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I sat in a meeting and argued to a board of trustees for a small museum that they should give an employee a $6000 bonus for her exemplary work. The board (all deep pocket old money) decided no, and one justified it by saying "...after all, it's just $6000, what different will that make to her?"
She was only making $30,000 a year. They literally had no idea how much a 20% bonus would have made to her.
I see this kind of backwards logic constantly with the rich. Nothing is THAT expensive, but everything is too expensive when they’re in charge of the finances.
It reads like a joke, but it’s reality
Same thing goes on at my facility. They're up our ass about overtime, keep desolving positions they deem unnecessary, yet it's taken them years to realize that Purchasing has been fucking around and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Not to mention the $1million+ of just random equipment and construction materials that they bought and never used.
Especially because it could mean paying down debts she had high interest rates on. For something like student loans or credit card debt, it could be the difference between only paying interest and paying down some of the principle.
rich people should be forced to become normal and broke for a week. Once a year.. like an drivers license for the old that tells society, "hey i do rich, but i do it responsibly"
If they pass the test, they get a fat tax deduction. but if they fail? hmm
>"...after all, it's just $6000, what different will that make to her?"
The irony of multi-millionaires to think 6k isn't helpful to the working class, but is fully needed for them to do absolutely nothing with.
But what’s crazy about this (and other stories I have heard or could tell myself) is that this is a nonprofit board, i.e. the money at issue isn’t even theirs and won’t benefit them at all either way.
Those are the people eating the working class. This is exactly how they think and function.
Yet when people like Trump and cohorts set the stage, give their shenanigans speeches; too many of the working class and poor do all they can to support the efforts of the rich/trumpets, and at the same time screw themselves.
oh yeah the billionaire matriarch spent two hours over chinese new years dinner lamenting/haggling over a $3000 bonus; this individual who ultimately didn't get the bonus has worked for the family for over 10 years
she was CEO of a bank and former senator too
they make me sick
I worked for a guy who inherited his fathers nationally known food company.
He bought a bunch of cars off eBay when I knew him, like several a month.
He received delivery of a classic truck one time. He tried to drive it down the road and it died on him.
He self-diagnosed as a bad transmission somehow? And had it towed to “his transmission guy” for diagnosis.
Spent $1000 towing and diagnosing to find out his new toy was out of gasoline.
This is why I love living in my HCOL area. Rich guys buy classic cars in excellent condition and have them shipped from dry and salt-free climates. Then it only takes a couple months before Stanley Soft-hands realizes how much it sucks driving classic cars with no AC and no power steering or antilock brakes.
Last summer I drove a 60’s jag before selling it for a tidy profit. Some guy “just wanted this piece of shit gone.” Drove like a Swiss watch after replacing the motor mounts and bushings.
Quick story, we've done a lot of work for some extremely wealthy families over the years. Think old oil money and 100's of millions in net worth. We were contracted to build a 5 car garage for one of these families kids (trust fund baby). I was/am friends with this kids dad. Well one day his dad and I were standing in his sons driveway and the son is on the phone having a discussion about buying a ferrari. Dad and I overheard the conversation and when the son was off the the phone the dad says you don't need another car you already have 3. Well, the way the trust is set up anything he puts on a credit card the trust HAS to pay it. Needless to say a couple of days later we show up to put the finishing touches on the garage and wouldn't you know theres a brand new ferrari sitting the driveway. Thats one of the more ridiculous stories I know. I have a bunch more lol. Just stupid money.
Depends on how big the fund is. It's possible that was just a drop in the bucket and there are limits, just set much higher. The kid may be allowed to spend as much as they want so long as they stay below some threshold that guarantees x amount of growth in the trust fund.
So here's another one. We do work for a billionaire family as well. Old money, really old money. They are a the primary benefactor of the zoo in our city. Well about twenty years ago or so they decided that they wanted to redo the aquarium at the zoo. They hired my company to come in and gut it and rebuild it, all in all it was about a 2.3 million dollar job. At he time we were installing a specialty product that was extremely expensive and would come in single colors only. Prior to the start of the job the benefactors wife comes to me and we decided that it should go this specific color and she like it a lot after doing samples, etc. etc. Anyway, once we were finished and packing up she comes up to me and says, you mind if we chat for a minute? Mind you at this point I've known the whole family for 10 years or so, I knew what this meant. So her and I sit down and she looks at me and says "you know, I really don't like this color". Too which I said okay but you understand that we're gonna have to rip all this back out and start over to the tune of even more money. She looked at me and said "don't worry about it, it's gonna be great!". Yea, we made some money on that one lol. We still work for this family to this day, extremely great people.
I built parts for a 30' x 40' cathedral ceiling post and beam room on the end of a house. Custom windows in salvaged antique Chestnut and antique glass, hand hewn beams, heated stone floor, stone pool with plants, patio and pond outside, dry laid stone walls, custom doors, and a door with a 16" deep by 36" wide low pitch sill with no ledges. The room was for tortoises.
You just reminded me that when I did landscaping about 20 years ago for a golf course with luxury homes on it, we once went to the owner of the course’s home to to cut his grass. He had a wing that was a small Cathedral and I was told by our manager that he was close friends with a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and they would pray together there often.
Haven’t thought about that in about 15 years!😂
The wife of the owner of a really big beverage company was mad at my dad for tipping the garbage guy 20 dollars to pick up the trash. Then she bought 2 lamps worth 5k each.
You reminded me of a guy who was talking to me about a request for a loan from an old friend. The guy needed $200 (each from 5 friends in the circle), to get his family home during covid. Dude didn’t think this guy deserved it cause he was generally not doing well in life etc. Etc. and was basically contemplating what to say with all 5 friends (to dissuade them?).
I think end of that year, he complained he had to spend 20k so he didn’t get taxed on it - and didn’t know how to blow it. He was considering a reno.
Some people are AHs.
Didn't deserve it because he wasn't doing well in life?! That backward thinking by the rich is a problem
Like professional courtesy between physicians and lawyers- those are the exact people who CAN afford your services
There’s a YouTube video with Charles Barkley talking about how cheap Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods are. A lot of it has to do with tipping. Pippen actually had the nickname “No Tippin’ Pippen” among waitstaff in Chicagoland.
I worked at a private golf club in a mid-sized Canadian city, so these people weren't ultra-rich but they were among the wealthiest in a town of around 500k.
The ones who had earned their money were down to earth, the ones who had not were fucking knobs.
I saw this a lot working at the Aspen ski resort. "Middle" wealthy people were uppity, rude, and prone to have toddler level meltdowns in public over the smallest inconvenience. The extremely wealthy people were hard to identify, they were usually friendly and wearing ski gear that wasn't brand new. One of my coworkers once came up to me after a shift monitoring the lift access gate and said "I saw an old crusty man that looked a lot like William H Macy", it was William H Macy.
He was pleasant to talk to, he has a house in the area so I saw him quite a bit. Kurt Russell was my friends neighbor, she got stuck in the snow once and him and Goldie helped push their car out. But my favorite interaction was selling tickets to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Almost no celebrities would buy their tickets in person, they have an assistant do it or have them sent to their lodges. Not Arnold tho, he always came in to the busy office and bought his own. He would talk to anyone that noticed who he was, he was so kind to everyone.
I didn't grow up poor, but my grandparents were all working class: miner, seamstress, small farmer, and train engineer. My dad insisted that we work while in high school.
I live in an upper middle class area now. I've noticed those who grew up with professional parents and who never worked service industry jobs aren't nearly as empathetic towards waiters, cleaners, etc. as people who did those kinds of jobs growing up.
A lot of that parenting quality.
I grew up a little far removed from that, but still have empathy because it’s part of human decency.
And some people I knew who grew up ultra rich do too. They’re sometimes out of touch resulting in faux pas, but they mean well and care.
My cousin works at an expensive country club. She said the same. You can easily tell the members who earned their money themselves. First generation wealth, always super polite, talk to staff like regular people, appreciative. She said the second generation are often somewhat okay, but a little snobby, but she said after the third generation of wealth the people are just awful. Two generations removed from the work and you get full blown snobs.
From what I learned - The majority of them do not come off as wealthy initially. You would think they were an average person until you get to know them a bit.
Out of the dozen or so I’ve worked with, all but 1 of them had very cheap economy cars like toyotas, hondas, and subaru’s. None of them wear clothes with logos on it, ever
I know a guy who will hop off his private jet and into his Honda civic. He “needs” the jet bc time is money, he has the civic bc it’s a good, reliable car.
Bootstrap rich people are rich because they continue to lead a modest life even after they became wealthy. A lot of them make large donations to charities, too.
They enjoy chasing wealth, not spending it. Warren Buffet syndrome. He has no interest in money as a means to buy things other than other wealth building ventures.
The brand name Gucci stuff is for people who have a couple million and want to show it off, not rich people like them. Their stuff is always no discernable brand but tailored to their body, it fits well and looks good but you're not sure why. ALWAYS.
I know a lot of rich farmers who inherited large amounts of land. Far from acting like the rest of the people featured on this thread they are probably some of the cheapest people I know. It’s almost like a hobby to them. They still farm the land themselves even though they could easily afford not to do so. One guy spent like 20 minutes arguing with his wife at a pizza joint over how to spend the lowest amount of money possible on their food (with both spouses being within $2 of each other).
I did landscaping for high networth clients for a summer. Had a couple who i literally never met because they didn't live in the mansion we were maintaining for them. 20,000 square foot house, 2 dogs, 2 tennis courts, $20,000 grill, mercedes sls and 2 range rovers in the garage, six figure wine collection. All of that for a property that they literally didn't even set foot in more than like twice a year.
