43 Genuinely Awful Things Ex-Employees Of The Rich Witnessed That Will Make You Want To Say "Eat The Rich"

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A portion back, we asked employees of the affluent and almighty successful the BuzzFeed Community to stock the worst behavior, requests, and complaints they witnessed from their affluent bosses. Here are immoderate of the astir messed up.

We besides utilized replies from these Reddit threads.

1. "Long ago, I was a server successful a Country Club. I was precise caller to decently opening vino bottles. I was utilizing my cardinal to instrumentality disconnected the foil and gashed the webbing connected my manus badly. There was a hubby and woman astatine the table. I enactment down the vessel and was astir to permission erstwhile helium said, 'Who told you to halt pouring?!' I picked it up and poured the wine, dribbling humor each implicit the achromatic tablecloth."

"I past went outside, had a smoke, and thought astir my life."

u/SleepyCountingSheep

2. "A person of excavation was a idiosyncratic adjunct to a pistillate who got a caller canine each year. She'd get escaped of past year's canine due to the fact that she didn't similar them erstwhile they grew up. Like WTF??"

u/celebritynoodz

3. "I worked for a institution wherever the employees were paid and treated similar shit, portion the enforcement unit were paid similar kings. They ne'er paid for the vacations they took. Meals, equipment, guns, and beauteous overmuch thing other you could deliberation of were paid for by the company. Each year, they would spell connected a institution hunting travel to Africa. Every erstwhile successful a while, they'd instrumentality a random travel to different state betwixt their African trips. They'd alert archetypal people and enactment successful 5-star hunting lodges costing respective 1000 dollars per nighttime per person. The hunting tags they bought were for animals similar elephants, lions, cheetahs, etc. These tags tin outgo upwards of $80,000 EACH. The worst portion astir each of this is that the animals were baited successful and changeable from a vehicle. No existent hunting involved."

u/das_ape

4. "I worked for idiosyncratic who owns sports teams. He had his chopper onshore connected a younker sports tract portion helium ran successful for meetings, and a clump of kids' games had to beryllium canceled due to the fact that of it."

u/Positively--Negative

5. "He paid disconnected the household suing his lad for intersexual battle and misconduct against their daughter. The owner's lad was 23, and the miss was allegedly 16. I don't cognize the nonstop amount, but it had to beryllium a mates of cardinal to marque them driblet it. Rumor astir the bureau was that this wasn't the archetypal incident, and that the proprietor was bailing his lad retired of a apt situation condemnation for years."

—Anonymous

6. "My multi-millionaire brag wanted maine to springiness commencement on-site with a doc and a nurse, and past person the caregiver instrumentality attraction of the babe until my displacement was over. He said 'epidural and all' and offered maine $10k to bash it. I was his *receptionist*."

InsertWitHere

7. "I interned astatine a accumulation company. The CEO made maine spell get a caller Blackberry for him. It took 4 hours to spell downtown due to the fact that it HAD to beryllium bought successful downtown LA for immoderate reason. When I brought it back, helium opened the plastic, turned it on, and asked, 'What the fuck is this? Why aren't my numbers connected it?' 'Well, it's marque new, you haven't updated it yet...' 'This is useless, what the fuck person you been doing for 4 hours?!?!' 'Well, I was...' SMASH. And helium threw it connected the ground. Literally. Just smashed it. 'Fucking useless.' I was flabbergasted."

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8. "When the COVID vaccine archetypal came retired successful December 2020 and was initially meant for lone nursing location patients and frontline staff, the service reserve squad and the Department of Health came to administer the archetypal doses astatine the nursing location I worked at. The proprietor brought each his yacht nine friends and flew successful his household from retired of authorities to get the vaccine. They stood astatine the beforehand of the enactment earlier old, sick radical and nurses to get the shot. I was disgusted."

—Anonymous

9. "I utilized to beryllium the adjunct of a personage lensman successful NYC. Mostly hep hop celebrities and New York nightlife. This feline fucked truthful galore women down his wife's back, it was obscene. If we worked until 3 a.m., which was common, I would person to clang astatine his place, oregon other I would person to beryllium successful Penn Station for hours until the archetypal NJ Transit train. He made maine slumber connected the floor, adjacent though helium had a couch; I had to slumber connected the floor."

u/ThisIsMildlyRelevant

10. "My aged millionaire brag picked a penny up disconnected the store floor, handed it to me, and said, 'There's your wages,' past walked distant laughing to himself similar the mustache-twirling villain helium was."

u/Smugallo

11. "Do you cognize however successful Succession the Roy household has their unit springiness distant wealth aft antagonistic interactions with the public? Well, that 100% happened ALL THE TIME with my boss. This feline erstwhile stabbed a dilatory walker from down with his umbrella. I gave $300 arsenic an apology."

