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Money tends to make the world go ‘round, or so the saying goes. This often means that most of us think long and hard about the decisions we make, how much it will cost and if it will be worth it in the end. But for the rich, things work a bit differently, so this raises the question, how does one act when money is no longer important?
Someone asked “People who work for the super wealthy, what stuff have you seen?” and netizens shared their stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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#1
My dad was friends with a Spanish rich dude because they shared some love for old cars. My dad had one, rich dude had many. Thing is, these people had a maid that worked for them since before this rich dude was born. His parents were never around so she was the one to actually raise him. She fed him, took him to school when he was a child, everything your parents would do for you, this maid did. She had been working in that comically large house for over 30 years. Other staff such as cooks, cleaners, etc would come and go but she was almost part of the family, we thought.
One day rich dude decides he wants to move to the US and sells the house. What does he do with the maid? He just fired her over the phone. He never even said goodbye to the woman that basically raised him. And so I learned that rich people don't consider the poors to be the same kind of human being as them.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
This guy was basically a douche, regardless of his family's wealth. And he'll probably regret doing this one day, because she was his unofficial mum.
David 1 year ago
This isnt because he is rich, this is because he was an a-hole, who happened to have money. My sister went to school with someone who was rich, and because both parents worked a lot in high earning jobs and were busy, the Housekeeper/Nanny raised her and her siblings, took them to school, made them meals, etc (even when the parents were able to make it to school events, she went along with the parents to be there for her). It was a defacto second mother. When she grew up, got married, and had her first kid, she asked her parents if she could hire away this woman to be her housekeeper and help her raise her child, and they gave permission. This woman now works for her, and while this rich girl is a stay at home, she has this woman as "housekeeper" but essentially a full time live in grandma for her children, who all love her. This woman became part of the family, and is involved with the next generation
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Thank you for saying this. I considered our governess like a second mother who was an extremely important part of our lives. As my brother & I grew older and could look after ourselves, she stayed on as the house manager because we loved her so much. Her passing was devastating
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Papa 1 year ago (edited)
People with no empathy, of every income level, don't consider other people to be the same kind of human being as them. A blanket statement like the last sentence above is no more true than it would be for any other group of people.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
I agree and have met amazing wealthy people. However, wealth affords a detachment from humanity the rest of us aren't able to attain. So I have also witnessed obscenely wealthy people laugh about flying in women to do stuff to them they wouldn't "do to a barnyard animal" and then shipping them off. Ultra rich have the means to do a lot of good, or be ultra pricks, and have no accountability or repercussions since they are insulated by their wealth while treating other humans as less than in a way that poor jerks just aren't able to.
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
My heart hurts for this woman i thought this would be a nice story
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
I know a lady that still hosting their ex-maid on their house. The ex-maid is now too old and has many health issue. The lady now treat her ex-maid just like she treat her grandma
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#2
Did building maintenance for a wealthy family who had a “LEGO room” for their grandkids. This room was huge and had cupboards full of Lego and building tables everywhere. There were huge Star Wars ships and castles etc. all over the place. One day the kids were deemed too old for Lego and I was asked to dispose of it all. I carefully packed them all into bags and gave them to friends children. Many thousands of dollars worth. Man I was popular The only one I kept for myself was a small Fallingwater build of Frank Lloyd Wright’s. Apparently quit collectable by architects.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
Atleast they let the things be donated to others. Unlike so many in this list
Ash 1 year ago
I'm not sure they LET op do anything. sounds like op just went and did it!
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Jayeff Vee 1 year ago
I would love to see the Falling Water model. I grew up near there and have visited several times.
Jaeger (Jaeger) 1 year ago
Phew, at least the sets will go to the kids who are grateful for it, okay I can’t help but ask. What sets?
ohjojo (you/your's) 7 months ago
I thought you were going to end it with you. Were fired for that. Glad you kept your job!
kathyberthahazel 11 months ago
I had a friend who worked for a wealthy family in the Seattle area - she wasn't allowed to tell me whom exactly, but brought me hand-me-downs from their daughter who was about my daughter's age. My daughter had a Versace swimsuit at age 2, it was loads of fun.
#3
I was a nanny for landed gentry (the title of Sir and Lady get handed down to the eldest child, along with the manor house and lands)
Kids were packed off to boarding school at 8. It was heartbreaking. The middle child was dreading it, tears every night, literally sobbing himself to sleep in my arms.
Parents attitude was 'we were like that too, so he has to do it'
Youngest was 2 at the time and would always prefer me to his actual mum. He fell over once and came to me for cuddles and kisses, didn't even glance at his mum who was stood right next to me. She didn't seem bothered.
Thing is the parents were actually pretty nice people, just not bothered about child rasing in any way. At least they didn't insist I use their titles, like some of their friends did with their staff.
tori Ohno 1 year ago
If I had a kid, I'd ship it off to boarding school. That way I wouldn't have to deal with the tantrums, and everything else involved in raising a human child. But you know what? That's why I chose NOT to have children, I simply don't like them. Why did these people have 3 of them if they don't like kids? It's unfair to the child to be born into a family that doesn't want them.