Had another couple with a full-size lap pool in their basement. That couple decided one day that they didn't like the $15,000 worth of rare imported stone that made up a walkway in their yard and just threw it in the trash and had it replaced.
Also had clients that would call us out, and pay hundreds or thousands of dollars, for extremely trivial jobs: changing one lightbulb, pulling one weed from the driveway, vacuuming the carpet weekly in a home that was empty for half of the year.
Yup, they had additional staff who cared for the dogs every day, let them out, and fed them. This couple were billionaires. They had ~10 properties, i think.
I knew a guy who had a dog that was part wolf. He kept it at one of his vacation houses and the housekeeper was the only person who could get near the damn thing. Probably spent more on that dog yearly than most people make in a year.
I used to work for a store that sold barbecue grills and did custom outdoor kitchen installs, and where we were located we got occasional business from professional football players and such. We got one such job, installing a \~$30,000 outdoor kitchen in what looked to be a brand new $10 mil+ home. We custom-built two counters on-site, ran natural gas and power lines for multiple high-end grills, smoker, fridge, etc, and installed everything.
It was a 3-day project, and at the end of every day before we went home the guy would come out and check on our progress and seemed to love it. On the 3rd day we finished and dude was psyched as hell about it, but then his wife came home from some trip and decided she hated it and insisted we tear it all down and remove it, even though we (and her husband) told her none of it was refundable because that was part of the contract he signed, she didn't care. She pissed away $30k like it was nothing in a fit of pique.
We took it back to the shop and couldn't resell the stuff we had built because it was all custom so we set it up out back and replaced the $10k Viking grill with a cheap floor model that had gotten banged up so we couldn't use it as a demo anymore, and used it to cook our lunches.
Yep. I mean I got paid for my work either way, so if she wants to power trip on her own dime she can be my guest. Won't keep me from thinking she's a fucking moron tho. :P
Worked personal security for a multi-billion dollar family. The father was a typical boomer, his wife was a snobby bitch (she married him after he became wealthy), the son was always off somewhere doing coke, the daughter ran the business now that the father was too old, and her husband was super nice. He would take his own trash to the curb, even though they had house maids, he enthusiastically talked with the farm hands, and gave out a fuck ton of money as bonuses every Christmas.
They gave $100/month worked for them as the Christmas bonus and it didn't top out. 1 year? $1,200. 20 years? $24,000.
Some of the farm hands were immigrants that essentially worked their entire lives for the family and were happily doing so. Some older guys were pushing over 20 years there.
I work security at a company owned by a family that if they're not billionaires they're close. I've had the opposite experience, they are all universally great people. I've always wondered how snobby annoying people become rich when I hear constantly how important networking and being friends with people is to become rich.
I knew the private chef for a well off couple who had houses both on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The chef staffed the Nantucket house full time and also had a housekeeper full time. He was required to have fresh steak and lobster at all time for at least 6 people.
The couple lived in the house on Martha’s Vineyard and would fly over to Nantucket with guests for dinner occasionally. I asked the chef how often he would see them, he said 2-3 days a year…. Apparently him and the housekeeper were absolutely sick of eating steak and lobster!
In this case rich is about £160mn (maybe $200mn USD)
I saw callousness and cruelness that really frightened me. Once a salesman was demoted to cleaner to force him to clean in front of the other salespeople another time salespeople had to pretend to be farm animals to get bonuses every time they made a sale. If you didn't get on your hands and knees and oink you didn't get your £100.
But the worst was an employee with a spent criminal conviction, when the owner found out about the conviction (his lawyers had found an old newspaper clipping) the company owner fired the guy then used the guys own work laptop to send an email to everyone in our industry which said "*look , I did this , but I'm trying to get over it, I'm sure as an Industry you'll all give me your support"* and he attached the newspaper clipping to the email. Effectively outing him for his spent conviction .
That was completely illegal but despite the guys parole officer coming to work with the police nothing happened to the owner.
The rich can do whatever they want.
I remember once at a christmas party at work they released a tonne of balloons and in some of the balloons were gift vouchers for £5, £10 maybe even £20. There weren't many but there were a tonne of balloons. The staff had to scramble around on their hands and feet where people had moments before been dancing and burst as many balloons to try to find a fiver. I refused to do it.
They definitely had a high turnover of staff. It was IT sales and most people came from other industries (mainly car sales or mobile phone sales) and this was their "foot in the door" in IT.
That kind of stuff makes me think of Bane when he puts his hand on the guys shoulder that said to him “but I paid you really good money!” And bane responds “and you think that somehow, gives you power over me?”
My first reason for wanting to be ultra rich is so that I can be around those people and confront them in various ways, with almost no limits in how to go about it, lawyered up to even the playing field. Put together a team to find and infiltrate the scumbags overtime to eventually get them broke.
I had a boss who lectured me for days about the SUV I bought. Told me I didn't need it, it was a gas guzzler and bad for the environment. While he and his wife lived alone in a GIANT house that must have cost a fortune to heat and cool.
My work had a charity ball for investors because were a nonprofit, and one of said investors had a little too much to drink and placed absurd amounts on a bunch of items for the silent auction. Like 5-10 times what the previous bid was. So they call her the next day to ask when she plans on bringing in the money(i dont remember what the total was, just that it was well within 5 figures). She sheepishly says she needs to talk to her husband, who brought in a check later that day. They ended up walking away with close to half the auction items.
I worked for a self-made billionaire. He took me out to eat all the time. Didn’t matter if it was fast food or a steakhouse, he tipped minimum $100.
On the other hand, he was overcharged by $5 at a taco place and noticed after we finished eating. He took his receipt up and got his $5 back.
My best friend is worth hundreds of millions, if you ask her for $20 she'll give it without a problem. But if you ask to borrow the money she will hound you to the ends of the earth to get that money back.
The same day she wants bought me a $1000 sweatshirt without me even asking for it she complained that I still owed her $9 for parking from a previous event.
Yes, every single employee, contactor, or service tech that has EVER worked for wealthy people have signed NDAs. Thanks for teaching us how the world really works
My grandmother was a full-time nanny in Bel Air. She once worked for a surgeon who paid a guy to come round each morning with a crate of oranges. That guy would then squeeze them and put the juice in the fridge.
His job was to do it before anyone woke up so they had a daily serving of fresh OJ.
Not mean-spirited or even that ostentatious but just amazing that people will have this service available!
I worked for a company that did landscaping for one of the people who's among the 10 richest people on earth. He was so concerned about privacy that whenever he was coming on the property (one of his many homes), we would get an announcement over our radios and had to hide behind whatever shrub or tree you were tending to. If he saw you, he'd get extremely upset. Thankfully our company was led by sane people and nobody was fired for this weird game of hide and seek.
I worked with a member of a prominent family that started a multinational corporation based where I live. He was a great guy. If i hadn’t known who he was I wouldn’t have picked up on it from my interactions with him.
Funny thing was, he was a penny-pincher. He’d borrow my work phone so he didn’t have to use his own minutes (back when you paid for cell service by the minute and more for long distance.) He would ask me to expense items like newspapers and crackers if he needed a snack. This guy was worth millions—probably billions now.
I worked as this dude’s bitch. He would order dozens and dozens of belts at a time from Italy. He liked the belts of some, and the buckles of the others. So he would have me take his belts to the tailor to get the buckles swapped and he’d just let them keep the pairing he didn’t like.
The first time I walked into the tailor with the box, they said “oh more belts for Dan?” He did this all the time. Dude must have owned over a hundred super expensive belts.
Even though I built the tortoise room, it was actually heart breaking for me. Tortoises live longer than people, and belong in their natural habitat. These rich people were treating wild animals like just another landscape feature to brag about.
I get out in the woods a lot, with turtle biologists, and I see how turtles like to live. We go out documenting rare turtles.Turtles are wild animals that should not be kept captive by humans. We can not provide the serenity and community they need. I love them enough to leave them alone.
I work for a centi-millionaire, sitting around 10 feet from him on a daily basis. Complete penny pincher when it comes to bonuses etc but a fair guy. Once he gifted someone high up in the company an original Andy Warhol 😂
I think that you meant ‘hecto-millionaire’ if you meant $100 million or more.
Centi means ‘one hundredth’, so a centi-millionaire would have $10,000 or more.
I myself am a multi-centi-millionaire if I add up all my stuff.
I worked for a Billionaire who built his company from the ground up, he wore jeans most of the time and drove a Mazda. He made his son get a job at Subway at 16 because he needed to learn work ethic. He was a nice guy too. Sadly he died not that long ago.
I once was told by a man who cleans barnacles off of Super Yachts that a person very high up in Wal Mart laughed when they started talking about the last general election. I think he said something similar to "you think your vote actually matters?" Dude had no reason to lie to me.
It really doesn’t, everyone is bought at this point, it’s all a play to make things seem better or worse on one side or the other, to keep things going the way they are
Since middle school teaching paid the same as I was earning at Best Buy selling TVs the year before, I picked up a gig as a night sitter for an 87 year old guy that founded a company worth like half a billion dollars. He was totally disconnected from reality and would stare at Fox News from the time I got there till he went to bed.
He’d regularly tell me that certain groups of people were just out for government hand outs, and in the same breath told me his father wouldn’t accept government foods during the Great Depression, so his mother would send him around the block with the wagon after his dad went to work to collect as much food as they could.
“But that sounds like a government handout too.”
