Wealth

Mega rich people are just like us except with nicer cars, bigger houses, and when they check their bank account balance, they cry tears of joy instead of despair. Did I say &quot;just like us&quot;? I meant nothing like us. Money changes people, whether you earned it or grew up with it. And people in the 1% may as well be living on a different planet from the rest of us.In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ot0pdk/people_who_cater_to_the_super_rich_what_things/" target="_blank">asked </a>people who cater to the super rich: &quot;What things have you seen?&quot;<h2>These 23 people who&#39;ve worked for the mega rich share stories of the craziest, most unrelatable things they&#39;ve seen super-wealthy people do with their money:</h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CaravelClerihew/">CaravelClerihew</a>:<blockquote> A friend did some work on Sylvester Stallone&#39;s home. Apparently there&#39;s a ton of statues and art of himself, some of which are naked and very well endowed </blockquote>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kpop_TWD/">Kpop_TWD</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I used to petsit. I remember a rich person asking me to petsit their cat. There was a lot of TVs, in almost every room. The weirdest was the bathroom. Sorry, cat bathroom. There was a TV playing cat cartoons, an overly fancy litter box and paintings of cats. </blockquote>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/skell15/">skell15</a>:<blockquote> I&#39;m a driving instructor and one group rented the track to drive their supercars for the day. At the end of the day they all partnered up and got into the cars to leave. After they were gone we realized that they had forgotten their Lamborghini Aventador at the track. </blockquote>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lazyassbummer/">Lazyassbummer</a>:<blockquote> I became personal friends with my boss and his wife; super nice people. The wife turned out to be an heiress and would buy me whatever I mentioned, like in passing during a conversation. I learned gifts were how she was raised to show love. I&rsquo;ve trained myself to only talk about things I already own, unless I find something useful she might like and suggest it for her. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aticho/">aticho</a>:<blockquote> A woman who owned a small private jet business told me one time someone paid them to fly their dog (by itself) to NY for about $45,000 for some training. No other passengers. </blockquote>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/papajerry69/">papajerry69</a>:<blockquote> Used to be a House keeper for some of the wealthier people in my city. The best thing I have every seen is the wife of a game dev or something of that sort had custom suits of armour made for her cats. She had them displayed along with tiny suits of armour for mice. </blockquote>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kizzt/">kizzt</a>:<blockquote> Keith Urban bought a couple of guitar pedals for a local kid here in one of the guitar shops. Kid had a budget and was struggling to pick one, so Keith just bought them both for the kid by quietly paying the shop owner on the way out the door, before the kid even knew what he&rsquo;d done. By all reports he&rsquo;s a genuine decent, down to earth bloke. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sunlitglo/">sunlitglo</a>:<blockquote> Client was a mega millionaire in the 60s so even richer when I met him. He&#39;d ride the bus to the office to have free coffee. Every day. </blockquote>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Prune_the_hedges/">Prune_the_hedges</a>:<blockquote> I used to work for a company that modified aircraft for really rich people. I&rsquo;m talking 747s, not gulfstreams. This company had made several aircraft for this one customer, who I was told had purchased a new one solely because his spiritual advisor had told him that one of his current planes was bad luck. He still let his wife use it for her personal travel. </blockquote><blockquote> To me, one of the most exquisite features of these planes wasn&rsquo;t the gold plated everything, or rare wood veneers, it was the silk carpet. That stuff cost over $1,000 per square foot and feels like walking on a bed of angel feathers harvested in the most inhumane way possible. Granted, these guys don&rsquo;t deck out the whole plane, just their personal areas (the aft third is usually reserved for staff and such and is more like a fancy economy class), but yeah&hellip; silk carpet. