" He purchase a $ 2 million plane on a whim one weekend because he was bored . "
Reddit userBudget-Cash-3602recentlyasked, “People who cater to the super rich, what things have you seen?” Unsurprisingly, the thread quickly filled with stories of over-the-top opulence, entitlement, and truly gross behavior. Hard to believe these folks exist (and aren’t ashamed) while the average person struggles to pay rent and afford groceries. Let’s get into it:
1.“Private air charter. I once saw a woman fly herself and her dog up to Aspen, Colorado, because she liked the groomer there. The dog groomer ended up being out sick when the woman arrived. She then flew home empty-handed and flew back a few days later once the dog groomer was available. All said and done, she spent about $75,000 on a private jet to fly her and her dog out to Aspen and back twice so she could get the person she wanted to bathe her dog.”
— ZeroPt99
2.“While working as a chauffeur, I witnessed a 10-year-old have a hissy fit and throw the iPad he was playing with on the ground. Without question or saying a thing, a nanny got out a new one and handed it to the kid. I mean a brand-new one still in the box. No discipline, no discussion, no consequences. And people wonder why the super rich act the way they do.”
— Limp_Distribution
3.“I work with the uber-rich for a living. In planning an event once with a world-renowned individual, the woman funding some of the event causes essentially said that because a particular person didn’t believe in plastic surgery, they could not put them on a pedestal and let them speak during dinner, because ‘their sagging face would ruin dinner.'”
— kunsthistorisches
4.“For a summer, I worked cleaning boats at a yacht club so I could get free sailing lessons. One very rich pharmaceutical family had a person hired specifically to bake cookies and brownies. Nothing else, just warm cookies and brownies for certain times of day. They had an entirely separate culinary/pastry staff for other food preparation. She was a public school teacher who loved to bake, so it was a great summer job for her, but still. It blew my mind to conceive of enough wealth to hire staff for such specificities.”
— moonphased239
5.“I used to manage the personal properties of a super-rich farmer/developer. One morning, he was trying to explain a garden he saw in San Antonio that he wanted to emulate. He got frustrated trying to describe it, so he got on his phone. An hour later, the gardener and I were flying in his private jet with him. From Idaho! A private car service picked us up, took us to the garden, and spent half an hour walking around. Then, we went back and got on the jet. Didn’t even stop for lunch. The fuel for that flight was two months of my and the gardener’s salary!”
— rufuckingkidding
6.“I worked on a private island once. A billionaire guest asked for ice cubes made from Evian because ‘tap water ruins the flavour of 200-year-old scotch.’ 😅”
— CuddlesForYouu
7.“I installed tile for a major city developer in his personal house. It was 45,000 square feet on 10 acres in coveted forest land. They needed two different satellite dishes for TV service because one wouldn’t cover the whole house. They had two different tile crews, one for inside and one for outside. After construction started, they decided to add an infinity pool — just a cool impromptu $1 million addition. The wife ordered a massive ($50,000) natural darkwood countertop from Cameroon, Africa. This sounds like a joke. It took months to be delivered, and when the wife saw it in the house’s lighting, she decided she didn’t want it and sent it back. These people flew in a private barber from across the country to get their hair cut. Exorbitant wealth is ridiculous.”
— LONGLlVETHEMX-5
8.“I worked a $3 million wedding. My in-laws own the premier florist in town. The flower budget was $250k. They blew that out of the water. I think it ended up being more than $480k. The wedding was on the bride’s father’s land. An entire section of land (600+ acres) with three houses, two churches, a barn, and a private polo field. The damn horse stalls were nicer than my first apartment. By barn, I mean an Amish-built barn that the guy found in New York state. He had it dismantled, reassembled on his land, and turned it into an apartment. I had to move a painting from the mantle for decorating. They told me AFTER that it was worth $1.5 million.”
