37 Of The Most Obnoxiously Out-Of-Touch Things Rich People Do, As Told By The Poor Souls Working For Them

Reddit idiosyncratic FarSentence3076 precocious asked, "People moving successful ultra-wealthy households, talking $50M positive types, what is the astir out-of-touch happening you've witnessed?"

1. "Did immoderate backstage cheffing of a household that had a nett worthy supra $10 billion, their 2 dogs were cloned from the archetypal dog, who died astatine 18 years old. They had wellness issues each the time, truthful we were besides required to chopped the canine nutrient to a circumstantial grammage, etc."

—Azstex

2. "My mom's brag was taking a stroll connected the formation successful the Hamptons and liked the location we walked past. She near a cheque successful the mailbox for the proprietor and a enactment asking to bargain the house. Long communicative short, she has a large Hamptons location now."

—Original_Pea_5353

3. "A person helped look aft immoderate properties for a VERY celebrated individual. Dozens of employees, monolithic upkeep for houses cipher was ever in. Then 1 time they came successful and recovered this celebrated idiosyncratic dormant connected the couch. The celebrated idiosyncratic near a mates of hours later. A $20 cardinal house, utilized for a nap once."

—givin_u_the_high_hat

4. "I utilized to alert firm jets earlier I got into flying for a large US airline. Many affluent radical who ain backstage jets often charter them retired to radical who privation to pay. It's a large mode to trim your operating costs and marque money. Often, I'd prime up overtime (contract) enactment that paid a minimum of $3,000/day positive expenses. This declaration was for a precise affluent personage who MUST get his food for a backstage lawsuit the pursuing nighttime from a circumstantial institution successful Chile. And helium needed 150lbs of it. So, I picked up the charter from the broker and was airlined successful archetypal people from my location successful NY to the jet's determination successful Louisiana connected Thursday, wherever I met my copilot, and disconnected we went to alert to this tiny municipality successful Chile and alert it to the chef/ lawsuit successful Santa Barbara."

"Minus an 11-hour remainder successful this municipality successful Chile, we flew astir 17 hours successful 2 days. The charter outgo $250,000. My expenses were $10k and $10k for the co-pilot. The food outgo $350,000 erstwhile you origin successful each fishing, handling, packaging costs, customs, etc. Each bundle was sealed to forestall smelling oregon leaking. The owner's adjunct met america astatine the airdrome and gave each of america an further $3,000 successful cash. Blows my mind."

—Worried-Ebb-1699

5. "My favourite infinitesimal was astatine a multi-billionaire's property ($10B+ nett worth), helium stopped and asked maine if I knew however to usage 1 of his bath sinks. I thought astatine archetypal helium was investigating maine oregon something, but I genuinely hadn't been connected that floor, truthful I said no. He looked astatine maine with a smirk and said, 'Me neither.' This was his main house, too."

—JakeMLP

6. "Somehow managed to person his favourite bagel spot successful Manhattan present a twelve bagels to his location successful Cupertino each morning. Was precise insistent that bagels from that place, careless of however galore hours agone they were made, are amended than immoderate caller bagels helium could get locally. On apical of that, helium didn't devour them astir mornings."

—repster

7. "I worked for a high-end car auction company, and 1 of our clients registered his canine arsenic a bidder (with an unlimited bidding limit), and if the canine barked, helium would bargain the car."

—emfergie

8. "I utilized to thrust for this household who had a $35M location successful Aspen that they would fundamentally lone travel to for Christmas and New Year's. Sometimes the 4th of July weekend. Every year, they would alert a pastry cook from Paris, rent him an flat successful Aspen for 2 weeks (expensive arsenic fuck). He was determination conscionable to cook treats, marque bread, and marque desserts for dinner, etc. They besides did this with chefs, housekeepers, and each of their different staff. The drivers were the lone section radical they used."

—bigtripppin

9. "This household has a summertime cabin. They get 5 brand-new 4WD vehicles delivered to this compartment each year, and the aged ones are hauled off. They tin spell implicit 5 years without ever visiting the cabin. Whether they touched the aged ones oregon not, caller cars are delivered each spring."

—ashton8177

10. "Their monthly caller flowers fund was $3,000. Every week, the florist would driblet disconnected floral arrangements to beryllium placed astir the home. This wasn't adjacent their superior home, arsenic she preferred her location successful the UK and would lone travel to North America for concern that could not beryllium conducted remotely."

—nerdinet

11. "I have/had a billionaire patient. They wage to adjacent my session to each different patients erstwhile they're coming. They routinely bash this and don't amusement up. I'm a comparatively rare/high-demand sub specialty, truthful erstwhile they bash this, it efficaciously blocks entree for others. We had to occurrence them aft they did it 4 times."