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Doppar/">Doppar</a>:<blockquote> I live near a company that builds yachts. One day there was an odd looking yacht. A crew member explained to me that was a &#39;shadow-yacht&#39;. You see, when you get hyper rich and have multiple yachts. You wouldn&#39;t want to ruin the aesthetic of your nice yachts with jetski&#39;s and helicopters. Nor would you want your crew to sleep on the nice yacht. So you buy a shadow yacht to store your toys and to house your crew. This shadow yacht follows your fleet of nice yachts around. </blockquote>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/rayrayrayray/">rayrayrayray</a>:<blockquote> Was invited to a Christmas Dinner while i lived in Seoul by an extremely wealthy Korean family. Very nice family but I think in hindsight they wanted to show their friends that they had foreign friends like me. Wife had everything catered and the home professionally decorated - it felt like we were in a department store. Multiple Christmas trees, a working train set, staff handing out appetizers on plates etc. It looked like she studied Christmas movies from the USA and copied everything. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Dinner is served on a comically long table with 2 huge oven roasted Turkeys and all of the trimmings - they looked perfect. I was later told that Koreans don&#39;t like turkey &amp; were just for decoration - they would be thrown out later. We ate Korean food. The family said I could take a turkey home and that the caterer would drop it off with anything else I wanted. </blockquote>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/weriup/">weriup</a>:<blockquote> One guy I cook for wanted his house built so that his bedroom was right above the cow barn, with a retractable spot in the floor so he could fall asleep listening to (and smelling, I presume) the cows. </blockquote>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/undefined_protocol/">undefined_protocol</a>:<blockquote> My great uncle was VERY well off. He did not have a guest house. It was a guest mansion. Separate from his mansion. In case his kids dropped by. This does not include the olympic sized indoor pool. That was a separate building. He bought a cannon. He used it to shoot the mountain behind his house. He shot brand new special bowling balls out of it. They cost 100 bucks per ball. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/circleinsidecircle/">circleinsidecircle</a>:<blockquote> I used to &lsquo;work&rsquo; for an Arab billionaire&rsquo;s son, a Daddy&rsquo;s money guy, terrible garbage human being. Once saw him spend $16 000 on a wallet, was a fancy one with little gold spikes on it and stuff. He had shoes with gold on them. </blockquote><blockquote> I remember one year for his birthday he received like 30+ cakes, big fancy cakes and he told us to leave them on the floor in the hallway outside his room. We walked by those cakes every day for two weeks waiting for instruction, after the two weeks we were told to throw them away. </blockquote>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/harpejjist/">harpejjist</a>:<blockquote> Some kids have whole plans and strategies they practice to prevent being kidnapped or harmed by crazy stalkers.One kid I worked with was the kid of a big hollywood player. And people would stalk the kid in an attempt to get to the parent. So this nutjob wielding a screenplay broke in and cornered the kid. Here I am thinking I am going to have to throw myself physically between them but the kid dove into a nearby dog kennel and locked themselves in. He couldn&#39;t get out but the nutjob couldn&#39;t get in either. So the nutjob just threw the screenplay at him into the kennel! Meanwhile I had called the cops. I was so impressed by the kid&#39;s quick thinking and asked how he got the idea. But he said that he always keeps an eye out for a way to escape. And when he sees someone he doesn&#39;t know approach, he gets ready to run. I felt awful that this kid had to live like that. If I hadn&#39;t seen it happen myself I would have thought it was just paranoia. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cholula_is_good/">cholula_is_good</a>:<blockquote> Some extremely wealthy people I have been around have a more acute sense of their own time and mortality, leading to impatience. Like they understand how awesome their lives are and therefore how short they feel. I knew a guy whose vintage yacht broke down before summer so he bought another one strictly for that upcoming Summer. His reasoning was he likely had 20 full health summers left in his life and didn&rsquo;t want to spend one of them without a boat considering he had the means to. Honestly can&rsquo;t argue with that logic. </blockquote>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/II_Confused/">II_Confused</a>:<blockquote> I work at a university offshoot, where a billionaire has donated a few buildings. He&#39;ll drive through every now and then to take a look at them. He&#39;ll stop and chat with us lowly workers, and occasionally give us tickets to the games in the arena he donated to the university. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Saltyballs2020/">Saltyballs2020</a>:<blockquote> I worked at a resort &amp; marina that dealt with high end boats; from mega yachts to brand new cigarette boats. Always assume the quiet dude with the stained shirt is the owner of the performance boat. Never expect tips from mega yachts. </blockquote><blockquote> The most narcissistic guests were always surgeons. The angriest guests were lawyers. (No offense to attorneys, I am one). The richest were in construction &amp; commercial real estate. The best tippers were guys entertaining their side pieces on their boats when you know their actual wives. </blockquote>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/waterloograd/">waterloograd</a>:<blockquote> Family friends were having marital issues. Their marriage counselor figured out a lot of their problems were over cooking meals. The counselor reminded them that they are rich and can just cater all their meals, and it would be cheaper than getting a divorce. They listened to the counselor and now are happily married again. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TexasFordTough/">TexasFordTough</a>:<blockquote> Old high school teacher of mine is an extremely successful private tutor and does a lot of work in the wealthy neighborhoods in the area. He told us once he was tutoring a kid and helped him get prepared and pass his college level physics class and at the end of their last session the kid told him to wait there and went into his dad&rsquo;s office and came out with his payment and an extra $1,000. My teacher tried to deny it, saying it was too much but the kid said his dad asked him to give a tip. </blockquote>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fromunda_sauce/">fromunda_sauce</a>:<blockquote> My dad delivered a pizza to Rob Dyrdek, who tipped him 100 bucks and apparently farted and thought it would be silent, but it wasn&#39;t. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>22.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hunt3r8806/">Hunt3r8806</a>:<blockquote> I had a client that lived right outside NYC. They were &quot;new money&quot; in an area that was mostly old money. Hated their neighbors, but played nice face to face. Every time the neighbor&#39;s wife would buy something and try to show it off, they would buy a more expensive/rare version, or buy two of the same if that wasn&#39;t possible. The vast majority of it was displayed in the front room. Client&#39;s wife called it the &quot;f**k off&quot; room. They were a bit eclectic but were really nice people. </blockquote>23.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EstimatedProfits/">EstimatedProfits</a>:<blockquote> An acquaintance of mine was building a house for a married couple who hated each other, but the husband was far too wealthy to get divorced- they had separate elevators installed so they would never worry about ever having to see each other! </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

23 people who work for the ultra wealthy share the craziest things they’ve seen.

Mega rich people are just like us except with nicer cars, bigger houses, and when they check their bank account balance, they cry tears of joy instead of despair. Did I say &quot;just like us&quot;? I meant nothing like us. Money changes people, whether you earned it or grew up with it. And people in the 1% may as well be living on a different planet from the rest of us.In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked people who cater to the super rich: &quot;What things have you seen?&quot;These 23 people who&#39;ve worked for the mega rich share stories of the craziest, most unrelatable things they&#39;ve seen super-wealthy people do with their money:1.) From CaravelClerihew: A friend did some work on Sylvester Stallone&#39;s home. Apparently there&#39;s a ton of statues and art of himself, some of which are naked and very well endowed 2.) From Kpop_TWD: I used to petsit. I remember a rich person asking me to petsit their cat. There was a lot of TVs, in almost every room. The weirdest was the bathroom. Sorry, cat bathroom. There was a TV playing cat cartoons, an overly fancy litter box and paintings of cats. 3.) From skell15: I&#39;m a driving instructor and one group rented the track to drive their supercars for the day. At the end of the day they all partnered up and got into the cars to leave. After they were gone we realized that they had forgotten their Lamborghini Aventador at the track. 