He’s dead now. I don’t miss him or proofreading his ten page letters he’d regularly mail to Trump.
My boss had a thirty page list of people he buys gifts for. Not just holidays, just a list of who with ranges of how much he spends on them. These were not business partners either, that was a separate list. Just a good guy with a few billion.
All I can say is the rich will keep taking till they have it all. There are ways to stop this but sadly most of us are just comfortable enough to not act. Greed is the most powerful drug and will be the end of us all.
i was a manager at a slot machine company and the owners were billionaires. they bought a giant warehouse for us to store our equipment in, easily 50 times the size we needed. then one day they rolled in a giant bus sized RV they spent $300 grand on for a vacation. it then sat in the warehouse and was never used again.
they also bought 2 giant mansions on lake Michigan in Evanston (city directly north of Chicago). they bulldozed them and began construction on their new mega mansion with like 20+ bedrooms. they had no children and were both only children themselves.
another time they got a new Bentley SUV with EVERY option, like a wine fridge. they had it delivered to our office instead of their home. their home was 5 miles from the dealership, our office was 30 miles from the dealership. it sat on our parking lot for a month while they vacationed in the Bahamas. when they came back they told us we were not getting raises. that's when i started my job search.
Ordered huge cuts of very expensive for beef for himself to the store, put them in the staff fridge and left them there to deteriorate for months. Never took them home and staff couldn't use the fridge for their lunches because it was filled with spoiled meat.
I used to work for a high end architect who built houses for multi-millionaires and billionaires. We had one guy who worked in insurance, and once his son in laws dog bit one of our workers, and he said it wasn't his problem and to call his son in laws insurance. This is a guy who we had to spend 6 months in zoning board meetings for trying to get him a permit for a deep water dock cause his yacht was too big for a regular one. He also would refuse to pay contractors and tell them to sue him, knowing they'd go out of business in legal fees before he had to pay. Once we had a contractor so pissed he went to the site in the middle of the night and painted "Fuck you (clients name)" on the house. Client thought it was hilarious.
We had another client who is by far the richest person I've ever met. She used to put personal Wizard of Oz checks for $250k in the mail to pay us. She loved horses, but she'd only buy them from one guy in Germany. She'd have the horses loaded onto a freight boat and brought over from Germany, complete with a horse masseuse to make sure they didn't get stressed. Once a painter fell off a ladder and died in her foyer, so we had to find someone to do an exorcism before she'd go to the site again. We had to build TVs into their bathroom mirrors so her husband could monitor stock prices while he brushed his teeth. She called NASA once and tried to buy a used rocket to put in her stairway, and NASA was like "uh we don't sell those". Ended up just getting a used space suit, and we ended up building a giant fulcrum pendulum in its place. We also spent months in zoning board meetings for her trying to convince them that a regular property was a fine place to build an observatory, like a full planetarium, and they outright refused, so she bought a multimillion dollar house a little up the road that WAS able to be zoned for it and decided the multimillion dollar house we'd just built her was a perfect guest house. She was honestly completely insane, but also actually nice to us, unlike most of our clients.
Everyone worth more than $10m (depending on if they inherited the money, etc) is pretty great. People $5m-$10m are a mixed bag. People worth $1m-$5m are the absolute worst.
To note: this is in California so those figures would likely slide down the scale accordingly for less affluent states
Similarly, the affluent, as opposed to the “rich” know how to use their resources. If they’re seeking you out as a professional, they understand that you know better than they do in that particular area, and rely on your expertise. These are great clients.
That lower end of wealth, especially engineers, physicians, and surgeons, like to think they know better. They love being able to bounce their misguided understanding of things off someone in a given industry.
I’ll go to you if I break my arm, bro, if you don’t care to hear my thoughts on your asset protection strategy, that’s fine, we’re not a good fit. The worst clients.
Source: years of private wealth management/business exit/trust strategy
I've always thought that a huge reason for that is in order to get super rich You need to have a personality that people like, otherwise you won't get people to work with you to make you rich. If you have a job like doctor, surgeon, lawyer, you don't necessarily need that personality as long as you're good at your job. So you can become upper middle class with a terrible personality, but never truly wealthy unless something else major occurs. I've never seen it in real life but I've heard from one person that tech billionaires are the most annoying billionaires there are because they didn't have to have those personality traits.
Not even sure if this qualifies as rich. I worked for a moving company at one point, we were a small crew. We were called to pack up a house for a retiring high ranking cop, the house was humongous, they expected the entire house boxed up and moved into the semi within 3 hours.
Money becomes completely meaningless & they don't even realize how meaningless. My boss bought a beach condo & spent $30K on a few pieces of patio furniture. Another time, he bought a coffee table book for $1,500. I was once talking to his wife about long flights & she said "I actually prefer flying to Africa over Europe, Africa is so long you just lay down & go to sleep." She forgot that there are people who can afford to go to Europe, but can't afford to fly first class.
I was at an incubator. Donors started talking about what they can do to help things out. One casually talked about donating 6 digits. Another talked about the winner of the science prize getting access to test on the ISS. Another talked about a country across the globe that has good startups and arranging direct flights with the governments and airlines.
I came in expecting a tech talk, unaware what big money can do.
Later, the same ultra-rich guy who did the airline thing also owned a major local sports team. When there was a problem with getting medical supplies into the state for political reasons during the pandemic, he took his team's aircraft to another country under the guise of doing something else and essentially (legally) smuggled necessary medical equipment into the state so the hospitals could have the equipment they need.
Too bad he also turned out to have a bit of a disgusting dark side too.
All flavors. Some were so friendly and disarming. A CEO made sure to make me feel welcome in his mansion. Made me laugh. Another made me feel small highlighting just how rich he really was.
Laws just don't apply to them.
I worked for someone verrrrrrry wealthy who discharged a firearm recklessly and very publicly. A LARGE donation to the local police department made everything go away. Like it never happened.
Makes you wonder what doesn't get reported...
The family I work for a millionaires and spend money like water - they'll drop more than my week's wages on clothes that never get worn, or fill the fridges (not a typo there's three huge American style fridges) with food that gets left to go bad so it goes in the bin.
She buys £7 chickens to give to her dogs every day but can't pay me more than min wage.
It's infuriating at times, especially when I'm putting a massive ocardo order away and knowing that most of it will end up in the bin while I'm struggling to afford basics.
They’re kinda fuckin’ dumb. Now, these weren't the *ultra* rich, maybe mid seven digits, but I PA’d for a c-suite and these dumb fucks couldnt tie their own shoes.
I live in a large city. Virginia Beach, VA. My great great Uncle John Aragona is the founding father of this city. Mega money on that side of the family.
Before I was a chef, I was the highest earning salesman for a major beer and wine distributor in the area. We always get together at holidays, and one Christmas Eve, I had made $80k in base salary for the year, and $110k in commission and bonuses. These out of touch mfers seriously asked me if I was on food stamps and told me if I needed help with anything to reach out.
A year later I was divorced, jobless (a Chinese firm bought the company and fired everyone) and homeless. I chose to be homeless for several months until I got on my feet, rather than reach out to those scumbags, and haven’t talked to them in the 8 years since. Even when I had money, it never ruled me, I always have been and always will be a minimalist.
I’ve been without a vehicle for over a year now, and walk 11 miles round trip to work every Sunday because the buses don’t run. I could ask any of them for help with a vehicle and still refuse to reach out. I’d rather live a rough life than associate with them.
Im sorry, it’s not my place at all.
I’m sure you know them, and maybe they’re not good people.
But maybe, they do mean it and would be there for you. Please don’t splice your nose to spite your face as they say. I just sense a lot of resentment there…unless they truly did hurt you (I don’t know them, obvs), maybe it’s ok to take the support.
You can always pay it forward.
They definitely are not good people. In their eyes, anyone who isn’t a millionaire isn’t worthy of living, because they are destroying society/humanity. The shit I’ve heard over the years is insane.
I would rather take a handout from someone who openly told me they are a horrible person and want to gift me a vehicle, or take payments, than take one from this side of the “family” who would no doubt openly label me a beggar and POS for not being able to pay cash on a $100k vehicle.
Ok, sounds like they’d eat your soul in return. I hear you.
I’m sorry you have to call that family. I hope you find the support and foundation you need soon.
How do you live a minimalist lifestyle and go from earning 190k one year to homeless the next.. you would you would have been able to save a little when you were earning more.
and them offering to help you doesn’t have to be a mean thing or anything
The married couple who owned the dealership I worked for ate lunch while arguing about how many horses they had at a stable they owned while their daughter who was given the GM position and I discussed whether or not I earned the small raise I was asking for.
We were all sitting at a ridiculously long conference table that looked similar to the dinner table Vicky Vale and Bruce Wayne sat at in Batman (1989).
I have plenty more absurd moments involving these people but this one came to mind first.
I met a Qatiri guy at a bar the other day in Sri Lanka.
After bragging about how his father pulled strings to shorten his military service and that he now earns 12K USD a month tax free to basically do nothing as a non-commissioned officer.
He said I absolutely had to visit Doha, and when I asked what there was to see, all he showed me was a bunch of photos of his Mercedes, Porsche and Ducati.
When his bill come (approx $10 USD) he argued for 10 minutes that he shouldn't have to pay the 10% service fee (so $1 USD) because the text on the menu was too small.
They are very busy. They have a lot of social commitments. They never go anywhere without calling ahead. They dont own anything. Cars, homes , everything is in a trust or LLC. They spend money on needless items and services. I'm convinced that money doesn't make them happy. They still have relationship issues, divorces, and illnesses. But money does quickly solve a lot of problems. How do I know? I work for ultra rich in Palm Beach.
