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.

Bob Geldof has been known as a complete tosspot from day one. I’ve never heard anyone say a good word about him, unless they had to. Even the people I knew who were obligated to be part of the 2004 band aid and had to lick saint Bobs arse in public would slate him in private. Horrid man.

I definitely think most of us start out nice.

Then after we go through several life traumas we become colder and crueler.

After we go through deaths, break ups, stress. Most people are not extremely nice to strangers.

I feel I used to be nicer to restaurant staff for example.

After going through some huge traumas, I'm now more snappy and cold with people.

But that's because I'm suffering in my own mind. It's nothing to do with them.

I worked for Graham Norton’s company ‘SO TV’ back along, I can’t say that it was a friendly experience.

But you sound so lovely yourself!

Pot kettle black.

I spent a whole evening out with Cilla and she was lovely… and was wonderful with her many fans who kept coming over for photos and a chat.
Many years later …..James Corden was at next table in a restaurant and he was just on the side of being polite to his very patient and good natured waitress. I like to think he’d just had a bad day.

I’m so glad to read this as have come across some horrible rumours about him.

Yes, you're sexist! Opposite of my experience. I've had brilliant female bosses and some awful male ones. Invariably bullies and/or pervs who want to shag you.

Mr Tumble was a bit of a nightmare when it came to other staff but everything you see on TV with him and the kids is totally true - he’s amazing with them.

@SimplyReadHead this made me laugh. I presume they didn't address him as Mr Tumbles. I've a mental image now of him with his red nose going around the place until (master of disguise as he is), he removes his nose and walks around the studio like a normal bloke and no one recognises him.

How can you get a picture of who I am from one post on a forum? Good grief.

I’ve lost my baby to stillbirth, my son, my mother when I was a child. I know grief. It doesn’t give me permission to act like a rude twat.

If so I served her in Woolies once - rude!

Again, I don't see why your daughter dying means you should feel entitled to argue the toss that you deserve a hefty discount on charity shop items...

Oh god, bloody "influencers", could there be a more vacuous and shallow way to earn your keep? I have this morbid fascination with watching them on YouTube and Instagram with their effing gurning faces and tapping fingernails. They all seem to really think they are something and I am not surprised to hear that they tend to be horrible. I am sure that in their heads they think they are talented A list material when really they are our era's equivalent of fairground barkers

Because it's his grief that is making him angry!

He literally said in an interview how bad his grief is. He said that losing his daughter was unbearable. And he said that he would just think he was capable of doing something normal again like going to the shop, but when he was in the shop that he would be hit by such am overwhelming wave of grief, that he would go outside and cry.

Are you related to Bob or work for him or something??

No.

I just read the interview when he talked about his unbearable grief for his daughter. He said that he can't bear never seeing her again

And so I remember that he is struggling

And I do the same. Losing my adult son is still very raw. I barely function. But I am not rude to others, even though I am dying inside.

Plus, it’s well documented that he was always awful.

I don't think its right to form an opinion on any famous person based on one interaction. Manners are always required but expecting them to be nice is a bit much. I'm usually pleasant but have grumpy moments, but I've never gone to a cafe or shop and had people look at me and whisper behind my back and analyse everything I do, from what I purchase to how I speak. Knowing that at any moment that person could shove a camera in my face without permission and share it. I can't imagine that pressure. I think they are forgiven for keeping the head down and being sullen. Being difficult and a A**hole at work or to staff at home is different.

Yes actually. I was assisting in an interview she was giving for a magazine although this was around 6 years ago. She is a yapper and talked about fish and chips for ages 😂 she was so so bubbly and happy. Like sunshine personified and made everyone's day with how lovely she was.

Of status quo, which was the rude one?

Dh briefly met Mick Jagger - he was very cheery, a jolly decent sort.

Not in my experience, they have been good natured and good humoured. Perhaps I have been lucky. My two female managers made me feel depressed and anxious.

David Tennant was a disappointment. Snappy, rude and had a sense of entitlement. I thought maybe he was stressed and ignored it but the other staff said he's usually like that 😔

The thing is, most people are struggling with something.

I think everyone has a story that would break our hearts. So while we are here I’d rather make life a little more bearable for people because there is already so much pain.

Pain and loss is not a reason to be cruel. Otherwise where does it end? With everyone hurting each other?

I know someone who does hair for big events and on the whole, she's had terrible experiences with celebrities

Now, that is sad.

That's a good attitude!