4.) From Lazyassbummer: I became personal friends with my boss and his wife; super nice people. The wife turned out to be an heiress and would buy me whatever I mentioned, like in passing during a conversation. I learned gifts were how she was raised to show love. I&rsquo;ve trained myself to only talk about things I already own, unless I find something useful she might like and suggest it for her. 5.) From aticho: A woman who owned a small private jet business told me one time someone paid them to fly their dog (by itself) to NY for about $45,000 for some training. No other passengers. 6.) From papajerry69: Used to be a House keeper for some of the wealthier people in my city. The best thing I have every seen is the wife of a game dev or something of that sort had custom suits of armour made for her cats. She had them displayed along with tiny suits of armour for mice. 7.) From kizzt: Keith Urban bought a couple of guitar pedals for a local kid here in one of the guitar shops. Kid had a budget and was struggling to pick one, so Keith just bought them both for the kid by quietly paying the shop owner on the way out the door, before the kid even knew what he&rsquo;d done. By all reports he&rsquo;s a genuine decent, down to earth bloke. 8.) From sunlitglo: Client was a mega millionaire in the 60s so even richer when I met him. He&#39;d ride the bus to the office to have free coffee. Every day. 9.) From Prune_the_hedges: I used to work for a company that modified aircraft for really rich people. I&rsquo;m talking 747s, not gulfstreams. This company had made several aircraft for this one customer, who I was told had purchased a new one solely because his spiritual advisor had told him that one of his current planes was bad luck. He still let his wife use it for her personal travel.  To me, one of the most exquisite features of these planes wasn&rsquo;t the gold plated everything, or rare wood veneers, it was the silk carpet. That stuff cost over $1,000 per square foot and feels like walking on a bed of angel feathers harvested in the most inhumane way possible. Granted, these guys don&rsquo;t deck out the whole plane, just their personal areas (the aft third is usually reserved for staff and such and is more like a fancy economy class), but yeah&hellip; silk carpet. 10.) From Doppar: I live near a company that builds yachts. One day there was an odd looking yacht. A crew member explained to me that was a &#39;shadow-yacht&#39;. You see, when you get hyper rich and have multiple yachts. You wouldn&#39;t want to ruin the aesthetic of your nice yachts with jetski&#39;s and helicopters. Nor would you want your crew to sleep on the nice yacht. So you buy a shadow yacht to store your toys and to house your crew. This shadow yacht follows your fleet of nice yachts around. 11.) From rayrayrayray: Was invited to a Christmas Dinner while i lived in Seoul by an extremely wealthy Korean family. Very nice family but I think in hindsight they wanted to show their friends that they had foreign friends like me. Wife had everything catered and the home professionally decorated - it felt like we were in a department store. Multiple Christmas trees, a working train set, staff handing out appetizers on plates etc. It looked like she studied Christmas movies from the USA and copied everything.  Dinner is served on a comically long table with 2 huge oven roasted Turkeys and all of the trimmings - they looked perfect. I was later told that Koreans don&#39;t like turkey &amp; were just for decoration - they would be thrown out later. We ate Korean food. The family said I could take a turkey home and that the caterer would drop it off with anything else I wanted. 12.) From weriup: One guy I cook for wanted his house built so that his bedroom was right above the cow barn, with a retractable spot in the floor so he could fall asleep listening to (and smelling, I presume) the cows. 13.) From undefined_protocol: My great uncle was VERY well off. He did not have a guest house. It was a guest mansion. Separate from his mansion. In case his kids dropped by. This does not include the olympic sized indoor pool. That was a separate building. He bought a cannon. He used it to shoot the mountain behind his house. He shot brand new special bowling balls out of it. They cost 100 bucks per ball. 14.) From circleinsidecircle: I used to &lsquo;work&rsquo; for an Arab billionaire&rsquo;s son, a Daddy&rsquo;s money guy, terrible garbage human being. Once saw him spend $16 000 on a wallet, was a fancy one with little gold spikes on it and stuff. He had shoes with gold on them.  