'Millionaire CEO thinks hiring 3 nannies is relatable': 20+ Out of touch people who think they're normal

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 18, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

A lot of folks are not in touch with reality. They just live in their own blissful little bubble, unaware of life's hardships. These people are usually wealthy. Money can help you solve any problem, or ignore almost anything. Got kids? Hire three nannies! You're working too hard? Just take a long vacation and then earn more money! See, it's so easy!

On r/askreddit, u/mouldygoldie asked people to share the most severe cases of being out of touch with the world. There were some hilarious examples from people of all ages. One great one is the kid who was sent off to college in the 90s, and she started spending money left and right. She kept writing out check after check to pay for all of her bills. But apparently nobody told her what happened after a business owner cashed her check. She just thought she had unlimited funds since she was paying by check! Someone's going to need some financial education courses, stat. 

After you read through these very funny tales, check out the dude who explained that they hiked to the top of a mountain with their GF, left her there, and then watched a football game in their car while she climbed down the mountain. 

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  • 01
    kamamit I knew a girl who cheated on her boyfriend. When he found out, he broke up with her. She said "you can't break up with me, it has to be mutual."
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    What is the most severe case of someone being completely out of touch with reality you've ever seen?
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    darksaber522 I'm fairly convinced that my current shift supervisor thinks anyone who works an overtime shift is doing it out of loyalty to the company, and not because of the 1.5x pay rate.
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    kamamit I knew a girl who cheated on her boyfriend. When he found out, he broke up with her. She said "you can't break up with me, it has to be mutual."
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    gamageeknerd I was at a bar and some guy was giving an impromptu lecture of why millennials are so broke and blamed it all on us being lazy students who don't want to work and go to school. When asked what he did he was a property owner and owned a few apartment buildings.
    via u/gamageeknerd
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    Then someone chimes up with he fact he doesn't own any properties he manages them for his uncle who pays him to do nothing all day.
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    [deleted] I have an aunt who's never really worked a day in her life because her husband created his own business early on in life. They live in a McMansion and I was over once and we got to talking about fitness, and she told me "Oh yeah we send Pamela to this special training gym, its only 200$ a week, you should try it!"
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    The fact that to her it was "only 200$" really kills me. I made 9.95 an hour at the time. She's nice enough but not in touch with reality at all.
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    stormy-darklordofall. Had a friend who insisted she was in a relationship with a C- list celebrity whom she met once during a comic convention. All the celebrity's Instagram and twitter posts were for her and everything had a meaning behind it.
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    When the celebrity got married, she said that it was just for the media so she and celebrity could live a quiet life. When he didn't do anything for her birthday, she had a breakdown. She went to therapy not long after.
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    Corporate-Asset-6375. My cousin was spoiled and sheltered her entire childhood through college. Then her parents stupidly cut the leash without any preparation and released her into society.
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    She quickly got in trouble for bouncing checks all over town. My mom picked her up and asked why the she was writing bad checks everywhere. Turns out my cousin was under the impression that as long as you had checks in your checkbook, you had money in your account. She didn't understand that you deposit in a number
    via u/Corporate-Asset-6375
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    and then can spend or withdraw up to that amount. Please teach your kids basic finance. Note: this was like 1996 before it turns into a "who writes a check anymore" discussion.
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    rayvin4000 My old boss at the time was a girl of 26 who got 4 million dollars from her mom a year to play with. Her mom is very wealthy in china. Her daughter is here trying to be a CEO of a company for funzies. I accidentally got a job at that "company".
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    One days she told us we were all going on a group outting for bonding. She took us to an outlet mall four hours away. Told the rest of us 7 people that she was going to go shop and she'd see us later. That was code for don't follow me, Every 2 hours she'd let us know she was going to go unload her bags to the giant van they rented and would group text us
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    telling us we can meet her there to unload as well. We all get paid under 50k. We have nothing to unload. By lunch she had proceeded to fill up the van with She then asks me where all my new stuff is and I said Im budgeting right now. She goes "take out a credit card and go shop! That's the American way!" Seriously. Ok.
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    By 9 pm her bags were taking up people's seats and they had to sit with her stuff. She spent 30k. The rest of us spent about 70$. We were tired and bored and cold. To this day I still believe she thinks she did something nice for us, and doesn't understand how polarizing and not at all team bonding that was.
    via u/rayvin4000
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    Thejustinset This was from a Regional manager of Starbucks, after they removed merit based raises that could go up to a 5% increase, changed to a flat 2% increase. When she asked if people liked the new raise plan, I said actually no, they feel unmotivated with no reason to perform any better than just normal.
    via u/Thejustinset
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    Regional manager "your staff need to realise working isn't about money"
