Anyone ever worked for truly rich people

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I know they bleed blood but what other things did you notice about them?

Hoarding money?

Do you think it’s gold coins in a box under their bed?

Come on, think a bit, virtually no very rich people hoard money, it’s all out circulating and being put to use.

Out of our millions we probably have less than £50k in actual cash sitting at home.

You can’t in the uk
for example you can’t buy a BA ticket in terminal 5 at Heathrow and that is their home base.

The chances of them flying with the rest of us are pretty slim. They have their own fast track routes through airports as it is, I imagine they buy the freedom to do a lot more than us ordinary people can.

There was a great scene about this in Outlaws Series 1 where Lady Gaby is arguing her horrible father 'always wants what is best for me' and bought her the best education.

It's pointed out to her that he also sent her away from the age of 7

They keep doing it as the culture is 'it's expensive so we bought the best'.

I'll never forget one woman tying herself into knots of guilt about her mum needing to go into a nursing home. Finally her no-nonsense friend pointed out that her mum hadn't felt the same about sending her to boarding school at 7 and the decision got made v quickly after that.

Yes, I am an Estate Manager. I’ve worked for two old money billionaires and some multi-millionaires managing their country estates. Apart from one, they’ve all been very nice and generous. We were provided free housing (for life if you retired there), our bills and council tax were paid, school/uni fees paid, generous gifts.

One definitely treated household staff like family to a certain extent. The household staff were all invited to his sons 21st birthday party for example, along with members of the royal family. No distinction was made, everyone sat alongside each other. It cost millions to throw but we were treated like any other guest there. We were free to use some of their properties for holidays at no cost. They all gave us non-contributory pensions, one even did non-contributory plus matching our contributions on a second pension.

There were unsaid high standards but, apart from one, they never shouted. You could just tell they weren’t pleased with something and it was to be rectified ASAP. Living there, you are on call all the time but that is the trade off for the housing, bills etc…

"Come on, think a bit, virtually no very rich people hoard money, it’s all out circulating and being put to use."

What a crock of shit. There is immense hoarding of wealth by the ultra rich - look at the swathes of London with the lights off as thousands of the most desirable houses lie empty.

Money. I wrote money. A house is not money, it’s an asset. In your desperate need to bash the rich you’ve changed an absolute key word.

I am now a raging communist …

Cash is an asset. Property is an asset. If this is your best response I don't think your defence of the rich will get very far 🤣

Yes, as an architect many of our clients are extremely rich. And famous.

Things I’ve noticed:

1. they quibble over £3
2. they love talking about themselves
3. and fairly often, they assume I’m “just” admin as I’m a woman and won’t discuss their build with me
4. extremely impatient. Like wanting full planning and demolition in one week and couldn’t understand why we had to wait!
5. they don’t give a toss about their neighbours (if they have neighbours, usually a coastal view sort of place)

I just admit, is still be frugal at times, but at other times e.g. Travelling etc. would be excellent.

I once picked apples for an eccentric upper class couple. They recruited me from Hackney Job Centre after all their usual workers discovered they could make more money breaking up carborettas and left on mass.
I had to meet them at their enormous house in west London which also doubled as the embassy for a South American country (I think it would be a little too outing to speciafy whch one).
They were running the embassy for free as "a favour" because this country couldn't otherwise afford to have a diplomatic presence in the UK.
From there they drove me and my dog out to their hobby farm in the middle of nowhere. They were fond of dogs and very happy for me to bring mine along. This was a plus because I was one of those crusty dog-on-a-rope people and viciously opposed to going anywhere without her.
They put us up in their house, which was nice. But they also tried to deduct the cost of "accomodation" from our wages.
I threatened to leave right then and there if we didn't get paid the full minimum wage (My plan would have been to hitchhike through the night to a town 50 miles away where I had friends) and they did back down.
To their credit, they didn't seem to harbour any resentment about this altercation and were perfectly pleasant the whole rest of the time. The woman in particular was a very bubbly conversationalist.
One night at supper (They referrred to it as supper- it happened at tea time!) the man explained that in a straight choice between fascism and communism he would support fascism because "fascists don't appropriate property". That shocked me at the time.
I remember hitch hiking away from the farm and feling this incredible relief to be picked up by ordinary people who instantly felt more familer and understandable.

How disingenuous. My comment was about money. If you aren't now going to claim that a house is money then why not admit that you got it wrong, apologise, and move on?