" The tent for the hymeneals could have held two of Barnum and Bailey ’s three rings . Everything was over the top . But , talking to the father , he was an exceptionally overnice human and you would never know he was rich . "
— GrimSpirit42
9.“I knew a billionaire pretty well and worked in close proximity to him for years. He was a nice guy — very smart, shy, and eclectic. He happened to luck into back-to-back excellent business decisions after growing up with a really great childhood. Not all luck, but a lot of it was the right time and the right place. After a while, people mistook his luck and quietness for genius business acumen and started to semi-worship him. After a few years of this, he started to believe the hype and started surrounding himself with sycophants and yes men who assured him they were his friends. Anyone who challenged him would be exiled from his circle. It was really hard to watch. He ended up going down a path of trying to ‘hack his own body.’ He got heavy into drugs and ended up passing. Really tragic.”
— Heffe3737
10.“I worked for someone who hired five private jets to pick up the kids and grandkids (her jet was the sixth) from various locations around the US, and flew them all to NYC. They took over the entire top floor of the Ritz-Carlton with three chefs, nannies, and two PAs (staff was NOT on the same floor as the family) in order to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade. They could not burn their money fast enough.”
— Key - Potential-3153
11.“They had a huge, real taxidermy tiger mounted in their bedroom. Gold leaf ceilings. A mural on their spiral staircase that the artist took six months to do, then they had it painted over because they didn’t like it. This was all at the same house.”
— Frosty - Major5336
12.“I worked for the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. I went to his personal residence and asked where the recycling bin was (I had an empty bottle). He said he was too busy to sort it and paid someone to go through his trash. This trash sorter would literally pick through his trash and sort out the recycling.”
— tuwts
13.“Instead of emptying a fully clean dishwasher, some rich will just add one or two dirty dishes and restart it over and over until someone finally empties it. Imagine a full dishwasher with clean dishes. Now you used a knife, a cup, and a plate. You just add that to the dishwasher and run it AGAIN. This will go on for weeks. It’s a huge waste of water, electricity, and soap, but who cares when you’re super rich!? So one day I emptied the dishwasher before adding the dirty dishes, and my rich uncle said, ‘You must’ve been restless last night. I see you have emptied the dishwasher for some reason instead of adding the dirty ones to the machine!'”
— bermudaliving
14.“My girlfriend was a mobile dog groomer in San Francisco. She groomed dogs at several homes on ‘Billionaire’s Row.’ She interfaces with most of her clients since they’re the dogs’ owners (normal, right?). At one house on Billionaire’s Row, she didn’t interface with the owner or even the butler, but with the ‘dog butler.’ The dog butler didn’t groom or walk the dogs. He would just coordinate the schedules of the dog walkers and groomers. He reported to the butler.”
— BladeBronson
15.“I used to nanny for a rich family in the early 2000s. The dad ran an oil drilling company, and they were worth millions. He had the weirdest penny-pinching tendencies with things like groceries and allowances for the kids (and my compensation), but he bought a $2 million plane on a whim one weekend because he was bored.”
— give_me_goats
16.“I used to book travel for people not obscenely rich, but who made/had far more than I’d ever make. One guy had me call every resort in Fiji to see if they had 24-hour room service with a full menu. If he wanted a steak at 2 a.m., he was getting it. Another woman would book multiple ocean-front suites in Hawaii for her, the nanny, and her kids. The kids had to have their own room because there was no way they could share a bed. They were 4 and 6 at the time.”
— Internal_Run_6319
17.“I worked as a personal assistant for a rich guy for three months once. I don’t know how much he was worth, but it was definitely in the tens of millions of dollars. His house was worth $5 million alone, and I know he owned a lot of other properties around the country/world. He inherited most of his money and dealt in real estate. And let me tell you, this guy was pathetic. He had no friends. He somehow had a girlfriend whom he clearly hated, and he told me he was going to break up with her because he was paranoid she only wanted him for his money. He owned a really expensive breed of dog that he took everywhere with him, but didn’t bother to actually train her, so she was impossible to control and constantly stressed out.”
" He was in his recent 50 and lived in a multimillion - dollar house but had not bothered to decorate , furnish , or even clean it . He had multiple living room that contained a declamatory television and one La - Z - Boy chair , and that was it . His guest bedroom had a mattress on the trading floor , and nothing else . There was zero fine art or decoration hang up up anywhere in the whole house . There was dog pelt everywhere , pestiferous dishes and take - out containers all over the sink and comeback , and it was obvious he ’d never once disperse or swept .