Charlie Haase 9 months ago
You obviously don’t have a title of nobility to pass down to your heir.
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Jon Stuart 1 year ago
My parents packed me of to prep at 8. Only when they died did I learn just how they really were bloody psychopaths.
Heyday 1 year ago
Generational child abuse. So incredibly sad they won't close down these "schools". Must be $ and "tradition".
Curbz81 1 year ago
There will always be a bit of a need for boarding schools. If you live in very rural or isolated areas a boarding school is the only way to get a good education. But 8 is too young, many send them in high school though.
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George Robertson 1 year ago
Boarding school graduates are more likely to succeed in life, they teach you how to succeed
#4
A wealthy French family liked to visit their "weekend home" at least twice a month. It was a frickin castle in the country. Out of curiosity, I asked the daughter if they inherited it. She responded that there was too much drama involved with the inherited castle which caused fighting amongst her uncles and aunts...so they simply "bought their own castle".
oktopus 1 year ago
Pro-tip: you can't be considered rich unless you have a second castle as a backup for the first, in case it needs maintenance or something.
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To be fair, many castles in France are deteriorated and therefor very cheap to buy, though the renovation will be expensive.
Grace Note 1 year ago
I'm in the UK and there's currently a daytime show about British people buying French chateaux and doing them up. They range from very cheap, more run down, slightly less attractive to still cheap for a castle, a lot less run down, still a bit of work to do. They're all pretty lovely and some, that were bought for about half a million euros are fairytale beautiful. I'm sure the rich French family are super rich, probably bought the best of the best and still spent hundreds of thousands if not a million or two doing it up, but the great not so secret secret about French chateaux is that a lot of very ordinary British people could afford to buy one, do enough of it up to live in and start a small b&b. Not something any of us could do with a British stately home.
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#5
When I lived in New York, I worked at a highly regarded hotel, the kind where you would see celebrities every other day.
I had my fair share of what the f**k did I just witness ones that stood out to me was when a guest rented out a honeymoon suit just for their cat.
I know it sounds made up, but rich people are weird, and so is New York.
CD King 1 year ago (edited)
I work on extreme large yachts (180-200 ft) and I can’t tell you how many non house broken dogs rich people have. They own dogs of all shapes and sizes and seem to think,it’s perfectly fine for the dogs to doo doo anywhere it likes. I would assume this is not just on the yacht as the boat is tied up to a dock, so it must happen in their houses too. They have money to hire dog trainers!
Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
They’re like children, they don’t have to clean it up so why bother?
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SleepSycho 1 year ago
I'd do it if I could cuz I love my cat so much but if I had that kind of money I'd probably have lots of cats and then I'd want to be with them, so it'd be like a cat honeymoon for me and cats
#6
Saw a Prince of Saudi Arabia in the early 90s throw money in a way beyond all imagination. Dropped about $100k for a single dinner for him, his wife, and his two children.
Shutting down the fine-dining restaurant in our hotel costs $30k for one night. Flew in his favorite chef from New York to Florida (where the hotel is), made enough food for our entire restaurant staff, his family, and the security staff from state, local, and federal forces he had with him, and tipped us a ridiculous amount, too.
He stayed at our hotel every year for several years and rented the top 4 floors of the hotel for a month. Had one 747 for himself and another for his staff which numbered around 400 people.
David 1 year ago (edited)
There was a case where a Saudi Prince in the 80s came to the US to buy weapons for his country. came with $250,000 in bills at the time to "tip for services and cover any expenses that might come up that were not planned". One of his escorts saw him attempt to tip a US military chopper pilot for taking him on a approved ride in a chopper model the Saudi military was looking at. THe guy said the pilot looked like he was having trouble refusing the 2k in cash being offered, but of course did. Lil Wayne has a story where a saudi prince gifted him a 200k lambo just for accidentally inconveniencing him . There is rich and there is Arab Oil Sheikh rich
HurlWurk 1 year ago
This happened with Kuwait and the Gulf war, they wanted to pay the US soldiers that liberated them, but could not. They settled out by creating solid gold medals to be given to specific staff they wanted to pay/honor.
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Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Imagine if this mind-boggling wealth was used to improve the lives of the "common people" of Saudi Arabia...
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago
Nope, because they cannot be used to promote the prestige of Saudi princes. Their generosity is purely virtue signaling and short penis syndrome.
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Richard Willis 1 year ago
In the 1960s my brother was at Cambridge University. In those days £1,000 p.a. Was a reasonable starting salary. An Arab student had exhausted the patience of every car insurance company willing to insure his latest supercar, but you could deposit £100,000 (I think) with the Ministry of Transport as a bond, so he did, twice.