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    ___ Lyssa__ One bully of a boss asking the three people who suffered most from his behaviour if they would want to move to a new employer with him as a team. Hmm.... how about "no way in "?
    via u/___ Lyssa__
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    Skamanda42 Rick Snyder, former governor of Michigan. When the Detroit area was wrecked by massive flooding, and most houses with basements flooded a few feet deep and people lost tons of their stuff, and thousands of cars were written off because of the flooding of the roads, Rick let us all
    via u/Skamanda42
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    know he understood what it was like - because one of his vacation properties (multiple) had a leaky roof one time, and some carpet got wet.
    via u/Skamanda42
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    ohhlookshiny My sister. Grew up with everything handed to her, and literally cried when her 1st car wasn't the color she wanted. Married rich. Can't fathom why I can't take off work whenever it suits me, and says stuff like "I wouldn't ask my boss for a week off, I would tell him I am taking the week off".
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    [deleted] My boss's wife 28, she grew up in a wealthy family and married to a man who was 3rd generation owning the company he was in, they were a regional power, etc. She was talking to a staff that in general- made 36K a year, mumbling about a staffer who was on his Honeymoon.
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    "Tennessee?! HA! Tennessee?!" She looked around the room for everyone to join in. "My GOD! How did she agree to that? We did Hawaii and that was least I told him was acceptable.
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    Gilli_Glock I went to a private international school in London as a teenager, most kids there had parents working good jobs but in-between them were some filthy rich kids with parents in the oil industry or something similar.
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    In 8th grade we were talking about our easter break and my friend from Belgium was talking about how his family had decided last minute to go there over the break, but had decided to drive there because there were no flights available.
    via u/Gilli_Glock
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    Then this Russian billionaire classmate of mine asked him "why don't you take a private jet?". She was so clueless when we started laughing.
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    --BMO-- I worked on shifts with a guy for years who thought every single person was out to get him. I've never met anyone who had such a warped sense of reality. He would joke on with someone then go away for the weekend and stew on one particular thing, then come in on Monday absolutely
    via u/--BMO--
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    raging over taking something the complete wrong way. I've seen him attack 2 people and heard about a third. Thing is he's so dopey, everyone thinks he's harmless and "that's just the way he is".
    via u/--BMO--
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    A guy I trained as an apprentice has just started on shifts with him, doesn't take anyone being a well at all. I think they'll do well together haha.
    via u/--BMO--
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    hampsonsean1 My Father. He is an habitual liar. I somehow think he believes his own lies. Over the past couple of years I've noticed he doesnt actually have anything new to say. Sort of regurgitates sentences in slightly different ways. Its caused his business to fail. He lied to everyone that was employed
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    there saying he had to liquidate the company. Going so far as to tell people he met with lawyers and the process has been started. I did some digging and found out there were no lawyers or liquidation. He just tried to duck the system. I have no
    via u/hampsonsean1
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    contact with him but my brother says he is still trying to use the same tactics. I just feel he believes everything. Sort of like living in his own head. Very sad that he damaged lives in the process.
    via u/hampsonsean1
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    thesewornoutboots My SIL legit believes she's a strong, independent businesswoman who owns three major businesses. She does three MLM gigs.
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    The irritating thing is that I actually do have a brick and mortar business that I've been running for five years now- and she's always giving me "business" advice and pushing me to join her for these amazing opportunities. It's so stereotypically obnoxious... "OMG HUN I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE GRIIIIIIND!!!"
    via u/thesewornoutboots
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    Yeah, I bet you doooooo. All said while wearing brightly horrendous outfits, caked on makeup, and smelling like decaying frankincense.
    via u/thesewornoutboots
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    uoll-n Had this friend who insisted that she wasn't rich, and that's it's normal to get a boat worth like 10k (among other presents) for your 17th birthday Imao
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    bricorianlive I was a stable hand of a very upper tier barn in a wealthy part of the country. The staff have to sign non-disclosure agreements to protect clients. On one particularly scorching July day, I overheard a client venting to another about how she was "incredibly stressed" and "going to have a
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    mental breakdown" because her first choice catering company was all booked up for the weekend of her last minute yacht party. I'm paycheck to paycheck and had probably a total of 3 days off since christmas. I would love for a yacht party to be
    via u/bricorianlive
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    my basis for a mental breakdown. Needless to say, the staff had a healthy chuckle on that one.
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    gizzing My mother and father were given $20,000 by my grandparents in 1965. My parents were able to buy a house with the money. Fast forward 50 years, my mother gave me and my sisters $10,000 each. She was unable to understand that we could not buy houses for half the price 50 years later and accused
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    us of not being good with money because she was able to do it. At the time she was sitting on a ton of money in the bank and was 100% aware that to buy a house in her neighborhood would cost around $1,000,000 so, 100 times the amount of money she gave us and 50 times as much money as her parents gave her 50 years earlier.
