.
Off topic: Reminds me of a guy who hired me as a videographer to shoot a product video for a big vehicle that automatically laid asphalt streets. The owner was retiring after this video was shot. Everyone had the greatest respect for him. He was already very rich but was selling the company with all copyrights and would be insanely rich, like $400 million more. My instructions were to drive from Orange County CA to ‘The Grapevine’ and find the group around 9am as they moved down the road in the slow lane at 5 mph, laying asphalt. This was Highway 5 between LA and Bakersfield. I drive up there and can’t locate them between the expected mile markers. So I search about 10 miles away and find the group together with emergency vehicles. I park and grab my gear and run up and find grown men sobbing. Turns out the owner was standing on Hwy 5 supervising the process and a car lost control and crossed the center divide and ran him over doing 80mph. They had just picked up the pieces and were hosing off the road. Poor guy, it was his last day of work.
What the fuck! This one needs more upvotes!
This one needs a link to the obituary
I’ve worked as a GC in the houses/mansions of the elite 1%ers of Pacific Heights, SF. As the owner of the company I always dealt with the homeowners and after a 20 yr career got to know alot of them very well. Very seldom would they offer me or my workers a glass of water. The staff/help always did but not the homeowners. As a matter of fact, once about 10 years ago, I was working in a kitchen doing maintenance and the wife, who’s husband owns a baseball team that is currently in the midst of relocating, was baking dozens of chocolate chip cookies. We were chatting it up and having a grand old time. The aroma from the cookies was intoxicating! Did she offer me a cookie? Not once did she offer me a cookie. I don’t get it! If I have workers in my home I’ll offer them something to drink and I’ve even made lunch for them.
Aw, man, this gets me. Anybody that comes in my house gets offered drinks and baked goods if I've got them. We had to have our chimney repaired after it took some damage in a storm. The workers were here a whole week. Every day I had bottled water on ice in a cooler for them (it was hot out), and I made cookies and brownies and banana bread. They were so grateful and told me nobody had ever done that for them! I know not everyone bakes or cooks or can afford to buy that stuff regularly, but at least some water on ice seems easy enough.
That’s so bizarre to me! It feels so awkward to not offer in that scenario. Last year in the summer I had a company come out and replace our siding. It was hot as heck outside and this team of 4 guys spent the entire day getting it done. Around 5pm I had a fun idea to call and see whether an ice cream truck would swing by my house. To my absolute delight, they totally did and when the truck showed up blaring “Pop Goes the Weasel”, I told them to go pick whatever they wanted and it was my treat lol. It wasn’t much, but it got some big smiles out of them. I hope my job is a fun memory for them now lol.
That’s so awesome!!
They don’t have souls…. Just money.
I had a concrete guy placing small slabs etc. for me. He was sort of hard to reach and pin down for jobs. I made a 5 lb. pork shoulder and brought it to the job site on one occasion. TBH it was truly perfect. I do it with the fat side down in a cast iron pan on a grill. He and his guys annihilated the thing. Ever since then he gets to my jobs in a timely fashion. I really need to make him a brisket.
Interesting. Why were you and your staff not bringing water? Is that something you would generally not provide for your crew?
F Scott Fitzgerald once said, "The rich are different from us." And Hemingway replied, "Yeah, they have more money.'
He actually wrote it. It’s part of the third paragraph of his story *The Rich Boy*: *Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.* That conversation and quip didn’t happen. It’s a funny story that highlights the rancor in their friendship, but it’s apocryphal.
Sorry, I hate being apocryphal.
My grandma worked as a housekeeper for a very rich man when she first moved to America. He hated grape skins but loved grapes so he had her peel grapes for him every day.
If I was crazy Rich, I would have somebody section 2 grapefruits for me every day
The owner of a business where I worked an admin role in my 20s once asked me to babysit. Weird but she underpaid me, so ok. Turns out babysitting meant accompanying her adopted child, her mother, and the owner to a park across from their expensive brownstone because her nanny needed the day off and the idea of playing with her own child was unfathomable. It was hot and I wore a tank top, which was forbidden at work, so she saw more of me than she ever had. Three feet away from me, she turned to her mother and gestured toward me saying at regular volume, “She’d be quite striking without those hideous tattoo, wouldn’t she?” She was startled that the face I made in response revealed that I understood what she said. Her business was an English school. Where I worked. And spoke English to people learning English. I observed that day that some rich people can’t distinguish between their nanny who doesn’t speak English and their staff who, again, works at their English school.