Ruth Watry 9 months ago
Sounds like king of Jordan in Rochester MN. He went there yearly for his physical at Mayo Clinic
Adnan Mohemmed 1 year ago
Most of those unofficial princes have been grounded and have paid back all their assets to the government lead by king salman and his son mohammed. So, you won't see such dorks from saudi Arabia for next 100 years.
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
Thus s**t will continue as long as west depends on petroleum, which is for ever.
#7
My favorite story to tell: I was working a catering event for the guy who owned Tupperware… old guy, very wealthy, insanely beautiful nice much younger Latin dancer wife. I had fun I like working hospitality for nice people. I was putting their food away and she showed me to her Tupperware pantry…… the whole house was beautiful and neat…. Except the Tupperware closet…. No joke I could not find a lid for most containers.
Elisa 1 year ago
I love this story, no matter who you are, rich or poor, we all have a messy Tupperware closet
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
There was some suspicion around the death of Eva Rausing, who was heir to the Tetra Pak fortune. The Swedish police considered exhuming her body and conducting a more thorough post mortem. The coroner, however pointed out that they would almost certainly not be able to get her carton open without stabbing it repeatedly with kitchen scissors, thus compromising the evidence.
siedzac niej 1 year ago (edited)
I call b******t. There is no owner. There is president and CEO and they are both women.
Gingergirl 7 months ago
There is no “old guy” that owned Tupperware. It’s been run by companies for decades and presently has female CEO. I don’t believe your story
Crystal Ruiz 1 year ago
So even the owner of Tupperware has a hard time with the containers? Lol
#8
Not me but an acquaintance of mine works as a senior engineer on huge mega yachts. The husband is barely there but the trophy wife (No 5) tens years younger than his youngest daughter, lives in it most of the time. All of the staff know to stay clear of the sun deck between 11.00 and 12.00 every morning. She comes up from her cabin, 3 stiff gins in and cries for an hour before lunch to herself. Every, f*****g, morning. The added kicker, the yacht is named after his first wife.
Roman Hans 1 year ago
I know a lot of rich people. This sounds hopeful rather than real. Unhappy on your boat? Go to one of your houses.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Are they married to a man decades older than them, presumably with an air-tight pre-nup? That's the sort of thing that tends to follow you off the yacht...
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Crystal Ruiz 1 year ago
She took that "better to cry in a Ferrari..." Quote a little too serious
Zull&Panda 1 year ago
In italian we say "who has the bread, doesn't have the teeth". What I would give to be young and hot and ruthless. I would convince my old husband to open me an art gallery or a fundation or an animation studio. What a waste of time living alone on a yatch.
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
What seems so unbelievable in this particular story? It's not a very outlandish or exciting fantasy if it is....
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Private jet to deliver their dog and black car service (me) to pick up the dog then pick up an assistant off another private jet so she could dog sit while they voted on James Beard awards.
Giving away all the furniture in a house to their domestic servants because it didn't go with the new theme and was too much trouble to sell. This was very kind but I always think it's funny that there's a landscaper out there with a $50k couch.
Super rich guy asking his other super rich friends if they ever went to a low end bar and did a "human circus". Said he'd pay people to do whatever he wanted. Said they were drunk and needed money and thought everyone was having fun. These guys were all obscenely wealthy and all his friends pretty much told him that was a f****d up thing to do.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
The "human circus" part is just awful, but in what world are there $50K couches?
Bexxxx 1 year ago
There are $3,300,000 couches too 😬 https://www.decorhousefurniture.com/blogs/news/what-are-the-most-expensive-sofas
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Michał Osiecki 1 year ago
and Im supposed to limit co2 on small stuff? lets eat the rich first and then save the planet
Cassie Casey 1 year ago
I know some people who have a warehouse for the furniture they don't currently have in one of their 5 houses. Every once in awhile, they pick out some pieces and have them shipped across country to match a new decorating theme. And the old pieces go back to the warehouse.
Hilary England 6 months ago
These are the people who will squawk about climate change and insist YOU ride the bus.
MisterPaul 1 year ago
Was his name Guy Grand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Christian_(novel)
#10
Had a Client who purchased a newly built penthouse apartment and wanted a jacuzzi on the balcony. It would’ve meant a structural column was needed in the middle of the balcony below which the contractor who built the apartment block wouldn’t go for as it would impact selling that apartment. Client buys the apartment below, approves the column, jacuzzi is installed, then privately sells the apartment below. Voila problem solved.
#11
Did work for this guy, more so working with him.
we were sitting down at the table about to sign a contract and his assistant forgot "the" pen. apparently, this pen has sign all the deals that were successful in his early career and made him who is is, so he doesnt sign any deal without it. so he legit tells her to get on the jet, and bring it him immediately.
he "apologies" for the inconvenience by adding 20% to the deal.... money isnt an actual thing to wealthy people... its all a made up concept of unlimited 1s and 0s.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
And people think taylor swift traveling on her jet is the only problem?!
John Bold 3 months ago
No, we think rich people that fly around the world and have multiple houses in multiple countries that tell us that WE are destroying the planet are the problem. Al Gore, Bill Gates...