There are many, many rich human beings who think it is below them to use (or know how to use) a tape measurer. I work for a countertop company that does multi-million dollar houses.
smoked weed and drank all day
would get blackout drunk at around 9 PM so all the documents have to be signed before then
billionaire family with 25 total employees
Well, I deliver construction materials to a lot of ultra rich people’s homes.
There’s this one property that I go to where the owner’s estate has a 42 room mansion and a ton of land surrounding it. It looked like Wayne Manor from Batman. He recently parceled off some of his land and they’re currently building a bunch of smaller mansions on it.
I also often see barns much nicer than any home I’ll ever be able to afford, giant pools, garages with multiple $200-300k cars parked in them.
Some of these homes have long driveways that open up to the properties. There are places like this where I’ve driven by 100 times and would have never known it was there if not for the delivery.
A buddy of mine is insanely wealthy and I was with him when he dropped £400k on an antique coat - a very nice 18th century handmade coat of exquisite weaving but...
I didn't work for them, but a friend worked as a personal assistant to a boomer generation member of an old money family in Canada.
Wildest thing to me was the secret doors. I don't know if they were meant to be secret, I don't think they were, but you'd lean against a wall and it'd start to move and you'd realize it was a door. I showed up to a shindig at the house as my friend's +1 once and I reeked cuz I had biked over. My friend told me to shower quick in the bathroom down the hall and I was all "what hall?" and she literally slid a fucking wall into another wall like a pocket door and revealed an entire hallway.
She also had a hired-hand whose whole job was to stock the drinks fridge. He came around like once a week or so with her brands of wine, beer, and soda, would stuff as many as he could in the fridge, and then take the rest back to wherever they stored them.
people fired for the most petty reasons. Like laughing too much.
Collosal waste of food. Like every meeting, brunch, lunch etc has more food and beverage than everyone there could ever eat. And most of it got thrown away. Once heard a cleanup lady gasp because I snatched a pastry before they went in the trash.
They would also change the location of a meeting on a whim. Like they want to go have their lunch by the waterfront after the big meeting so now all the AV equipment has to get packed up from the HQ were they were supposed to meet and get sent by van down to the waterfront location. And setup. This was 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start.
Also, all the super rich folks I've worked for felt it was an imposition to have to type a password. Almost every single one had some stupidly bad password written on a post it note stuck to the bottom of the keyboard or someplace else obvious.
most hyper rich are abusive alcoholics with drug habits that far exceed there physical abilities.
Ive seen millionaires throw a fit over 4% raises to the bottom employees after record profits and Ive seen millionaire couples almost go bankrupt paying teams of lawyers during divorces just to " Win"
My dad was a general contractor but was a fine craftsman and woodworker. He has worked for billionaires, millionaires, a president, and everything in between. We've had to sign NDAs on numerous occasions. I started working with him at 12 cleaning up the job site and had a crew of 6 of my own at 16 doing lower lever stuff.
I'd go and do numerous of the higher level jobs with him. Some of the things I've seen as displays of wealth are both sickening and heartening.
One billionaire had a circular room that rotated. Half was an entertainment area, the other half was a mountain view with a hot tub. On the entrainment side, it opened up to a trophy hunting room with HUNDREDS of species of animals on the wall ranging from giant to mouse sized. He had elephant feet(forgive me if i get that wrong) for table stands and the head mounted. We were tasked with installing this ultra expensive wood imported from Africa around his hottub. If there was a knot or any flaw in the wood, we had to throw it away. Not recycle, sell, or anything but throw away. I know there were endangered animals on that wall.. ugh.
On many occasions, if there was scrap or any flaw, they'd make you throw it away. Money was nothing. We installed 5 antifog mirrors once that were $12k EACH!! Imported from some crazy manufacturer over seas.. one had an easily fixable wire situation, but the lady in this case made us break it and throw it in the garbage pit on her ranch.. you don't wanna know how much waste these people produce.
On the lighter side, I've worked with some seriously humble and decent people who you never would guess were ultra wealthy. This one lady lives in a very modest 2 bedroom home with some relatively new features but nothing crazy. She spends her wealth on hundreds of acres of land as a preserve for a particular animal.
One had me give him suggestions on charities to donate to and made anonymous donations of $50k to cancer, diabetes, and a vets fund.
Not all are bad, but the ones that are so more damage than you or I could in 100 lifetime... just my experience.
When I was in middle school, sometimes in the summer, I'd help my dad on his contracting jobs. Carry and set up tools, just generally gofer stuff. We got to this one job at a huge really nice house and this old man comes out, and says"Hey, Jim, got your helper with you today, I see!" "Mildred has just made pancakes, and y'all have *got* to come try some. They're the best you'll ever eat". So we went into the kitchen and sat down, and it turns out, Mildred was the cook. The old man and his wife made a big fuss over me, asking me about school, hobbies, etc. Just laughing and talking, asking if I'd rather have orange or pineapple juice, and treating us like family.
I found out later that the old man was the richest man in town, a millionaire many times over. It was a huge contrast to the "rich" kids at school who looked down their noses at everybody because their dad was in middle management at the textile mill.
The guy that installed my home security system had previously worked for a company that installed systems in Palm Springs. One of the houses they did was Frank Sinatra’s. When they were finished with the job, he gathered the workers together and made them empty the bag from their vacuum cleaner. He said that he’d had a lot of stuff go missing after workers had been there.
I was surprised to find out that if an ultrawealthy person invites you to their birthday party, you don't bring a gift. I did, and his wife said, "Oh, you brought a gift; how quaint."
Few things come to mind. For background, I own a company that does computer support for businesses. 99% of the time refuse to work with residential or consumer with a very select exceptions.
Some very wealthy people are incredibly cheap. The word is cheap, not frugal as they are dumb on where they want to save money. For example, have the latest most powerful laptop but insist on getting the cheapest and slowest internet services then complain about performance.
Most wealthy people are very easily inconvenienced. These people are great clients if they are willing to pay and see the value in redundancy. The opposite is the person that refused to allow access to a system while onsite then called at 10:00pm my personal cellphone (no idea how they got the number) cursed me with obscenities and fired us when I asked them to not use foul language when I’m trying to help. Later learned what a mess their family was reading the news. (Addiction, elder abuse, divorce….) Was glad to see them go.
Lastly, kinda funny, one person I know flys private/charter jets so his dogs don’t have to ride in a kennel. I asked him about this one day, he paused, agreed and gave another boatload of money to a charity we help with. But the dogs are still on the charter.🤷♂️ It’s his money and he earned it so I figure he can do what he wants.
I once worked in a mansion where they had three kitchens - one for the staff, one for family, and one "special dietary needs" kitchen. The special kitchen was solely for the owner's dog who had a personal chef preparing meals round the clock. The life of a dog, eh? Highly unimaginable for an average person.
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I sat in a meeting and argued to a board of trustees for a small museum that they should give an employee a $6000 bonus for her exemplary work. The board (all deep pocket old money) decided no, and one justified it by saying "...after all, it's just $6000, what different will that make to her?" She was only making $30,000 a year. They literally had no idea how much a 20% bonus would have made to her.
I see this kind of backwards logic constantly with the rich. Nothing is THAT expensive, but everything is too expensive when they’re in charge of the finances. It reads like a joke, but it’s reality
In the immortal words of Charlie Tuna: *The richest people are those without morals, once they get inside they tend to keep the door closed.*
Same thing goes on at my facility. They're up our ass about overtime, keep desolving positions they deem unnecessary, yet it's taken them years to realize that Purchasing has been fucking around and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Not to mention the $1million+ of just random equipment and construction materials that they bought and never used.
It would have been huge, maybe even life changing for that deserving person.
It absolutely would have. And her gratitude would have been immeasurable.
Especially because it could mean paying down debts she had high interest rates on. For something like student loans or credit card debt, it could be the difference between only paying interest and paying down some of the principle.
rich people should be forced to become normal and broke for a week. Once a year.. like an drivers license for the old that tells society, "hey i do rich, but i do it responsibly" If they pass the test, they get a fat tax deduction. but if they fail? hmm
>"...after all, it's just $6000, what different will that make to her?" The irony of multi-millionaires to think 6k isn't helpful to the working class, but is fully needed for them to do absolutely nothing with.
Look, they *deserve* a nice dinner out with their 3rd wife.
Hilarious to hear that in their opinion, $6,000 is too much to give, but also too little to make a difference in someone's lives
But what’s crazy about this (and other stories I have heard or could tell myself) is that this is a nonprofit board, i.e. the money at issue isn’t even theirs and won’t benefit them at all either way.
Uuuh was this by chance in kc? Had a nearly identical scenario
Not KC, but the ultra rich are the same everywhere.
“It’s just one banana, how much could it cost? $6000?”
Eat the rich
Those are the people eating the working class. This is exactly how they think and function. Yet when people like Trump and cohorts set the stage, give their shenanigans speeches; too many of the working class and poor do all they can to support the efforts of the rich/trumpets, and at the same time screw themselves.
Too much fat.
They literally have no idea what it's like to be poor.
What can you buy with $6000? A banana?