I also pick up that he had two sibling , one of whom he was alienated from entirely . The other had late pop off , and while assort through his paper and doing some net research , I learned that he had sued his brother for total ascendance of some of their joint property while his sidekick was actively dying from Crab .
The guy ’s personality was also just glaring . He was such an asshole . He clear recollect extremely extremely of himself and looked down on others even though it was clean to me that he was utterly helpless on his own and did n’t know how to do anything besides verbatim his attorney to litigate anyone who looked at him incorrectly and suck money from his many tenets . He was impossible to have a conversation with . He would never consider someone else ’s point of view and would just talk down to you or use his sizing to intimidate ( he is physically a very bountiful man , which made his fragile ego all the more pathetic ) .
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He also smelled like absolute shit . His breath smell out , and he had bad BO . I do n’t know if he actually bathed himself on a regular basis .
I only acknowledge this guy for three months five years ago , but I could go on and on about how truly horrendous of a human being he is . He was constantly wild and miserable , even though he had more than enough money to relax and be contented . He really solidified in me the idea that money ca n’t buy felicity . Or more comparable , money wo n’t fill that empty , stinky hole inside your soul . "
— Every - Incident7659
18.“I used to work in ski rentals. A wealthy family came in and spent over $1,500 to rent for just an hour, as the lifts were about to close. Ski passes were probably around $1k for their whole group. Didn’t bat an eye. When they came back, one of the women in the group told me she didn’t know how to tie her shoes, and planted her shoe in front of me, then demanded I tie it for her. I just said, ‘I’m not gonna do that.’ She rolled her eyes at me and had her husband tie them for her. I worked in tourism for six years, and the people with more money than I could ever hope to have were some of the least intelligent people I’ve ever met in my life.”
— Specific_Emu_2045
19.“The majority of my clients have $5+ million homes. One of my richest clients, who probably has roughly $100 million in real estate, refuses to have smart or electric thermostats in his home. He doesn’t want the hassle of batteries, power outages, resetting settings, things like that. So you walk into a big, beautiful home on the water, and the old mercury dial thermostat keeps the house at 70°F. He’s self-made, walks around when help is there, and hands out $100 bills to all the workers. He’s a genuinely great person; his wife and kids are also. Other clients are less hospitable, and my invoices reflect it.”
— Shmeepsheep
20.“My wife is an attorney. All of her clients are thoseArrested Development-style rich people who are completely detached from reality. One of her clients gets a new car every 10,000 miles, rather than ‘going through the trouble’ of having somebody take the car in for regular maintenance.”
— morose4eva
21.“I work at a very high-end restaurant with wildly rich clientele. One of these couples came in on a weeknight. They were drinking a bottle of wine worth about $1,200. She got a little animated and spilled a full glass all over her $10,000 dress and $7,000 purse. Her reaction? She just laughed. She said she was gonna soak the dress in more of the same wine when she got home, so it matched, and that she was gonna go purse shopping soon anyway, so she’d just go grab another one the next day. Her husband was not even phased. He was chuckling alongside her. I only knew how much the dress was worth because he told us.”
— agreeably - silent
22.“I was a nanny for about a year for this rich family. The mom’s closet was as big as my entire first floor. She never paid attention to her four boys, and all she did was shop all day, every day, for like 8-10 hours. I helped her carry in carloads every day (they were all clothes for her). Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of clothes, each day, for a year. Mid-year, I asked for a raise from $9 an hour (for four boys) to $11 an hour. She said no. I quit that day.”
— Significant_Most5407
23.“About 20 years ago, I was the personal assistant/nanny for a billionaire family in SoCal. At first, they were such lovely people, but slowly, all of their dysfunction overtook the happy veneer. The husband spent almost all of his time away and barely checked in with his family. The wife was the epitome of the bored, neglected rich second wife who ignored her only child in private but pretended to be Mother of the Year in public. She would take one yoga class a day and attend one high society function, and then spend the rest of the day bemoaning how difficult and stressful her life was. The child was neglected, unloved, and acted out constantly. He reminded me of one of the kids from Russian orphanages who weren’t held as babies and grew up not being able to form attachments to other human beings. He basically lived alone in this mansion with only me, the cook, the housemaid, and his mother, who barely even spoke to him and who I never saw hug him, much less play with him.”