Rich people do not hoard money, their money is being put to work for them.

One other observation, was many (but not all) were pretty careless with their belongings.

I had to source 5 top of the range iPads for one in the space of a year because he kept leaving them somewhere (on a plane, in restaurant, just basically anywhere).

Another left two very expensive (talking £50k) watches in a hotel room.

It's just "stuff" that can be easily replaced with no more thought than most people might give to replacing a worn out gap tee-shirt. But there was an expectation that people around them would sort these issues out pretty damn swiftly and if that included flying someone transatlantic to deliver a new iPad (all pre-configured and set up for them) - so be it.

As per my pp this was behaviour generally from the upper end of wealth I encountered and it always reminded me of Paris Hilton who took months to realise she was being systematically robbed of designer clothing/shoes/jewellery because she had so much of it, it wasn't apparent anything was missing for a relatively long time.

I've never been jealous tbh. Frankly I think there's a sweet spot with money where you are super comfortable but don't get dragged into a rarified super lux lifestyle that can actually make life harder in an emotional capacity and badly impact relationships with other people (including your own family).

I nannied for one family like this in the mid 90s for 3 months- never had any food in and the woman's very posh mother who was always popping round referred to me as'the help' - as I was mid 30s and had held perfectly professional roles and was doing it kind of for 'a change ' after moving to London -it didn't go down well- and I decided just to office temp for a while instead -

I've worked with very rich people who are multi millionaires ( mostly Movie and music types). Only one Billionaire but the difference was astounding in terms of - if he wanted something, he bought it. Land, property, holidays, clothes, cars, whiskey, Lalique crystal, rent boys... It only had to catch his eye and he was calling his bank. Travelled everywhere by private jet, lived in 5 star hotels rather than buying a place for himself which was such an extravagant waste of money I never understood it. Had drivers and private security on standby 24/7 in case he wanted to go somewhere at 3am and didn't fancy driving himself.
Always dressed in ridiculously fashionable ( like AbFab levels of ridiculousness) clothes.
He was incredibly generous with his stuff though, hotel stays for birthdays, meals out, stupidly expensive bottles of booze as a thank you and so on.
But he was still quite odd. He definitely loved to be the one in control of the purse strings. As far as I know he grew up dirt poor in Glasgow and I think a lot of his egocentric cash splashing was a direct response to that.

My inlaws are millionaires and my FIL is a real nasty piece of work. They're not big spenders, never give money or even loan money (even when their kids have struggled financially) and live very simple, solitary lives without a friend or even another human in sight.

My mil is a nice person, but almost oblivious to how fortunate they are compared to us

I remember watching a show about rich people staying in a hotel. There was a guy, perhaps Saudi, who was extremely rich. Everyday he wore a brand new designer label shirt, every day! No such thing as oh I’ll just get these laundered, it’s a bit of a waste to throw out… nope he just threw them away ( or his maid did).
such a minor point in the scheme of things but it just blew my mind 😂😂

Not giving or lending money to family is not nasty. We’ve done both, and on each occasion it has damaged the relationship.

I also know too many people who never achieved anything, and now feel bitter, because they thought they didn’t need to stick at anything when younger as they would get all that they needed from their parents.

I’ve no idea what we’ll do with our children; they are still babies but we could gift them more money now than they are ever likely to earn in a lifetime. We won’t be doing that.

DH used a shirt service, and each one came back wrapped like new.

He found out that his staff all thought he was buying a brand new shirt every day and throwing them away,

Sorry. I happen to think that putting your money into a variety of investment vehicles is still hoarding money.

Im readng this and can stop thinking of that show Succession😃I still can't get over the fact the billionaire daughter dresses so dowdy.

The amount of waste (most) super rich people create is astounding. They spend their days trashing the world. Its grotesque.

I'm doing some work for some rich people at the moment. They are hugely entitled - they pay the same for the work as everyone else, but they expect far more for their money, and constantly demand different things from what was originally agreed and complain over imagined imperfections. When they ordered the work, they were careful to go for a cheap option, and are doing everything they can to upgrade the work without having to pay for the upgrade. The message is that I am some worthless worm who is expected to be constantly available to them for very low pay. I've noticed similar with rich people in the past. They have passed on their values to their son, who is very focused on money - he's very into high class cars and knows the World Rich List off by heart.

They really think that things like caring for the environment don't apply to them. Their wants have to come first, obviously.