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#12
Lots of pill popping to handle stress- especially before speaking engagements. People always viewed them as friendly, engaging, and fun. Little did they know that was a public persona thanks to copious amounts of Ativan. In real life they were picky, obstinate, difficult, and a nightmare for all of us employees to deal with. We had to remember all of these particular preferences and abide by them always.
#13
Much, much smaller scale, but a colleague made an offhand comment about her kids needing red T Shirts for an art project at school. She said she was going to Run into Lord & Taylor or Bergdoff's to get a "cheapy" shirt. Me, in my head, normal people go to Wal-Mart for "cheapy" shirts.
Vira 1 year ago
It's funny how money doesn't change some issues. Middle class parent might use Walmart, but a poor parent might use a thrift store, or borrow from a neighbor. The middle class parent might not consider using a thrift store, because Walmart is cheap enough to be good, but not so cheap as to get their kids bullied.
#14
My friend was a security guard for an elderly widow of a Dallas oil baron who lived on White Rock lake. She had a full time private chef and kitchen staff, although she lived there alone. He said the chef would cook huge beef roasts, turkeys, brisket, all kinds of food every day just to have available in case the old lady wanted something, which she rarely did. They weren’t allowed to give the leftover food away to the staff or anyone else, but had to throw it out every single day. And when the old lady requested ice water or iced tea or lemonade, if even one ice cube had cracks in it, she would make them throw it all out and make it again.
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 1 year ago
People like that should be bereft of everything but the bare necessities for half a year
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
One neighbour of ours who was 'friends' with the local political leaders planned his daughter's wedding reception on the same day as the election results. He was probably very sure that their party will win and had invited all high profile people. They lost. From what we heard 3000 people were invited. Less than 1000 people attended. They threw away the remaining food. Such colassol waste.
Michelle C 1 year ago
Evil…no wonder Scripture tells us the wicked will suffer immense consequences in the end….💔 I pray she repents (repented) before it is (was) too late!
#15
My boss has a wooden covering to what once encased an ancient Egyptian mummy.
He is elderly and we were preparing items to be shipped to his daughter who lives over seas. We didn't send it because it is a known stolen artifact and will be confiscated at customs.
#16
Pumped a bunch of money into the Malibu City counsel in order to change a few seats. This would allow him to have the local ordinance changed so his front doors could be taller than 20 feet.
Horosho Bodka 1 year ago
Clint Eastwood became mayor of Carmel, Ca just to change some laws in favor of his restaurant. This is a story as old as America, or more.
#17
A customer writing a cheque for $5+ million for equipment and casually handing it over to us while making jokes. After he left we took turns holding it because when would the opportunity come up again to hold $5 million dollars in your hand in any capacity?
Toe Jam 1 year ago
The most money I ever laid hands on was Richard Branson, I was working at an event and he shook my hand lol
Major Harris 1 year ago
at the time, it was cool, but now? when i was serving on the u.s.s. nimitz, prince andrew and princess ferguson toured the ship in july 1988. for 5 seconds, shook his hand.
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Cassie Casey 1 year ago
When I was a kid, my parents paid cash for a house. Literal cash. I got to hold $80,000 of actual money. Pretty neat at the time.
Gingergirl 7 months ago (edited)
My friend won $8000000 and gave me a photocopy of the cheque.
#18
The ceo of a company i used to work for offered to take me wine tasting, she said itd be free, apparently she spends so much money on wine from this vinyard that they get her a limo and free access/tasting whenever she feels like it.....
#19
Not directly for them but I worked at a summer boarding school in France for rich English kids. Parents would send the kids to us and jet off for the season. One kid bounced wrong on a bed messing about and flew through a window, lacerating his liver and almost bleeding to death. He was in hospital for two months with various complications before being moved home. The parents never came to visit, never even spoke to him. After two weeks his au pair or something came for about three hours. Some of those kids were little bastards, but it was very clear why. I also worked as a sailor on a few rich folks boats. They were always super nice, if a little clueless and overenthusiastic.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
And yet people who choose not to have any are called "selfish".
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...leaving thease kids in the care of indifferent parents (or maybe even actually dangerous/unstable environments - imagine diplomats' children in unfriendly countries, changing homes every couple of years). I wouldn't have done well in a boarding school, but not everybody is like me, and I know that for some children they offer opportunities (athletic, educational, artistic) that they would be hard to come by elsewhere and they really enjoy the companionship, even at the cost of seeing their families less frequently.
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I've worked in private banking and I can't say too many things but the weirdest example by far was a billionaire client who employed a private detective or intelligence officer to create a file on me, complete with photographs they took of me going home from work.
I think it's safe to say that I'm talking about the kind of billionaire who is linked to a head of state, your average new money tech billionaire doesn't have this kind of security operation.
He said that his security team produce a file on everyone before they walk through his door and he advised me to tighten up my online security.
