If you were worth 500 million, would you give more than a €15 overpayment for babysitting

[Likeimaliveagain]

Recently did babysitting (like I’m 15 🤣 I’m a teacher and can earn €15-20 per hr for sitting in a huge house for the night-can’t say no! 🤷🏻‍♀️) for a well known face (v nice guy) They paid the hourly fee…wasn’t a huge amount this time through the agency I was with -€12 per hour, then his wife hanged me around €13 over-sort of Leo the change type thing and acted as though I should be forever grateful..I was grateful as they didn’t *Have to do that…but it did make me wonder if I was worth almost half a billion…I’m sure I’d give a fair bit more

*Keep the change

Rich people are often tight as fuck in my experience.

It's how you stay rich being tight 🤣🤣🤣😩

YABU - why should they pay more for the service you'd provided which had an agreed hourly rate? Just because they have more, doesn't mean they need to pay you six times your hourly rate or something ridiculous 😂 they were nice enough by overpaying and not asking for the change!

@yonce I dunno, I think if I was *That wealthy, I’d probably enjoy just handing over say even a €50 note to someone looking after their kids or cleaning their house etc

The richest people I know are also by far the tightest! Some are terrified of being taken advantage of, or worried about looking like they’re showing off. Others are of the ‘I worked hard for this money, why should I give it away?’ mindset.

I used to love the very average middle-class family I babysat for as a teen. The parents would always come home drunk and shove far too much cash in my hands. One time they overpaid me by about £50 and my mum made me go give it back the next day (but they wouldn’t take it!)

You agreed an hourly rate. Next time charge more.

Tbf… this is true. My oh proves it regularly

his heart is in the right place but he thinks coffee out or stuff like that is a total waste, and he’s right

He’ll spend money on big ticket stuff more easily than spending £50 on something that’s not adding value.

I used to do lots of babysitting. It’s usually the super rich ones who begrudge paying and will count it out to the exact amount. The more average earners would often round it up or tip extra (and would be the ones to leave out snacks too!)

This. It's not being tight to pay for things as agreed. I think it's off to expect extra just because someone is wealthy. That's nice you'd want to generously tip, but to expect it isn't OK.

They are paying you for a service and you got a tip.

They’d have a very weird relationship with the world if they overpaid people all the time.

What, €50 extra? I'm just confused at the idea that they're tight / mean for not overpaying by enough for you (given that they did in fact overpay you over and above the agreed rate) 😂 Also you don't truly know how wealthy they are, cash in the bank wealthy - it's all very well and good you thinking in their position you'd be lobbing €50 tips at people here there and everywhere, but you're not - and they did over pay you 🤷🏻‍♀️ they don't need to overpay everything just because they have money, that would be weird

I was in a baby sitting circle no money just hours accrued. Had to bath the children, pyjamas, teeth bed time story. Huge mansion no heating on in January. No tea tray left out. I was frozen and the drunk pair rolled in at 2.30am on a week night. I never went there again

Thing is, oh family are crazy bonkers rich. They are constantly getting people trying it on. one of them has to start shopping for all her godchildren in September she has that many. All manner of people come for you when you’re ridiculously rich. At the lower level, you see it a bit and you have to be wary.

You have to pay the fair amount, on the button, as quoted with a bit of leeway. Tips need to be appropriate. Oh will bargain, a bit, it’s a force of habit, but once it’s agreed it’s solid and paid immediately. People respect that.

if you don’t respect your money, the kind of people you’ll attract will come for it. Oh Exw’s a horror show. A huge amount of reeducation had to be done with the dc who thought he was an atm.

If, I was minted and I appreciated your service and you were good at providing that service, then I'd be more than willing to give extra, as it helps to build a good business relationship, @Likeimaliveagain

@Hawkins001 Me too. I think the wife did see the overpaying as giving extra and it was and I did appreciate it…just hard to comprehend that amount of money..is it comparable to me giving my Dds babysitter 2p 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

That sounded stupid…but you know what I mean

I used to work for a couple of babysitting agencies in London back in the 90's/early 2000's, I have to agree, those with money are tight as fuck and will make a big song and dance about counting out every little penny rather than just hand you the money or round it up. I had several very wealthy families that used to make a big thing about not having the right change, and to be honest, I purposely never took change because I couldn't deal with faffing about, and on the other hand I had a relatively 'average' family hand me a £30 tip once, which I was super grateful for and ran out of the house before they could change their mind or more likely, sober up.

I've nannied/babysat for some extremely wealthy and high profile families who haven't tipped a bean, while I've had some middling/far less well off families who've been extremely generous. I don't so much mind not getting tipped (although of course it's always appreciated!) but I do mind being treated as a skivvy or underling. I had one family who referred to me as 'The Help' and another who referred to me and their other staff as 'The People' - 'Here's a croissant to eat as you wander aimlessly around the living room darling. The People will clear the mess...' Much better the non-tippers who look you in the eye and treat you as an equal than the heavy-tippers who treat you with disdain.

Very true. I live in a very wealthy town and worked in the bank. A lot of the locals are millionaires but are soo tight. And a lot miserable. Money doesn't buy happiness that's for sure.

Yeah but £50 to you tonight and how many other babysitters this week? Cleaners? So 3 babysitters a week, a cleaner minimum £50 per time is £200 a week, £800 a month. £9600pa. Not to mention dog walkers, car valets, window cleaners,, delivery drivers, gardeners. They wouldn’t be rich for long.
whoever upthread said about being tight is 100% right. My uncle is minted and as tight as a worms .

I would love to afford to tip people well. Imagine the delight on making someone’s day. Shows appreciation of the work people do

IME rich people are tight as ( evidenced by a relative of my ex who gave my kids $2 presents for xmas ( stickers still attached) when everyone had spent a lot of money on all the cousins. Her hubby was earning 1 mill plus and this was in the 90's.

How do you know what they’re worth? Media?

and why should they pay you extra? You sound like the grabby one OP.

Being “worth half a billion” doesn’t mean you have half a billion in cash at your disposal. It usually is tied up in investments that could be worthless tomorrow.

I’m guessing you don’t teach economics.