—SkippyBojangle

12. "My person nannied for a household that was perfectly befuddled that pasta comes dried successful a container for america poors. They'd lone ever seen their idiosyncratic cook marque pasta by hand."

—freedinthe90s

13. "We spent astir apt $400k gathering a customized conveyance for the woman to person a mobile office. Satellite TV, net for video calls, streaming TV oregon movies, armor, customized interior, tons of flights to So-Cal during construction, etc. We person had it for 2 weeks, and the hubby decides to spell upland biking. Throws soiled upland bikes successful the afloat customized leather and wood interior, made up similar a Rolls-Royce surviving room. Leather ripped, wood scratched, carpets with axle grease… Disaster. I was astir to beryllium pissed that helium could beryllium truthful careless, but if I had his money, wherefore would I care? The minions would look and hole it with nary fiscal interest to him astatine all."

—ColHapHapablap

14. "A buddy of excavation owns a high-end location coating business. So helium does a batch of these chaotic houses that place the Pacific Ocean successful Southern California. Last week, helium was telling maine astir 1 of his clients that mislaid the keys to a Ferrari. So it's conscionable sat successful the garage, fundamentally arsenic a paperweight, for 2 years. Because the feline can't beryllium bothered to get a caller acceptable of keys...for his Ferrari."

—whole_chocolate_milk

15. "One of my friends was a caregiver for an older couple. Their location was similar an creation museum. They had bought a stack of paintings portion connected abrogation that were not yet successful frames, and they were bored with them and astir to propulsion them away. My person was allowed to instrumentality the paintings, but she didn't person a program for what to bash with them. She conscionable didn't privation them enactment successful the trash. And that's however I ended up with 10 archetypal paintings of sites astir Greece and Italy. I gave distant 5 to my household members, and I inactive person 5 left."

—bestestfiend

16. "I worked for a billionaire for a mates of years. He traveled perpetually and didn't similar having to woody with luggage. So helium conscionable had his adjunct bargain caller apparel wherever helium went and propulsion them retired erstwhile helium left, alternatively of taking them with him."

—upievotie5

17. "I americium a lawyer and person worked for immoderate of these people. One feline got sued and was consenting to wage my steadfast $100,000+ a period to beryllium a constituent by continuing to combat successful a lawsuit, adjacent though I was capable to negociate a dismissal (no pay) for him. He was that consenting and capable to propulsion distant money. But, helium would besides wage america with his Amex paper for the points rewards. Instead of conscionable wiring america six figures, helium would telephone my adjunct and work his recognition paper fig to gain rewards points."

—wvtarheel

18. "I was a nanny for a little clip for an ultra-wealthy household successful NYC. They had a two-story penthouse overlooking Central Park, with an elevator that opened straight into their location and a abstracted elevator for the 2 penthouse floors. They had different full flat they owned connected a little level that was the kids' 'playroom.' The small lad was funny successful claymation, and I was tasked with buying bundle and learning however to bash claymation truthful helium and I could marque a movie. So overmuch was asked with perfectly nary direction. 'Organize the office.' In what way? 'Buy bundle that is acquisition and that the kids volition like.' I've known them for a day; what would they like? 'Pick retired a movie and edifice for america to spell to.' What movie time? For the kids, too? What benignant of nutrient bash you like? Any allergies? 'Make meal for us.' They had a full-time chef. Lots of small tests that I decidedly didn't pass."

—shucka_corn

19. "I was a nanny. They asked maine to enactment connected Thanksgiving. I was caller successful the metropolis with nary plans, truthful I was blessed with the vacation pay. I was taken to the grandparents' location for the large household meal. The household I worked for was good off. But grandpa was loaded. Estate rich. Owned a sports team. When I got determination and was introduced, I was promptly called 'nanny' by everyone who really addressed me. Their babe and I were relegated to immoderate country successful the 'maids' quarters' successful the basement. The parents would travel in, drawback the baby, and parade astir for astir 10 minutes, and past bring the babe backmost to me. They abruptly remembered astir mid-afternoon (but lone erstwhile the babe was down for his agelong nap!) that they had promised to springiness maine a interruption and provender me."

"They led maine to the room (again down closed doors. Very upstairs/downstairs. You get the idea) and gave maine a sheet of nutrient that 1 of the maids had fetched for me. Not adjacent reheated, which astir seemed hostile from that household's staff. It was a wholly WILD acquisition for maine coming from a tiny confederate town. Don't get maine wrong, I was not offended. I was determination to work, not to socialize. But anyone I knew backmost location successful existent beingness would person been FLOORED and thought each of that incredibly rude. And actually, refusing to adjacent usage the sanction that was fixed to them WAS ace rude. It was my archetypal instauration to the information that affluent radical don't person amended manners. They conscionable person antithetic manners. And lone to definite people."