#21
Worked in the mail room at one of the BIG 10 and got to see a super wealthy persons tax return; it was 2 entire file boxes and this person was getting somewhere around 10 million dollars back on his tax return… he’s already super wealthy and he’s getting a lifetimes worth of wealth back on one tax return….
Elchinero 1 year ago
IF he were "smaht" (not like everybody sez") he would not front the government 10 million dollars a year .. but invest it.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Sometimes the money the wealthy get "back" never came from them in the first place. It comes from you and me, usually in the form of refundable tax credits - aka welfare for the rich.
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adam matson 1 year ago
Most likely this individual had to pay their taxes quarterly. Which means they estimate an annual tax bill. Which means they overpaid. Doesn't mean they actually got thing back. They got their own money back that they paid too much of.
Max Fox 1 year ago
That is because the top 1% make most of their income through capital gains, not salaries, which is only taxed at much lower rates. If the gains are reinvested, you can pay even less, and there are all sorts of BS reasons to pay less on capital gains income.
Rebecka Woods 1 year ago
I do like the reinvested rule. I hate the thought that if I (future me) has a rental house and I sell it because ai want to buy a duplex rental house instead that I'd have to pay tax on the "gains." Property taxes are already a thing, and those go up every year. The government doesn't need their hands in every single transaction known to man. I'm not even going to see the money, I'm putting it in the next property.
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#22
Spending $30k+ every year on Christmas decorations. A safe, with a mirror for a lid, right next to the slopeside hottub. It's literally a safe meant to do cocaine off of. This one time they had to delay putting the roof on the building a couple days because they had to *helicopter in* a dining room to the penthouse - a single plank of redwood like 7 or 8ft x25ft. Cool hidden doors to even cooler hidden rooms. Firepole or indoor slides for the kids. "Oh that's located over in the children's wing". Clawfoot bathtubs carved from a single piece of marble.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Foundations, charities and private philanthropy collect $499,000,000,000 per year, just in the U.S. The U.S government hands out another $61 billion in foreign aid. Would you say things are improving on a macro scale? Or are people just throwing money at problems in a manner that simply perpetuates the existence of people, thereby ensuring that the scope of the problem simply continues to increase? It would cost $90 billion per year to house all the homeless and make public universities "free" for everyone in the U.S, that would do a hell of a lot more good than simply keeping people alive long enough to continue raising the human population.
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SleepSycho 1 year ago
Has me at fire poles and slides for kids, perfect example of how to spend extra money, not a waste at all!
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
For me it's "Cool hidden doors to even cooler hidden rooms."
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Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
My sister's neighbour had 2 detached houses, about 50yds apart, they built a glass tunnel connecting the buildings, one house is for the adults, the other is the children's wing, the nanny lives there as well.
#23
Not me but the wife of an acquaintance told us a story of how she used to work for a wealthy businessman on his private yacht, but, he was never on it.
She worked in the kitchen as one of the chefs and basically he would have his family or his friends use it when they were in town to save on having to have a hotel, they’d just stay on his yacht which she said in the 18 months she worked there, she only knew of him to use it himself once.
I mean, can you just imagine having the kind of crazy money to buy a yacht in the first place, then just not f*****g using it?!
Angela B 1 year ago
Imagine having that much money that you could improve the lives of so many people, then not f*****g doing it!
HurlWurk 1 year ago
You say that and ignore that he's employing probably a dozen people to care for the yacht.
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago (edited)
My friend lives in Canada and is married to an Indian. Her father in law bought a house in one of the major cities so that they don't have to stay in hotels or somebody's house when they visit India(once in two years)
MaxMi 11 months ago
Several known billionaires own many, some of them get chartered for very good revenues depending on size. Usually they’re more than happy even to sell timeslot to companies to advertize them in walktrough videos. Among the most fascinating ones I saw I list one had a beatles gold record exposed in the owner suite studio, another one was just without an owner suite because it actually had an entire owner deck, many have a suite inside the owner suite for securities/nanny/maid/beautician, one of those custom built with a 2 story high engine room I s*it you not, had a corridor midair crossing trough because the owner expressed intrest in boarding trough a straight access to his suite avoiding the decks, but many others out of pocket for working class ppl chartered holidays, while if you’re happy enough with a 3/4 cabins sized yacht which usually comes in 2/3 decks and organize a group it doesn’t get much more expensive than a couple of thousands holiday per week per person.
#24
Custom cabinets made and installed only to be taken down and tossed in the trash because they decided the color they picked out wasn't the right vibe.
Mandi Long 7 months ago
Unbelievable!!! Hundreds of people would have gladly and gratefully taken them.
#25
I was a waitress when younger I had a super wealthy guy who wanted to date me but I wasn’t having it. Said no, even after his $500 tips. One day I came to work and he was there with a lawyer and he bought the entire steak house and bar I worked in. Then said “now I own this place we WILL hang out” I guess he doesn’t take “no”.