I remember one year for his birthday he received like 30+ cakes, big fancy cakes and he told us to leave them on the floor in the hallway outside his room. We walked by those cakes every day for two weeks waiting for instruction, after the two weeks we were told to throw them away. 15.) From harpejjist: Some kids have whole plans and strategies they practice to prevent being kidnapped or harmed by crazy stalkers.One kid I worked with was the kid of a big hollywood player. And people would stalk the kid in an attempt to get to the parent. So this nutjob wielding a screenplay broke in and cornered the kid. Here I am thinking I am going to have to throw myself physically between them but the kid dove into a nearby dog kennel and locked themselves in. He couldn&#39;t get out but the nutjob couldn&#39;t get in either. So the nutjob just threw the screenplay at him into the kennel! Meanwhile I had called the cops. I was so impressed by the kid&#39;s quick thinking and asked how he got the idea. But he said that he always keeps an eye out for a way to escape. And when he sees someone he doesn&#39;t know approach, he gets ready to run. I felt awful that this kid had to live like that. If I hadn&#39;t seen it happen myself I would have thought it was just paranoia. 16.) From cholula_is_good: Some extremely wealthy people I have been around have a more acute sense of their own time and mortality, leading to impatience. Like they understand how awesome their lives are and therefore how short they feel. I knew a guy whose vintage yacht broke down before summer so he bought another one strictly for that upcoming Summer. His reasoning was he likely had 20 full health summers left in his life and didn&rsquo;t want to spend one of them without a boat considering he had the means to. Honestly can&rsquo;t argue with that logic. 17.) From II_Confused: I work at a university offshoot, where a billionaire has donated a few buildings. He&#39;ll drive through every now and then to take a look at them. He&#39;ll stop and chat with us lowly workers, and occasionally give us tickets to the games in the arena he donated to the university. 18.) From Saltyballs2020: I worked at a resort &amp; marina that dealt with high end boats; from mega yachts to brand new cigarette boats. Always assume the quiet dude with the stained shirt is the owner of the performance boat. Never expect tips from mega yachts.  The most narcissistic guests were always surgeons. The angriest guests were lawyers. (No offense to attorneys, I am one). The richest were in construction &amp; commercial real estate. The best tippers were guys entertaining their side pieces on their boats when you know their actual wives. 19.) From waterloograd: Family friends were having marital issues. Their marriage counselor figured out a lot of their problems were over cooking meals. The counselor reminded them that they are rich and can just cater all their meals, and it would be cheaper than getting a divorce. They listened to the counselor and now are happily married again. 20.) From TexasFordTough: Old high school teacher of mine is an extremely successful private tutor and does a lot of work in the wealthy neighborhoods in the area. He told us once he was tutoring a kid and helped him get prepared and pass his college level physics class and at the end of their last session the kid told him to wait there and went into his dad&rsquo;s office and came out with his payment and an extra $1,000. My teacher tried to deny it, saying it was too much but the kid said his dad asked him to give a tip. 21.) From fromunda_sauce: My dad delivered a pizza to Rob Dyrdek, who tipped him 100 bucks and apparently farted and thought it would be silent, but it wasn&#39;t. 22.) From Hunt3r8806: I had a client that lived right outside NYC. They were &quot;new money&quot; in an area that was mostly old money. Hated their neighbors, but played nice face to face. Every time the neighbor&#39;s wife would buy something and try to show it off, they would buy a more expensive/rare version, or buy two of the same if that wasn&#39;t possible. The vast majority of it was displayed in the front room. Client&#39;s wife called it the &quot;f**k off&quot; room. They were a bit eclectic but were really nice people. 23.) From EstimatedProfits: An acquaintance of mine was building a house for a married couple who hated each other, but the husband was far too wealthy to get divorced- they had separate elevators installed so they would never worry about ever having to see each other! 

Mega rich people are just like us except with nicer cars, bigger houses, and when they check their bank account balance, they cry tears of joy instead of despair. Did I say &quot;just like us&quot;? I meant nothing like us. Money changes...