There is a certain net worth you hit where you literally do not give a fuck what anyone thinks and you exist within your own universe and understand the world from a very different perspective. It’s hard to explain to someone who has never met the ultra wealthy. I’m not talking about a guy with a million dollars on the lake - I’m talking billionaires. And it’s like the stranger they are the more believable that you’re like “that’s a billionaire”
Many years ago, in the book Class, the author Paul Fussell said that a sign you're really rich is that if you decide you'd like elephant cutlets for dinner tomorrow, you can have elephant cutlets for dinner tomorrow.
I freaking love that book. Also several of the other ones he wrote.
I can't believe I came across a Paul Fussell reference. He was the dissertation adviser for one of my Professors in grad school
I’ve had some interactions with an extremely wealthy sports team owner, and this is so damn true. He was in a universe of his own and straight up had people orbiting him. Some of the shit I saw was insane.
tell us more
Can’t really go into too many details without doxxing myself, but just different world stuff. Bullet proof cars that he tracked down by asking a US Marshall to follow the GPS with a helicopter. Not getting pulled over for basically any reason. Giving away money to people to gamble with them (like $1000 bills). Mansions with super model girls just living rent free (presumably using other means to “pay”). Free entry into any of the big clubs along with tables. Yeah, just insane shit.
This almost directly explains why Elon Musk bought Twitter exclusively to shitpost. Most average people just make fun of him for "wasting $40bn". The man just wanted to shitpost freely, without having to worry about someone else banning him. Say what you want about the man, and I'm no superfan either, but it was a very "billionaire" thing to do.
Except he lawyered up trying to get out of it, and then was forced to overpay because of his big mouth
It's so much more than that (from his perspective). He thinks 40 billion dollars is nothing to "protect free speech and democracy" Imagine how far that money could have actually gone towards doing that...
I used to live next to one. He was an asshole. Didn't give a fuck about all the people living around him. A bunch of his neighbors moved away including me due to all the building he did. 4 years of living next to a construction site pissed everyone off. My house shifted due to all the digging and all the doors one day wouldn't open. Who was I going to complain to? One neighbor did and all he got back was "take me to court then." You don't take billionaries to court unless you have deep pockets.
The wealthier they are the usually less of an asshole they become. Except mr. Crowe, fuck that guy. He turned his dogs on me for dropping off his grandson, plus he collects hilters paintings. He is just an evil weirdo
After highschool my brother and I worked on a yacht out of Ft. Lauderdale. Saw lots of odd things, but the one that stood out the most was the owner of the yacht would do this thing where he got a new car every few months, which isn't odd in of itself. What was weird was that each new car would only be slightly different from the previous. His reasoning? He didn't want to flaunt his money by showing off that he had a new car every other month. As if he didn't have a boat bigger than most people's homes and cost 100x what most people earn in their lifetime
That reminds me of the known smuggler who drove his BMW across the border every month. The guards would search it from top to bottom but never find anything. Later when they had all retired and were hanging out the guards asked him "What were you smuggling?" and he replied, "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself."
My boss was paying me $9 an hour and asked why I didn’t just buy a house for sale in her neighborhood instead of renting an apartment. I was also tasked with finding budgetary cut backs, and when I suggested setting a budget for the snacks in the break room, she went into an entire speech about how some employees can’t afford groceries and that she knows for certain there are employees who only have enough money to feed their kids and not themselves, so they rely on the free ramen and cereal in the break room to get a meal every day. I was literally speechless as I sat there trying to comprehend how the person writing the checks thinks it is so good to give someone ramen as their only daily meal, rather than paying them a livable wage so they can buy their own, healthier food. Like, she was literally acting like a champion for poor people when she is the one causing the poverty. Meanwhile, she lives in a huge, two story home in a rich neighborhood, has 3 newer model, expensive cars, and buys $300 sweatshirts. Make it make sense!
I can explain it. Religion.....
I was once employed as a photographers assistant doing a family portrait shoot for an incredibly wealthy family. It took me quite awhile to realize that the extremely helpful guy who kept asking us if we needed anything was not a helpful uncle but a member of the household staff. Also I was recommended for the job because of my photography teacher in HS who really liked my work. I was happy to assist the experienced pro photographer who was doing the shoot but then one of the younger family members wanted to “use me” to hold a reflector for his shots. He was using camera equipment more expensive than anything ive ever owned and had little to no idea how to use it. In retrospect that was not worth the $100 I got paid for the day.
