‘All of the staff is non-human to them’: Employee quits job working for billionaire boss, then reveals to friends and family what it feels like to work for the rich

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 12, 2024 10:00 AM EST

If you've ever seen even one episode of the show Succession, you must have wondered if rich people really do act this way, and if they truly are so detached from the reality of the plain old regular life.

To be fair, I am sure some nice billionaires don't allow their money to go up to their heads, but most probably do get numb to other people, and to everyday problems their money easily solves for them. But can we really blame them for it? Well, yes, we surely can.

Rich people who completely forget what it is like not to be rich, or even go as far as treating other people like they are worth less than them, definitely deserve to be criticized, much like the person in this Reddit story. OP (original poster) was working for an extremely wealthy person, but since they left, they decided to reveal to others everything that happens behind closed doors, and how it feels like to work for someone who has zero respect for their employees.

Keep scrolling to read the full revelations yourself. Up next, check out this story of an insomniac college student who got into a feud with her roommates.

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    "I watched them scream at the top of their lungs at employees" I
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    Worked for the richest of the rich and I'd like to share.
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    Hi, good folk of antiwork. I've been sitting here taking in the news of the CEO, and I'll leave it at that. But I wanted to share some insight I had working for one of the richest people in the world, for years pre cold and
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    during. I'm not going to say their names. It's someone you probably have never heard of, but their net worth is north of 30 billion. I've been repairing all the trauma this job caused me, for years now. I took it
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    because I had no other option. It was homelessness or this. And I wanted to share a snapshot of my time there, because it feels timely.
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    They have 24/7 security, but they're all retired cops who are one good doughnut away from cardiac arrest. • All of the staff, is non human to them. They would make their "favorite" staff person
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    serve and clean up dinner by 11 pm and have her back at 3 am start time to begin breakfast and cleaning. My coworker slept for 4 hours in her uniform, in a cot, in some dingy back room of the mansion for days.
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    • There was this button.. Literally built into every table they own (in over 12+ estates) and eat meals at, to call for a staff person LITERALLY WAITING IN A CLOSET for HOURS
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    • Gas milage reimbursement for driving all over h-"'s creation for their whims? They never heard of it. I destroyed the car I owned at the time for them, because I drove so much with it carrying more than it should have.
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    • 401k program for their employees? Never heard of that either. And don't get me started on their health insurance.
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    • Let's say you had put in time off for more than 2 months in advance, but then wouldn't be able to take it, because their schedule now all of a sudden demanded you to work a party or some stupid sh. Override every time.
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    • I watched them scream at the top of their lungs at this landscaper I was working with to replace a shrub that dd behind their house. He got fired that day on the spot for not wearing medical booties while we're
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    literally working outside (start of ccd) but then the next day, serve up watermelon they cut up (by themselves wow!) To all the staff working outside. With no mask on, or booties lol. • They filled up a 10 yard dumpster every
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    weekend they were staying somewhere. We were allowed as staff to retrieve items that were thrown in. If they were throwing away this humanely raised, grass fed, lamb rack (because it
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    had some freezer burn?) I'd have to wait until it was in the dumpster and couldn't take it preemptively during clean out. They would call this out on video (recorded everywhere, all the time) • I was living in one of the places they owned while I
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    was working there. I had to be ready at a moments notice to get rid of every shred of my life (evidence of dogs toys or kiddie pool, my volleyball net, bbq, whatever) because if they came around and wanted to walk the grounds, it would
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    UPSET them that I had dogs, or a bbq, or any sort of fun. I'm not even joking. The stress and paranoia this put me under, my nervous system is still sometimes in this mode when someone pulls up to my new place I live years later.
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    • Emails, calls, and communication at all hours to reprimand you or ask for something. From all corners of the globe. Like you're in Malta on your yacht. I think not having fresh flowers arranged in one of your Hampton homes, is fine.
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    I can just go on forever. Why did I share this? Because I want to keep reminding everyone how they really are while we are enjoying the news about the CEO. Keep sticking together.
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    Edited: a gender pronoun to "them" and removed how many years I worked there. Started to get weird messages to my personal inbox. Yet another edit: for the people who think this is fake, idk what to tell you. This was my firsthand experience. I can't name with an NDA.
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    And to elaborate on the closet... it was a narrow hallway with a call light and buzzer that led to a room the size of a closet. There were chairs and a beverage bar where the employees would sit and wait to serve when the buzzer and light went off.
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    MelkorUngoliant • 2d ago I'll say it again. We don't hate them enough.
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    Alia_Explores99 • 2d ago As someone who works for a rich people boating club, can confirm. Even when they are seemingly nice or kind, it is the kind of benevolence one would grant a well-behaved dog, not a fellow human or any kind of equal
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    Definitelynotasloth • 2d ago I feel for you, OP, I know exactly what it's like. The uncomfortable position of always trying to do the right thing, and also not trying to mess up. The awkwardness of trying to be a fellow human, but not being seen that way. The humiliation of
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    needing the job, but also being someone who can be easily discarded. It sks. I hate that we have to subject ourselves to this - like peasants. And for what? Being born to different families?
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    I hate the fake smiles that I have to wear, just so I can appease someone with a larger bank account. It's not natural, it's not human.
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