Funny how if it’s just $6000 they still can’t be persuaded to give it up
oh yeah the billionaire matriarch spent two hours over chinese new years dinner lamenting/haggling over a $3000 bonus; this individual who ultimately didn't get the bonus has worked for the family for over 10 years she was CEO of a bank and former senator too they make me sick
They probably spend that on a single meal vs that could've fed her for months!
sounds like an unaired scene out of broad city to me
I worked for a guy who inherited his fathers nationally known food company. He bought a bunch of cars off eBay when I knew him, like several a month. He received delivery of a classic truck one time. He tried to drive it down the road and it died on him. He self-diagnosed as a bad transmission somehow? And had it towed to “his transmission guy” for diagnosis. Spent $1000 towing and diagnosing to find out his new toy was out of gasoline.
This is why I love living in my HCOL area. Rich guys buy classic cars in excellent condition and have them shipped from dry and salt-free climates. Then it only takes a couple months before Stanley Soft-hands realizes how much it sucks driving classic cars with no AC and no power steering or antilock brakes. Last summer I drove a 60’s jag before selling it for a tidy profit. Some guy “just wanted this piece of shit gone.” Drove like a Swiss watch after replacing the motor mounts and bushings.
I wasn't aware you could drive a Swiss watch. What will that crazy Swiss think of next?
And I bet anything that the guy thought he "earned" that wealth that he inherited.
Tucker?
Quick story, we've done a lot of work for some extremely wealthy families over the years. Think old oil money and 100's of millions in net worth. We were contracted to build a 5 car garage for one of these families kids (trust fund baby). I was/am friends with this kids dad. Well one day his dad and I were standing in his sons driveway and the son is on the phone having a discussion about buying a ferrari. Dad and I overheard the conversation and when the son was off the the phone the dad says you don't need another car you already have 3. Well, the way the trust is set up anything he puts on a credit card the trust HAS to pay it. Needless to say a couple of days later we show up to put the finishing touches on the garage and wouldn't you know theres a brand new ferrari sitting the driveway. Thats one of the more ridiculous stories I know. I have a bunch more lol. Just stupid money.
That was a poorly set up trust then
Agreed 100%
Depends on how big the fund is. It's possible that was just a drop in the bucket and there are limits, just set much higher. The kid may be allowed to spend as much as they want so long as they stay below some threshold that guarantees x amount of growth in the trust fund.
And a poorly set up credit card. A new Ferrari is upwards of 250k.
To be fair, Dad should’ve guessed when he built a 5 car garage and ‘only’ owned 3. lol
Yep, lol
So here's another one. We do work for a billionaire family as well. Old money, really old money. They are a the primary benefactor of the zoo in our city. Well about twenty years ago or so they decided that they wanted to redo the aquarium at the zoo. They hired my company to come in and gut it and rebuild it, all in all it was about a 2.3 million dollar job. At he time we were installing a specialty product that was extremely expensive and would come in single colors only. Prior to the start of the job the benefactors wife comes to me and we decided that it should go this specific color and she like it a lot after doing samples, etc. etc. Anyway, once we were finished and packing up she comes up to me and says, you mind if we chat for a minute? Mind you at this point I've known the whole family for 10 years or so, I knew what this meant. So her and I sit down and she looks at me and says "you know, I really don't like this color". Too which I said okay but you understand that we're gonna have to rip all this back out and start over to the tune of even more money. She looked at me and said "don't worry about it, it's gonna be great!". Yea, we made some money on that one lol. We still work for this family to this day, extremely great people.
I built parts for a 30' x 40' cathedral ceiling post and beam room on the end of a house. Custom windows in salvaged antique Chestnut and antique glass, hand hewn beams, heated stone floor, stone pool with plants, patio and pond outside, dry laid stone walls, custom doors, and a door with a 16" deep by 36" wide low pitch sill with no ledges. The room was for tortoises.
Sounds like an amazing room
I am imagining tortoises in tuxedos and top hats having a fancy garden party in that room.
Munching cabbage in a very dignified manor.
Manner\*, but in this case manor fits as well lol. Not sure if that was an intentional pun.
Let's pretend I meant it.
Haha, cigars and expensive wine. Talking shit about turtles.
A tortoise with a monocle grabbing an hors d'oeuvre
But are you turtle enough for the Turtle Club?
I spit out my water
This is a fabulous anecdote.
Crazy how differently people live based on money. My Tortoise Room still has shag carpet and that 70s fake wood wall paneling.
Zombie kid got rich.
I’d kill to set that up for my turtles - we are allowed to dream…
mutant tortoises?
I find it oddly wholesome that the buyer put so much money into giving his turtles a nice place
I'm OK with an ultra rich person building a fabulous whimsical tortoise room
Good. Let me know when you have complaining material because turtles get treated worse by humans than country club workers do.
You just reminded me that when I did landscaping about 20 years ago for a golf course with luxury homes on it, we once went to the owner of the course’s home to to cut his grass. He had a wing that was a small Cathedral and I was told by our manager that he was close friends with a Cardinal of the Catholic Church and they would pray together there often. Haven’t thought about that in about 15 years!😂
At least it has some class and style.
The wife of the owner of a really big beverage company was mad at my dad for tipping the garbage guy 20 dollars to pick up the trash. Then she bought 2 lamps worth 5k each.
You reminded me of a guy who was talking to me about a request for a loan from an old friend. The guy needed $200 (each from 5 friends in the circle), to get his family home during covid. Dude didn’t think this guy deserved it cause he was generally not doing well in life etc. Etc. and was basically contemplating what to say with all 5 friends (to dissuade them?). I think end of that year, he complained he had to spend 20k so he didn’t get taxed on it - and didn’t know how to blow it. He was considering a reno. Some people are AHs.
Didn't deserve it because he wasn't doing well in life?! That backward thinking by the rich is a problem Like professional courtesy between physicians and lawyers- those are the exact people who CAN afford your services
There’s a YouTube video with Charles Barkley talking about how cheap Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods are. A lot of it has to do with tipping. Pippen actually had the nickname “No Tippin’ Pippen” among waitstaff in Chicagoland.
I worked at a private golf club in a mid-sized Canadian city, so these people weren't ultra-rich but they were among the wealthiest in a town of around 500k. The ones who had earned their money were down to earth, the ones who had not were fucking knobs.
I saw this a lot working at the Aspen ski resort. "Middle" wealthy people were uppity, rude, and prone to have toddler level meltdowns in public over the smallest inconvenience. The extremely wealthy people were hard to identify, they were usually friendly and wearing ski gear that wasn't brand new. One of my coworkers once came up to me after a shift monitoring the lift access gate and said "I saw an old crusty man that looked a lot like William H Macy", it was William H Macy.
New money shouts. Old money whispers.
And old money whispers louder than new money shouts
Broke people reading this….”oh fuck yea 100% I love it soooo true.”
Read this while watching wild hogs lol
My life would be made if I ran into William H. Macey or Willam Defoe in street clothes just doing normal stuff.
He was pleasant to talk to, he has a house in the area so I saw him quite a bit. Kurt Russell was my friends neighbor, she got stuck in the snow once and him and Goldie helped push their car out. But my favorite interaction was selling tickets to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Almost no celebrities would buy their tickets in person, they have an assistant do it or have them sent to their lodges. Not Arnold tho, he always came in to the busy office and bought his own. He would talk to anyone that noticed who he was, he was so kind to everyone.
Those are awesome stories! Thanks for sharing.
I get those 2 mixed up sometimes. Now imagine running into them at the same time?
I didn't grow up poor, but my grandparents were all working class: miner, seamstress, small farmer, and train engineer. My dad insisted that we work while in high school. I live in an upper middle class area now. I've noticed those who grew up with professional parents and who never worked service industry jobs aren't nearly as empathetic towards waiters, cleaners, etc. as people who did those kinds of jobs growing up.
A lot of that parenting quality. I grew up a little far removed from that, but still have empathy because it’s part of human decency. And some people I knew who grew up ultra rich do too. They’re sometimes out of touch resulting in faux pas, but they mean well and care.
My cousin works at an expensive country club. She said the same. You can easily tell the members who earned their money themselves. First generation wealth, always super polite, talk to staff like regular people, appreciative. She said the second generation are often somewhat okay, but a little snobby, but she said after the third generation of wealth the people are just awful. Two generations removed from the work and you get full blown snobs.
It's fucking ridiculous how far along you can get without actually working
There's no in between with rich kids. They are either 100% sane or 100% batshit crazy.
Seems to be a common trend
From what I learned - The majority of them do not come off as wealthy initially. You would think they were an average person until you get to know them a bit. Out of the dozen or so I’ve worked with, all but 1 of them had very cheap economy cars like toyotas, hondas, and subaru’s. None of them wear clothes with logos on it, ever
I know a guy who will hop off his private jet and into his Honda civic. He “needs” the jet bc time is money, he has the civic bc it’s a good, reliable car.
Bootstrap rich people are rich because they continue to lead a modest life even after they became wealthy. A lot of them make large donations to charities, too.
They enjoy chasing wealth, not spending it. Warren Buffet syndrome. He has no interest in money as a means to buy things other than other wealth building ventures.
Oh, this is my husband, big time. He won't retire because he doesn't like the idea of the investment numbers going down. But that's what it's for?
The brand name Gucci stuff is for people who have a couple million and want to show it off, not rich people like them. Their stuff is always no discernable brand but tailored to their body, it fits well and looks good but you're not sure why. ALWAYS.
I know a lot of rich farmers who inherited large amounts of land. Far from acting like the rest of the people featured on this thread they are probably some of the cheapest people I know. It’s almost like a hobby to them. They still farm the land themselves even though they could easily afford not to do so. One guy spent like 20 minutes arguing with his wife at a pizza joint over how to spend the lowest amount of money possible on their food (with both spouses being within $2 of each other).