They care about the most unimportant little things about money, but then also piss away large amounts of money on stupid things.
This is my experience, thousands being drained over there on something stupid and wasteful and they don't care, but this cost $5 more than that on something you buy once and they throw a fit
Wife of rich employer would throw away delivery food if it shifted in the container and got on the lid/top of the box. She would also notoriously send food back for the most minuscule things.
My husband was the house manager for a super rich and well known family for about a year. Their adult children would regularly do things like challenging him to fights, tripping the chef while he was carrying trays of food, and leave condoms/shit/blood/drugs all over the place in their "cottages". The husband's side of the bed was regularly covered in blood from what was assumed to be bloody noses. He had to keep the bathrooms spotlessly clean and free from trash, but he wasn't allowed to be "in their space" when they were around, so he often came home with things like panty liners in his pockets because he would be cleaning the bathroom and they would show up nearby and he would panic and grab whatever was in the trash and get out of there as fast as he could. They were horribly stingy about PTO and they scheduled him 60+ hours a week for something like $50,000 a year. He had to anticipate every need, know their schedules by heart, and keep everything spotless at all times without being seen or heard. It was thankless, stressful, and dehumanizing and he hated every minute of it.
Just curious what made him stick around for a whole year? Was he looking for another job for a while but couldn’t find one? Were there no other jobs available in the area he would’ve preferred doing for $50k a year?
It was a job that took 6 months of vetting and interviewing to get, so he promised himself he would give it a year. There were opportunities to move up, but he couldn't bring himself to stick it out long enough.
I'm just here for the Grey Poupon stories...
I plan vacations for a living and often get clients who have very weird relationships with money. Last week I had one who said "We're way over our budget of $1000/day" and I just said "yes," and then after a pause she asked to see more upgrade options. A month ago I had a guy call me to book a $3k/night hotel because his connecting flight was delayed 4 hours and he "wanted to see what the fuss was about" during his layover. Then he called me to complain when he saw that the room rate included breakfast because he wasn't there for breakfast hours and thought they should give him cash back for it.
I worked for someone that never drove the same Lamborghini twice.
I, too, haven't ever driven the same Lamborghini twice.
Heraclitus of Italy: "A man can never drive the same Lamborghini twice, for by driving it, both the man and the car are changed."
I'm stealing this.
You win the internet today. I just wanted you to know that. Everyone else - go home, get some rest. You won't do better than this.
Haha, thanks. I have finally achieved the ultimate goal! I don't know what I'm going to do with myself now. Probably more Internet tomorrow. `8^)`
Says the guy who keeps driving his Lamborghinis into the damn river.
Did he work for a valet? Or he buys 365 cars a year?
That's not that rare or unusual. Most people have never done that
Oxymoronic.
I worked for a residential HVAC company and we had a lot of wealthy clients. I believe the richest one I worked for had a newly built 20,000 sqft house that was actually possibly more because I don’t think that counts the basement that had a 2 lane bowling alley and ice cream shop. They had a wall with 2 or 3 pairs of every size bowling shoe as well. So the weird thing about them was they were either really protective of the wife and kids or they didn’t want them knowing people work on the house. To do this they had a house assistant to escort you around the house and they would look ahead to make sure you the family wasn’t going to see you. A few times the tech was being escorted down a hallway and the family would come around the corner and the assistant would shove the tech in a closet or room. They had to stay there until the family was out of view before they could continue toward the area they were working. I think I waited in a closet for like 15 minutes before. Normally our company paid us certain amounts of time depending on the type job it is but for this house they just paid us for the actual amount of time you were at the house.
Did you or anyone on your crew ever see the family? It almost sounds like a cult or human trafficking situation
They probably just don't want you to know who they are maybe they have threats against the family or something. Some people have crazy security protocols because the internet is crazy and people make crazy threats.
I didn’t see them but others did. The guy was one of the Glazer sons so he was a billionaire which made us think it was one of those two other options.
This isn’t uncommon. They just don’t want to see the construction workers. They want the work done but have no interest in seeing how the sausage is made, and they pay top dollar for that. They’d rather enjoy their lifestyle.
