Anyone worked for someone famous?

[FishOnTheTrain]

I’m working in a company for an influencer/z list celeb. She’s well known in a certain group of people and hangs around with some pretty famous faces. She has her own fashion company.

I don’t report into her, but work closely with her and she is an utter bitch. The way she comes across on social media is so…different. Her intern films her for content daily and she puts on such a smiley show. When the camera is off, she’s rude, demanding, bitches about everyone in the team, including members of the team that go above and beyond to make her business a success and make her happy…I could go on.

she contradicts herself constantly, making me feel like I’m going mad. I know if I died tmrw she wouldn’t care. She cares only about herself and her success. She’s not even nice about her husband, who is such a lovely guy.

I want to get out this company asap. It’s just difficult to know where to go and what to do next so in the meantime…has anyone else experienced similar?

I have lost all respect for this woman. She is awful and everyone that works for her knows it.

I will never work for a woman again. Some of the worst experiences of my life which resulted in me taking antidepressants. I agree with you.

Him being tight / entitled isn't the same as him being angry / sad though. So I'm still not seeing how grief causes him to try and get charity shop items cheaper.

Think we'll need to agree to disagree.

I'm not going to start on Bob Geldof in person anyway. And all I said was he's grumpy, rude and tight. Not that he's a terrible person. Whether those things can be explained by grief or not is something neither of us can say for sure!

Who says women are nasty to one another? That’s rather a blanket statement surely?

I was employed in a London office staffed by 80% women for fifteen years of my career, and it was the most supportive and un-bitchy place I had ever worked in.

I’ve known plenty of offices where men are very competitive and where there is a continual willy waving competition going on.

Ime it’s the management of an office or organisation that sets the tone; it’s nothing to with the sex of the employees.

Duh stupid me thought you meant the shop h&m!!!

Agree. Had a brief dealing with him in 2007 during a job and he did seem very up himself and self important when he’s only ever had one semi-hit.

I do feel sympathy for all the losses he’s had, however.

Is that you BoB ?

Yeah it’s probably more his “thrifty heritage” that leads to those behaviours 😂

Some years ago I worked for a very well-known conservationist and broadcaster. He was as lovely and courteous in private as he appeared on screen. Still in touch. One of the best blokes I have ever known.

David Attenborough?

I had the pleasure of 'entertaining' Maggie Aderin-pocock for a while when she came to give a talk at the school I work at. She was delightful and it genuinely felt like having a coffee and a giggle with a friend. Wonderful with the students, staff and the few media that were there.

Not at school but:

Valerie Singleton - a bit sharp.

Hermione Norris - lovely. I often see her around and I know she is really accommodating with charity requests.

Worked with hundreds. The lower down the list, the worse they are. A-listers have teams to handle the annoying stuff and are generally very nice. You’ll find some humble celebrities who are just actually artists dedicated to their craft. Musicians are truly the number one worst. Late, insane demands, and attack-dog management teams. Z-listers like your friend rely on the fact that people are depending on them for a job, but haven’t been humbled yet by the fact that fame is fleeting, and they need to be grateful for the people around them who make it happen. She’ll find out.

@wildfellhall
I met a piano tuner who tuned PaulMcCartney’s pianos who said Linda was the kindest and most down to earth person and Paul was very welcoming and friendly.
Many, MANY years ago (about 40 I think) some family friends ended up sitting with Paul and Linda McC on a train. They said they were down-to-earth, friendly, chatty and all round delightful.

That does not surprise me at all. She lied about being pulled out of class at school when her dad died, in order to flog her dreadful children's books. She was 21 when he passed and she was working on a gameshow and as a topless model. Not in school?! She lied also she attended a secondary school comp in central London when she's from thirty miles away. The school have no record of her.
Weird cow.

DH had a friend who worked with Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia and apparently he was lovely. He had all these pics of PB just hanging out with the team, having drinks etc. (I realised, typing this, that we didn't get feedback on any of the other stars. I wonder what that means!? ) And a colleague of mine met him once on a holiday and said the same. I remember him saying something like, "it took me a while to realise that the bloke I was fishing next to and having a beer with was Pierce Brosnan".

Interesting. I worked for a business that had dealings with him and he was such a complete a-hole to the underlings that he was banned from our section. Maybe he’s mellowed with age but I still can’t watch anything he’s in.

I've had two female managers that were bullies. One time I was so close to crashing my car into a tree just to not go to work, I basically had a breakdown because of the bullying. The second one played favourites, belittled me in front of people, left an email I had sent on my desk with 'corrections' on because I hadn't written it the way she wrote hers (she wss rude in hers). It put me right off working for a female manager.

My current manager is male and he's absolutely wonderful, so calm, never a bad word, never criticises, very understanding and compassionate, has empathy and always finds ways to make work life better.

Just working with women had me leave jobs and self esteem plummeted … if I met them now I think I would keep my dignity but I would like to let them know in no uncertain terms what I think about them
bullying in work place seems to be taken more seriously these days

i will add not worked for but experienced awful treatment from an eastender the soap .. celeb
charity event .. she asked me my name for signing her autograph and I just said “oh I didn’t realise you wanted my name in a friendly way and very pleasantly surprised” and she turned round and said to somebody else” they think I know their names” I was mortified .. and and then I saw her in a late night shop the chemist boots and two young girls were asking for a autograph and I just happened to see her because she lived in our area and she refused point blank to sign their autograph for the young girls. “No i don’t do that “ .. It was so quiet in there nobody would even notice I was paying for something. Happened to look up and saw her refusing the poor girls. I wish I’d gone up to them now said dont take any notice but I felt awkward for them. I didn’t want them to feel self-conscious.
I won’t name her, but she was a very popular character, not on there anymore

That was Jamie Foxx you’re talking about:

Vanessa Feltz was VILE to me when she was a passenger on a plane I was working on. Really humiliating

Speak for yourself!

I worked with someone who met Mick Jagger at a cricket match, (for context she is a good looking leggy blonde) and Sir Mick introduced himself to her and invited her to have a drink with him. She said he was absolutely charming and they had a drink and chatted about the game!

I aspire to be this woman 😂

My ex was Sir Mark Rylance's postal worker for a time. They got on like a house on fire. Apparently he's super nice.

Well he is the BFG so ...

@Newpeep
"Valerie Singleton - a bit sharp."
La Singleton got my SIL fired from Blue Peter when she -SIL- was a newbie production assistant at the beeb, for something that wasn't her fault and she had no control over.
Another presenter on the show asked my SIL to do something (script related , I think) for him, which she did.
Val hit the roof and blamed SIL entirely and would not back down even after being told how it came about. Apparently any and everything had to be run past our Val. (Unfortunately others on the show disagreed.)
She was absolutely vile and utterly unfair to a 19-year old Newbie for no good resson at all, other than the fact that she could.
Many years ago now, obviously.
Other than that, my own experience of working for female managers was that they were much the same as the male ones. Could be divas/arseholes, could be friendly/ efficient.

She was on a celeb dating show and was really awful to the perfectly nice chap she’d been matched with. Did a complete character assassination of him and showed her true colours.
Put me right off her.