by Tara Chung, studied at Hofstra University
I work for multimillionaires.
You all have mentioned the usual trust issues. That’s the norm. Here are some things it took me too many years to understand, because multimillionaires are literally from another planet - planet money- so it’s not their fault.
When the movie, Devil Wears Prada was about to be released, I couldn’t wait to see it so I could feel better about my employer - I refuse to call anyone my “boss” - I hate that word. Anyway the movie was the opposite. My coworkers and I all ended up envying the character. What a farse. It was a fairytale. We were wondering where we could get that job.
Anyway, here is the short list of the things working for multimillionaires taught me that helped me understand poor little rich people:
Usually, if it exists, they can buy it. Including humans. But they are most frustrated when their money becomes useless. If there is something they want that their money can’t buy or change, they feel like they’re in hell. For example, if a flight is late because of bad weather, they are so psychologically thrown off because they can’t pay for the flight to break the laws of flying and make it on time. Their money doesn’t buy the cooperation of the weather. When you tell them that nothing can be done about it, you see a momentary look of utter confusion and you know they are calculating how much to fix the problem or who they can fire or who they can have fired for it.
That’s when they have the real meltdowns. You hear their thoughts “When I want something I pull out this black card from my wallet or I tell someone who I am and voila. Why is this not working??”
When someone doesn’t like them and doesn’t care how much money they have and they can’t fire the person for being rude. Or when someone who has more money than them is rude to them, they die a thousand deaths. Money didn’t work again. Drats.
They don’t understand life of the average person. Like how you can be late for work. After all, what is late? They are never late because on-time is whenever they get there. They don’t have a time requirement to be anywhere.
They don’t like to know you vacationed where they once vacationed. And you probably shouldn’t let them know. They don’t understand that there is something called Groupon and Airbnb so they immediately think they’re overpaying you and they don’t want you on their status. Best to keep your vacation stories to yourself. They like to be envied. They actually live to outdo even their peers by trying to travel to places their friends have never been to. Once they confirm their friend hasn’t been there, that’s where they head to try to beat them to it. Their travel agents actually play along in the little game of, “if you leave next week, you will be there before the Jones’ and so they won’t have one up on you.”
They transecend time. They think things happen in a split second because they’ve never actually done anything themselves. If it only takes 20 seconds to tell someone what they want done, in their mind, it only took 20 seconds to do it. Therefore, things that take hours in reality, only take 20 seconds because that is how long it took them to ask for it. So in an 8 hour work day, guess how many 20-seconds there are? Yup. And that’s why they believe you can accomplish a week’s work in one day.
The average person feels stressed out about the many things they have to accomplish in a day. Like working and still having to do your own laundry, cook your own food, take care of your own children and needing 2 and a half weeks salary to pay your rent. The wealthy are stressed out because of their housekeeper, gardener, doorman, sub-zero had no ice, and their staff insists on having a life of their own and wanting to go home at night.
Ok. There’s a lot more but I don’t think it fits this category. Let me know if any of you recognize these maladies of the rich.
I work for multimillionaires.
You all have mentioned the usual trust issues. That’s the norm. Here are some things it took me too many years to understand, because multimillionaires are literally from another planet - planet money- so it’s not their fault.
When the movie, Devil Wears Prada was about to be released, I couldn’t wait to see it so I could feel better about my employer - I refuse to call anyone my “boss” - I hate that word. Anyway the movie was the opposite. My coworkers and I all ended up envying the character. What a farse. It was a fairytale. We were wondering where we could get that job.
Anyway, here is the short list of the things working for multimillionaires taught me that helped me understand poor little rich people:
Usually, if it exists, they can buy it. Including humans. But they are most frustrated when their money becomes useless. If there is something they want that their money can’t buy or change, they feel like they’re in hell. For example, if a flight is late because of bad weather, they are so psychologically thrown off because they can’t pay for the flight to break the laws of flying and make it on time. Their money doesn’t buy the cooperation of the weather. When you tell them that nothing can be done about it, you see a momentary look of utter confusion and you know they are calculating how much to fix the problem or who they can fire or who they can have fired for it.
That’s when they have the real meltdowns. You hear their thoughts “When I want something I pull out this black card from my wallet or I tell someone who I am and voila. Why is this not working??”
When someone doesn’t like them and doesn’t care how much money they have and they can’t fire the person for being rude. Or when someone who has more money than them is rude to them, they die a thousand deaths. Money didn’t work again. Drats.
They don’t understand life of the average person. Like how you can be late for work. After all, what is late? They are never late because on-time is whenever they get there. They don’t have a time requirement to be anywhere.
They don’t like to know you vacationed where they once vacationed. And you probably shouldn’t let them know. They don’t understand that there is something called Groupon and Airbnb so they immediately think they’re overpaying you and they don’t want you on their status. Best to keep your vacation stories to yourself. They like to be envied. They actually live to outdo even their peers by trying to travel to places their friends have never been to. Once they confirm their friend hasn’t been there, that’s where they head to try to beat them to it. Their travel agents actually play along in the little game of, “if you leave next week, you will be there before the Jones’ and so they won’t have one up on you.”
They transecend time. They think things happen in a split second because they’ve never actually done anything themselves. If it only takes 20 seconds to tell someone what they want done, in their mind, it only took 20 seconds to do it. Therefore, things that take hours in reality, only take 20 seconds because that is how long it took them to ask for it. So in an 8 hour work day, guess how many 20-seconds there are? Yup. And that’s why they believe you can accomplish a week’s work in one day.
The average person feels stressed out about the many things they have to accomplish in a day. Like working and still having to do your own laundry, cook your own food, take care of your own children and needing 2 and a half weeks salary to pay your rent. The wealthy are stressed out because of their housekeeper, gardener, doorman, sub-zero had no ice, and their staff insists on having a life of their own and wanting to go home at night.
Ok. There’s a lot more but I don’t think it fits this category. Let me know if any of you recognize these maladies of the rich.
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