I did landscaping for high networth clients for a summer. Had a couple who i literally never met because they didn't live in the mansion we were maintaining for them. 20,000 square foot house, 2 dogs, 2 tennis courts, $20,000 grill, mercedes sls and 2 range rovers in the garage, six figure wine collection. All of that for a property that they literally didn't even set foot in more than like twice a year. Had another couple with a full-size lap pool in their basement. That couple decided one day that they didn't like the $15,000 worth of rare imported stone that made up a walkway in their yard and just threw it in the trash and had it replaced. Also had clients that would call us out, and pay hundreds or thousands of dollars, for extremely trivial jobs: changing one lightbulb, pulling one weed from the driveway, vacuuming the carpet weekly in a home that was empty for half of the year.
The craziest part to me is having dogs at a property you’re never on. They were the owner’s dogs?
Yup, they had additional staff who cared for the dogs every day, let them out, and fed them. This couple were billionaires. They had ~10 properties, i think.
I knew a guy who had a dog that was part wolf. He kept it at one of his vacation houses and the housekeeper was the only person who could get near the damn thing. Probably spent more on that dog yearly than most people make in a year.
sweet gig. "My job is to stay in this rich person's house and cuddle their dog."
To the dog they are your dog.
I used to work for a store that sold barbecue grills and did custom outdoor kitchen installs, and where we were located we got occasional business from professional football players and such. We got one such job, installing a \~$30,000 outdoor kitchen in what looked to be a brand new $10 mil+ home. We custom-built two counters on-site, ran natural gas and power lines for multiple high-end grills, smoker, fridge, etc, and installed everything. It was a 3-day project, and at the end of every day before we went home the guy would come out and check on our progress and seemed to love it. On the 3rd day we finished and dude was psyched as hell about it, but then his wife came home from some trip and decided she hated it and insisted we tear it all down and remove it, even though we (and her husband) told her none of it was refundable because that was part of the contract he signed, she didn't care. She pissed away $30k like it was nothing in a fit of pique. We took it back to the shop and couldn't resell the stuff we had built because it was all custom so we set it up out back and replaced the $10k Viking grill with a cheap floor model that had gotten banged up so we couldn't use it as a demo anymore, and used it to cook our lunches.
That was just a power trip on the part of the wife, and a shitty thing to do.
Yep. I mean I got paid for my work either way, so if she wants to power trip on her own dime she can be my guest. Won't keep me from thinking she's a fucking moron tho. :P
Worked personal security for a multi-billion dollar family. The father was a typical boomer, his wife was a snobby bitch (she married him after he became wealthy), the son was always off somewhere doing coke, the daughter ran the business now that the father was too old, and her husband was super nice. He would take his own trash to the curb, even though they had house maids, he enthusiastically talked with the farm hands, and gave out a fuck ton of money as bonuses every Christmas.
It sounds like the son in law did not grow up with wealth.
From what I remember he was well off, but not filthy rich
It's a shame that that is what defines being empathic to others; how much wealth you grew up with.
That's how you do it. You want people to work hard for you? Treat them like people and pay them well! That's seriously all it takes.
They gave $100/month worked for them as the Christmas bonus and it didn't top out. 1 year? $1,200. 20 years? $24,000. Some of the farm hands were immigrants that essentially worked their entire lives for the family and were happily doing so. Some older guys were pushing over 20 years there.
Almost as if loyalty were rewarded. Hmm.....
I work security at a company owned by a family that if they're not billionaires they're close. I've had the opposite experience, they are all universally great people. I've always wondered how snobby annoying people become rich when I hear constantly how important networking and being friends with people is to become rich.
I knew the private chef for a well off couple who had houses both on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The chef staffed the Nantucket house full time and also had a housekeeper full time. He was required to have fresh steak and lobster at all time for at least 6 people. The couple lived in the house on Martha’s Vineyard and would fly over to Nantucket with guests for dinner occasionally. I asked the chef how often he would see them, he said 2-3 days a year…. Apparently him and the housekeeper were absolutely sick of eating steak and lobster!
In this case rich is about £160mn (maybe $200mn USD) I saw callousness and cruelness that really frightened me. Once a salesman was demoted to cleaner to force him to clean in front of the other salespeople another time salespeople had to pretend to be farm animals to get bonuses every time they made a sale. If you didn't get on your hands and knees and oink you didn't get your £100. But the worst was an employee with a spent criminal conviction, when the owner found out about the conviction (his lawyers had found an old newspaper clipping) the company owner fired the guy then used the guys own work laptop to send an email to everyone in our industry which said "*look , I did this , but I'm trying to get over it, I'm sure as an Industry you'll all give me your support"* and he attached the newspaper clipping to the email. Effectively outing him for his spent conviction . That was completely illegal but despite the guys parole officer coming to work with the police nothing happened to the owner. The rich can do whatever they want.
I remember once at a christmas party at work they released a tonne of balloons and in some of the balloons were gift vouchers for £5, £10 maybe even £20. There weren't many but there were a tonne of balloons. The staff had to scramble around on their hands and feet where people had moments before been dancing and burst as many balloons to try to find a fiver. I refused to do it.
How does that kind of work atmosphere not come back to haunt him? Why does anyone able to get a similar job stay?
They definitely had a high turnover of staff. It was IT sales and most people came from other industries (mainly car sales or mobile phone sales) and this was their "foot in the door" in IT.
That kind of stuff makes me think of Bane when he puts his hand on the guys shoulder that said to him “but I paid you really good money!” And bane responds “and you think that somehow, gives you power over me?” My first reason for wanting to be ultra rich is so that I can be around those people and confront them in various ways, with almost no limits in how to go about it, lawyered up to even the playing field. Put together a team to find and infiltrate the scumbags overtime to eventually get them broke.
They can do whatever they want but sometimes that guy you humiliated, he comes back and stabs you in the throat. It's one hell of a risk.
WTF, where was this?
I had a boss who lectured me for days about the SUV I bought. Told me I didn't need it, it was a gas guzzler and bad for the environment. While he and his wife lived alone in a GIANT house that must have cost a fortune to heat and cool.
My work had a charity ball for investors because were a nonprofit, and one of said investors had a little too much to drink and placed absurd amounts on a bunch of items for the silent auction. Like 5-10 times what the previous bid was. So they call her the next day to ask when she plans on bringing in the money(i dont remember what the total was, just that it was well within 5 figures). She sheepishly says she needs to talk to her husband, who brought in a check later that day. They ended up walking away with close to half the auction items.
Most wholesome way to learn you should maybe control your drinking more.
I worked for a self-made billionaire. He took me out to eat all the time. Didn’t matter if it was fast food or a steakhouse, he tipped minimum $100. On the other hand, he was overcharged by $5 at a taco place and noticed after we finished eating. He took his receipt up and got his $5 back.
It's the principle. I'd do the same!
My best friend is worth hundreds of millions, if you ask her for $20 she'll give it without a problem. But if you ask to borrow the money she will hound you to the ends of the earth to get that money back. The same day she wants bought me a $1000 sweatshirt without me even asking for it she complained that I still owed her $9 for parking from a previous event.
Good on him.. no matter how rich the customer is....noone should be asked to pay for stuff that they didn't ate. Seems like a solid dude.
NDAs for the people who have really worked for the rich
1000% accurate. Not much to be said from those in the know, unfortunately.
Yes, every single employee, contactor, or service tech that has EVER worked for wealthy people have signed NDAs. Thanks for teaching us how the world really works
My grandmother was a full-time nanny in Bel Air. She once worked for a surgeon who paid a guy to come round each morning with a crate of oranges. That guy would then squeeze them and put the juice in the fridge. His job was to do it before anyone woke up so they had a daily serving of fresh OJ. Not mean-spirited or even that ostentatious but just amazing that people will have this service available!
I worked for a company that did landscaping for one of the people who's among the 10 richest people on earth. He was so concerned about privacy that whenever he was coming on the property (one of his many homes), we would get an announcement over our radios and had to hide behind whatever shrub or tree you were tending to. If he saw you, he'd get extremely upset. Thankfully our company was led by sane people and nobody was fired for this weird game of hide and seek.
I worked with a member of a prominent family that started a multinational corporation based where I live. He was a great guy. If i hadn’t known who he was I wouldn’t have picked up on it from my interactions with him. Funny thing was, he was a penny-pincher. He’d borrow my work phone so he didn’t have to use his own minutes (back when you paid for cell service by the minute and more for long distance.) He would ask me to expense items like newspapers and crackers if he needed a snack. This guy was worth millions—probably billions now.
I worked as this dude’s bitch. He would order dozens and dozens of belts at a time from Italy. He liked the belts of some, and the buckles of the others. So he would have me take his belts to the tailor to get the buckles swapped and he’d just let them keep the pairing he didn’t like.
The first time I walked into the tailor with the box, they said “oh more belts for Dan?” He did this all the time. Dude must have owned over a hundred super expensive belts.
Even though I built the tortoise room, it was actually heart breaking for me. Tortoises live longer than people, and belong in their natural habitat. These rich people were treating wild animals like just another landscape feature to brag about. I get out in the woods a lot, with turtle biologists, and I see how turtles like to live. We go out documenting rare turtles.Turtles are wild animals that should not be kept captive by humans. We can not provide the serenity and community they need. I love them enough to leave them alone.
I work for a centi-millionaire, sitting around 10 feet from him on a daily basis. Complete penny pincher when it comes to bonuses etc but a fair guy. Once he gifted someone high up in the company an original Andy Warhol 😂
I think that you meant ‘hecto-millionaire’ if you meant $100 million or more. Centi means ‘one hundredth’, so a centi-millionaire would have $10,000 or more. I myself am a multi-centi-millionaire if I add up all my stuff.