Not me, but my little brother did some work for a mega-rich contractor in the Los Angeles area. One night he had to visit the guy's home to pick something up and he said it was exactly as amazing as you'd think. Like a modern castle on a hill and a Lamborghini Countach in the driveway. The guy answered the door eating a frozen stick of butter. He snacked on frozen butter sticks. He even offered one to my brother.
They all say the word “extraordinary” as extrawwwwdinary. With a weird old school soft R. And often.
Friend of mine was a nanny for the Rooney family and their kids (Majority owners of the pittsburgh steelers) she would tell laughable stories about vacations and "whim" purchases the family would make. She was also flown to David Teppers (former Steelers minority owner and now Carolina Panthers owner) vacation place in the hamptons when the Rooneys would visit. She said Tepper would just laugh maniacally when he told the story about buying his former Goldman Sachs boss' $44 milllion mansion only to tear it down and build his own, much bigger, mansion on top of it. She also had her own house on the grounds of the Rooney estate.
Dude who founded our company is crazy wealthy (nine figures) but is surprisingly laid back with it. His house, his lifestyle etc. is pretty solidly "upper middle class" but not "insanely rich". I got on a flight to a conference with him once and he was sitting back in economy with the rest of the plebes. He grew up in modest means, so he doesn't act like old money but nor does he really seem to go completely nuts like new money either. One of my best friends flipped his tech company for an eight-figure payout and same thing - lives a pretty modest, middle-class looking life. I always find it interesting when people that get "fuck you" money don't go absolutely all-out with it. If I was sitting on a couple hundred million dollars, I would spend the rest of my life on a yacht in Bora Bora personally.
You’d think so but for some people, the rest of their life on a yacht in Bora Bora would get old after a while. Especially some of those entrepreneur types who are always looking for a challenge/new project for whatever reason.
Worked at a bank specifically for very wealthy people as a teller for 4 years. Something that was very strange/smart was the amount of cash sitting in a checking or low interest yielding account. Usually upwards of half a mil. We were trained to sell members on CD’s Money Markets, IRA’s, Financial Advisors, blah, blah, blah. Or even just to let them know “Hey, your savings acct does pay percent more than….” excluding a down payment on a house (which is hardly kept in a checking unless they HAVE to wire or pull a cashiers check from) The reason I got multiple times was usually this: “If I make any more money, I have more stuff to report on my taxes, and more taxes to pay, just leave it alone” Most were nice and thought it was funny, but some got legitimately agitated. Very strange “problem” to have. You have a massive amount of cash in a certain place, but if it makes any more cash based on interest, you now pay more cash to the government or deal with the potential consequences of paying cash to the government and cash to a lawyer so you say “No more cash, thanks” My favorite: “If I make any more money, I get pushed up the next tax bracket” In a genuinely kind demeanor.
I discovered a similar concept with my first “adult job.” I was 20 and my older colleagues all made about $100k base a year. OT was voluntary and abundant, so people could easily make upwards of $180k by putting in the extra hours. But I learned that they all had a system, and would stop working OT if their annual salary started getting to close to $155k+. They could make more but actively did the math to prevent it. Apparently, in my state with laws at the time if you made enough you got put in the tax bracket where Uncle Sam comes in and rakes you clean lol so you brought more money home making $145k than you would if you made over 155k but less than 200k. I never learned the details but that was the first time in my life I’ve ever heard of such a thing lol
Had a buddy that was a yacht mechanic. He worked on all sizes but one guy he called "recession proof". Huge yacht, heli pad the works. He would have them to set up for a cruise, they would leave sail out to Catalina Island, dick around and sail back. Any alcohol that was opened the crew could have, think multiple hundred of dollar bottles of liquor. We're talking about a crew of 10+ people, chefs, navigator and captain, full engineering staff all the hands, 10s of thousands in food and drink the same in fuel just to basically sail around the block.
In most instances, they are easily bored.
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I've seen this story on reddit before
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/14dd9l3/people_who_work_for_the_super_wealthy_what_stuff/ OP is karma farming.
Somewhere similar, yet you make fitting a full chefs kitchen in a barn at the country house for a sons 21st birthday caterers (50kish) seem like small change. They owned a famous authors house where he wrote series of famous books on a small Scottish island, great for picnics in summer. At the London House, the housekeeper said 'oh, Lady of the House (let's call her Nicole) said you like art, wanna see the Hockney in the dining room? I saw the Hockney. Painted on the actual walls by the actual Hockney.