He always told me “money talks and b******t walks” and every single person or thing has a price. He took me on trips, bought me a Benz and a small apartment. He would do WILD s**t. He was a very impatient person and sometimes would buy the line up of groceries for people just to skip the line? Just unforgettable insane things, I can list many! But when it ended it got bad, he paid people to follow me and it wasn’t good.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
How could OP want to give it a try with such a guy? Not taking "no" for an answer is a big red flag.
David 1 year ago
Read; " He took me on trips, bought me a Benz and a small apartment" sometimes the money is hard to resist.
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Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago (edited)
I don't want to be harsh. Maybe she was scared and going out with him was the only way out of the mess. Too many stories about rich people not paying for their crimes
Mike D 1 year ago
Grocery store gave it away, if you make it past the steakhouse
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
After the creep bought the restaurant, the OP should have found another job.
matt adore 1 year ago
Why was he in a grocery store?! Seems like that would be beneath a "person" like that...
#26
I got stiffed by the super wealthy. They didn’t feel like paying me, so they didn’t. And they got away with it bc I was poor and powerless and scared shitless to take on someone who could whoop my a*s in court or even socially.
Narcissistic_Alcoholic 1 year ago
IN NJ we know not TO do any work for The Orange Howler Monkey, he will stiff you every, single, time!
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Anonymouse 1 year ago
There are reams of stories about the Kennedy's doing this type of stuff in New England. The only recourse is to make a public stink - you can't beat them legally, but they will cave due to public embarrassment.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
A constant problem in Newport RI is rich kids walking away from ice cream trucks because they don't carry change and can't be bothered to use their credit cards. Kids. Under 10.
Cassie Casey 1 year ago
There's a VP of Sacs Fifth Avenue who just refused to pay my company for something. He just stopped answering our calls after we did a job for him.
#27
I tutored a kid once, math. The kid was a genius but the other moms got their kids tutors so I guess I was in fashion. One day she askes me to drive her downtown to "shop". She blew about 24K on diamonds, pearls, and costum jewlery. This was a monthly thing... I was charging $30 an hour and felt like an idiot...
Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
She may not have necessarily been willing to pay more. Some of these people will spend crazy irresponsible money on themselves but when it comes to salary for the help, they are stingy AF.
Szzone 1 year ago
Yeah she probably saw the tutor as "help". Boils my blood really. This rich bish, all she can show for acconpkishment is being very lucky to be rich. Meanwhile, the tutor is an educated STEM person.
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John Sheffield 1 year ago
I once had a contract job where I was charging $50 and hour, only to find out later they were billing the project for one of their staff people at a rate of $200/hr.
Rebecka Woods 1 year ago
Get a certificate, say now you have more skills and so you will be updating your fees to match them.
#28
My boss was kicked out of his house and staying at at an exclusive Laguna Beach hotel and wanted to leave. He had been drinking and the valets wouldn't give him the keys to his range rover when he wanted to leave. So, he called the dealership (he bought one every year or so and was a good customer) and had a new one sent over and drove off in his new range rover after it arrived. True f**k you money.
tori Ohno 1 year ago
NO. That didn't happen. No dealership would hand over keys to a drunk, no matter how rich he is.
no adhesiveness 2020 1 year ago
Sure they would. They don't care if he dies. It's money. Dealer tags are good for 30 days, They probably already knew his insurance agent.
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Chris Keller 1 year ago
Dealers will take care of all that, even for poor people like me
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#29
The CEO of a major telecoms company was playing golf at a course he was a member at, and saw a cell tower near the course that he didn’t like the look of.
Next time he was there to play, the tower was in another place.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
I belong to a middle class family. We had an electric pole in the middle of our land. Informed the department, put one application and they moved it. If we could do it, anyone can. But yeah we had to wait for 2 months
FePredaking 1 year ago
I may be misreading it, but I believe this one is different because the CEO didn't own the land the cell tower was on.
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#30
I’m a graphic designer. I was designing an annual report for a very wealthy owner of a private equity firm and he wanted me to match the colors of the book to the interior of his private jet.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Can't be. The word "book" rules that out completely.
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no adhesiveness 2020 1 year ago
Kind of off topic. Did you hear the story of the Corvette Mako Shark? Gm exec wanted a new Corvette deemed the Mako Shark to match a shark he had mounted in his office. Engineered kept bringing him colors. No, not quite right. Engineers painted the shark their latest color. Perfect!
#31
My ex girlfriend was the daughter of a princess and her dad was a billionaire stockbroker. Soooooo many vitamins. Like her dad had a hole row of cabinets full of vitamins. That was really the weirdest thing. They also didn’t have a tv and would just sit around the kitchen and discuss different topics. Really interesting people.