"The last breaking constituent of maine quitting was erstwhile an aged pistillate successful a wheelchair got connected the elevator successful our building. ... She was having occupation remembering what level she needed to get disconnected on, truthful my brag pushed maine implicit and deed 2 and erstwhile the doorway rapidly opened (we each got connected the elevator connected the archetypal floor) he pushed her retired highly astir and said, 'Figure it retired earlier you get backmost on, you aged ratty hag!' She got $4,000 and agreed not to property charges since I made up a fake communicative connected the spot astir however my boss's champion person died and helium wasn't successful his close mind."

—Anonymous

12. "I worked for a owe institution successful Arizona, and my boss, [redacted], would connection america luncheon but past would marque america wage for it. Then we overheard him and his woman telling the adjunct to see everyone's luncheon successful their disbursal study truthful they would get reimbursed for the afloat thing."

"[He] ne'er offered america a afloat paid lunch, but past wanted to bargain from the institution and us. He besides would bash super-illegal worldly successful the owe world, similar fto unlicensed radical punctuation borrowers' rates and bash applications. I caught connected to his different slimy ways and tried reporting him to HR, and they didn’t bash anything, truthful I conscionable quit."

—Anonymous

13. "I worked for...a backstage state nine for skiing successful Vail, Colorado. We got a vigor telephone that 1 of our members was being brought down by skis patrol successful a toboggan, and to get acceptable to person the injured woman. She got retired of the toboggan, the skis valets grabbed her gear, and I assisted her to the clubhouse with her limb implicit my shoulder…until we were retired of presumption of skis patrol, and she said to me, 'Oh, I'm fine. I was conscionable bushed and didn't privation to skis down.' Then proceeded to inquire maine what wines we presently person successful the bar."

—Anonymous

14. "I enactment with (or for) this truly aged feline who is successful his eighties. He tells maine stories each the clip from his past of each the chaotic crap he's done determination earlier coming to America and making his luck here. The state helium is from is known for corruption. He was the lad of an influential and affluent politician. In his teenage years, helium did immoderate helium wanted. He said girls utilized to flock to him nary substance what due to the fact that helium had wealth similar that. There was this 1 miss who didn't springiness him immoderate chances, and helium truly wanted her. So helium threw her into the car, took her to the mediate of the forest, past coerced her into having enactment — aka rape. The girl's dada recovered out, and helium complained to the police. Instead of taking my CEO to jail, they made up a phony complaint against the dada and threw him successful jail. The dada was forced to driblet the charges for his freedom. The police, the judge, and immoderate idiosyncratic with power were successful this guy's pocket."

"That's 1 of the astir fucked-up things I've ever heard, and helium told the communicative astir arsenic if helium was arrogant of it."

u/BreakDaCycle

15. "I worked astatine a paper wherever we hadn't gotten a rise for 8 years. The owner, a notorious poor-mouther, was obscenely affluent — helium owned 31 papers that helium had inherited. He flew into our municipality connected his backstage jet. He proceeded to archer us, yet again, that determination would beryllium nary raises due to the fact that profits were down, and that wellness security premiums would astir double, on with hikes successful deductibles. Mind you, I was making $11.50 an hr arsenic a reporter/photographer. He past sent america backmost to enactment and had a brunch catered for the 'big shots' successful town."

"Oh, and the institution charged each newsman a $5 interest to usage OUR idiosyncratic car security for mishap sum portion we were connected institution time. I near soon aft and ne'er looked back. What a freaking jerk of an owner."

fizzy59

16. "A imaginable lawsuit talking astir their enactment successful an equatorial country: 'We're conscionable astir astatine the constituent wherever we tin commencement charging the locals for water, which is precise exciting.' I declined the job."

u/eastblondeanddown

17. "I worked for a concern brokerage proprietor (think realtors, but for businesses). When helium was acceptable to semi-retire, helium cooked the books to marque the steadfast look MUCH much profitable than it was. It worked, and the caller partner/owner was VERY confused erstwhile the concern wasn't doing well."

"The worst portion was that the caller proprietor near a super-cushy occupation for this business, and yet helium and his woman had to spell backmost to enactment full-time to supplement their income since the concern didn't execute arsenic they'd been led to believe. Shortly aft that, I discontinue due to the fact that of the shadiness, and my brag (the archetypal owner) legitimately offered to bargain maine immoderate brand-new car I wanted to enactment since I knew each his soiled secrets. I refused."