    via u/gizzing
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    God, if only I could be so good with money as she wss. Not saying the $10k wasn't nice. Just saying she expected us to become her neighbors with no understanding of inflation, while thinking half the amount she was given 50 years earlier should be enough while knowing full well the value of her house.
    via u/gizzing
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    My parents' neighbour thought that her garden was too small for her sons to play in. So when she met my parents for the first time, the first thing she actually said was "Can you give me some of your garden so my sons have more space to play in?". Thankfully my parents just said no.
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    For context, they live in a very expensive neighbourhood where houses cost on average from £750,000 to £1 million. The gardens in that neighbourhood are a lot bigger on average than the majority of gardens in the UK. I've never heard a story of somebody being as painfully out of touch as that woman.
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    EDIT: There's a lot of comments from Americans clarifying what our gardens actually are. A British garden is what you guys call a backyard!
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    itsacalamity In college I had a roommate from the most sheltered part of Long Island. We met an exchange student from Switzerland and I swear to god she said this in complete seriousness: "Oh wow I didn't know people actually lived in Switzerland, I thought there were just banks there!"
    via u/itsacalamity
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    skizzers1243 There is a girl at my work that always about not making enough bc she makes 200-300 a paycheck. Then is always the first to leave early and always shows up late and has other ppl take her shifts. She asked me how I make 600-800 a paycheck. I
    via u/skizzers1243
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    said bc I work more. I'm currently at work taking over HER shift. She doesn't realize if you don't work more you'll be paid less
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    Shishi432234 Coworker of mine was having an affair with a married man. Demanded that he leave his wife for her. We asked her why in the she would want a committed relationship with someone who cheated on his wife. "Oh, he won't cheat on me!"
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    "I'm sure his wife thought the same thing at one point!" She ended up telling his wife, who then divorced him. Surprise, surprise, he then dumped my coworker for squealing on him.
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    onions_cutting_ninja . My father asked my mother if he could live with his mistress in the guest room. That's the day my mother threw him out.
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    MyAnimalsBite "My parents payed for half the down payment on my house. Pay for our landscaper, housecleaner, child day care, car insurance and give my wife an Ia monthly allowance. We're completely self sufficient human beings who even try and give other friends financial advice..."
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    Obviously written in the voice of someone I know.
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    ४ moonbunnychan I met this girl in a line at an anime convention and we ended up bonding over a shared love of Sailor Moon. She lived not terribly far from me and since I didn't really have any local friends who shared my hobbies we starting hanging out. She lived in that zone of close enough to see once or twice a month
    via u/moonbunnychan
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    but not close enough to see ALL the time, so it took me awhile to catch on that she was nuts. She kept talking about herself like she was a character on the show. I at first assumed this was an RP thing, since that's not terribly uncommon to make like an original character to rp with in some established universe. But no. She
    via u/moonbunnychan
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    legitimately thought she was like Sailor Moon and the reincarnation of an ancient magical girl, and she just hadn't had her powers awakened yet. To her it wasn't an anime, it was like some sort of documentary. I'm really glad I never gave her my address.
    via u/moonbunnychan
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    aasania I used to work at a software company in downtown Boston. One of the best perks of the job at the time was the flexibility in hours. Many folks had regular wfh days. Myself, I knew I could drop my kids off at school, get into the office by 9:30 and my boss had no issue with it whatsoever. Others
    via u/aasania
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    with kids had similar arrive late or leave early schedules depending on their childcare. After a few years a new CEO comes in, spends a month observing how the office works, then calls for a company wide meeting. During the meeting she tells everyone she believes having a full office 8-5 is the most productive
    via u/aasania
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    environment, and at the start of the next month, all wfh was canceled, and she wanted everyone in the office during those set hours. No showing up late or leaving early. A lively debate ensued, with discussions of there being very little warning, to pleas of flexibility, to concerns of making necessary childcare arrangements -
    via u/aasania
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    especially given that in many cases (i.e. schools) we couldn't adjust those times. Plus, commuting into Boston After listening to all of these arguments, she finally responds with a long speech of appreciating the sacrifices everyone has to make to better the company, everyone doing their part, blah blah blah. She ends it
    via u/aasania
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    by saying, "I understand where you're all coming from! Years ago when my kids were little, my husband and I had to hire three nannies to cover all of the times we had to work!"
    via u/aasania
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    I remember we all looked around at each other, speechless. It was also the moment I realized I would have to start looking for another job. When the millionaire CEO thinks hiring 3 nannies is a relatable example to her middle class employees, it's pretty clear she's not going to change her mind.
    via u/aasania

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