" I essentially drove him to school day , and to all the activity he did n’t need to do , but kept him out of her way , helped him do his homework , and tuck him in at dark . He hate me no matter how I seek to hold fast with him , which I could understand because all he needed was his parents ' love and attention , and did n’t want me as a replacement .
I ended up getting burn down after the holidays because I was tasked with design their Christmas holiday , and after a month of intense planning — book a private Francisco Villa , organizing their private honey oil , getting the house - staff at the location , regularize all the necessary nutrient , and produce all the activities plan — wife decided two days out that she no longer want to go to that location , but to a private island or else . When I inform her of the lack of handiness at the new goal and the cost of fall behind deposits , and provided her with a listing of options to prefer from , she blamed me for ruining their vacation because I should have anticipated and plan a computer backup at the precise locating she wanted that she had never previously bring up .
I was so felicitous to have been fired from that mausoleum of deep malaise and despair . Honestly , I ’ve sadly enjoyed learn the news over the years of the married man move on to his 4th and now fifth much jr. wife , getting capture up in sound drama for rottenness . The ex - wife disappeared into obscurity once divorced from her piazza in high society .
Unfortunately , I ’ve check the kidskin ’s social medium and he ’s turned out to be another uber productive soulless douchebag . He will probably just play out his founder ’s animation beat by beat in an attempt to forever try and gain his aid , erotic love , and regard . "
— honeychild7878
24.“I fly private jets for a living. The levels of excess and indulgence I see are unreal. $50k worth of dishes that never get used. A vacation to Norway last year that cost around $450k. The plane I fly right now is around $40 million. Flying the family dogs on the jet for an hour to their preferred groomer. A day trip to Maui just for a same-day passport. $34,000/month for our satellite-based wifi.”
— ApatheticSkyentist
25.“My brother manages one of the biggest country music stars. He had a custom guitar maker design and build a few dozen guitars…to the cost of a few hundred grand. He didn’t like any of them, so he just gifted them to fans and friends. He just wasn’t into the stain in some of the wood or the grain pattern, lol.”
— p"zzagangster1
26.“I install glass windows, showers, railings, basically anything glass. At this one mega-mansion, in their pool house that wasn’t completed after seven years, they were ripping out the old shower glass and putting in a newer style, even though it had never been used!!! Construction had taken so long that it wasn’t trendy anymore, so they ripped out an unused shower system.”
— Johnathonathon
27.“I once did a house renovation project for a couple in the UK. Everything was top-notch stuff. Silk wallpaper, solid gold taps, etc. But the one thing that got me most was the kitchen floor. They’d been talking about it for a while, but couldn’t decide. Then, when they were on holiday in the States, they were driving through Amish country and saw a barn. They liked the wood it was made of, so they bought it and shipped it back to the UK to make the kitchen floor. It was so rough that by the time it had been sanded and treated, it looked nothing like the original wood. We also had to strengthen the floor for their massive stone bathtub.”
— cockatootattoo
28.“During Covid, I had a client pay to have an armed driver come to their house in the Hamptons and pick up a case of wine, drive it to Teterboro, and put it on an empty plane (aside from the pilot and stewardess). The champagne was then flown to Aspen, where another armed driver picked it up and delivered it to the client’s brother. His wife had just given birth to their first child, and this was her push present.”
— Useful - Suspect3700
29.And: “I work in the entertainment industry. I’m always baffled by the sheer amount of waste that is created by the wealthy. Everything is curated for them. Are they feeling hungry? Well, they’ll request an entire spread from five different restaurants and touch almost none of it, then throw the rest out. Even riders for greenrooms are unreal. The wealthy demand that their room be stocked with certain things. And they’ll touch none of it. And their team will toss it all in the trash. Touring musicians are some of the worst. Half of the stuff they ask for is stuff they should just be traveling with, not provided at every stop, and it gets thrown away.”
— PicadillyVanilly
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