#32
A GF worked as a nanny for a wealthy French-American investment banker in London and I could sometimes stay over. Nice house with garden in a posh area, a small manor in France, a flat in NYC, art on the walls, but the guy wore torn underwear and added water in his shampoo like a miser while buying antiques at auctions . His kids had the latest game console but when my GF asked what they usually had for dinner all they knew was instant noodles and crisps, and McDonalds on weekend. I saw his 10 year old kid pestering him while he was on the phone and when he finally asked the kid “yes! what do you want?”, the kid replied “if you give me £20 I leave you alone”. The father went back to his conversation but pulled a £20 note out of his wallet and gave it to his kid without looking at him. That resumed perfectly the whole relationship he had with his kids.
#33
I work at a private social country club in ATL. Our members are billionaires and triple digit millionaires. They “playfully” discuss their jets like poor people discuss streaming services. Apparently one member had $60 million plane bragging over one member with only a $45 million dollar jet. 🛩️ When we have weddings at the country club in north ATL, the tents we usually use cost more than $200,000. I feel so poor there sometimes. But I am also more content with my life and have true self-awareness.
#34
I worked at the corporate office of RE/MAX in Denver. One year the guy that owns RE/MAX (and started the company) had a party at his house for the employees of the corporate office (not the realtors). I got to go because I was the EA for one of the VPs. As you can imagine the house was unbelievable. Huge and gorgeous hanging off the side of a mountain overlooking his own private golf course. The house has a inside soundproof room that was a shooting range, huge!, we all got to go in and shoot all types of guns including machine guns. But the most impressive part of the house was the underground car museum. He collected all types of cars, and it was like a huge airplane hanger but all marble, the floors, everything. Some of the cars were up on pedestals. All with their own perfect lighting. It was crazy!
Jrdiver 1 year ago
A quick Google search for where remax is out of puts you in Colorado....
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I saw a guy write a check for 7 million dollars for an equestrian stable.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Was it for him or his wife??? And if he didn't have one, does he want one??? Must know immediately!!!
#36
I do pet service for some very wealthy people, so I go into their homes. Obviously big houses are nice and luxurious, but I've been floored by some of the apartment units that exist. These places are inside seemingly innocuous art deco buildings, through some ratty back elevator and side door to the place, and then inside they are multi-floored, absolutely gorgeous homes with space for several families. Usually it's just parents and maybe one or two kids, and pets obviously. Just always assumed apartments were the cheap way to live and owning a home was luxury. But have been proven wrong.
kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago
It’s very possible that their giant apartment cost more than a modest house. Ipso facto richo.
#37
I used to work for a grocery delivery service; customers sent their lists through an app, and I would shop and deliver their orders. My most out of touch rich person story is the lady who ordered $300 worth of filet mignon from Whole Foods (when it was still good, before Amazon bought them out), and wanted it cut into stir fry strips. The butcher made me show him the order notes because he was also incredulous at the sheer audacity of hacking up $40/pound steaks. The address ended up being the most expensive single-family home in the city at that time. I also delivered laundry soap to Joe Montana.
iseefractals 1 year ago
I buy a whole, untrimmed beef tenderloin a few times per year, Around $100 give or take for 6-8 pounds of filet. Some of it is cut into steaks, some is used for Fajita's and taco's, some stir fry, Beef and broccoli, hell sometimes it's just for steak and eggs. It's one of the most tender cuts of beef, but since it has nearly zero fat, it's low on flavor. Filet mignon is a flex, there are better uses for the cut...also trimmed filet is $40 per pound, not per steak and only if you're too lazy to do your own prep. If you were talking about Japanese wagyu, you might have a case, but this just makes it look like you consider the height of cuisine to be Kraft mac and cheese.
#38
I worked for a girl from a Rich family, she was about my age, we became close, you could even say friends, anyways i once complained on the phone about a certain amount of money i needed. - it was something like 40k $, she said that's how much you are going to get a day from the business with your friend? - i told her it was the capital we were going to start with 💀.
Alexandra 1 year ago
I have never, and still don't, understand why you want big, multiple houses, boats and what-have-you. You can only be in one place at the time and while money makes a lot of things easier, it's true value lies in sharing it with others. Example: the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is now tuition free.
HurlWurk 1 year ago
I've traveled some, and it would be nice to have places to live for part of the year where it's a nice season. For instance Alaska in August was really nice, but I would not want to stay through the winter.
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I’ve worked for a few billionaires. One owned a box at the local concert venue. He would give seats to us sometimes. His crew was Backstage with all the best bands. Another one started his company and brought in his friends and family on the ground floor. He would pit them against each other in board meetings. He was bored. One founder would have an HR watcher assigned to him at the (amazing) company parties and steer him away from the pretty ladies. Wife 1,2, and 3 were all former employees.
Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
The first one seems like a nice guy. Second one seems a bit sociopath-y, and at least the third one had the sense to hire a watcher?
#40
I used to be a cable technician for a major telecom corporation. The thing that always struck me as strange was how old the TV sets of the super wealthy were. They'd have so many of them in dozens of rooms in their mansions but like, all old a*s tvs with the heavy backs. Maybe it was the particular kind of rich people in that area but it was bizarre to me.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Not that bizarre to me, I've worked for old money before and if something still works the way they want it to, there is no reason to replace it for a newer model. Quite often things are only replaced if they can no longer be repaired.
Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
That's how you KEEP the money. Not blowing it on stuff you don't strictly need.
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Sara Anderson 1 year ago
Said it before and I'll say it again. Rich people are the beginning and end of every single problem in this world.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
All I see are a bunch of addicts. They are addicted to their wealth and power. They keep striving for more, and more, and more, and more. There is never going to be enough for them. How much of our precious dwindling resources will be consumed for some rich guys fantasy? So I can't read these stories anymore without going into a dark place. They are billionaire addicts consuming the world entirely. We need to at least stop admiring them and start treating them like the d**g addicts that they are.
Ms.GB 1 year ago
I had a coworker and one day the topic of marrying for money came up. I'm a pretty sensitive person so not only would I not want to fake having feelings for someone but I doubt I ever could, I would just be so depressed. I was telling her this and then she told me she had a former coworker and friend from her dancing days that actually did marry a much older man for money. She said they had scheduled sex like once a week or something I can't remember exactly but that her friend got really sad and depressed everytime sex day came around.
Vira 1 year ago
I think we all get a little sad and depressed on work days. Even if it is only once a week.
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I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
A friend is a caterer and she was asked to do food for a a celebs wedding that was at their own castle back in the early 90s. All was going well until she showed him the pricing and he had assumed it would be free because of "who he was". This was way before the days of influencers offering "exposure" in place of payment. Like he didn't think he should pay for the food or anything!!! She said she would have considered giving it to him at cost because it would have been a great gig for her company just starting out but no the dude was expecting a full freebie. I heard after that a lot of services in our town had stopped doing business with him because he rarely paid. I often wondered if he was as rich as he claimed.
Just stopping by 1 year ago
I want a rich friend. Not for the money but just to see how different one can be when money isn't an issue and pick their brain for a while. There has to be down to earth ones somewhere
ADZ 1 year ago
I worked at a retail store/ interior designer place. One woman changed her cushions for her mansion every month. Her budget was $12,000AUD a month but would usually pay it after 2 and a half weeks. Was insane. This doesn't count the Nordic furniture we imported for her. Business absolute gouged wealthy people and they didn't care. Only place you could get it without going to Sydney which was several hours away.
Talkie Toaster 7 months ago
You can see how revolutions happen!! Won't deny successful people a better lifestyle but scale and abuse to others is another thing. One of my favourite quotes is 'Deeds are eternal, you want to leave legacy? improve lives of those less fortunate'
Sara Anderson 1 year ago
Said it before and I'll say it again. Rich people are the beginning and end of every single problem in this world.
Casey Payne 1 year ago
All I see are a bunch of addicts. They are addicted to their wealth and power. They keep striving for more, and more, and more, and more. There is never going to be enough for them. How much of our precious dwindling resources will be consumed for some rich guys fantasy? So I can't read these stories anymore without going into a dark place. They are billionaire addicts consuming the world entirely. We need to at least stop admiring them and start treating them like the d**g addicts that they are.
Ms.GB 1 year ago
I had a coworker and one day the topic of marrying for money came up. I'm a pretty sensitive person so not only would I not want to fake having feelings for someone but I doubt I ever could, I would just be so depressed. I was telling her this and then she told me she had a former coworker and friend from her dancing days that actually did marry a much older man for money. She said they had scheduled sex like once a week or something I can't remember exactly but that her friend got really sad and depressed everytime sex day came around.
Vira 1 year ago
I think we all get a little sad and depressed on work days. Even if it is only once a week.
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A friend is a caterer and she was asked to do food for a a celebs wedding that was at their own castle back in the early 90s. All was going well until she showed him the pricing and he had assumed it would be free because of "who he was". This was way before the days of influencers offering "exposure" in place of payment. Like he didn't think he should pay for the food or anything!!! She said she would have considered giving it to him at cost because it would have been a great gig for her company just starting out but no the dude was expecting a full freebie. I heard after that a lot of services in our town had stopped doing business with him because he rarely paid. I often wondered if he was as rich as he claimed.
Just stopping by 1 year ago
I want a rich friend. Not for the money but just to see how different one can be when money isn't an issue and pick their brain for a while. There has to be down to earth ones somewhere
ADZ 1 year ago
I worked at a retail store/ interior designer place. One woman changed her cushions for her mansion every month. Her budget was $12,000AUD a month but would usually pay it after 2 and a half weeks. Was insane. This doesn't count the Nordic furniture we imported for her. Business absolute gouged wealthy people and they didn't care. Only place you could get it without going to Sydney which was several hours away.
Talkie Toaster 7 months ago
You can see how revolutions happen!! Won't deny successful people a better lifestyle but scale and abuse to others is another thing. One of my favourite quotes is 'Deeds are eternal, you want to leave legacy? improve lives of those less fortunate'
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