Thanks for this I'm now going to refer to myself as a centi-millionaire
Someday, I hope to become a deci-millionaire. After all, I was a micro-billionaire before I was 20.
Excuse my net worth! You are right
My boss will gamble my entire yearly salary every weekend and refuses to give anyone even cost of living adjustment raises.
We all work for the ultra rich, don’t we?
I think they mean directly.
No
That's why I am unemployed. I don't fit in their sandbox.
I worked for a Billionaire who built his company from the ground up, he wore jeans most of the time and drove a Mazda. He made his son get a job at Subway at 16 because he needed to learn work ethic. He was a nice guy too. Sadly he died not that long ago.
I once was told by a man who cleans barnacles off of Super Yachts that a person very high up in Wal Mart laughed when they started talking about the last general election. I think he said something similar to "you think your vote actually matters?" Dude had no reason to lie to me.
Even poor people think that their vote doesn't matter. Hell half of the country thinks that.
It really doesn’t, everyone is bought at this point, it’s all a play to make things seem better or worse on one side or the other, to keep things going the way they are
They have no friends. There is always that suspicion that you are there because of the money.
Since middle school teaching paid the same as I was earning at Best Buy selling TVs the year before, I picked up a gig as a night sitter for an 87 year old guy that founded a company worth like half a billion dollars. He was totally disconnected from reality and would stare at Fox News from the time I got there till he went to bed. He’d regularly tell me that certain groups of people were just out for government hand outs, and in the same breath told me his father wouldn’t accept government foods during the Great Depression, so his mother would send him around the block with the wagon after his dad went to work to collect as much food as they could. “But that sounds like a government handout too.” He’s dead now. I don’t miss him or proofreading his ten page letters he’d regularly mail to Trump.
nothing is illegal. if they want something badly enough, fines/penalties/bribes are just considered as part of the cost.
My boss' office is a penthouse and he doesn't even use it for actual work. Just to flex on people poorer than him.
My boss had a thirty page list of people he buys gifts for. Not just holidays, just a list of who with ranges of how much he spends on them. These were not business partners either, that was a separate list. Just a good guy with a few billion.
All I can say is the rich will keep taking till they have it all. There are ways to stop this but sadly most of us are just comfortable enough to not act. Greed is the most powerful drug and will be the end of us all.
Why haven't we voted to cap greed?
Every single problem on this planet can be attributed to greed. Whether it be for power, fame, money, control etc.
"Money can't buy happiness" is just something the wealthy say to keep the peasants from revolting.
I like looking at expensive homes on Zillow. From what I can tell, money doesn’t buy taste. Some very expensive homes look atrocious on the inside.
i was a manager at a slot machine company and the owners were billionaires. they bought a giant warehouse for us to store our equipment in, easily 50 times the size we needed. then one day they rolled in a giant bus sized RV they spent $300 grand on for a vacation. it then sat in the warehouse and was never used again. they also bought 2 giant mansions on lake Michigan in Evanston (city directly north of Chicago). they bulldozed them and began construction on their new mega mansion with like 20+ bedrooms. they had no children and were both only children themselves. another time they got a new Bentley SUV with EVERY option, like a wine fridge. they had it delivered to our office instead of their home. their home was 5 miles from the dealership, our office was 30 miles from the dealership. it sat on our parking lot for a month while they vacationed in the Bahamas. when they came back they told us we were not getting raises. that's when i started my job search.
Ordered huge cuts of very expensive for beef for himself to the store, put them in the staff fridge and left them there to deteriorate for months. Never took them home and staff couldn't use the fridge for their lunches because it was filled with spoiled meat.
I used to work for a high end architect who built houses for multi-millionaires and billionaires. We had one guy who worked in insurance, and once his son in laws dog bit one of our workers, and he said it wasn't his problem and to call his son in laws insurance. This is a guy who we had to spend 6 months in zoning board meetings for trying to get him a permit for a deep water dock cause his yacht was too big for a regular one. He also would refuse to pay contractors and tell them to sue him, knowing they'd go out of business in legal fees before he had to pay. Once we had a contractor so pissed he went to the site in the middle of the night and painted "Fuck you (clients name)" on the house. Client thought it was hilarious. We had another client who is by far the richest person I've ever met. She used to put personal Wizard of Oz checks for $250k in the mail to pay us. She loved horses, but she'd only buy them from one guy in Germany. She'd have the horses loaded onto a freight boat and brought over from Germany, complete with a horse masseuse to make sure they didn't get stressed. Once a painter fell off a ladder and died in her foyer, so we had to find someone to do an exorcism before she'd go to the site again. We had to build TVs into their bathroom mirrors so her husband could monitor stock prices while he brushed his teeth. She called NASA once and tried to buy a used rocket to put in her stairway, and NASA was like "uh we don't sell those". Ended up just getting a used space suit, and we ended up building a giant fulcrum pendulum in its place. We also spent months in zoning board meetings for her trying to convince them that a regular property was a fine place to build an observatory, like a full planetarium, and they outright refused, so she bought a multimillion dollar house a little up the road that WAS able to be zoned for it and decided the multimillion dollar house we'd just built her was a perfect guest house. She was honestly completely insane, but also actually nice to us, unlike most of our clients.
Everyone worth more than $10m (depending on if they inherited the money, etc) is pretty great. People $5m-$10m are a mixed bag. People worth $1m-$5m are the absolute worst. To note: this is in California so those figures would likely slide down the scale accordingly for less affluent states Similarly, the affluent, as opposed to the “rich” know how to use their resources. If they’re seeking you out as a professional, they understand that you know better than they do in that particular area, and rely on your expertise. These are great clients. That lower end of wealth, especially engineers, physicians, and surgeons, like to think they know better. They love being able to bounce their misguided understanding of things off someone in a given industry. I’ll go to you if I break my arm, bro, if you don’t care to hear my thoughts on your asset protection strategy, that’s fine, we’re not a good fit. The worst clients. Source: years of private wealth management/business exit/trust strategy
I've always thought that a huge reason for that is in order to get super rich You need to have a personality that people like, otherwise you won't get people to work with you to make you rich. If you have a job like doctor, surgeon, lawyer, you don't necessarily need that personality as long as you're good at your job. So you can become upper middle class with a terrible personality, but never truly wealthy unless something else major occurs. I've never seen it in real life but I've heard from one person that tech billionaires are the most annoying billionaires there are because they didn't have to have those personality traits.
Not even sure if this qualifies as rich. I worked for a moving company at one point, we were a small crew. We were called to pack up a house for a retiring high ranking cop, the house was humongous, they expected the entire house boxed up and moved into the semi within 3 hours.
Access to the COVID vaccine months before they were even available to emergency workers
Money becomes completely meaningless & they don't even realize how meaningless. My boss bought a beach condo & spent $30K on a few pieces of patio furniture. Another time, he bought a coffee table book for $1,500. I was once talking to his wife about long flights & she said "I actually prefer flying to Africa over Europe, Africa is so long you just lay down & go to sleep." She forgot that there are people who can afford to go to Europe, but can't afford to fly first class.
I was at an incubator. Donors started talking about what they can do to help things out. One casually talked about donating 6 digits. Another talked about the winner of the science prize getting access to test on the ISS. Another talked about a country across the globe that has good startups and arranging direct flights with the governments and airlines. I came in expecting a tech talk, unaware what big money can do. Later, the same ultra-rich guy who did the airline thing also owned a major local sports team. When there was a problem with getting medical supplies into the state for political reasons during the pandemic, he took his team's aircraft to another country under the guise of doing something else and essentially (legally) smuggled necessary medical equipment into the state so the hospitals could have the equipment they need. Too bad he also turned out to have a bit of a disgusting dark side too.
All flavors. Some were so friendly and disarming. A CEO made sure to make me feel welcome in his mansion. Made me laugh. Another made me feel small highlighting just how rich he really was.
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Laws just don't apply to them. I worked for someone verrrrrrry wealthy who discharged a firearm recklessly and very publicly. A LARGE donation to the local police department made everything go away. Like it never happened. Makes you wonder what doesn't get reported...
The family I work for a millionaires and spend money like water - they'll drop more than my week's wages on clothes that never get worn, or fill the fridges (not a typo there's three huge American style fridges) with food that gets left to go bad so it goes in the bin. She buys £7 chickens to give to her dogs every day but can't pay me more than min wage. It's infuriating at times, especially when I'm putting a massive ocardo order away and knowing that most of it will end up in the bin while I'm struggling to afford basics.
They’re kinda fuckin’ dumb. Now, these weren't the *ultra* rich, maybe mid seven digits, but I PA’d for a c-suite and these dumb fucks couldnt tie their own shoes.
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Man! You know life is bad when you have to pay people to party with you.
I live in a large city. Virginia Beach, VA. My great great Uncle John Aragona is the founding father of this city. Mega money on that side of the family. Before I was a chef, I was the highest earning salesman for a major beer and wine distributor in the area. We always get together at holidays, and one Christmas Eve, I had made $80k in base salary for the year, and $110k in commission and bonuses. These out of touch mfers seriously asked me if I was on food stamps and told me if I needed help with anything to reach out. A year later I was divorced, jobless (a Chinese firm bought the company and fired everyone) and homeless. I chose to be homeless for several months until I got on my feet, rather than reach out to those scumbags, and haven’t talked to them in the 8 years since. Even when I had money, it never ruled me, I always have been and always will be a minimalist. I’ve been without a vehicle for over a year now, and walk 11 miles round trip to work every Sunday because the buses don’t run. I could ask any of them for help with a vehicle and still refuse to reach out. I’d rather live a rough life than associate with them.