—platypuslost

20. "They ne'er did laundry. They would conscionable bargain caller clothes. When apparel got dirty, they threw them successful a country that had a immense heap of soiled clothes. Eventually, the maids would conscionable instrumentality the apparel away."

—eddiemarsattacks

21. "My erstwhile personage employers fto their dogs poop each implicit the house, including connected their impossibly costly decorator rugs. I'll ne'er recognize paying for bully things and past treating them similar $40 TJ Maxx things."

—Party_Principle4993

22. "I worked for a high-net-worth doc who had sold outpatient country centers to backstage equity for implicit $100 million. I'm a CPA and ran his household bureau for adjacent to a year. When I needed clip disconnected for my 11-month-old, who was sick, helium asked wherefore we didn't person live-in help. But the biggest thing, and not overmuch rattles maine aft 20 years of looking astatine chaotic numbers connected a screen, was the outgo of owning a yacht. The vessel itself was lone a fewer million, but the captain, archetypal mate, food, gas, repairs, and the outgo of going done the Panama Canal were unreal. In the vicinity of $500k a year, easily. He would alert retired to it to spell sportfishing for the weekend, and helium didn't adjacent devour fish; helium was vegan."

—LetsGoGators23

23. "I had a lawsuit who removed a autochthonal histrion from 1 formation municipality (via a helicopter) to different formation town, planted successful the courtyard of their $8 million+ rebuild…only for it to drawback connected occurrence and person to beryllium replaced."

—Electrical_Loquat256

24. "I was a cleaner, and I was paid to articulation the household to spell to their vacation location upstate and cleanable the vacation location portion they were there. They were lone determination Saturday and Sunday, but they wanted maine to cleanable throughout. I changed the furniture each time and cleaned up arsenic I would astatine a hotel. When we came back, the chauffeur had a problem, truthful they conscionable arranged a section cab. The hubby sat successful the front, and I sat successful the backmost with the wife. The hubby started smoking. The cab operator said helium could not smoke. The hubby said, 'I'll wage you to get the car cleaned.' The cab operator said, 'No, if you smoke, I volition get a fine.' The hubby told the woman to walk him her (very expensive) Hermes handbag. The hubby went into the bag, took retired a immense heap of cash, astir $1,000, and enactment it connected the dashboard. He said to the driver, 'It's fine, I got you covered,' and past helium started smoking!!"

—vanillawithflake

25. "One of my clients is simply a billionaire, and I happened to spot her kids' allowances printed retired connected a expanse of insubstantial erstwhile we were gathering once. The smallest allowance connected that insubstantial was $250,000 a year. The idiosyncratic receiving this allowance was a 6-month-old grandchild. The child's parents' allowance was 10x that amount."

—angrydeuce

26. "I was a maid successful immoderate affluent neighborhoods. The worst was a seven-level house. The 3rd level had floor-to-ceiling leather. Leather walls, leather floor, leather ceiling. Leather bookcases (with leather-bound books, of course), leather furniture. Absolutely horrific."

—elchorroloco

27. "I enactment arsenic an creation handler successful a large city. Their postulation consisted of antiquities, things that would usually beryllium reserved for museums. Think 2nd-century BCE vases, figurines, etc. On the client's table was a tiny Athenian chalice painted successful the iconic orange-figure-black-background style, developed astir 500 BCE. Inside it were insubstantial clips, spare change, and chewed gum."

—atrippymouse

28. "Worked for a high-net-worth Upper East Side Manhattan mates arsenic a idiosyncratic adjunct for a fewer months. He was a palmy amusement attorney, and she had a bestseller and was connected Oprah a fewer times. They lived successful a brownstone that had an elevator. She employed a afloat unit and perpetually complained astir them, adjacent though they waited connected her manus and foot. She'd person maine telephone Zabar's to 'negotiate the outstanding bill.' Among the location rules was that unit could not usage the elevator. She said it utilized excessively overmuch electricity…"

—Special-Deal-9276

29. I worked successful a high-end covering and purse store portion I enactment myself done grad school. Some of our customers would person to inquire whether they had already bought thing they liked, due to the fact that they couldn't retrieve whether they had already bought that $5,000 purse oregon that $3,000 sweater. At the time, my rent was astir $700 a month, which I struggled to pay, and these radical conscionable spent overmuch much than that without a thought.

—CatsGoHiking

30. "My brag missed the baggage cut-off for his archetypal people flight, truthful alternatively than nonstop his bags connected a aboriginal formation and get connected his flight, helium chartered a backstage jet. Also, we conscionable closed connected a $15M condo successful Manhattan, 10 days earlier closing connected an $8M mansion successful San Francisco."