—Anonymous

18. "I was successful complaint of the video accumulation team. For 1 project, I was doing a video with the CEO of the company. The committee had conscionable decided to bring connected a backstage equity steadfast for an infusion of currency successful anticipation of taking the institution public. The CEO and the different partners got a HUGE bonus erstwhile the equity steadfast came on. We're talking millions of dollars. The intent of this video with the CEO was to archer the unit that everyone was going to request to 'tighten their belts' and recognize that things were going to beryllium thin for a while. Benefits were going to beryllium cut. The sick permission and clip disconnected policies were going to change, etc. During a interruption successful shooting, the subordinate of the CEO's unit that was coordinating the sprout asked the CEO, 'How's your Bentley treating you?'"

"The CEO went connected a rant astir however his Bentley was successful the store again, helium hated the car, and helium had truthful galore problems with it, and it was ever having small issues. When helium yet finished his rant, the feline asked the CEO, 'So what did you thrust to enactment today?' The CEO answered, 'Oh, my different Bentley.' He was doing a video astir the fertile and record unit needing to tighten their belts; meanwhile, helium had fractional a cardinal dollars successful cars."

—Anonymous

19. "The woman of a high-net-worth antheral who was the CEO of a institution successful the USA said astatine meal 1 time, '(insert husband's name), wherefore bash you invitation the assistance to person meal with us? Then they volition deliberation they are connected our level.' I americium presently their location manager and was like, 'Hello! I americium sitting astatine the aforesaid array you are sitting; I tin perceive you.'"

dontmesswtexas

20. "At an aged job, I had a breakdown due to the fact that I had not been paid successful six weeks. I virtually was incapable to devour and was walking to enactment due to the fact that I could not spend gas. My brag recovered maine crying and told maine I was being 'petty' for wanting my wealth and asked me, 'Why don’t you conscionable unrecorded disconnected of your savings?' I was a 21-year-old caller assemblage grad who wasn’t getting my paychecks — what savings???"

u/azulweber

21. "We each had to instrumentality a 25% wage chopped astatine the commencement of the pandemic truthful the institution could enactment successful business. For perspective, that 25% was however overmuch my rent is. After a mates of months, my brag phoned the bureau to archer america astir the $80,000 pitchy helium chartered truthful helium didn’t person to alert backmost to Canada from Mexico connected a commercialized flight. The institution paid for the jet."

"Needless to say, I discontinue soon after."

—Anonymous

22. "At a institution I worked for briefly, the brag decided to chopped wage for each the managers. I was not affected, but it was earnestly suspicious that 2 months later, each the bigwigs went connected a institution retreat and were talented hundreds of dollars' worthy of shit, similar truly costly bourbon, leather chairs, play clubs, and bags, etc."

witchyribbon84

23. "I was a idiosyncratic assistant/housekeeper for a well-off household successful NYC. They had a condo successful Ft Lauderdale, and we went down to hole it up to merchantability and bargain them a location instead. It took 3 months to find a house. They harassed the existent property cause nonstop the full time. (I mean, virtually calling her astatine 3 a.m. to outcry astir a location she didn't like) Then asked her to chopped her fees down to fractional of what they were normally. It made maine sick."

pannz1

24. "My ex-boss is simply a French 'count' adjacent though we don't person aristocracy anymore. He virtually has his Uber Eats delivered to 'the Count __.' He's perpetually connected holiday, refuses to bash immoderate work, yet posts photograph aft photograph of himself pretending to beryllium astatine the office, and steals 5,000 euros a period from the institution to wage for the luxury flat that helium writes disconnected arsenic an office. But helium couldn't spend to wage maine much than minimum wage?"

emalamode

25. "I worked for the owners (three brothers) of a backstage slope and managed their properties. One had archetypal variation uncut classical books purely for decoration. He besides had a Rolls, which required caller tires owed to sitting unused for months astatine a clip — the alloy belts flattened from the value of the car. One woman called maine each but accusing idiosyncratic (me?) of eating an $8 pizza astatine their state club, which, aft galore acold much than $8 planetary calls, turned retired to beryllium her lad successful municipality having lunch. This from idiosyncratic with a moving equilibrium implicit $10m connected immoderate fixed day."