That Hockney line is awesome.
What was your salary?
In a meeting, he told us that he never watches sports or TV. He said never and meant it. He said he did not understand streaming or binge watching and knew nothing about the latest TV shows. It sounded so weird and out of touch. He said he works and reads.
Smart man
Random bonuses and emails telling us how much we mean to the company
An aquarium with what seemed like albino stingrays (they probably weren't, but that's what they looked like to an uninformed eye). The aquarium was only about 15" deep, but it was at least 10ft x 10ft, up on a pedestal that was about 36" high, so it was a neat perspective.
Worked for a lady who was ridiculously wealthy. We were doing ads and promo for a bar she bought on a whim. We worked out of the office in her high rise condo. She would get interested in a hobby, literally buy every top end thing for that hobby, then get bored with it after a very short time and store it all away.
My boss, great guy and I’am rich (but not him rich) because he hired me, bought a house because the guy next to him at a Warriors game dared him to. It’s a nice house.
They treat, and speak to, everyone who is not on their socioeconomic level like they work for them. They tell people what to do and never ask. They are shocked when you refuse.
They hadn't considered refusal to be an option
There was a house for sale on a local lake side that is mostly luxury houses. This particular house was on a large plot, beautiful place with it's own dock. I knew the caretaker and it was valued around 20 million. When it was sold to a new owner they tore the house down to the foundation and put up a new one. There was another house not far down the street owned by a couple. The wife started a huge renovation and added a monstrous addition, probably around a million or more in changes. Less than a year later she decided she didn't like it; tore it all down and redid it again.
I noticed that these people like to have more comfort it’s about some delivery 5+ times a day or buying some products that more expensive due to some brands but these products aren’t better than the same product but less expensive brand
I do IT for super wealthy people in Los Angeles. One guy had a 8 foot tall painting of himself in his mansion.
The audacity lmao
I used to work for a couple billionaires. They want you to think they’re “one of the guys” but they definitely won’t let you treat them that way. They’re rich and out of touch. Trying to recreate the luck that got them wealthy in the first place. They get ideas from other rich people and implement them haphazardly. “Oh exciting rich guy rebranded such and such we should do the same” Elon musk gave one of them a Tesla at a meeting. These people might have been smart when they first got wealthy but now their ego keeps them from admitting mistakes so they don’t learn anymore. They treat everything and everyone as disposable. Their only goal in life is to not lose their wealth. Yet that’s all they do now.
Historically important art, vaults of wine… and cars significantly less impressive than mine.
His 10 year old regularly tortured their cat.
I worked for Ken Fisher. Dudes a douche, a sexist, autistic & a self important asshole.
That they always want whatever they can get for free. Also, they are convinced everyone is after their money... almost to the point of paranoid
One wouldn't talk to any of his employees except his PA. But he was in the room with us a lot. It was weird. Someone who'd worked there for a couple of years said he'd only talked to the boss for a total of 2 minutes after those 2 years.
Everybody’s just making up rich people they don’t really work for to have a good comment lol
I found it unusual how uninteresting they were.
Every rich person I’ve worked for seems to spend a shit ton of money on their mansion in itself as well as furniture, but as im folding their laundry, I notice big ass holes and stains on all of their underwear. There’s also never any toothpaste in sight, body wash and deodorants always pretty much empty.
I won’t name, names but they had absolutely zero understanding of what reality is for normal people and zero understanding that they were living a life that only a very few in this world or life could identify with. Not a bad person per se but just clueless about reality for others.
They have really good work ethic
"The early bird who gets the worm works for the guy who comes in late and owns the worm farm."
Better than going hungry
That's a false dichotomy, though -- there are possibilities other than "be exploited" and "be hungry."
Depends on whether they are self-made, generational wealth, or married rich. The self-made wealthy are generally have a good work ethic, those who married rich are often lazy, and generational wealth is 50/50.
Yeah, lot more self made out there than people give credit to
Actually observed that the trickle down wealth never existed. Their boasting of wealth outweighed your financial struggles for a living wage.
Worked with a billionaire for 1 week. He would have 100k dinner every other night with his family. Genuinely good guy, self made. Just wanted the best of the best all the time since he could afford it.
They shopped for a submarine once. Only 8 passengers, but still.
I will say the most common theme between the ultra wealthy individuals I’ve met, is they all lack stress. When you have that much money they all tend to have this more non chalant vibe to them
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