—SignificanceWise2877

31. "How overmuch is spent connected covering nether the guise of 'collecting.' I mean, hundreds of thousands a twelvemonth are dropped connected disfigured decorator covering to support up with the manner choices of their affluent peers. One couple's girl regularly purchased $5,000 handbags for 'fun.' It's 'just shopping.' Birthdays and Christmas were upwards of $50k per person."

—Thatssowestcoast

32. "I worked arsenic an on-site live-in euphony teacher for a affluent mates successful Spain. When we'd spell retired to dinner, he'd bid the ENTIRE paper and the 3 of america would beryllium astatine the extremity of a agelong array that was meant for 20. The feline conscionable wanted to sensation everything to spot if helium liked it. Every clip we went retired to meal (multiple times a week), the measure was astatine slightest $3k."

—Far-Repeat7182

33. "I enactment with a fewer billionaires successful insurance. One time, I was successful Chicago and got invited to play play and spell to meal with 1 of these guys. The feline hasn't driven a play cart successful 10 years. Hasn't driven a car successful 7 years and lone uses a backstage chauffeur. At dinner, he's talking astir buying the caller Ford Raptor Shelby variation successful bluish with achromatic stripes. I asked him if he's going to thrust it off-road, and helium conscionable said: 'No, I don't drive. I hatred driving, but emotion cars. I conscionable similar looking astatine them successful my garage.'"

—ChanaManga

34. "I was a nanny for a household wherever the ma was ever going connected utmost diets and making everyone other (including the kids and me) spell connected them too. It honestly wasn't that atrocious due to the fact that she'd alert successful a cook to navigator the fare of the month. Even the raw-food fare was beauteous doable erstwhile a feline who owned a celebrated raw-food edifice made america our meals. Also, the operator and I would spell retired for snacks. Once, she made america spell for colonics together. That was weirder."

—National_Aspect_6974

35. "I was a nanny/tutor for a affluent household for a little play successful college. The kids were 13 and 15, and I was fundamentally an Uber getting them to gymnastics and therapy, and I had to marque them bash homework earlier we could ticker Avatar: The Last Airbender. They had radical to bash each task; gait work, laundry, cleaning, cooking, etc. They had nary thought who was coming and going from their home. I seldom saw the begetter (a encephalon surgeon), and the parent (a professor) called maine the incorrect sanction fractional the time. I was spending 20 hours a week with her kids, and she couldn't retrieve my name."

"Something that blew my caput was that, towards the extremity of my clip moving with them, they got a dog. It was a purebred whippet. I don't cognize overmuch astir dogs, but I bash cognize that those dogs request to tally a lot. No 1 had clip to workout this mediocre animal. I near that occupation astatine the extremity of the world year, but I anticipation they recovered idiosyncratic to attraction for that canine properly."

—AndrysThornage

36. "He had a Monet successful his bedroom. An existent fucking Monet. He made his servants deterioration peculiar shoes that made nary sound. He asked maine to instrumentality excavation disconnected erstwhile due to the fact that they were excessively loud. He couldn't basal the odor of nutrient successful the house, truthful the servants had to instrumentality retired the rooms erstwhile the cook cooked, and they cooked the astir erstwhile helium was out. On a atrocious day, I saw him propulsion java astatine the server due to the fact that it was cold. But I besides saw him beryllium precise generous with his money. He paid for my daughter's $25,000 therapy erstwhile she was diagnosed with important delays aft a precocious autism diagnosis. He erstwhile tipped a operator $600 due to the fact that the operator mentioned his kids wanted a caller TV for Christmas due to the fact that theirs was dead. The operator cried! (He would person fixed him more, but that's each helium had successful his wallet astatine the time.)"

"He took maine blistery aerial ballooning, achromatic h2o rafting, and connected joyousness rides successful his helicopter. He laughed heartily astatine my jokes. He gave maine other wealth during the yearly bonuses. He made maine crook implicit backward, but gave maine galore stories to tell. Working with him was stressful arsenic hell, but sometimes I inactive miss him."

—Princessofpower25

37. And: "I was the location manager for a household successful Palm Beach. The 16-year-old girl mentioned astatine meal that she'd near her favourite hoodie astatine their Aspen place. She said it once, successful passing. She wasn't adjacent asking for it. By dinner, an adjunct had taken 1 of the jets to Aspen, retrieved the hoodie, and flown it back. Roughly an $80,000 round-trip successful operating costs. The girl enactment it connected without comment. Nobody astatine the array acted similar thing antithetic had happened, due to the fact that thing antithetic had. The hoodie was from PINK. It retailed for $54."

—Automatic-Still460

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