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 have reconsidered- is it the fasting Dr, Mindy Pelz?

Why give these ridiculous clues? Most people can work out that you’re talking about Ruby Wax so why all the cryptic nonsense? 🙄

You’ve set the theme tune of Peak Practice off in my head now and it won’t be quelled

I don't think it's dependent on gender. I've experienced lovely and terrible of both genders. My best and worst bosses were both male; my second worst was female.

I know a woman that was 'smoking buddies' with tony Robinson. She seemed to think he was great. But I heard a story about a journalist who went to interview him once at his house and when she'd finished he said 'so are we going to have sex now?' he was being deadly serious. She was a good thirty years his junior. Gross.

Jesus H Fucking Christ to give him his full title

I've worked for a couple of people who were famous in their own field. Have you ever read/seen "The Devil Wears Prada"? It wasn't that bad, but there were many aspects of micromanaging and ingratitude and entitlement that were EXACTLY the same.

@Deathraystare
@SimplyReadHead

Jamie Foxx - Ed Sheeran slept on my couch

I’m trying to work out who this is.

Yep! Ditto my friends son. He had to sign an NDA but said she was so volatile, one minute quite sweet then turned into a raving div. I suspect go faster powder didn't help.

Are you new here? I ask because these types of threads are fairly common and I can confirm it’s about people who have worked for famous people or celebrities etc. it is not a thread about how terrible women are. It just so happens that the OP mentioned the person is a woman. You have massively misunderstood the meaning of the post.

Plenty of my family died but I wouldn't be that rude to strangers! It was Peaches not Pixie who Od'd btw.

@kalokagathos Sorry - I see you've already posted the link.

I met Bob when he was in Australia. He came into my bookshop several times & spent quite a bit. I shipped some books back to the UK for him. This was before his daughter died.

He was lovely. Not very chatty but polite & gracious to people who approached him. When he was running late for a speaking event he asked if I could call him a cab because public transport wouldn't be fast enough.

So there's that. Maybe he's not always a prick.

My son works in am industry that has many famous clients, he said his favorite is Danny dyer as he is always up for a chat and a laugh. They have many events that my son has invited me to but I'm not the star struck person as I was brought up with my dad working in the film industry. My dad's favourite was Clint Eastwood and he got to use his motorbike, my mum said Elizabeth Taylor was lovely and had really tiny fingers as she let my mum try on her engagement ring. But my mum didn't like Peter o toole or petula Clarke.

Ok want to add - all the other women I work with are lovely. Some of my best friends. Even those above me are so kind, intelligent and professional. It is the founder who is the problem.

There aren’t many men in the business but there one who leads a division who is a complete twat. We recently had a photoshoot and he ripped apart the models and how they looked. These models were late teens/early 20s and this man is a father of 3 in is 50s, mind you.

point is female or male can both awful. Sex has nothing to do with this post!

I worked in entertainment 20 years ago in LA. I agree that most celebrities in that industry are quite lovely people. This is because people who are enjoyable to be around get work.

The exception to this loveliness is the men being sexual predators (or just shamelessly always trying for sex if not predatory). Super famous, barely famous, it didn’t matter. Maybe things are different now post-Me too.

I had lunch with Carol Voerderman in 1999.

Well, there were 4 of us, but she was sat next to me.

Very, very lovely - kept touching my arm and hand, as I recall.

Glory days indeed.

Not famous as such but high powered. When I was a student, I had a temp job at a court in a switchboard/office type role. I actually left after a week because one of the QCs was so unpleasant to deal with over the phone. I'm talking really demeaning behaviour that almost had me in tears. They made it quite clear that I was beneath them and basically told me I was stupid for having to learn the switchboard. They would count the number of rings before the phone was answered and criticise my speed. When I answered the phone they simply stated their name and assumed I would know who they wanted transferred to, but being new I didn't understand this and once transferred them to themselves (if you know what I mean) and was then called stupid. Awful attitude and behaviour from someone in such an esteemed role. I never went back after the first week. No wonder they couldn't fill the position.

I think you should just focus on moving on, dwelling on a toxic workplace will never get you anywhere. The celeb angle of your shit work environment is just a distraction. Invest in yourself, and post about how to transfer jobs in the work section if you are confused.

Done a job at Jennifer Saunders house and she was pottering around and made us coffee.

When I did my a levels we went to see some speakers at the Houses of Parliament and Tony Benn was on the billing. He had the whole room of mainly 17/18 year olds captivated. And at the end we all mobbed him to ask questions and he was so gracious and lovely. A real class act.

I'm sorry but my daughter died when she was 24 of cancer. She didn't die of a drug overdose. I'm not rude to people or try to get cheap stuff. Bob Geldof is just a rude ignorant man and if his is saying its because of his loss then that is laughable.

My late husband was a computer game writer and met Alan Sugar when Amstrad was a big thing - apparently he was exactly the same as he is on The Apprentice. He also met Barry McGuigan when he was world champion and DH 's company were doing a Barry McGuigan boxing game - he was a very nice, humble man

Yes, stepson laid flooring for Prince Andrew.
No surprise but he was vile.
They were told not to look in his direction, not to attempt to speak to him etc.
He witnessed the way he spoke to his staff and it was shocking.