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26. "I worked for a feline who was aged money. He was a discarded of space. He couldn't load a stapler. But he'd propulsion temper tantrums. I retrieve mounting him up with a three-day itinerary. Just this gorgeous setup, multiple-page folder, each lawsuit by the hour. He near it successful the rental car to the airport. So I had to expect 12 calls implicit the adjacent 3 days to archer him wherever to go. He couldn't fig retired email connected the road. There were a fewer times helium had to manus maine implicit to a edifice clerk oregon registrar for an lawsuit due to the fact that helium couldn't travel my instructions. He was flipping retired connected maine the full time. He wanted maine to overnight him different itinerary for $120 oregon truthful connected the past day. I explained the concern and the price. The past time was conscionable dropping disconnected the car, past taking the flight. I sent him the itinerary. He past complained astir maine mailing it to him."

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27. "I spent years moving for multi-billionaires successful their backstage homes. One bribed a radical of assemblage researchers truthful that they would reschedule their probe travel connected an icebreaker vessel successful the Svalbard archipelago due to the fact that the main wanted the vessel for those dates, truthful helium could instrumentality photos of polar bears and whales. After 3 days, Mr. and Mrs. some got 'bored' with Norway and returned location early."

u/Sgt_Booler

28. "My brag chopped each our hours successful fractional successful bid to summation the COVID supplemental payments, past bragged that helium didn't marque a loss. (You were expected to beryllium making a nonaccomplishment to beryllium eligible for the supplemental payment. We are an indispensable service.) We each mislaid fractional our wages a week for him to bash this. I, arsenic a manager, inactive had to bash my afloat occupation successful less hours. When helium brought it up precise casually due to the fact that he's truthful retired of interaction with america — who request our wages to past — I precise flatly fto him cognize I was virtually losing my hairsbreadth owed to the fiscal stress. 'Really!?' 'Yes. I enactment hard to guarantee I person a job, but this was wholly retired of my control. There's thing I tin do. I can't get a 2nd occupation successful this climate. It was precise stressful.'"

u/Hellofiknow17

29. "She was the erstwhile president of the committee astatine a cosmetics marque I enactment for. She would guilt-trip america for not donating wealth to her religion (that her hubby and father-in-law ran). I marque 42,000 a year. I hardly person capable for rent and car payments. Yet she is worthy millions. I suspected, and was subsequently right, that her household utilized the religion to funnel wealth and/or usage arsenic taxation breaks (various charities and scholarships)."

—Anonymous

30. "I worked for the CEO of a large bank. This idiosyncratic (K) besides sits connected the committee of aggregate different companies and charities. They were perpetually travelling for enactment and fundamentally ne'er home. They had an 8-year-old kid who was cared for astir exclusively by a nanny who hardly spoke English and spent astir of the time connected the phone, afloat ignoring the kid. The kid had unspeakable grammar and could hardly read. She was precise juvenile for her age. I don't cognize for definite if she had an intelligence disability, but I deliberation she was conscionable truly neglected. She would beryllium by herself for hours watching TV shows meant for toddlers."

"I was astatine the location 1 time and watched the small miss shriek with delight and spell moving afloat tilt towards her genitor with her arms outstretched for a hug arsenic K stepped done the beforehand door. They’d been distant each week, travelling for work. As the small miss went successful for a hug, K said, 'I person to go. My operator is waiting.' And past closed the doorway successful the kid’s face, and near for different week.

It seemed evident to maine that this idiosyncratic is an implicit workaholic who should not person go a parent. I aboriginal learned that determination was a teenager, too, who was successful immoderate preppy boarding schoolhouse and lone came location connected the weekends. It was truly sad."

u/ForeverInBlackJeans

31. "I was a nanny for 4 years. Once, I got sick with strep and couldn't enactment for a fewer days. The ma called maine respective times to inquire what her kids liked successful their lunches."

u/twinphoenix_

32. "'No, you can't person a raise, due to the fact that I conscionable bought a caller location and the excavation is costly to maintain.' The excavation was bigger than my apartment. It was astatine that constituent I knew I had to leave."

u/EmergencyLavishness1

33. "I worked for the affluent feline who owned the institution - I was his idiosyncratic adjunct and did a full assortment of things. He decided to spell connected an 'unplugged' vacation, a sportfishing travel wherever they took you retired by chopper and came backmost successful six weeks to get you. He was shocked to discover, erstwhile helium came back, that the bureau was bare and we'd each started looking for different jobs due to the fact that WE HADN'T GOTTEN PAID."

u/LoomingDisaster

34. "They paid for their ain dumpster and play pickup due to the fact that they ordered truthful overmuch worldly online, and their trash cans supplied by the metropolis couldn't acceptable everything. It was a household of three, and the dumpster was ever full."

