People Who Worked With Wealthy Folk Tell All in Juicy Reddit Thread

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Sienna Varady
Dec 6, 2023 5:00 PM EST

You know what they say… they are just like us… regular people…

Throughout my life, I have encountered a fair share of affluent people. There are now two categories of wealth we ought to pay attention to. Old money would be the first, and new money would be the second. There are several ways to distinguish between the two, but their treatment of the help is by far the most noticeable. Old money tends to respect the help and treat them as equals, whereas new money treats the help as inferior to themselves—I realize I could be generalizing here… please don't come for me! Another way to distinguish between the two would be their affection for well-known brands.

While scrolling through Reddit, I noted a certain question that piqued my interest! Check out the screenshots below and enjoy some hilarious replies! After you've satisfied your curiosity and maybe even shared your experience, check out a story of an employee who tries to settle the score with an angry customer here!

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    To people who have also worked with multimillionaires or billionaires, what is something different they do from ordinary people?
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    To people who have also worked with multimillionaires or billionaires, what is something different they do from ordinary people?
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    LanceFree 22 hr. ago Years ago a friend of mine's dad was trying to sell his start-up company and picked-up an investor at the airport. He was proud of his classic Rolls Royce and noticed the investor
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    looking around, playing with the air vents. So he said "Is this your first time in a Rolls Royce?" The guy said no, but it was his first time in the front seat.
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    Tall-Poem-6808 - 1 day ago Hire a private chef for a casual Tuesday lunch with her girlfriends... $2k, just like that.
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    dcgradc 23 hr. ago My son's friend when in elementary school dad was one of the 2 founders of Capital One. Mom had a secretary for play dates. Dad would fly to London to watch Tottenham. Had a permanent seat. Their London
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    house was next to J.K. Rowling's. You couldn't tell by the way they dressed or their cars . But their vacations were the big difference. The strange thing is that their son loved a mango juice sold maybe 10-15min from their house. I always made sure we had some for mine. I send it to him via Amazon occasionally.
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    Moose Features94 · 23 hr. ago Have no fear when addressing anyone, no social barriers
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    woman_thorned · 23 hr. ago. edited 22 hr. ago One old money rich person treated me to a fancy meal and she was super polite and nice and tipped well, what struck me was the decisiveness and confidence that everyone there would cater to her, and they did. She wanted x dish that
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    they didn't make that day and they made it. The one that sticks with me was at the end she said "I want a cappuccino with (something) I want them to put a design on it" like I've gotten cute cappuccinos in my life, it doesn't even cost extra, it never occurred to me to just ask for everything I want all the time.
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    This was the same person that on a business trip hugged me after the flight "I did it, (womanthorned)!" Me: "oh was this your first time in economy" and she goes "no, flying commercial" just so we all understand how rich.
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    Kitten-Eater. 23 hr. ago I briefly worked for a guy who spontaneously decided to take about 8 of his favorite employees on his private jet for flight to Paris, just because he wanted to visit his favorite restaurant and wanted to go out drinking and didn't want to do it alone. So on about 2 hours
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    notice he arranged an "emergency business trip" to get away from his wife, grabbed some guys from the office, and basically told them "you're coming with me tonight and we'll all have a good time, you don't have a choice but you'll get paid for this."
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    The restaurant, bars, and hotel they visited weren't super fancy but they were still very nice, and the boss paid for everything including paying the guys overtime wages because they were "working".
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    Randomly taking a private jet for a flight on such short notice must have cost at least $20k plus another 10k or so in additional expenses. The same guy also bought an airworthy Spitfire fighter plane from WWII just because he thought it was cool. He didn't
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    have a pilot's license and had no intention of flying it, but he employed a bunch of people just to take care of the plane and fly it at various air shows. He did put his company name on the side of the plane, so I guess the excuse he used to justify the purchase was that the plane was a way of advertising his company.
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    MySoCalled Internet 23 hr. ago My aunt and uncle are self made multimillionaires. If you met them, you'd think they were well off, but nothing spectacular. In general, they're both very frugal. However, the two areas where they completely detach from ordinary life are:
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    1 - Vet bills for their animals. The example that most stands out in my mind is their last dog. He needed dialysis and no vet where we live could provide it. So they did their research and discovered that the best treatment in the country was available in London. A flat in Kew (I think, somewhere fairly central anyway) was rented for
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    the six months the dog would need treatment for and my uncle would stay in it for one week a month while the dog had his treatment, then travel back home for the other three weeks. 2- Legal help. Neighbours being pains in the backside? Send in the solicitor. Trying to organise a purchase or sale and
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    it's taking too long? Pay the solicitor to fast track. Local council leaving traffic lights up for over a week after work has been completed? Cry havoc and let slip the solicitors of w r.
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    Feedmelotsofcake - 22 hr. ago I nannied for millionaires. It was new money and they had both grown up fairly blue collar. They were very down to earth, giving, and kind. Their children, however, had no rules, structure, or expectations inside of the house. Their previous nanny gave them
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    whatever they wanted. That changed when I stepped in. I firmly believe kids need to know how to clean a bathroom, wash dishes, sweep a floor, and clean their rooms. Took about a year to get to that point but I can rest easy knowing they're both currently in college and know how to clean the toilet
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    I_Ron_Butterfly • 23 hr. ago I do consulting for public companies and work directly with CEOs and board members, so they're all multimillionaires, but only a couple in the 3 comma club.
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    1. There is no demarcation between personal and professional time. "We should set up a call" meaning vaguely next week, and they will respond with "I am free at 10 am on Sunday while I'm at my kids ski lesson".
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    2. They ask a million questions. About every detail. This is the number one personality trait I've noticed - the critical thinking is to the point where if you misspeak one word that is easily well understood, they will question you to be certain. I do think this is one (of many) factors that has made them successful.
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    SAYS MNIE Smoked Bear. 22 hr. ago They view life through the lense of time, over essentially anything else. Time is their most valuable resource, and anything that saves them time or unnecessary effort is worth whatever the price.
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    thegreatgatsB70 - 1 day ago I was installing a floor in this Texas castle and there was this guy who kept coming over to check out my work. I thought he was the laborer of some other trade, but he was friendly so we just kinda started talking about life and 1. I got to a point where I needed a hand to
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    finish the install and when the guy got there to help, the same guy came around checking out our finishes and the guy helping me snapped up and started getting really attentive.
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    When the guy walked away I asked him why he was tripping out and he told me that was the client. He was a billionaire and owned all of the property that your eyes could see. So one thing they do is go about their lives like a normal person.
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