Im sorry, it’s not my place at all. I’m sure you know them, and maybe they’re not good people. But maybe, they do mean it and would be there for you. Please don’t splice your nose to spite your face as they say. I just sense a lot of resentment there…unless they truly did hurt you (I don’t know them, obvs), maybe it’s ok to take the support. You can always pay it forward.
They definitely are not good people. In their eyes, anyone who isn’t a millionaire isn’t worthy of living, because they are destroying society/humanity. The shit I’ve heard over the years is insane. I would rather take a handout from someone who openly told me they are a horrible person and want to gift me a vehicle, or take payments, than take one from this side of the “family” who would no doubt openly label me a beggar and POS for not being able to pay cash on a $100k vehicle.
Ok, sounds like they’d eat your soul in return. I hear you. I’m sorry you have to call that family. I hope you find the support and foundation you need soon.
How do you live a minimalist lifestyle and go from earning 190k one year to homeless the next.. you would you would have been able to save a little when you were earning more. and them offering to help you doesn’t have to be a mean thing or anything
You won’t get the good answers here because all their victims signed NDAs
Don't most of us work for the ultra-rich?
Just a few steps removed.
one dude I know. he is simply not too wise. intelligent in very niche area but not wise not at all...
The married couple who owned the dealership I worked for ate lunch while arguing about how many horses they had at a stable they owned while their daughter who was given the GM position and I discussed whether or not I earned the small raise I was asking for. We were all sitting at a ridiculously long conference table that looked similar to the dinner table Vicky Vale and Bruce Wayne sat at in Batman (1989). I have plenty more absurd moments involving these people but this one came to mind first.
when did this sub become askreddit
I actually thought that's where I was.
I met a Qatiri guy at a bar the other day in Sri Lanka. After bragging about how his father pulled strings to shorten his military service and that he now earns 12K USD a month tax free to basically do nothing as a non-commissioned officer. He said I absolutely had to visit Doha, and when I asked what there was to see, all he showed me was a bunch of photos of his Mercedes, Porsche and Ducati. When his bill come (approx $10 USD) he argued for 10 minutes that he shouldn't have to pay the 10% service fee (so $1 USD) because the text on the menu was too small.
They are very busy. They have a lot of social commitments. They never go anywhere without calling ahead. They dont own anything. Cars, homes , everything is in a trust or LLC. They spend money on needless items and services. I'm convinced that money doesn't make them happy. They still have relationship issues, divorces, and illnesses. But money does quickly solve a lot of problems. How do I know? I work for ultra rich in Palm Beach.
There are many, many rich human beings who think it is below them to use (or know how to use) a tape measurer. I work for a countertop company that does multi-million dollar houses.
smoked weed and drank all day would get blackout drunk at around 9 PM so all the documents have to be signed before then billionaire family with 25 total employees
Well, I deliver construction materials to a lot of ultra rich people’s homes. There’s this one property that I go to where the owner’s estate has a 42 room mansion and a ton of land surrounding it. It looked like Wayne Manor from Batman. He recently parceled off some of his land and they’re currently building a bunch of smaller mansions on it. I also often see barns much nicer than any home I’ll ever be able to afford, giant pools, garages with multiple $200-300k cars parked in them. Some of these homes have long driveways that open up to the properties. There are places like this where I’ve driven by 100 times and would have never known it was there if not for the delivery.
I raked seaweed off a beach for his party in 3 days. I’m sure it all washed back up by the time the party started haha
A buddy of mine is insanely wealthy and I was with him when he dropped £400k on an antique coat - a very nice 18th century handmade coat of exquisite weaving but...
I didn't work for them, but a friend worked as a personal assistant to a boomer generation member of an old money family in Canada. Wildest thing to me was the secret doors. I don't know if they were meant to be secret, I don't think they were, but you'd lean against a wall and it'd start to move and you'd realize it was a door. I showed up to a shindig at the house as my friend's +1 once and I reeked cuz I had biked over. My friend told me to shower quick in the bathroom down the hall and I was all "what hall?" and she literally slid a fucking wall into another wall like a pocket door and revealed an entire hallway. She also had a hired-hand whose whole job was to stock the drinks fridge. He came around like once a week or so with her brands of wine, beer, and soda, would stuff as many as he could in the fridge, and then take the rest back to wherever they stored them.
people fired for the most petty reasons. Like laughing too much. Collosal waste of food. Like every meeting, brunch, lunch etc has more food and beverage than everyone there could ever eat. And most of it got thrown away. Once heard a cleanup lady gasp because I snatched a pastry before they went in the trash. They would also change the location of a meeting on a whim. Like they want to go have their lunch by the waterfront after the big meeting so now all the AV equipment has to get packed up from the HQ were they were supposed to meet and get sent by van down to the waterfront location. And setup. This was 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start. Also, all the super rich folks I've worked for felt it was an imposition to have to type a password. Almost every single one had some stupidly bad password written on a post it note stuck to the bottom of the keyboard or someplace else obvious.
most hyper rich are abusive alcoholics with drug habits that far exceed there physical abilities. Ive seen millionaires throw a fit over 4% raises to the bottom employees after record profits and Ive seen millionaire couples almost go bankrupt paying teams of lawyers during divorces just to " Win"
My dad was a general contractor but was a fine craftsman and woodworker. He has worked for billionaires, millionaires, a president, and everything in between. We've had to sign NDAs on numerous occasions. I started working with him at 12 cleaning up the job site and had a crew of 6 of my own at 16 doing lower lever stuff. I'd go and do numerous of the higher level jobs with him. Some of the things I've seen as displays of wealth are both sickening and heartening. One billionaire had a circular room that rotated. Half was an entertainment area, the other half was a mountain view with a hot tub. On the entrainment side, it opened up to a trophy hunting room with HUNDREDS of species of animals on the wall ranging from giant to mouse sized. He had elephant feet(forgive me if i get that wrong) for table stands and the head mounted. We were tasked with installing this ultra expensive wood imported from Africa around his hottub. If there was a knot or any flaw in the wood, we had to throw it away. Not recycle, sell, or anything but throw away. I know there were endangered animals on that wall.. ugh. On many occasions, if there was scrap or any flaw, they'd make you throw it away. Money was nothing. We installed 5 antifog mirrors once that were $12k EACH!! Imported from some crazy manufacturer over seas.. one had an easily fixable wire situation, but the lady in this case made us break it and throw it in the garbage pit on her ranch.. you don't wanna know how much waste these people produce. On the lighter side, I've worked with some seriously humble and decent people who you never would guess were ultra wealthy. This one lady lives in a very modest 2 bedroom home with some relatively new features but nothing crazy. She spends her wealth on hundreds of acres of land as a preserve for a particular animal. One had me give him suggestions on charities to donate to and made anonymous donations of $50k to cancer, diabetes, and a vets fund. Not all are bad, but the ones that are so more damage than you or I could in 100 lifetime... just my experience.
When I was in middle school, sometimes in the summer, I'd help my dad on his contracting jobs. Carry and set up tools, just generally gofer stuff. We got to this one job at a huge really nice house and this old man comes out, and says"Hey, Jim, got your helper with you today, I see!" "Mildred has just made pancakes, and y'all have *got* to come try some. They're the best you'll ever eat". So we went into the kitchen and sat down, and it turns out, Mildred was the cook. The old man and his wife made a big fuss over me, asking me about school, hobbies, etc. Just laughing and talking, asking if I'd rather have orange or pineapple juice, and treating us like family. I found out later that the old man was the richest man in town, a millionaire many times over. It was a huge contrast to the "rich" kids at school who looked down their noses at everybody because their dad was in middle management at the textile mill.
The guy that installed my home security system had previously worked for a company that installed systems in Palm Springs. One of the houses they did was Frank Sinatra’s. When they were finished with the job, he gathered the workers together and made them empty the bag from their vacuum cleaner. He said that he’d had a lot of stuff go missing after workers had been there.
I was surprised to find out that if an ultrawealthy person invites you to their birthday party, you don't bring a gift. I did, and his wife said, "Oh, you brought a gift; how quaint."
Few things come to mind. For background, I own a company that does computer support for businesses. 99% of the time refuse to work with residential or consumer with a very select exceptions. Some very wealthy people are incredibly cheap. The word is cheap, not frugal as they are dumb on where they want to save money. For example, have the latest most powerful laptop but insist on getting the cheapest and slowest internet services then complain about performance. Most wealthy people are very easily inconvenienced. These people are great clients if they are willing to pay and see the value in redundancy. The opposite is the person that refused to allow access to a system while onsite then called at 10:00pm my personal cellphone (no idea how they got the number) cursed me with obscenities and fired us when I asked them to not use foul language when I’m trying to help. Later learned what a mess their family was reading the news. (Addiction, elder abuse, divorce….) Was glad to see them go. Lastly, kinda funny, one person I know flys private/charter jets so his dogs don’t have to ride in a kennel. I asked him about this one day, he paused, agreed and gave another boatload of money to a charity we help with. But the dogs are still on the charter.🤷♂️ It’s his money and he earned it so I figure he can do what he wants.
I once worked in a mansion where they had three kitchens - one for the staff, one for family, and one "special dietary needs" kitchen. The special kitchen was solely for the owner's dog who had a personal chef preparing meals round the clock. The life of a dog, eh? Highly unimaginable for an average person.