u/Eak129

35. "I worked astatine a backstage airfield. The ones wherever we would valet the cars for the affluent passengers. One clip erstwhile an older woman flew backmost successful and we brought up her caller Range Rover, she freaked retired and said it wasn’t her car and that she couldn’t judge we mislaid her car. I went backmost to reappraisal the information portion and spot what car she drove up to the plane, and effort to hint it that way. The rider was yelling astatine the beforehand table that she couldn't judge however inept we were, and that she was reasoning astir suing america if we couldn’t find her car. Cue her adjunct calling to spot however the formation was. The rider was telling her adjunct however we mislaid her car erstwhile the adjunct reminded her she bought that Range Rover conscionable earlier she near for her trip."

"The rider past instantly remembered and haphazardly apologized arsenic she walked retired the doorway to the caller car. Imagine being truthful affluent that you forgot you bought a brand-new car."

u/_Earthbound_Misfit

36. "I was a firm relocation coordinator and had immoderate top-tier, give-them-whatever-they-want clients, and the abbreviated reply is I'm gladsome that I never, ever person to woody with the soulless, demanding pigs again. One antheral sued his housekeeper for eating nutrient that was successful the refrigerator. After she got nutrient poisoning from the food."

u/Kimba26

37. "Our CEO was disquieted astir catching COVID successful April 2020, but wanted to spell to a 'seminar' retired of authorities without traveling with 'the sick people'... So what does helium inquire our accounting squad to do? Price retired however overmuch it would beryllium to rent oregon bargain a backstage pitchy truthful helium could question solo. Yes, COMPANY wealth truthful helium could spell connected a mini-vacation disguised arsenic a work-related expense."

—Anonymous

38. "They utilized the backstage institution pitchy to spell sojourn their location successful different authorities dozens of times, but charged employees to usage that aforesaid pitchy erstwhile they were forced to evacuate during a hurricane."

—Anonymous

39. "I worked for a pharmaceutical company. A lawsuit called to kick that UPS wouldn’t present her OTC quality cream. The reason? The country was evacuated owed to the California wildfires! She virtually said she could spot a neighbor's location connected fire. She wanted america to interaction UPS and the constabulary to coordinate the merchandise being delivered."

u/DescriptionSame4512

40. "Teenage kids taking the Gulfstream pitchy to Africa to sprout an elephant implicit outpouring break. Flying their pitchy 3 hrs each mode (~$50,000 total) for a dental appointment. Same day. Dropping disconnected 1 20-something idiosyncratic successful the greeting successful Aspen, who past says, 'Oh, I forgot my dress, spell backmost to Dallas and prime it up for me.' About $30k conscionable to retrieve a dress, aforesaid day. Spending a play successful Vegas, wherever they speech astir spending $250k connected poker implicit the weekend. i.e. Losing $250k. At the aforesaid time, reducing employees’ (servants, not 'real people,' caput you) wellness security sum portion expanding premiums. The stories could spell connected endlessly."

u/Waribashi3

41. "I person respective things I witnessed with my ain eyes. Rich brag throws a immense Xmas enactment astatine his mansion. Pays Ludacris and Snooky to attend. We were each smoking and drinking extracurricular connected the second-floor balcony. He abruptly gets up and proceeds to piss disconnected the balcony onto his guests. Knocked up respective pistillate employees and paid them disconnected to 'disappear.' There were 5 that I knew of for sure, astir apt more. He got sued for 300 cardinal dollars and proceeded to destruct his ain defence erstwhile called to testify. Smug prick, really."

u/warm_pickle

Finally, we'll extremity connected a fewer that were truly the boss's kids, but still.

42. "A person worked for a household wherever the lad pissed that his Range Rover was the incorrect colour. He drove it into the excavation successful protest. He got another."

u/SithLordRising

43. "I enactment for an security company, and we person an highly affluent household connected our books. The youngest girl is 16, and she got a marque new, fully-loaded, decked-out G-Wagon for her birthday. While retired of town, she rear-ended idiosyncratic successful a drive-thru. Rather than inquire the miss she'd conscionable deed if she was okay, she got retired and flipped retired implicit the customized Mercedes logo connected the beforehand of the car that had gotten damaged."

—Anonymous

What's the worst behaviour oregon remark you witnessed/heard from a affluent boss, client, oregon customer? Let america cognize successful the comments oregon via this anonymous form.

Submissions person been edited for length/clarity.

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